<p>Balintang Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the middle of Balintang Channel, in Luzon Strait, northern Philippines. The islands are almost equidistant to both Babuyan Island, Cagayan, which lies about 29 mi to the southwest, and Sabtang Island, Batanes, located 28 mi to the northwest. The group is composed of seven small, sharp-peaked islets and rocks visible about 24 mi in clear weather.</p><br>
<h2>Islands</h2><br>
<p>The westernmost island, Balintang Island, is the largest with about 3/4 mi in length in a north and south direction. It is much larger than the others with three peaks, the tallest of which is about 110 m; a hole is seen through it from southwestward. Three of the other islets lies east, about 1 mi off its northern point. The other three, about 75 ft high, lies about 1/2 mi off its southeast side. In bad weather, the sea breaks heavily against them. For mariners, they are steep-to and may be passed on either side at a distance of 2 to 3 mi.</p><br>
<p>Shpanberg Island  is an island of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago in the Kara Sea, off the coast of Siberia.</p><br>
<p>Administratively this island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Shpanberg Island is located in the central area of the archipelago on the southern side of the Lenin Strait. The island is 5.2 km long and has a maximum width of 4.2 km. Cape Razvodnoy (мыс Разводной) is the headland at its SE end and Cape Ustalosti (мыс Усталости) at its NE end.</p><br>
<p>It is part of the Pakhtusov Islands (острова Пахтусова) subgroup of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago. The closest islands are Petersen Island 2.3 km to the southeast, Dobrynia Nikitich Island to the SW and Pakhtusov Island 2.3 km to the west.</p><br>
<p>The climate in the archipelago is severe and the sea surrounding the island is covered with fast ice in the winter and often obstructed by pack ice even in the summer.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1900, the islands of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago were explored by Russian Navy Captain Fyodor Matisen, who named most of them. The survey was done during the first wintering of the Russian polar expedition of 1900–02 on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences led by geologist Baron Eduard Von Toll aboard ship Zarya.</p><br>
<p>This island was named after Danish-Russian naval lieutenant and Arctic explorer Martin Spangberg, who went with Vitus Bering in both Kamchatka expeditions as second in command.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Albert Hastings Markham. Arctic Exploration, 1895</p><br>
<p>The Johnson Hall-Deseret Mercantile Building, located at 4 W. Main St. in Grantsville, Utah is a side-by-side pair of buildings dating from c.1890 and c.1898, that were connected together in 1953. It has also been known as the Johnson Building, the Grantsville Bank, the Gransville Post Office, and the Gransville Drugstore. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The building has significant historical associations with multiple periods of Grantsville&#39;s history, and "is architecturally significant for a unity of design (although the two buildings were constructed several years apart) and rich detail in the brickwork. The building is an excellent example of Victorian Eclectic ornamentation in a turn-of-the-century commercial block." It was built by contractor/mason James Jensen, a mason and contractor.</p><br>
<p>Sulphurous Lake is a freshwater body in the Cariboo Region of British Columbia, generally considered to be part of the Interlakes area as it is near Deka Lake. It is frozen from November to May annually. The lake has only one boat launch, which is in poor condition.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The lake is stocked with Rainbow Trout and Kokanee.</p><br>
<p>Lake trout daily quota=1; lake trout release Oct 1-Nov 30</p><br>
<p>Burbot: 5</p><br>
<p>Kokanee: 5 (none from streams)</p><br>
<p>Trout/char: 5, but not more than • 1over50cm</p><br>
<h2>Recreation & Community</h2><br>
<p>The lake is the location of the Sulphurous Lake Resort. The Sulphurous Lake Volunteer Fire Department provides fire protection for the cabin community on the north shore of the lake. The fire department hosts an annual fishing derby on the lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There was previously a garbage dump located north of the lake on Petty John Road, which is still clearly visible although being reclaimed by nature.</p><br>
<p>The name Sulphurous (the Canadian spelling of sulfurus) is drawn from yellow pollen seen floating on the lake in the spring by early settlers. The lake contains no more sulphur than surrounding lakes.</p><br>
<p>The Bloss Mansion is a historic house located at 1020 Cedar Ave. in Atwater, California. The house was built in 1914 by George Bloss, the first mayor of Atwater and a prominent donor to the city. The houses design reflects several popular architectural styles of its era. The Mission Revival Style had the greatest influence on the structure, as exhibited in its stucco construction and tile roof. Prairie School elements of the house include its three-part windows, broad eaves, and overall emphasis, while the houses front entrance and side porch have a Classical design with Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>Bloss donated the house to the city in 1963; it now houses the Atwater Historical Society and the Atwater Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
<p>The Bloss Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Tioga Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 1715 N St. in Merced, California. Built in 1928, the hotel is the largest building in Merced. The hotels architecture reflects the transitional design common in 1920s hotels, which were moving away from the Classical Revival designs used in hotels in the past. In addition, the building boasted Merceds first neon sign. The Tioga Hotel was a grand hotel which hosted prominent guests, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, and various foreign royalty. During World War II, the hotel played a role in the war effort; the USA Air Force used a floor of the building for offices, and various organizations held wartime fundraisers in its lobby and ballrooms. After the war, manager Gyle Miller returned the hotel to its former prominence; in the following decades, the hotel hosted film stars and served as a center for agricultural trade. The rise of automobile travel ultimately led to the hotel&#39;s decline, and it was converted to a residential apartment building.</p><br>
<p>The Tioga Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1980. In 2011, financial discrepancies were discovered resulting in a discovery of an embezzlement operation and the arrest of the property manager, James M. Hiestand.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office, also known as the Federal Building, is a post office located at 401 W. 18th St. in Merced, California. The post office was built in 1933 as part of a public works program started by Herbert Hoover. The building was designed by Los Angeles architects Allison & Allison in the Mediterranean Revival style; its design includes a tile roof, stucco walls, and arched windows with terra cotta surrounds. The buildings use of Mediterranean elements in an unadorned design reflected the notion of "starved classicism" used in many of Hoovers public works projects; this form of design used themes from classical styles in the plain manner of the Art Deco and Moderne styles.</p><br>
<h2>Murals</h2><br>
<p>The post office also includes two tempera murals, Jedediah Smith Crossing the Merced River by Helen Forbes and Vacheros by Dorothy Puccinelli, which were sponsored by the Section of Painting and Sculpture and painted by the two local artists in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Taoist Temple at No. 12 China Alley in Hanford, in Kings County, California, dates from 1893. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places  in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It is historically significant as a surviving authentic structure from Hanford&#39;s Chinatown, after it moved to the 200-foot long China Alley in the 1890s, after a fire in the previous Chinatown area. China Alley served the second largest population of Chinese in the USA, behind San Francisco. The temple itself was argued in its NRHP nomination to be valuable "as an example of typical late 19th century indigenous construction, with oriental overtones.... in keeping with the theme of the original Hanford Chinese settlement and with the buildings still remaining."</p><br>
<p>The Taoist Temple Museum is open for tours once a month.</p><br>
<p>La Villuerca, also known as Risco de la Villuerca, Pico la Villuerca and Pico de las Villuercas is the highest peak of the Sierra de Villuercas range, also known as Sierra de Guadalupe.</p><br>
<p>It is located 6 km west of Guadalupe town in Las Villuercas comarca, Cáceres Province, Extremadura, Spain and is the highest point of the greater Montes de Toledo system.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>La Villuerca has an elevation of 1,603 metres above sea level and is a conspicuous mountain that can be seen from quite a distance in the surrounding landscape.</p><br>
<p>This peak has an ancient name that has been documented since 1353 and it gives its name to Las Villuercas comarca.</p><br>
<p>There is a narrow paved road leading to the mountaintop where there are abandoned military installations of the former Base Centro Táctico, CT2 ,Guadalupe-Villuercas with tall antennas and a heliport. The peak is often covered with snow in the winter.</p><br>
<p>Brane Barrow, also known as Chapel Euny Barrow or Hut Barrow, is a Neolithic chambered round barrow, near the hamlet of Brane, Cornwall. It is located two miles southwest of Sancreed.</p><br>
<p>The chamber has a height of 0.9 metres, a width of 1.2 metres and a length of 2.3 metres. The surrounding mound measures 6.1 metres diameter by 2.1 metres high. The only mutilation is on the south where the side of the barrow has been removed to expose the chamber. The barrow was described by William Copeland Borlase in 1872 and is in much the same condition as when he saw it.</p><br>
<p>The barrow is considered to be an example of the Scillonian Group of chambered round barrows, of which there are over forty in the Scilly Isles, and four in west Cornwall.</p><br>
<p>The barrow can be visited with permission at Brane farm.</p><br>
<p>Boswens Menhir, also known as Boswens standing stone, or the Long Stone, is a standing stone 3 kilometres northeast of St Just in Penwith, in Cornwall, England.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The stone lies to the west of Boswens Common, and can be seen from the B3318 road. It is one of many standing stones in Penwith.</p><br>
<p>It is 1.5 km east of Tregeseal stone circle, and about 1 km south of Chûn Quoit.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The stone is of rectangular section measuring 0.7 metres by 0.9 metres, and is 2.4 metres high.</p><br>
<p>In 1754 William Borlase illustrated the stone standing in a small low cairn, but by 1861 there was "hardly any trace of cairn" visible. The cairn today is around 0.3 metres high, and is "only just noticeable". The cairn may be the remains of a barrow.</p><br>
<p>Mulfra Quoit is a Neolithic dolmen in the county of Cornwall in England. It stands on Mulfra Hill to the north of the hamlet of Mulfra.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Quoit is located west of Penzance between Porthmeor and New Mill on the top of Mulfra Hill, from where you can look to the sea over the surrounding hills.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>Mulfra Quoit is similar to Chûn Quoit five kilometers away. The quoit has three 1.7m-high support stones, arranged in a U-shape 3.0m long and 1.7m wide, and open on one side. The capstone, which has slipped down, measures 3.2m by 3.0m, and is almost square; it has a weight of 5 tonnes. Since some of the stones that formed the chamber are missing, it is difficult to get an idea of its original form, but it is possible that four pillars supported the capstone slab as with Chûn Quoit. On the other hand, the capstone has a central bulge on its underside, which would give the stone a stable position on the existing three pillars. Mulfra Quoit was apparently covered by a mound, the remnants of which are still present</p><br>
<h2>Research</h2><br>
<p>In 1769 the antiquarian, William Borlase published a plan and a drawing of the quoit and described a 60 cm-high stone embankment, which encircled the dolmen with a diameter of 12m, of which, nothing can be seen today. Borlase also mentioned a further stone, which he thought was part of the capstone, but this stone no longer exists. The ground was covered with a 30 cm-thick soil, which Borlase thought was part of the original mound. In 1872 his descendent William Copeland Borlase examined an accumulation of stone in the centre of the dolmen, and undertook excavations which only yielded charred wood. W. C. Borlase refuted a local story that the dolmen had been damaged by a lightning strike in 1752, because his ancestor in 1749, had found it in much the same state as it is today.</p><br>
<p>Due to its poor state of conservation later writers gave it scant attention: Hencken in 1932 compared it to Chûn Quoit and simply called it "a very similar but less perfect chamber." In 1950 Glyn Daniel did little more than mention the name of the quoit and classified it as a "typical rectangular" chamber, although he did provide a plan of the structure.</p><br>
<p>Brisworthy stone circle is a stone circle on Dartmoor, Devon. It is located three miles east of the A386, northeast of the village of Shaugh Prior. It is three hundred metres from Ringmoor stone row and cairn circle, and is one of the archaeological sites found in the Upper Plym Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The stone circle is a slight oval shape with a diameter of around 24 metres. It consists of 24 upright stones which are probably only half the original number. The stones are broad rather than tall, and are less than 1 metre tall.</p><br>
<p>Prior to 1909 most of the stones had fallen. It was restored in that year, and a trial excavation is said to have yielded a small amount of charcoal and one rough flint flake.</p><br>
<p>Ringmoor stone row and cairn circle is a prehistoric stone row and cairn circle on Ringmoor Down in Devon. It is located three miles east of the A386, northeast of the village of Shaugh Prior. It is three hundred metres north from Brisworthy stone circle, and is one of the archaeological sites found in the Upper Plym Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The stone row is 356 metres long. It is mainly single, but is double in parts. At the southern end is a cairn circle with a diameter of 12.6 metres. The central cairn is 9.5 metres in diameter and has a height of 0.4 metres. A standing stone terminates the stone row at the northern end.</p><br>
<p>Many of the stones in the stone row are missing, and have clearly been robbed for use elsewhere. The cairn circle had also been robbed, and at the beginning of the 20th-century there was only one stone standing, with four fallen and the presumed sites of six other stones represented by pits. In 1909 the circle was restored and five of the present stones were introduced from elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>Shovel Down is an area of Dartmoor in Devon that is covered in megaliths including the remains of several stone rows, the Fourfold Stone Circle, and several standing stones.</p><br>
<h2>Stone rows</h2><br>
<p>The Shovel Down stone row complex occupies the northern and southern slopes of a broad east-west ridge of unenclosed moorland. It is of probable Bronze Age date. Approximately five double stone rows and one single stone row are to be seen. Other probable Bronze Age monuments are in the immediate area, including the Fourfold Circle, the Long Stone, the Three Boy&#39;s Stone, and several cairns.</p><br>
<h2>Fourfold Circle</h2><br>
<p>The Fourfold Circle is a configuration of four concentric stone circles. The outer circle has a diameter of 9 m, the others have diameters of 6.4 m, 4.7 m and 2.4 m respectively. The Fourfold Circle is the location of a turf-covered cairn with a central cist which has been robbed.</p><br>
<h2>The Long Stone</h2><br>
<p>The Long Stone stands in the middle of two stone rows. It is referred to as the "Langstone" in a documentary source of 1240. It now marks the boundary of three parishes.</p><br>
<h2>Three Boys standing stone</h2><br>
<p>The Three Boys standing stone is a stone marking the southern end of one of the stone rows. It is the only survivor of three such stones known as the Three Boys. The two other stones are believed to have been taken for use as gateposts.</p><br>
<p>The Orlando Utilities Commission Administration Building is an historic eight-story Modern style building in Orlando, Florida. It began to be used in 1967. It was built by the Orlando Utilities Commission to handle the projected increased volume that would be generated when the University of Central Florida and Walt Disney World started operating. The building was designed by Richard Boone Rodgers.</p><br>
<p>After the Commission built a new headquarters nearby and moved there, the old Administration Building stood empty for several years. In 2011, it was purchased by a company who turned it into a boutique hotel (currently Aloft Orlando Downtown). The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Futala Lake is one of the lakes in Nagpur in the Indian state of Maharashtra.The lake is spread over 60 acres. Built by Bhosle kings of Nagpur, the lake is known for its coloured fountains. In the evenings the place is illuminated with halogen lights and Tanga  ride.</p><br>
<p>The lake is surrounded on three sides by forest and a landscaped Chowpatty on one side.</p><br>
<h2>Beautification of Futala Lake</h2><br>
<p>In western area of Nagpur, ancient Futala Lake exists for 200 years. In absence of maintenance, the use of this prehistoric lake was limited to cattle washing only. It was therefore decided in the year 2003 to beautify this lake from NIT fund with equal aid from State Government. at Futala Lake Nagpur</p><br>
<p>The work was decided to be done in two stage, desilting was done on large scale along with removal of Lotus plants and other waste from lake. The work included repairing of Eastern side guard wall of lake, construction of path way with granite stone paving, widening of 18 m wide road under I.R.D.P., road side guard wall and landscaping berms, parking and garden bays on other side of road, fixing decorative lamp, benches, attractive dust bins etc. For watering of plants and landscaping, sprinkler system was provided. For sufficient lighting purpose, four high masts were fixed in the vicinity of lake. Two colored fountains of 15 feet and one white and fountain of 100 feet, as such total three floating fountains were set up in lake. The work of Immersion Ghat with three ramps on South side and guard wall of lake with sand beach on North side was also done in the same phase.</p><br>
<p>In the second phase of beautification, road berms were cleaned and interlocking paving blocks were fixed on road Hanuman Temple to Futala Lake and surrounding triangular land in front of Temple. About 1300m road was paved under this to solve the grave parking problem raised due to famous Hanuman temple and beautification done.</p><br>
<p>This spot has become the most attractive spot of Nagpur City and on an average 1000 visitors visit the lake daily. Much work is still balance to be done like construction of Ghat steps, sand beach paving on platform, Nana-Nani park etc. on South side of lake. Also water pond and garden is to be developed in triangular land opposite to Hanuman Temple.</p><br>
<p>Cost of project isabout 4.5crore</p><br>
<p>As of 17.2.2010, NIT has negotiated an agreement with Sell Ads (Partners Shailendra Mehta and Pankaj Roy) for beautification and maintenance of Futala Lake areas and erection of mobile food kiosks for a period of 5 years on BOT basis.</p><br>
<h2>Aqua life in Futala lake</h2><br>
<p>Excessive nutrient load (C,N and P)in Futala lake has caused heavy growth of water hyacinth, water lily, hydria, wolfia, potamogeton and algae.</p><br>
<h2>Other lakes in Nagpur</h2><br>
<p>Nagpur boasts of 10 other big lakes apart from Futala Lake. They are as follows :</p><br>
<p>* Ambazari</p><br>
<p>* Gandhisagar</p><br>
<p>* Naik</p><br>
<p>* Lendi</p><br>
<p>* Sonegaon</p><br>
<p>* Pardi</p><br>
<p>* Khadan</p><br>
<p>* Gorewada</p><br>
<p>* Sakkardara</p><br>
<p>* Dhobi talav</p><br>
<p>The Grey Mare and her Colts is a long barrow and burial chamber near Abbotsbury in Dorset, England.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grey Mare and her Colts is situated at the head of a dry valley in the parish of Long Bredy. It is accessible using an Ordnance Survey map. The remains of another tomb, the Hell Stone, is 2 kilometres to the east; while the Kingston Russell Stone Circle is around 1 kilometre to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>The remnants of the burial chamber are located at the southeast end of a long barrow. The long barrow is a rectangular mound, orientated northwest to southeast and 24 metres long. The mound tapers in width from the southeast end (13 metres) to the northwest end (8 metres). The burial chamber and facade are ruined and the capstone has fallen down.</p><br>
<p>The Hell Stone is a badly-restored Neolithic dolmen on Portesham Hill in Dorset, England.</p><br>
<p>It is around 1 kilometre north of the village of Portesham, and approximately 1 kilometre southeast of the Valley of Stones.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hell Stone is situated at the head of a dry valley system in the parish of Portesham. The burial chamber is at the southeast end of a rectangular mound. The mound is orientated northwest to southeast, and is 24 metres long. The mound tapers in width from the southeast end (12 metres) to the northwest end (8 metres) and is 1 metre high. The remains of another tomb, The Grey Mare and her Colts, is 2 kilometres to the west.</p><br>
<p>The chamber was badly restored in 1866 when eight men re-erected the stones, arranging them radially "rather like the slices of a cake" and supporting a large capstone. The chamber may have been, originally, a long rectangular one. A drystone wall runs across the mound and a pond for watering stock was dug close to the southeast end of the mound in modern times.</p><br>
<p>Rempstone Stone Circle is a stone circle located near to Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck in the south-western English county of Dorset. Archaeologists believe that it was likely erected during the Bronze Age. The Rempstone ring is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, over a period between 3,300 and 900 BCE. The purpose of such monuments is unknown, although archaeologists speculate that they were likely religious sites, with the stones perhaps having supernatural associations for those who built the circles.</p><br>
<p>A number of these circles were built in the area around modern Dorset, typically being smaller than those found elsewhere. Most of these Dorset circles are made of sarsen stone, although the Rempstone circle is unique in being made from local sandstone. The southern half of the circle has been destroyed, with five upright and three recumbent stones remaining extant. Having been damaged by eighteenth century clay workings, the monument is at present situated within dense woodland. In 1957, a possible avenue of stones leading to the circle was discovered by ploughing but subsequently removed. Local folklore holds that the stones arrived in their position after being thrown at Corfe Castle by the Devil.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Rempstone Stone Circle is positioned at the national grid reference 39940821.</p><br>
<p>The incomplete stone circle lies in a dense wood just to the south of the B3351 road, 4 km east of Corfe Castle and 5 km west of Studland. It is located at the foot of Nine Barrows Down, at a height of 278 feet above sea level. It is 0.5 mile south of Rempstone Lodge. As with the Nine Stones at Winterbourne Abbas, the Rempstone Stone Circle is located in a valley.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the site sits is privately owned, and is accorded legal protection under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Context</h2><br>
<p>While the transition from the Early Neolithic to the Late Neolithic—which took place with the transition from the fourth to the third millennium BCE—witnessed much economic and technological continuity, it also saw a considerable change in the style of monuments erected, particularly in southern and eastern England. By 3000 BCE, the long barrows, causewayed enclosures, and cursuses which had predominated in the Early Neolithic had ceased being built, and were instead replaced by circular monuments of various kinds. These include earthen henges, timber circles, and stone circles. These latter circles are found in most areas of Britain where stone is available, with the exception of the island&#39;s south-eastern corner. They are most densely concentrated in south-western Britain and on the north-eastern horn of Scotland, near Aberdeen.</p><br>
<p>These stone circles typically show very little evidence of human visitation during the period immediately following their creation. This suggests that they were not sites used for rituals that left archaeologically visible evidence, and may have been deliberately left as "silent and empty monuments". The archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson suggested that in Neolithic Britain, stone was associated with the dead and wood with the living. Other archaeologists have suggested that the stone might not represent ancestors, but rather other supernatural entities, such as deities.</p><br>
<p>The area of modern Dorset has only a "thin scatter" of stone circles, with nine possible examples known within its boundaries. The archaeologist John Gale described these as "a small but significant group" of such monuments, and all are located within five miles of the sea. Of the Dorset circles, Rempstone is the only example that is not located on the chalk hills west of Dorchester. The Dorset circles have a simplistic typology, being of comparatively small size, with none exceeding 28 metres (92 feet) in diameter. All are oval in shape, although perhaps have been altered from their original form. The Rempstone circle is exceptional among these, as it is the only one which does not consist of sarsen stone. However, like all the others—with the exception of the circle at Litton Cheney—it does not display evidence of any outlying stones or earthworks.</p><br>
<p>The archaeologists Stuart and Cecily Piggott believed that the circles of Dorset were probably of Bronze Age origin, a view endorsed by the archaeologist Aubrey Burl, who noted that their distribution did not match that of any known Neolithic sites. It is possible that they were not all constructed around the same date, and the Piggotts suggested that while they may well be Early Bronze Age in date, it is also possible that "their use and possibly their construction may last into the Middle and even into the Late Bronze Age".</p><br>
<p>Their nearest analogies are the circles found on Dartmoor and Exmoor to the west, and the Stanton Drew stone circles to the north. It is also possible that the stone circles were linked to a number of earthen henges erected in Dorset around the same period.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Burl has noted that Rempstone Stone Circle is "damaged and overgrown". Similarly, Gale stated that "the description and evaluation of this site very difficult" on account of it being "much disturbed". Eight stones survive; five are standing, while three more are recumbent. The standing stones vary in size, and are irregularly shaped. The stones are sandstone boulders which geologically belong to the Bagshot Beds, on which the circle is located.</p><br>
<p>The southern half of the circle has been destroyed, likely by clay workings that took place in the area during the late eighteenth century. At the south-west of the site, three more stones are visible but half-buried; these may not be in their original position. The west side of the site is cut by pools and ditches formed by old clay workings. The surviving stones form an arc that suggests that the circle originally had a diameter of about 26 metres, or 80 feet. If this was the case then it would have been the second largest stone circle in Dorset, after Kingston Russell Stone Circle.</p><br>
<p>The circle was included in the archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford&#39;s Map of Neolithic Wessex, printed by the Ordnance Survey in 1932. In this publication, the site was erroneously assigned co-ordinates of the Breamore Wood Long Barrow. As of 2003, the site had not been excavated.</p><br>
<h3>Related monuments</h3><br>
<p>In August 1957, the local farmer W. G. Best was ploughing on his Brenscombe Farm when he uncovered a row of 23 stones that was situated about 0.5 miles west of Rempstone Stone Circle. His son stood most of these into an upright position, to better assist their later removal. The antiquarian J. Bernard Calkin was alerted to the discovery and visited it prior to the stones being removed by the farmer. Calkin noted that the stones were made of local sandstone and were smaller than the stones in the circle, averaging about 2 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 6 inches. He believed that they had been deliberately lain out in two parallel lines, 3 yards apart and with an interval of five yards between each stone.</p><br>
<p>Calkin suggested that this may have been a stone avenue or processional way leading to the circle. Burl later expressed scepticism with regard to this interpretation, stating that its "credentials are suspect".</p><br>
<p>90 feet east of the circle is a group of eight stones which may have had some relationship to the circle. There is also a cluster of barrows, known as "Nine Barrows", on the hill immediately to the south of the stone circle.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>After the monument was discovered and identified in the twentieth century, a folk motif came to be associated with it. According to this story, the circle&#39;s stones had landed in their location after having been hurled at Corfe Castle by the Devil. This is a variant of a story that has also been connected to the Agglestone Rock near Studland. According to stories associated with this large sandstone block, it had been thrown by the Devil from The Needles on the Isle of Wight, with the intention of hitting either the castle, Sherborne Abbey, Bindon Abbey, or Salisbury Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>Lyneham Longbarrow is a long barrow near Lyneham, Oxfordshire. It is beside the A361 road. Just nine metres from the barrow mound is a standing stone.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lyneham barrow stands on a ridge overlooking valleys to the northwest and southeast. The long barrow mound is 52 metres long, 19 metres wide and stands up to 1.75 metres high. Next to it is a weathered sandstone megalith 1.8 metres in height above ground level, 2.0 metres in width and 0.5 metres thick. The stone may have been part of a facade of standing stones.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The barrow was excavated in 1894. The excavations located two chambers on the southeast side of the mound and at least one of these contained bone fragments, pottery and charcoal. Also found were two Anglo-Saxon burials which had been cut into the top of the existing mound.</p><br>
<p>Lake Spivey is a 600 acre  private lake located in Clayton County and Henry County, Georgia near Jonesboro. The lake was created by Dr. Walter Boone Spivey, a prominent Buckhead dentist, and his wife Emilie. The lake formed following the completion of construction on an earthen dam on Rum Creek in September 1957. The lake was built on land, formerly known as Betts Farm, which was purchased by the Spiveys in September 1943. The dam formed what was promoted as the largest privately owned lake in the state of Georgia. Lake Arrowhead in Waleska, Georgia is also promoted as the largest private lake in Georgia. Georgia Department of Natural Resources records indicate that Lake Spivey is 600 acres and Lake Arrowhead is 450 acres at normal pool level.</p><br>
<p>The lake was the location filming for the movie (1965) starring George Ellis and Erin Fleming. Burt Reynolds lived on the lake during the filming of Smokey and the Bandit (1977) in Jonesboro.</p><br>
<p>Located in the suburbs 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta, Lake Spivey is also 20 miles from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (14 miles to the new International Terminal) and less than 15 miles from the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton. Lake Spivey was originally developed with seven residential communities; Lake Spivey Estates, Lost Valley, Bay View, South Bay, The Landings, Forest Estates, and North Shore. An eighth community, Edgewater on Lake Spivey, was created in 1997 on property once occupied by the lake clubhouse.</p><br>
<p>In 1984 the lake was deeded by Emilie Spivey to the which owns and manages the lake today. Members of the association include only property owners from the eight communities around the lake. Each community has either one central marina or several smaller mooring strips located around the lake for access and docking. The lake has no public access.</p><br>
<p>Inflows to the lake include Rum Creek, Line Creek via adjacent 70 acre (87 acre) Lake Jodeco, Vaughn Branch from Drakes Lake and Drakes Landing Lake, and Indian Lake from Clayton County International Park. Outflow from the lake is through Rum Creek. Rum Creek flows into Little Cotton Indian Creek and the Clayton County Reservoir in Henry County. From the Clayton County Reservoir, Little Cotton Indian Creek flows into Big Cotton Indian Creek. Big Cotton Indian Creek flows into the South River and Lake Jackson. These are all part of the Ocmulgee River watershed.</p><br>
<p>Lake Spivey is tied as the location for the Georgia state record for the largest Black Crappie caught. Hooked by Steve Cheek in 1975, the fish weighed in at 4 lbs. and 4 oz.</p><br>
<p>In 2006 the community worked with United States Postal Service officials to allow the City, State, and Zip+4 last line mailing address of "Lake Spivey, GA 30236+4" in addition to the previously accepted "Jonesboro, GA 30236+4".</p><br>
<p>In 2008 the was created to promote the neighborhoods around the lake. The annual foot race, which takes place in November, features a 5K and 15K course. Participants on the 15K course run the circumference of Lake Spivey and Lake Jodeco. Both courses are USA Track & Field (USATF) certified and provide a challenge to runners as the topography is quite hilly. The USATF course numbers are GA09021WC for the 5k and GA08011WC for the 15K.</p><br>
<p>During the 2009-2010 regular session the General Assembly of Georgia approved that the portion of Georgia State Route 138 between Interstate 675 (Georgia) and the limits of the City of Jonesboro be designated the Lake Spivey Parkway.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 the civic association created green space at the west most portion of the lake for use by residents and their guests. In 2013 and 2014 Lake Spivey played host to the Swim Across America, Atlanta open water swim charity event to raise funds for cancer research.</p><br>
<p>The lake communities are bordered by the Clayton County International Park, Reid Stephens Heritage Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, and Lake Spivey Country Club to the North, and Lake Jodeco to the South.</p><br>
<p>Notable current and former Lake Spivey residents include; Fernando Bryant, John Castellanos, Dan T. Cathy, S. Truett Cathy, Phil Ehart, T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr.), Greg Hecht, Steve Lundquist, Monica Pearson, David Satcher, Karin Slaughter, Terrell Starr, Rich Williams, Shawty Lo (Carlos Walker),and Gregory Alan Williams.</p><br>
<p>The Inyo County Courthouse, on N. Edwards St. in Independence, California, was designed by architect William H. Weeks in Classical Revival style, and was built in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It is significant for association with "economic and political development" of the Owens Valley and for housing county government during 1921-1947. It is the only example of "monumental, Neo-Classical Revival architecture" in the Owens Valley area. According to its NRHP nomination "This elaborately designed building represents the peak of local autonomy in the Owens Valley, before the City of Los Angeles purchased the majority of land in the valley, including most of the land within the county seat. Water development policies adopted by the City of Los Angeles after 1924 led ultimately to the destruction of irrigated agriculture, and the virtual depopulation of the Owens Valley."</p><br>
<p>The courthouse cornerstone was laid down in 1922. It was the fourth courthouse of the county, and replaced a version that was too small and was torn down after the present courthouse was built. Weeks was very experienced as an architect; he had designed more than 1,000 buildings already by 1915.</p><br>
<p>A 2009 feasibility study for the building of new courthouse facilities identifies the building as inadequate for modern purposes, being deficient in terms of security and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility. It notes the court has been obliged to offer court services in leased annex space a half-mile away, to provide a minimally ADA accessible</p><br>
<p>location for some court proceedings. A facilities planning site of the state of California identifies the potential project as having authorization to proceed with site acquisition, but no budget for development until at least 2014-15.</p><br>
<p>Longstone of Minchinhampton is a standing stone on Minchinhampton Common, Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire, England. The stone is clearly visible in a field accessible via the southwest road out of the village. The stone is 7.5 ft high, made of limestone and has natural holes in it. Tradition suggests that passing infants through one of the holes will cure them of illnesses such as measles or whooping cough.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Longstone is a large piece of limestone standing upright in a field, known as Longstone Field, 1 mile east of the Minchinhampton village. It is 7.5 ft high and 6 ft wide, with natural holes through its 15 in width. Nearby, 12 yards to the south west, there is a fallen standing stone which has been built into a dry stone wall, and may have once formed a stone pair with the Longstone. The area has numerous barrows and near the Longstone ornaments, flint and arrowheads have all been found.</p><br>
<h2>Lore</h2><br>
<p>Attempts to pull the Longstone out with oxen failed as "something" stopped it from being moved, so the stone remained in the field. The stone was believed to be able to cure infants of maladies such as measles and whooping cough, by passing the child through one of the natural holes. A myth amongst children at the beginning of the 20th century was that the Longstone would run around the field at the stroke of midnight.</p><br>
<p>The menhir is supposedly the burial site of one of the Danish leaders, after a battle at Woeful Danes&#39; Bottom, nearby. Other tales suggest that the stone was in place for the battle, with soldiers shooting through the holes and that the nearby tumuli are the graves of the soldiers.</p><br>
<p>Gamelands stone circle  is a stone circle at the foot of Knott Hill in Cumbria. The stones are mostly made of red granite and some were buried and blasted in 1862.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Gamelands stone circle lies between the village of Orton and the hamlet of Raisbeck. It is an oval enclosure of around 40 large stones, all of which have fallen, together with three smaller stones. The stones are set into a slight bank. All of the stones are of pink granite with the exception of one which is limestone. The stones are all below one metre in height and are arranged in an oval of 42 metres by 35 metres.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Around 1862, when the area was ploughed, some of the stones were buried or blasted. Some stones have been taken for a wall to the south. Ploughing uncovered two worked flints and a probable cist-slab. The circle was surveyed in 1966, but it was not easy to tell whether the stones have ever been in a standing position.</p><br>
<p>The Shap Stone Avenue  is a megalithic complex near Shap in Cumbria comprising stone circles, a two-mile avenue  of stones, and burial mounds.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Shap Stone Avenue is one of three major complexes of megalithic monuments to be found in east Cumbria. The stone circles, henges, cairns and other standing stones in the area are often grouped at nodes of communication routes - the monuments around Shap form an avenue running to the east of the River Lowther along a main route to the north; the Long Meg complex runs alongside the River Eden; Mayburgh Henge and the other henges run alongside the River Eamont near its confluence with the River Lowther.</p><br>
<p>The OS grid reference of the Shap Avenue site can be given as, but the actual boundaries of the complex remain in doubt. Some stones have been lost, some natural erratics may have been added to the monument in historical times, and the various early accounts of the setting by William Stukeley, Thomas Pennant, Lady Lonsdale and George Hall are not easy to reconcile.</p><br>
<p>However, the avenue may be seen in the context of the valley in which it is placed. Clare pointed out that the view to the east is restricted, that there may have been a tarn close to the site, and that the southern terminus of the lines of stones may have ended at a stream. There may also have been a spring within the complex. All of these features are similar to ones found at the Long Meg and Mayburgh complexes as well. The Shap complex has stone circles and cairns to the east of it such as the Hardendale Stone Cairn, Castle Howe, Seal Howe and Oddendale.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the northern focus of some of the stones of Shap Avenue north appears to be a burial mound at Skellaw Hill, the southern focus of some of the stones of Shap Avenue south also seems to be a burial mound or mounds.</p><br>
<h2>The avenue</h2><br>
<p>The actual arrangements of the original stones in the avenue(s) can no longer be determined (at least without excavation). Clare suggests that there were two avenues; one consisting of a single, more widely spaced, row to the west and north west of Skellaw Hill, and one of two rows, as Burl suggests, or a double row, more closely spaced, as Clare suggests, leading from a now lost stone circle at Carl Lofts (near the Greyhound Hotel), to the southern circle at Kemp Howe. The two avenues form an arc to the west of Shap village roughly moving in a north-north-west to south-south-east direction. He points out that the geological composition (pink granite) of the major, pyramidal-shaped stones (Goggleby Stone, Thunder stone) differs from that of the other boulders in the complex.</p><br>
<p>Traces of eight stones mark the avenue which led in a northwest direction from the Kemp Howe stone circle. Four of the avenue stones can still be seen in fields to the west of Shap:, (the Goggleby Stone), and (Asper&#39;s Field).</p><br>
<p>From north to south, the following major features may be seen:</p><br>
<h3>The Thunder Stone</h3><br>
<p>The avenue&#39;s first major stone is the massive Thunder Stone which is located 3 km northwest of the Kemp Howe stone circle, and is just to the north-west of Skellaw Hill.</p><br>
<p>This stone was not set into the ground, but lies on the surface left by the retreating ice, so "may not thus be a part of the constructed avenue".</p><br>
<h3>Skellaw Hill barrow</h3><br>
<p>The avenue passes by the Skellaw Hill barrow, also known as the Hill of Skulls or Skellow Hill, a round burial mound. It is located 2.4 km northwest of the Kemp Howe stone circle.</p><br>
<h3>Asper's Field Stone</h3><br>
<p>The Asper&#39;s Field Stone is a massive boulder on private land, about nine feet high by five feet wide, that has fallen on to its side. It has two cup markings on the top, one with a single ring around it.</p><br>
<h3>Goggleby Stone</h3><br>
<p>The Goggleby Stone is the next one to be seen, just south of Asper&#39;s Field. It is located in a field down a back road between Keld and Shap. The Goggleby Stone is about ten feet high and has a cup mark on its north face, and an artificial shallow depression above it. The Goggleby stone had fallen, but was re-erected by Tom Clare, the County Archaeologist, after having excavated it.</p><br>
<h3>South Shap stone circle (Kemp Howe)</h3><br>
<p>The remains of the stone circle lie on the A6 road opposite the former petrol station close to a railway embankment. The stone circle is badly damaged, the Victorian railway-builders having driven their line right through the circle itself, and only six pink granite stones remain in place. All of the stones are fallen. They once formed a circle with a diameter of about 14 metres.</p><br>
<h2>Dating and purpose</h2><br>
<p>Clare suggests that the avenues date to the Late Neolithic period (approximately 3,000-2,000 BC), based upon the evidence supplied by the Goggleby Stone excavation mentioned above.</p><br>
<p>Clare also points out that the Shap complex is important because of the lack of a henge or large stone circle (as at Mayburgh or Long Meg). The layout, with its similarities to the other two complexes, plus the choice of pink granite for the large stones, suggests a similar ritualistic rationale behind the monument, perhaps extending over several generations.</p><br>
<p>Grey Croft stone circle is a restored stone circle near Seascale in Cumbria, England. It is situated near the site of the former nuclear-power stations at Sellafield.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Grey Croft stone circle is a circle of 12 stones situated south of the Sellafield nuclear site. The circle is about 600 metres from the sea. Only 10 of the original 12 stones are currently standing. There is a small outlying stone 21 metres to the north.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The stones in the circle were toppled over and buried in 1820 by a tenant farmer, with the exception of one stone. In 1949 the site was excavated and nine of the stones were located, and replaced as accurately as possible.</p><br>
<p>The excavations uncovered an oval stone cairn situated in the circle centre. Trenching under the cairn revealed charcoal traces, calcined bones, a broken early Bronze Age jet or lignite ring, and flint flakes and scraper. A Great Langdale Late-Neolithic stone-axe was found near to the eastern stone of the circle.</p><br>
<p>Barbrook One is a stone circle on Ramsley Moor in the Peak District.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>"Barbrook No. 1" is an embanked stone circle. It has one large standing stone (1 metre high) and 11 smaller stones (5 cm to 25 cm high). The circle has an internal diameter of about 13 metres, and it is surrounded by a rubble bank 3 metres wide.</p><br>
<p>The stone circle stands in a cairn field on Ramsley Moor. This includes "Barbrook No. 2" which is a ring cairn consisting of a rubble bank with internal diameter 13 metres. It is about 200 metres to the north by northwest of Barbrook 1. The majority are less than 6 metres in diameter.</p><br>
<p>Two kilometres to the north is another stone circle known as "Barbrook No. 3" (or "Barbrook III").</p><br>
<p>Blakey Topping standing stones is a small group of three or four standing stones near the Hole of Horcum in the North York Moors. It sits at the foot of Blakey Topping hill. The stones may be the remains of a stone circle.</p><br>
<p>There are at least four standing stones currently surviving in this group, although some of them are of uncertain status. The tallest stone is 1.9 metres high and is much-weathered and leaning. A second stone is 1.0 metres high and appears to have had its top broken off. A third stone is 1.3 metres high but has been roughly squared off and is currently being used as a gate post. A fourth stone, 1.4 metres high, occurs in an old field bank and is much-weathered and leaning. There may be a fifth standing stone, and two or three hollows in the ground may indicate the former position of other stones.</p><br>
<p>It has been suggested that the stones are the remains of a stone circle about 17 metres in diameter. Alternatively the stones may have formed part of a curving alignment, or possibly two parallel rows.</p><br>
<p>The Twelve Apostles is a stone circle near Ilkley and Burley in Wharfedale in West Yorkshire, England.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Commonly said to lie on Ilkley Moor and Burley Moor, the Twelve Apostles are located within the parish of Burley in Wharfedale. The stone circle is slightly below and to the northeast of an east-west ridge at about 381 metres above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Twelve Apostles consists of the remains of a stone circle with a diameter of about 15 metres. The circle originally had between 16 and 20 stones, but it is now reduced to 12 stones. The stones are made from the local millstone grit. All of the stones were fallen by the mid-20th-century and were lying loose upon the ground.</p><br>
<p>The circle was inside a bank 1.2 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. The bank was still traceable in the 1920s but has apparently eroded since then due to visitors walking over the ground. At the centre of the circle was a small mound, which may have been the disturbed remains of a burial cairn.</p><br>
<p>In 1971 a group of amateurs made an unauthorised attempt to re-erect the fallen stones, but the stones soon fell again. It is not clear who re-erected them, nor when. The site suffers severe visitor erosion, as it was formerly hidden beneath heather, but is now in an area of bare trampled soil. It is regarded as one of the most damaged prehistoric sites in West Yorkshire.</p><br>
<p>The Grubstones is a stone circle on Burley Moor in West Yorkshire, England. It is believed to be either an embanked stone circle or a ring cairn.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Grubstones circle is located on Burley Moor (to the east of Ilkley Moor). It is situated below the top of the hill on a gentle south facing slope. The circle is just over 800 metres south-east of the Twelve Apostles.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The circle has a diameter of about 10 metres. One third of the circle on the south side has been destroyed by shooting butts. Four large loose stones in the interior may have come from this break. The interior was excavated circa 1846 which revealed a cremation, accompanied by a flint spearhead.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century there was additional damage in the form of a subrectangular earthwork mound said to be an "orgone accumulator". Orgone is supposed to be a vital energy or life force which informs the universe, and which can be collected and stored in an orgone accumulator for subsequent use in the treatment of illness.</p><br>
<p>The Beverly Hills Women&#39;s Club is an historic house and social club in Beverly Hills, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Beginnings</h3><br>
<p>The club was founded in October 1916, and it served as a unit for the American Red Cross during the First World War.</p><br>
<h3>The clubhouse</h3><br>
<p>In 1925, they raised US$4,000 at a horse show attended by the likes of Hobart Bosworth, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Stanley S. Anderson (owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel), Cecilia DeMille (daughter of Cecil B. DeMille), Charles E. Toberman, Silsby Spalding (Mayor of Beverly Hills), and Alphonzo Bell (developer of Bel Air, California). Later that year, they used that money to move into the newly constructed clubhouse. The clubhouse is a one-story, stucco-clad Spanish Colonial Revival with a tiled hip roof. It features pilasters, scrolled brackets, an entablature topped by a pediment with a shield and urn motif surrounding the main door, and casement windows. It was designed by the architectural team Gable & Wyant, who also designed Hangar One.</p><br>
<p>The clubhouse has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California since October 4, 2006.</p><br>
<h3>The social club</h3><br>
<p>Early members, who rode horses to make their way to the club, included Mrs Burton E. Green and actress Norma Shearer. Special guests included Amelia Earhart and Gloria Swanson. It sponsored the Will Rogers Horse Show and exhibited art such as El Grecos Saint Francis of Assisi and, in 2007, Roland Muri. In 1930, they created the Electric Fountain in Beverly Hills through efforts from Harold Lloyds mother.</p><br>
<p>In 1963, they published a cookbook, Beverly Hills Women&#39;s Club Cook Book: Fashions in Food.</p><br>
<p>Recent guests include Stephen J. Cannell. The current President is Jill Tavelman, ex-wife of singer Phil Collins and mother of actress Lily Collins.</p><br>
<p>King&#39;s Tavern is an old bar located in downtown Natchez, Mississippi. It is currently open as a restaurant and bar. Mixology classes can be booked at The Tavern through Natchez Pilgrimage Tours. A package store and rum distillery are also in the works. New owners are Doug and Regina Charboneau. Regina is a nationally known chef with her original success on the west coast in San Francisco.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Pre-Revolution</h3><br>
<p>The Kings Tavern building was built in 1769, making it the oldest structure in the old river port city of Natchez. When the British moved in and established the nearby Fort Panmure, the Kings Tavern building was originally built to be a block house for the fort. As there was no saw mill near this frontier town, this building and other structures were constructed using beams taken from scrapped New Orleans sailing ships, which were brought to Natchez via mule. Another source of wood used in the Kings Tavern building construction were barge boards from flat river boats, which were dismantled and sold after arriving in Natchez with their goods after traveling down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Boatmen couldnt take their flat boats back up these rivers, so they just added to their profit by selling the boats as wood, which was needed to build Natchez. Besides the wood, sun-dried bricks also were used as building material. The result is a building which has an ambiance and decor of another era from the outside. Though the outside of the Kings Tavern has the rustic 1780s authentic wooden brick architectural style, the inside is a lovely place for cozy, quiet, intimate meal or to host luncheons, dinner parties, receptions meetings. The King&#39;s Tavern also provides meals for the large tour buses full of visitors who are traveling along the Natchez Trace Pathway.</p><br>
<h3>Post-Revolution</h3><br>
<p>After the Revolutionary War in 1776, the British left the area, leaving the river port open for other interests. In 1789, a New Yorker by the name of Richard King moved his family to Natchez where he bought this block home and opened a combination tavern and inn, as well as the place where the towns mail was dropped off. His inn business was very successful because of the need for boatmen and weary stage riders to have a secure place to rest for the night. The upstairs rooms on the third floor were comfortable accommodations. Selling drinks to townspeople and visitors as well was also a money maker. He also found himself to be very popular with people, because he received and sent the towns mail. Everyone congregated on the steps of his tavern, socializing and reading their mail. He enjoyed a celebrity status, and he and his wife became prominent and very much respected people in Natchez. During this time, outlaws began settling in Natchez. They preyed on the boatmen and visitors, made a living from gambling and robbing people, sometimes not thinking twice of killing their victims. After selling their goods and their flat boats for lumber, boatmen would spend the night at the Kings Tavern, and then head home along the Natchez Trace Pathway. This usually caused highwaymen outlaws to hold them up, and usually kill them. The infamous, sadistic Harpe brothers were outlaws who took delight in torturing, mutilating and finally killing their victims. The Harpe brothers as well as other such men would return to Natchez and stimulate the economy, sometimes staying at the Kings Tavern, if not in the Natchez Under the Hill area, notorious for being a haven for people of questionable character. However, with the invention of the steamboat, which could travel down and up the river as well, the need for this dangerous travel along Natchez Trace ended with this form of modern transportation. This development cut down on the lucrative stage business significantly, dropping the economic activity taking place at the Kings Tavern. Richard King sold the Kings Tavern in 1817. The building was once again a private home, becoming the Postalwaith family home for several generations, a total of 150 years, beginning in 1823.</p><br>
<h3>Modern Day</h3><br>
<p>In 1973, the building was sold to a local investor and it eventually became a tavern and restaurant to serve both locals and visitors, taking the original name, the King&#39;s Tavern.</p><br>
<p>Under new ownership The Tavern has reopened in the fall of 2013. The owners are using the farm-to-table concept using locally sourced quality ingredients. Offerings include specialty flat breads made in a wood fired brick oven, salads, and desserts.</p><br>
<p>Merced County High School, also known as the County Library Building, is a historic building located at 2125 M St. in Merced, California. Built in 1897, the school was the first public high school in Merced County. The brick and wood building was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and featured a hip roof with cross gables, a rounded entry, windows arranged in a ribbon patter, and a since-removed wooden tower. The school&#39;s brick exterior was later plastered over and its roof painted red, giving the building a Mission Revival appearance. The building served as a high school until 1920; in the following year, the county library moved into the building, where it remained until 1976.</p><br>
<p>Merced County High School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Los Banos Building is a historic bank building located at 836&ndash;848 Sixth Street in Los Banos, California. Opened in 1925, the bank was designed to be a major business center in Los Banos, which lost most of its business district in a 1919 fire. The bank was built by Henry Miller and Charles Lux, prominent businessmen whose extensive holdings included land, cattle, and the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company. The building has a Neoclassical design which features wall surfaces resembling piers, a dentiled cornice, and seven bays on the front side, each containing a window or entrance. The original design also included a frieze decorated with cattle heads and garlands, though this was removed for safety reasons in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Los Banos Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Petit Serail ; was a historic administrative Ottoman building that housed the seat of the Wali of Syria and Beirut. It was situated to the northern side of Martyrs Square at the heart of the Beirut Central District. The building was the scene of important historical events, but plans to enlarge Beiruts main square led to its destruction in 1950. It was one of several Ottoman era building projects that shaped the architecture of Lebanon in Beirut.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Inaugurated in 1884, the Petit Serail was the seat of Beirut’s governor general in 1888 and hosted the Lebanese government and president during the French Mandate. Demolished in 1950, its foundations were uncovered and preserved in the mid-1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>In the later half of the nineteenth century, the Beiruti authorities thought to move the seat of governorship from the decaying Emir Assaf saray also called Dar al-Wilaya (House of the Vilayet). The medieval structure was built in 1572 by Mohammad Assaf, the son of the Turkmen Emir Mansour Assaf.</p><br>
<p>On 11 September 1840, the British fleet bombarded Beirut to evacuate Ibrahim Pasha&#39;s troops from the city and damaged the old saray in the process. The saray was restored in 1843 by the wali of Beirut Assaad Mukhles Pasha.</p><br>
<p>In 1882 the board of administration of the Sanjak of Beirut decided to build a new administrative building and put up the Emir Assaf Saray for auction. The saray was sold in April 1882 to Mohammad Ayyas and then to members of the Sursock and Tueini families. The old saray was destroyed and replaced by the Sursock souks while work was underway on the construction of the new saray which will become known as the "Petit Serail" to differentiate it from the Kışla-i Humayun (the Ottoman barracks) which is better known as the Grand Serail.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Petit Serail was planned as a civic center following the Tanzimat reform and according to the Beirut municipality project of 1878. The northern side of Sahet el-Bourj was chosen as a strategic site since it occupied the heart of the new extra-mural city. The new structure was commissioned by Beirut mayor Ibrahim Fakhri Bey, construction began in 1881 at the site of a former saray that was ordered demolished by the Wali Hamdi Pasha.</p><br>
<p>The serail was built by Bechara Effendi Avedissian, chief engineer of the Vilayet of Syria and Youssef Effendi Khayat, engineer of the city of Beirut, The Petit Serail was inaugurated three years after the beginning of construction works in 1884.</p><br>
<p>Under the French Mandate, urban planner De La Halle planned the enlargement of the al-Bourj Square and the building of a new governmental office complex. He proposed in his 1939 plan to destroy the Serail to open up the square the waterfront through a series of landscaped terraces. The destruction of the Petit Serail did not take place until 1950, after Lebanon gained its independence. Nevertheless, the planned clearing of the square was aborted and the Regent Hotel and the Rivoli building were constructed at the site of the Serail in 1953.</p><br>
<h2>Function</h2><br>
<p>The Serail was built to serve as the seat of the Vilayet of Syria; it housed municipal and provincial offices including Beirut&#39;s judicial court. In 1888 Beirut became the provincial capital of the Beirut Vilayet and the Petit Serail hosted the seat of the Wali. Beirut Wali Azmi Bey transferred the seat of the vilayet to the Grand Serail, while the municipal offices and the telegraph service office were moved to the Petit Serail.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Petit Serail was built in an eclectic occidentalist style, mixing baroque architectural elements with more austere features, a style that was predominant in the Ottoman constructions of the 19th century. The body of the two-story building was raised on a plinth, giving the building a greater stature. The oblong facade was built in Sandstone and is decorated with neo-baroque windows and elements. The main entrance was flanked by an imposing marble gate giving way to a central court and to the building&#39;s floors. A crenelated cornice ran the entire surface of the roof complete with bartizans flanking the corners; a layout reminiscent of Medieval European castles. In the central axis of the main facade stood a large ornate gable decorated with volutes surrounding a clock. The structure had a surface area of 3500 square cubits and contained close to 80 rooms.</p><br>
<h2>Timeline</h2><br>
<p>1878: Plan for the modernization of Sahat al-Burj (later Martyrs’ Square) by the Municipality of Beirut.</p><br>
<p>1881: Authorization from the Ottoman authorities to build the Serail.</p><br>
<p>1888: The Serail became the seat of the wali.</p><br>
<p>French Mandate: The seat of authority moved to the Grand Serail on Serail Hill, while the Petit Serail hosted the Lebanese president and government.</p><br>
<p>1950: The Petit Serail was demolished with the intention of connecting Martyrs’ Square to the sea.</p><br>
<p>1950s: Rivoli Cinema was built.</p><br>
<p>Mid-1990s: The foundations of the Petit Serail were uncovered and preserved.</p><br>
<p>Mount Deception is a 11,539 ft mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Mount Deception lies 16 mi east-southeast Denali,overlooking Brooks Glacier. The glacier-covered mountain was named by a USA Army crash investigation party on November 13, 1944, who were the first to ascend the mountain while investigating an airplane crash that happened in September 1944.</p><br>
<h2>1944 Plane Crash</h2><br>
<p>On September 18, 1944, a US Army C-47 which took off from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska in route to Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska. For reasons unknown the plane traveled off course crashing into the then unnamed peak killing all 15 passengers and 4 crew members. No remains were located and are still missing.</p><br>
<p>Occupants</p><br>
<p>Crew</p><br>
<p>MR ROY PROEBSTLE, PILOT</p><br>
<p>MR PETER BLIVENS, COPILOT</p><br>
<p>PVT JAMES A GEORGE JR</p><br>
<p>MR CARL V HARRIS, CIVILIAN</p><br>
<p>NAVY:</p><br>
<p>LT (JG) ATHEL L GILL</p><br>
<p>S I C BERNARD J ORGETO</p><br>
<p>ARMY:</p><br>
<p>CWO FLOYD M APPLEMAN</p><br>
<p>SGT WILLIAM E BACKUS</p><br>
<p>MAJ RUDOLF F BOSTELMAN</p><br>
<p>1 LT ORLANDO J BUCK</p><br>
<p>CPL CHARLES SYKEMA</p><br>
<p>PVT CHARLES E ELLIS</p><br>
<p>T-5 MAURICE R GIBBS</p><br>
<p>PVT ANTHONY KASPER</p><br>
<p>PFC ALFRED S MADISON</p><br>
<p>PVT HOWARD A PEVEY</p><br>
<p>PFC CLIFFORD E PHILLIPS</p><br>
<p>T-4 TIMOTHY D STEVENS</p><br>
<p>T-5 EDWARD S STOERING</p><br>
<p>The Colonel Green G. Mobley House, also known as The Magnolia, is a historic house in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame house was built for Colonel Green G. Mobley, a native of Fairfield County, South Carolina, and his wife Henrietta, a native of Vermont. The Greek Revival-style structure was completed circa 1845. Architectural historians consider it to be among West Alabama&#39;s most refined expressions of domestic Greek Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house is centered on a 3.3 acre corner lot, surrounded by a high brick wall that is almost as old as the house itself. The front facade is five bays wide, with a monumental tetrastyle portico covering the central three bays. The bays are separated by boxed pilasters on the front. The portico is pedimented and utilizes the Ionic order. A denticulated cornice crowns the entablature around the entire structure. Exterior and interior trim conforms to published designs of Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever, early proponents of the Greek Revival movement.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Pennie House is a historic house located in Leven Township, approximately 2 mi north of Villard in Pope County, Minnesota, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on April 1, 1982. It was nominated to the register for having local significance in settlement and construction technology. The Daniel Pennie House was built by one of Pope County&#39;s most prominent early settlers using locally distinctive construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Daniel Pennie was born in Kinross-shire, Scotland in 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1851, at age 19, changing the spelling of his last name from Penny to Pennie. Initially stopping in Connecticut, he settled in White County, Illinois, and became a stone mason. He then sent for his family and sweetheart, and they joined him in Illinois in 1853; he married that year. In 1858 the family moved to Richland County, Wisconsin; they then moved just west of St. Cloud, Minnesota, in what is now Waite Park. Once the concurrent Dakota War and Civil War subsided, the Pennies relocated further west, to Pope County and homesteaded land in what was to become Section 12 of Leven Township in 1865. He helped organize the boundaries within the county the following year, and assisted when the county seat was moved from Gilchrist Township to Glenwood. He named Leven Township and Lake Leven after Loch Leven in his native Scotland. Pennie became a widely respected citizen of Pope County. Politically, he was a Republican, and held a number of local and county offices. He became an elder of the United Presbyterian Church, and wrote poetry that was published in regional literary journals. Pennie had little skill at farming, leaving those tasks to his extended family so he could focus on working as a mason in the local region. At one point he desired to move the family once more, following work to Montana, but his wife insisted that they stay in Minnesota. He and his wife had seven children; he died in 1917 at age 85.</p><br>
<p>The first dwellings on Pennies farm were crude shanties on the north shore of Lake Leven, then a basic log house on the eastern shore, and finally a more elaborate log house on the site of the present house. During the 1870s, he replaced the large log house with a stone-and-concrete grout house that stands today. At one point, early in its history, the home was gutted by fire, but the walls were so sturdily built that the inside was merely rebuilt within the old walls; this was a testament to Pennies skill at masonry. Its grout construction is rare in the state and especially unique in the Pope County area, where the vast majority of houses are of frame construction.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story L-shaped structure with a gable roof. The walls are of grout construction, utilizing fieldstone and cement, and are scored to create grooves that imitate random ashlar stone. The water table and window sills are of brick. At the center of the "L" is a two-story tower with an intersecting gable roof, and gabled dormers pierce the main roof on both the east and west sides of the northern section. Windows are rectangular and segmentally arched, with two-over-two sash. The house&#39;s primary decorative feature is a wooden dentillated belt course which circumvents the building between the first and second stories. Chimneys pierce the roof ridge at a central position on the south gable and at the north end. There were one-story porches on the west facade and adjacent to the tower area; the one adjacent the tower area was enclosed in modern times with clapboard siding.</p><br>
<p>Oakhurst, also known as Winston Place and Mitchell Place, is a historic house in Emelle, Sumter County, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame house was built for Augustus Anthony Winston, a banker and cotton factor from Mobile, in 1854. The Greek Revival-style structure is five bays wide, with a one-story porch spanning the entire width of the primary facade. A bracketed cornice atop the entablature wraps around the entire house. It reflects the influence of the Italianate-style. This architectural combination, sometimes referred to as a "bracketed Greek Revival" style, was popular in Alabama from the 1850s to 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on January 14, 1980 and to the National Register of Historic Places on January 6, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Buhach Grammar School is a historic school which served the community of Buhach, California. The school opened in 1907 to serve Buhachs population of Portuguese immigrants who worked at the Buhach Plantation. The school was designed in the Mission Revival style and features a bell-gable front and an arched entryway with a decorative quatrefoil above it. The wood frame and clapboard construction of the school is unusual for the style, as Mission Revival buildings generally used stucco. The school closed in 1950 when Buhachs school district consolidated with the McSwain District; the building was later used to store sweet potatoes and ultimately converted into a preschool.</p><br>
<p>The Buhach Grammar School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Sumter County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse building in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Designed in the Beaux-Arts style, it has served as the Sumter County Courthouse since its completion in 1902. The two-story structure is built of red brick, with terracotta architectural elements, over a stone clad foundation. It is topped by a dome and cupola. It was designed by Chapman and Frederick Ausfeld.</p><br>
<p>The Sumter County Courthouse is centered in a large town square, that is enclosed within an iron fence. An adjacent bored well pavilion, built in brick in 1924; and an 1830s brick probate office; also occupy the square.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 1972.</p><br>
<p>Carreg Samson  is a 5000-year-old Neolithic dolmen located half a mile west of Abercastle near the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>It is called "Samson" because of a local legend that Saint Samson of Dol placed the capstone in position with his little finger.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Carreg Samson has a capstone, 4.7 metres by 2.7 metres and 1.0 metre thick. The capstone rests on three of six stones 1.1 to 2.2 metres high.</p><br>
<p>The whole burial chamber was once covered by a mound of earth or stones and once these were removed stones were used to block the holes in the sides of the tomb so that it could be used as a shelter for sheep.</p><br>
<p>The site was excavated in 1968 which revealed four additional stone-holes, one having supported a further chamber stone, the others indicating a possible passage leading off to the northwest. Slight traces of a covering cairn were found to the south and it was shown that the monument had been raised over a pit 0.8 metres deep, filled with clay and stones. Finds included a small quantity of burnt bone, pottery, and flints.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Italy is a historic bank building located at the intersection of Main and Canal Streets in Merced, California. Opened in 1928, the bank was Merceds branch of the Bank of Italy. Henry Anthony Minton designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The banks design includes a flat, clay tile roof with terra cotta mansards and an ornamental cornice and frieze. Five Corinthian columns are situated on the buildings Main Street facade, and seven pilasters face Canal Street. The first and second floors of the bank are separated by a decorative band of panels; the band features alternating square panels displaying an Indian head or an eagle separated by rectangular panels with a diamond design. The buildings exterior is mostly faced in Travertine marble; the base is faced in granite, and parts of the first floor were covered with stucco in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The Maj. George Beecher Cook House is a historic house located at 356 W. 21st St. in Merced, California. Built circa 1887, the house was designed in the Queen Anne style; it is considered one of the best examples of the style in Merced. The house&#39;s asymmetrical design features a cylindrical tower, open porches in the front and back, and a 7-sided bay on the west side. The roof of the house includes many different designs; the main roof pattern is a gable roof from the front to the back, but the roof also has a pyramidal section in the center, a cross gable on the east side, hipped dormers, and a cone-shaped roof on the tower. The house uses horizontal siding on its first floor and patterned shingle siding on its upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Major George Beecher Cook, a mayor of Merced and local merchant, lived in the house until his death in 1898. The house was later used as a sanitarium and boarding house until 1943, when Alfred Green and his wife bought the property. The Greens converted the house to a guest house, which they named "The Greenbrier" for their last name and Mrs. Green&#39;s maiden name, Brier.</p><br>
<p>The Maj. George Beecher Cook House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Kaehler-Rector House is a historic house located at 408 W. 25th St. in Merced, California. Built in the early 1890s, the house was designed by architect Louis Wegner in the Queen Anne style. The house&#39;s design includes a corner tower with a conical roof, a veranda extending to the front and east sides of the house, and a complex roof design that includes both gabled and hipped sections. A 1905 history of the San Joaquin Valley called the house "one of the finest in Merced County."</p><br>
<p>George Kaehler, the house&#39;s first owner, was a major liquor distributor in the San Joaquin Valley. In 1903, he sold the house to Judge E. N. Rector, a Merced County Superior Court judge, who lived in the house until his 1941 death.</p><br>
<p>The Kaehler-Rector House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Babyshoe Pass, is a high pass within United States National Forests. Forest Route 23 traverses the pass, northwest of Mount Adams in the State of Washington, between Mount Adams flank to the east and Babyshoe Ridge to the west. The pass separates the Lewis River Watershed and the Cispus River drainage. It was built to connect a Forest Highway  together, providing the main north-south access on the east side of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and the many trails within or around the Mount Adams Wilderness and the Midway High Lakes Area.</p><br>
<p>The source of Babyshoe Falls is a stream that drains through the pass.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is located at 4,350 ft along with Primary Forest Route 23, between the Primary Forest Route 90 junction and the Primary Forest Route 21 junction. The pass is located in the Midway High Lakes Area of Mount Adams, offering five high elevation lakes within a seven-mile radius. The most popular being Takhlakh Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Villa Kathrine is a Moroccan-style home located on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Quincy, Illinois. The unique home, sometimes branded as a castle, was built in 1900 by architect George Behrensmeyer for wealthy Quincy native W. George Metz. Metz had a fondness for Mediterranean architecture, and used the Villa Kathrine as his home when he was not venturing the world. Metz eventually sold the castle in 1912, and the site fell into disrepair and neglect before the non-profit Friends of the Castle sought to restore the Villa in 1978. Work on restoring the castle was completed in 1998, and appropriate site furnishings have been donated and obtained by staff throughout the years to further enhance the castle&#39;s Moroccan roots. Currently, the site functions as the official tourist information center to the City of Quincy and tours are granted of the site on an appointment basis.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the castle features a harem, a courtyard, and a reflecting pool. Much of the designs for the interior and exterior of the building were based upon W. George Metz&#39;s sketches of Islamic architecture that he observed during his global travels.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the Villa Kathrine was used as a filming location in the Struber Productions film, Fang, which has yet to be released.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>According to local legend, Metz shared his travels with a woman he met in Germany and intended to bring her to Quincy. The woman, however refused to move into the lavish new home that Metz had commissioned, and Metz returned to the United States broken-hearted and alone. Another version of the story states that this mysterious woman died en route to Quincy. It was reported that Metz was not a total recluse after his heartbreak, as he was known throughout the community for hosting lavish parties at his home and dining with friends. But for twelve years, the only companion to share in his dream house was his 212-pound Great Dane named Bingo. Upon Bingo&#39;s death, Metz fell into a great depression and sold the house in 1912 at the request of his family. He ended up selling the Villa Kathrine to prospective occupants which were actually agents for the railroad industry. When word got out that they intended to demolish the site in favor of a railroad yard, vandals sacked the building and stole the furnishings. When Metz saw the neglect, he vowed never to return to the site again. He would later return to the castle with press and exclaim that he wished he still owned the site, so that he would tear it down.</p><br>
<p>Bingo, the dog, has been said to be haunting the building. Rumors have also circulated that Bingo was buried with a large cache of gold somewhere on the site, but the canine body has yet to be found.</p><br>
<p>The Exeter Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 309 S. E St. in Exeter, California. The library was built in 1916 with a $5000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation; it was one of six Carnegie libraries built in Tulare County. Exeters library program had been started in 1910 by the city Womens Club but lacked its own building prior to the construction of the Carnegie Library. The library was designed in the Mission Revival style by A. Merrill Bowser, whose plans were selected from three designs submitted to James Bertram. The design includes a low hip roof, a gabled parapet, and a wide entrance with panels of glass to the sides of the door. A Union Jack motif is used in the windows and the transom above the front door. The building served as the city&#39;s library until 1976, when it became a community center. It is one of two surviving Carnegie libraries in Tulare County, the other being the Orosi Branch Library.</p><br>
<p>The Exeter Public Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1990.</p><br>
<p>Middletown Historic District is a national historic district located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 187 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Middletown. It is centered on the Middletown crossroads established in the 17th century. Residential buildings include notable examples of the Late Victorian and Federal styles. Notable non-residential buildings include the Witherspoon Inn , S. M. Reynolds and Company , Delaware Trust Company , People&#39;s National Bank , and Forest Presbyterian Church . Also located in the district is the separately listed Middletown Academy or Town Hall .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
