<p>Hirfynydd is a 481-metre-high hill in Neath Port Talbot county borough in South Wales. A Roman road, Sarn Helen, runs along its entire northeast–southwest ridge-line, a route followed by a modern-day byway. To its west is Cwm Dulais and to its southeast is the Vale of Neath. The northern end of the ridge falls away to a broad upland vale containing the Afon Pyrddin and beyond which is the Brecon Beacons National Park.</p><br>
<p>The larger part of the hill is afforested with conifers. In between the plantations are areas of past or present opencasting for coal.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The upper parts of the hill are formed from the hard-wearing sandstones and intervening mudstones of the Pennant Sandstone. Beneath these are the mudstones and coal seams of the South Wales Coal Measures. All the strata are tilted in a generally southerly direction towards the axis of the South Wales Coalfield syncline though there is significant local variation, due in part to the proximity of the eastern slopes of the hill to the Neath Disturbance.</p><br>
<h2>Burial cairn</h2><br>
<p>The Bronze Age Carn Cornel Round Cairn is on the shoulder of hillside, west of the ridge and Roman road. (Location: 51.7428&deg; latitude, -3.7152&deg; longitude, OS grid ref: SN816062.) It is a pile of stones marking a burial, and occupies what appears to be a natural mound. Close by is a boundary stone, suggesting that the site became a historic boundary mark.</p><br>
<h2>Roman Fortlet</h2><br>
<p>On the top of the ridge, at a height of 450 m, is a small square earth-banked enclosure, 18x19 metres, with rounded corners. (location: 51.7466&deg; latitude, -3.6979&deg; longitude). This is a Roman fortlet, or Castellum, used to both control the Carmarthen to Brecon Sarn Helen Roman road, and provide a signal station with wide visibility to the surrounding area. The enclosure is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.</p><br>
<h2>Medieval settlement</h2><br>
<p>There are a group of medieval house platforms on the edge of a plateau of the Hirfynydd ridge, beside the steep slopes of the Dulais valley, showing where a settlement had been. (Location: 51.743&deg; latitude, -3.7306&deg; longitude, OS grid ref: SN806063). A banked rectangular enclosure has a house platform in the west corner. Two further platforms are west of the enclosure. The site is a Scheduled monument and is also called Coed Ddu and Nant-y-Cafn enclosure.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Parts of the hill are available as open access for walkers under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. In addition there are numerous forest tracks which provide access and public rights of way in some areas. Saint Illtyd&#39;s Walk, a recreational walking trail follows a public bridleway to pass over Hirfynydd between Crynant and Resolven.</p><br>
<p>Buffalo Springs Historical Archeological District is a historic archaeological site and national historic district located near Buffalo Springs, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 1 contributing structure associated with the Buffalo Lithia Springs or Buffalo Mineral Springs. The mineral or lithia springs at Buffalo are mentioned in the 1728 diary kept</p><br>
<p>by William Byrd, whose party camped at this location while surveying the Virginia-North Carolina border. As early as 1817, an ordinary and tavern operated at Buffalo Springs. A resort/spa continued to grow through the mid-19th century. By 1885, Buffalo Springs water was being bottled and distributed nationally and in Europe. Buffalo Springs served as important place for local gathering and socializing through the first several decades of the 20th century. Some of the original property was acquired by the government for construction of the Kerr Reservoir in the late 1940s. The district is included within the Tobacco Heritage Trail.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Cefn Hirgoed is a ridge in Bridgend county borough in South Wales.</p><br>
<p>The ridge extends for about 5km east from the village of Sarn just north of Bridgend to Pen-prysg north of Pencoed. At the point where it reaches its highest elevation of 142m, are a couple of covered reservoirs. Towards the west the M4 motorway runs along the hill’s southern edge.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from relatively hard-wearing sandstones of the South Wales Lower Coal Measures with mudstone layers between the sandstones which here dip steeply northwards into the South Wales Coalfield syncline.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Almost the entire hill is mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 giving a general right of access on foot to the public. It and the adjacent Hirwaun Common are also crossed by several public footpaths. A couple of minor roads, Heol Spencer and Heol Llan/Heol-Las, run north-south across the ridge.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Meio is a 322-metre-high hill in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales. Parts of its western slopes fall within Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough. Its eastern slopes drop away to Cwm yr Aber between Caerphilly and Abertridwr and its western slopes to the valley of the Taf. The high point is just over 200 m north of the trig point which sits at 322 m above sea-level.</p><br>
<p>The hill is crossed by the Senghenydd Dyke, an ancient earthwork considered to date from the 13th century and associated with nearby Caerphilly Castle.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from the Hughes Sandstone, within the Pennant Sandstone Formation, a sedimentary rock of late Carboniferous age (c 309-306 million years ago).</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Much of the upper part of the hill is mapped as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and thereby generally available to walkers. It is also crossed by the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk, a recreational path which in the immediate vicinity runs north from the hamlet of Groes-wen over the hill towards Cefn Eglwysilan.</p><br>
<p>The Reese-Johnson-Virgin House is a historic Gothic Revival-style house at 193 Genoa Ln. in Genoa, Nevada. Also known as The Pink House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Deemed significant for its role in Genoa&#39;s history, it was built in approximately 1855 in carpenter Gothic style by carpenter Mark Gaige for John Reese, then later bought and moved (in 1870) by merchant J.R. Johnson, who painted it pink. It was later owned by judge D.W. Virgin. It has decorative bargeboards under its eaves and is topped by finials and other ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s architecture — both original and later modifications — demonstrates historical trends in the community, depicting the growing prosperity both of its owners and of the community.</p><br>
<p>It is individually listed on the National Register in 2004, and also was included as a contributing building in the Genoa Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Sandwich, also known as the Old Customs House, is a historic home located at Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia. It was built about 1758, and is a three</p><br>
<p>bay rectangular plan brick structure is built into the side of a steep hill with 1 1/2-stories on the west up-hill facade, and 2 1/2-stories on the east side. The house was renovated in the 1930s. Also on the property are a contributing brick wall, and a formal boxwood garden site, which includes four contributing garden buildings. Andrew Jackson Montague purchased the property in 1934. It is considered by many historians to be one of the oldest remaining buildings in the Urbanna Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Snodgrass Tavern is an historic tavern located near Hedgesville in Berkeley County, West Virginia. The structure was built in stages beginning around 1742, and is one of the oldest buildings in West Virginia still standing. It is uncertain when the structure became a tavern; but according to Early Hedgesville Chronicles 1720-1947, by William Moore, an account of Robert Snodgrass&#39;s wife, Susannah and their first daughter, baby Elizabeth describes it having been used as a tavern during the Indian wars at the brink of the French and Indian War . Specifically, they hid beneath the floors of the tavern, while the Indians drank and fought above. The tavern lasted until 1847, when the property was sold as a private residence. The structure and surrounding property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is unclear who built the original sections of the tavern. One source states that in 1732, Lord Fairfax granted William Snodgrass a 1,000 acre tract of land in what is now Berkeley County, West Virginia, upon which he began building the tavern. However, other sources claim John Ford began the original construction, selling the land at some point to the Rawlings family, who then sold the land to Robert Snodgrass in 1779. Nevertheless, the Snodgrass name became associated with the tavern. Beginning around 1742, construction of the building was begun. The first section built was a -story square log structure of side length 15 ft. This was followed about fifteen years later by a separate two-story log structure approximately 10 feet to the west of the first structure. Eventually these separate structures were connected, and the first section was increased to a full two stories. Around 1813, the last addition to the tavern was added along the entire length of the northern side of the structure and was constructed from sandstone. The building has twin 32 ft chimneys on both ends, which is considered an unusual feature in the area. A veranda spans the full length of the building&#39;s front side.</p><br>
<p>Although the exact date when the structure became a tavern is uncertain, it is believed to have become such gradually and at an early date. The tavern room was 18 ft by 24 ft in dimension, which was exceptionally large for tavern rooms of that era. The tavern was located approximately halfway between Martinsburg and what is now known as Berkeley Springs. This led to the property being referred to as the Halfway House. The tavern lasted until 1847, when James Snodgrass, who refused to sell liquor (causing business to dwindle), began renting out the tavern and eventually sold it. The building became a private residence, in which state it remains.</p><br>
<p>The tavern received several notable visitors throughout its existence. George Washington visited the tavern on multiple occasions. The first visit occurred in 1750, when Washington was surveying land for Lord Fairfax. Another visit was recorded in Washington&#39;s diary on September 5, 1784. Washington also stopped at Snodgrass when traveling to Berkeley Springs (also known as Bath) on other occasions. Noted politician Henry Clay visited Snodgrass Tavern while visiting friends in the area during July 1827, at which time he was the USA Secretary of State.</p><br>
<p>The tavern was originally listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1973. to 205 acre. This expansion was done to include other historic structures and sites on the property, including a slave cemetery and various outbuildings. Snodgrass Tavern is one of the oldest buildings still standing in West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The Cactus Motor Lodge, now known as the Cactus RV Park, is a motel located along historic USA Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. I.E. and Edna Perry built the lodge in 1941. The motel included three wings of units forming a "U" shape and an office, the latter of which was a dance hall when the motel opened. In 1952, Norm Wegner purchased the motel; Wegner added an artificial stone exterior to the buildings and converted the dance hall to an office. After Route 66 was decommissioned, the motel lost much of its business, and by the 1990s it became an RV park; the motel units are currently unused. The motel&#39;s neon sign was restored in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The motel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Dalsfjorden is a fjord in Volda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 17 km long fjord flows north into the Voldsfjorden. The fjord averages about 1 to 2 km wide and it reaches a depth of 209 m below sea level. The fjord is surrounded by high mountains and the sides of the inner part of the fjord rise steeply up to 600 to 800 m above sea level. There are several small villages along the shores of the fjord, the largest of which are Dravlaus on the western shore, Steinsvika at the southern end of the fjord, and Dalsbygda on the eastern shore. County Road 40 runs around the shoreline of the whole fjord.</p><br>
<p>The old Dalsfjord Municipality (which existed from 1924-1964) encompassed the area surrounding this fjord. Dalsfjord Church sits on the shore of the fjord in the village of Dravlaus, just south of the mouth of the fjord.</p><br>
<p>Cefn Eglwysilan is a hill in South Wales, the twin 382m summits of which lie 2 km east of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough. Its eastern side lies within the community of Aber Valley in Caerphilly county borough.</p><br>
<p>Like neighbouring Mynydd Eglwysilan, the hill is named after the hamlet of Eglwysilan, the church here being dedicated to an obscure saint Ilan. A wireless transmission station is sited on the more northerly of the two summits (at OS grid ref ST 099911). The southerly one is crowned by a trig point.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from the Hughes Sandstone (formally the ‘Hughes Member’ and formerly the ‘Hughes Beds’) of the Pennant Sandstone Formation laid down late in the Carboniferous Period (c 309-306 million years ago). Siltstones and mudstones appear beneath the main upper bed of sandstone.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The linear earthwork known as Senghenydd Dyke stretches across the eastern side of the hill. It is considered to mark the edge of an extensive 13th century deer park associated with nearby Caerphilly Castle. Three cross dykes also sit on the summit plateau and further earthworks are evident on its southern flank. A cairn known as Garnedd Lwyd sits beside the main dyke at OS grid ref ST 107903 and there are further cairns known as Garneddi Llwydion at ST 104918 again beside the Senghenydd Dyke.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The summit plateau of the hill is mapped as open access and thereby freely available for the public to walk. In addition there are a couple of byways running across the hill linking the minor Eglwysilan Road with the road between Nelson and Senghenydd. The Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk follows one of these byways along the eastern edge of the summit plateau.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Eglwysilan is a 355-metre-high hill in the Caerphilly county borough in South Wales 3 km to the south of Nelson and a similar distance southwest of Ystrad Mynach. To its south is Senghenydd at the head of the Aber Valley. Like neighbouring Cefn Eglwysilan, the hill is named after the hamlet of Eglwysilan 4 km to the southwest, the church here being dedicated to an obscure Saint Ilan. Remains of a linear earthwork known as Senghenydd Dyke stretch across the southern side of the hill. It is considered to mark the edge of an extensive 13th-century deer park associated with nearby Caerphilly Castle.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from the Hughes Sandstone (formally the ‘Hughes Member’ and formerly the ‘Hughes Beds’) of the Pennant Sandstone Formation laid down late in the Carboniferous Period (c. 309–306 million years ago). Siltstones and mudstones appear beneath the main upper bed of sandstone.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The summit area of the hill is mapped as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 thereby giving walkers freedom to explore it on foot. There are additionally a couple of byways which traverse the eastern and southern margins of the summit plateau. The unfenced minor public road from Nelson to Senghenydd runs along the northwestern margin of the hill. A rough track passes by the trig point which marks the summit.</p><br>
<p>The Marikamba Temple is located in Sagar City, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It features the image of the goddess Marikamba, a form of Durga or Parvati. The temple was built in the center of the city during the reign of Venkatappa Nayak who ruled over Keladi and Ikkeri kingdom during the 16th century. Marikamba was the family deity of the Nayaka dynasty.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adi Shankaracharya, the philosopher saint of Hindu religion, during one of his tours around South India visited Sagar. During his stay in the town goddess Marikamba appeared in his dream and told him to establish a temple for her at this place. He then consecrated the foot prints of the goddess at the outer limits of the city. During this period (1596), Kadamba, Chalukya and Hoysala dynasties were at war with each other. At this time, Venkatappa Nayaka, ruler of the Keladi and Ikkeri kingdom, adopted this deity as his family goddess seeking blessings to attain victory in the battle. After he won the battle, he shifted the footprints of the goddess from the outskirts to a central location in the city and built a temple to house the footprints.</p><br>
<p>During the early 1950s, there was a move to shift the temple from the center of the city to the outer limits. At the time, the city was affected by the plague epidemic, the cause for which was attributed to the proposal of moving the temple.</p><br>
<h2>Event Dates</h2><br>
<h2>Fair</h2><br>
<p>Every three years, in the month of February, a 10-day fair is held at the venue of the temple. Known as the Marikamba Jathra (‘Jathra’ means “fair”), it is one of the major festivals of Karnataka. It has socio–religious importance and is attended by a large number of devotees from all regions of Karnataka. On this occasion, a 16 ft high chariot, colourfully decorated and carrying the image of the idol, is taken out on a procession.</p><br>
<p>The Doan House is a historic residence in the city of Wilmington, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the middle of the nineteenth century for a local medical official, it was for many years the home of one of the citys prominent lawyers. The houses prominent location at the city&#39;s edge and its distinctive architecture have made it a local landmark, and it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The Doan House was constructed in 1840 as the home of James Wilson, who with his wife Eleanor was the superintendent of the Clinton County Infirmary from 1836 until 1840. In 1869, the property was purchased by Azariah Doan, a prominent Wilmington lawyer and Civil War veteran. During the time that the Doans owned the house, they modernized it by adding numerous Italianate features to the original Federal-style components. For much of its history, the Doan House was a prominent travellers landmark, as it was the citys easternmost house and the first or last portion of the city to be reached by those travelling into or out of the city&#39;s eastern side.</p><br>
<h2>Azariah Doan</h2><br>
<p>Azariah Doan was born at Wilmington in 1824 and distinguished himself in childhood as a diligent student. At the age of twenty-two, he was admitted to the bar, and he split the following fifteen years between private practice and service as a deputy clerk and prosecutor for Clinton County. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered for military service and was appointed an officer of the 79th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was the colonel during the final year of the war. Upon the conclusion of the war, Doan returned to his native city, where within months he ran successfully as a Republican for the Ohio Senate; following two years of service in Columbus, he returned home and practiced law privately until election as a common pleas court judge in 1875. In private life, Doan was married for seven years to the former Amanda Stratton, who died of cholera, and later for many years to the former Martha Taylor, who bore him six children. Despite his military service, Doan was a leader in a local Monthly Meeting of Friends; he was also a Mason and a post commander for the Grand Army of the Republic. He died in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built on a stone foundation, the Doan House features stuccoed walls and an asbestos roof. Built according to a design by James Wilson, its earliest resident, the house is built in the Federal style. Later modifications included the construction of a thoroughly Italianate front porch and the installation of a circular dormer window. Today, the latter feature is the houses most distinctive element; it is Wilmingtons only residence with a circular dormer window. Wilmington is not the only city in the region in which such features are rare; a circular dormer window tops the facade of the Barney Kelley House in Washington Court House to the northeast, making it that city&#39;s only residence with such a window.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, the Doan House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historic architecture and its place as the home of Judge Doan. It was the city&#39;s third building to be listed on the National Register; the Rombach Place near downtown was listed on the same day, and College Hall on the Wilmington College campus preceded both buildings by six years.</p><br>
<p>Solitude is a historic home located on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. The earliest section was built about 1808, and expanded in the 1850s century by Col. Robert Preston, who received the land from his father, Virginia Governor James Patton Preston. Dating back over 200 years, Solitude is the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, "L"-shaped, five bay, log and frame dwelling with a hipped roof. Mid 19th century modifications gave the farmhouse a Greek Revival look. Also on the property are the contributing stone spring house with log superstructure and log kitchen or office. In 1872, the 250 acre Solitude farm became the central campus of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the house, after the death of its owner in the following decade, served as a college infirmary from 1882 to 1886. It was then used as faculty housing for the next 60 years. In the 1940s it briefly was a clubhouse for returning World War II veterans who lived in a trailer park surrounding the building while attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute. At that time, dances regularly were held in Solitude’s two front parlors. In the 1960s and 1970s, Solitude was used by the Hokie Club. Academic programs started using the building in 1974. For some time, Solitude housed a human nutrition and food laboratory and interior design studios and offices. Its last occupant was the Appalachian Studies Program, which has returned following the restoration of the building and is now housed on the second floor. Solitude had been vacant for many years prior to a $1 million restoration that began in July 2010 and lasted half-a-year. Much of the project was funded by the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation of Richmond, Va.</p><br>
<p>The house is situated in a landscaped park adjacent to the central campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. It was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1988 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>After Solitudes listing on NRHP, decade-long research and archaeology commenced to further study the main house, property, and overall site to extrapolate further historical information and evaluate what would be needed to restore the house and outbuildings. These efforts culminated in a 2000 Masters thesis by Michael Pulice, a then-Masters of Science candidate in Virginia Techs Architecture Department, now the chief architectural historian for the Western Regional office (Salem, VA) of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Pulice concluded in his thesis that the remaining log outbuilding, long believed to be either a doctor&#39;s office or kitchen, is a surviving slave cabin and servants quarters.</p><br>
<p>The Loch of Kirbister is a small, shallow, somewhat triangular shaped loch on Mainland Orkney, Scotland, in the parish of Orphir. It lies 5 mi south west of Kirkwall on cultivated land between two hills. There is a small  turf covered islet known as the Groundwater of Holm just off the eastern shore of the loch. It shows traces in stone of an oval structure and small projecting pier. The loch is popular for trout fishing and the Orkney Trout Fishing Association has a hatchery at the Kirbister pumphouse on the loch edge.</p><br>
<p>Mill Burn, the southerly outflow from the loch, was used to power the 18th century Kirbister Mill.</p><br>
<p>The loch was surveyed in 1903 by T.N. Johnston and R.C. Marshall and later charted as part of Sir John Murray&#39;s The Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.</p><br>
<p>The Rombach Place is a historic house in the city of Wilmington, Ohio, United States. Built in the first third of the nineteenth century, it was home to a family that produced two prominent national politicians. No longer used as a residence, the house is now a museum, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Robert Wickersham built the Rombach Place in 1831. It was later home to the family of James W. Denver, a politician who achieved national prominence in the middle of the century.</p><br>
<p>James Denver was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1817, and at the age of thirty-nine he married the former Louise Rombach of Wilmington; to this union were born four children. Much of his youth was spent on a farm near Wilmington, but he later moved far to the west, serving as a USA Representative from California, a governor of the Kansas Territory (a new settlement in the far west of the territory, now part of Colorado, was named for him), as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and as a USA Army general during the Civil War. However, after the war, he returned to Wilmington for a time. In 1870, while he and his family were resident in the Rombach Place, their youngest son was born; named Matthew, he was later elected a USA Representative from Ohio.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in the Greek Revival style of architecture, the primary portion of the house is two stories tall and five bays wide. An entrance is located in the middle bay of the first floor, covered by a small portico with a pediment and four square columns. Smaller windows and prominent chimneys are located on the ends of the house, to which are attached one-bay, single-story sections. Built in the shape of the letter "T", the house is constructed of brick and covered with a shingled roof that rises to a pair of gables; the walls are covered with stucco, and a fence encircles the roofs of the single-story sections on the ends.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Rombach Place is no longer used as a residence: it is the home of the Clinton County Historical Society, which operates it as a museum, genealogy library, and conference center. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place as the home of General James Denver. It was the citys third building to be listed on the National Register; the Doan House on the citys east side was listed on the same day, and College Hall on the Wilmington College campus preceded both buildings by six years.</p><br>
<p>The Galena Creek Schoolhouse in Washoe County, Nevada, in Reno, is a historic schoolhouse that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>It is located just south of Galena Creek near Callahan Park.</p><br>
<p>Nevadas most famous poet of the 1960s and 1970s, Joanne de Longchamps lived in the schoolhouse in 1975 and wrote a book of poetry named "The Schoolhouse Poems". In 1974 Joanne wrote “Three years ago Galen and I acquired (at an auction from the School District ) an acre of land at timberline. It lies under the dominion of Mount Rose and Galena Creek. In one corner of this acre is the schoolhouse – a one room building of hand-cut local stone. To my knowledge, this is the third schoolhouse to stand on or near this site. The first was built when the town of Galena thrived in the 1860s, a timbering town (no longer in existence) that supplied the mines of Virginia City."</p><br>
<p>The Menehune Fishpond, near Lihue, Hawaii, on Kauai, is a historic Hawaiian fishpond. Also known as Alekoko Fishpond, it has been listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Also called Alekoko or Niumalu Pond, it is bounded by a wall 900 yards long at a large bend in Hulēia River</p><br>
<p>It has been deemed "the most significant fishpond on Kauai, both in Hawaiian legends and folklore and in the eyes Kauai&#39;s people today. It is so old that its construction is attributed to the Menehunes, a mythical people inhabiting Hawaii before the Hawaiians arrived....Additionally, it is the best example of an inland fishpond in the entire state."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register in 1973; the listing included one contributing site and one contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>The Magnolia Hotel was built in 1847 to serve as a lodging establishment. It is thought to be the oldest surviving hotel on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Magnolia Hotel was constructed for John Hahn, who operated a coffeehouse in New Orleans. Originally, the hotel was a 2½-story, wood frame building with plastered exterior walls that measured 54 ft on each side. The exterior walls were recessed 7 ft. A central hall extended front to back on both floors. The first floor had paired rooms on either side of the hall; the second floor hall had six rooms on either side. The hotel was originally located near the beach, facing south, toward the Mississippi Sound.</p><br>
<p>John Hahn died in 1848, but his wife operated the hotel to accommodate guests from New Orleans, because Biloxi had become a popular resort destination on the Gulf Coast. After the American Civil War, the hotel became a destination for winter guests from northern states, who were attracted by the mild climate. The hotel was operated by descendants of John Hahn through World War II, when it closed.</p><br>
<p>In 1969, Hurricane Camille inflicted considerable damage to the building. Because of the hotel’s historical significance, the city of Biloxi acquired the building in 1972, and moved it to a higher elevation, approximately 100 yd north of its original location. The structure was oriented to face east and was restored. Additional restoration was required to repair damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Biloxi Mardi Gras Museum</h2><br>
<p>As of 2013, the building was being used as Biloxi’s Mardi Gras Museum. In addition to displays of memorabilia from carnival celebrations, the museum documents the history of the Magnolia Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Case Study House #28, at 91 Inverness Rd., Thousand Oaks, California, is the only Case Study House in Ventura County. Built during 1965-66, it was listed on the National Register along with several other Case Study Houses in Los Angeles County on July 24, 2013, as part of the "Case Study House Program NPS". was the last family home built in the program and one of the largest at 4,500 square feet. The architects designed the house with classic concept in modern architecture of merging interior and exterior spaces through glass expanses and seamless materials. Face brick was incorporated into the house since it is located on a knoll overlooking a development where this was the unifying material. Previous houses in the program consisted primarily of glass and exposed steel, but the Janss Development Corporation and Pacific Clay Products wanted to demonstrate the advantages of the alternative material.</p><br>
<p>Decorative iron gates at the entrance frame the center courtyard that has a swimming pool. Along with the brick face, the house has more than 4,000 square feet of glass windows that are shaded by overhangs. The owners described how they considered installing double paned glass but found it would not fit into the steel frame; the single paned glass makes the house hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Solar panels have been put on the roof along with replacing the asphalt and gravel material, popular at the time the house was constructed, with white foam.</p><br>
<p>When the current owners purchased the house in 1987, the previous owners had shared media coverage about the house with them. In 2013, the owner said to the local press, "I fell in love with the house. I saw it as a work of art."</p><br>
<p>Stump Lake is a naturally formed lake located in Nelson County, North Dakota. It covers 15,742.4 acres, has 72.5 miles of shoreline, and has an average depth of 29.7 feet with a maximum depth of 73.3 feet. It is stocked by the North Dakota Department of Natural Resources with Walleye, Yellow Perch, and Northern Pike.</p><br>
<p>Stump Lake&#39;s waters have risen 45 feet in the last few years, and are now at the levels of neighboring Devils Lake. Devil&#39;s Lake will overflow into Stump Lake if the surface level reaches 1,447 ft. Stump Lake, like Devil&#39;s Lake, is an endorheic (closed) lake, and has no input or output of rivers or streams, and is only fed by rain or human sources. If water levels exceed 1,458 ft the combined lake would flow into the Sheyenne River. This has not occurred since lake levels in this area have been recorded.</p><br>
<p>Stump Lake Park is found around the lake and is solely dedicated to it. Local Native Americans have referred to the lake as "Chicot" which translates as "a place of stumps".</p><br>
<p>The Stump Lake Park is the location of the Old Settler&#39;s Pavilion, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, which has been threatened by the rising water level.</p><br>
<p>Gwaunceste Hill  is a 542-metre-high hill in the county of Powys in east Wales. It falls within the communities of Gladestry and Glascwm around 4 km east of the village of Hundred House and about 2 km north of the hamlet of Glascwm. The headwaters of the River Arrow gather on the eastern slopes of the hill. Drainage of its western slopes is into the River Edw, a tributary of the River Wye. Two subsidiary tops to the southeast and southwest are both known as ‘Little Hill’.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from mudstones, siltstones and sandstones of Silurian age. To its southeast the Church Stretton Fault Zone runs NE-SW past Gwaunceste Hill. Surrounding valleys and some of the hill’s slopes are mantled with glacial till from the last ice age whilst alluvium is found in the valley floors and peat deposits occupy hollows as at Beilibedw Mawn Pool and Llyn-y-waun to the north and west of the summit respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The entire hill is criss-crossed by public bridleways. Much of the hill is mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and thereby available to walkers.</p><br>
<p>The Marikamba Temple in Sirsi, Karnataka, India, is a Hindu temple dedicated to a form of the goddess Durga. It is also known as Doddamma Temple, with "Doddamma" denoting the "elder sister" of all Mariammas in Karnataka. The central icon is an eight-armed image of Durga, also known by the names Renuka and Yellamma. It was built in 1688. It is at a distance of 83 km to the east of Gokarna.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The temple&#39;s façade, a 19th-century addition, is painted blue. After one enters through the façade, there is courtyard in the middle, which has cloisters surrounding it. The cloisters are filled with images of deities from the Hindu epics. The changes made inside the temple have hidden any evidence of older structures. The sanctum sanctorum has the central image of a fierce form of the goddess Durga, multi-armed (eight shoulders</p><br>
<h2>Worship</h2><br>
<p>The main priest at the temple belongs to the carpenter, or Vishvakarma, caste. When Mahatma Gandhi visited Sirsi in 1934, during his campaign to abolish untouchability of Dalits, he refused to visit the temple, as animal sacrifice was a prevalent ancient practice at the temple; the sacrifice was in the form of offering of he-buffalo as a sacrifice to appease the goddess. A he-buffalo was specially bred for offering as a sacrifice to the deity during the annual Rathayatra. Following the protest by Gandhi, there was a social movement in the town not only to abolish animal sacrifice but also to allow Dalits entry into the temple. This movement was spearheaded by Keshwain, chief trustee of the temple, in association with Vitthal Rao Hodike, a teacher and dedicated Gandhian of the town. Both objectives of the movement were fulfilled.</p><br>
<h2>Jaatre</h2><br>
<p>The Sirsi Marikamba jaatre (chariot procession) of the deity is held every alternate year in the month of February and taken through the town. It is attended by a very large number of devotees.It is said to be the most famous and biggest fair(jaatre) of the state(karnataka). Devotees from all around the state participate in this enormous event indulging themselves in the procession.Amusements for kids, circuses, variety of shops, drams and plays and many such things are set up for the people.</p><br>
<p>It depicts the story of the goddess killing mahishasura</p><br>
<p>St Augustines Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. After the abbeys dissolution, it underwent dismantlement until 1848. Since 1848, part of the site has been used for educational purposes and the abbey ruins have been preserved for their historical value.</p><br>
<h2>From founding until dissolution</h2><br>
<p>In 597, Augustine arrived in Anglo-Saxon England, having been sent by the missionary-minded Pope Gregory I to convert the Anglo-Saxons. The King of Kent at this time was Æthelberht or Ethelbert. Although he worshipped in a pagan temple just outside the walls of Canterbury to the east of the city, Ethelbert was married to a Christian, Bertha. According to tradition, the king not only gave his temple and its precincts to St Augustine for a church and monastery,</p><br>
<p>William Thorne, the 14th century chronicler of the abbey, records 598 as the year of the foundation. The abbey became known as St Augustines after the founders death.</p><br>
<p>For two centuries after its founding, St Augustines was the only important religious house in the kingdom of Kent. The historian G. F. Maclear characterized St Augustines as being a "missionary school" where "classical knowledge and English learning flourished." Over time, St Augustine&#39;s Abbey acquired an extensive library that included both religious and secular holdings. In addition, it had a scriptorium for producing manuscripts.</p><br>
<h3>Dunstan's reform</h3><br>
<p>Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, influenced a reorganisation of the abbey to conform to Benedictine rule. Buildings were enlarged and the church rebuilt. Dunstan also revised the dedication of the abbey, from the original Saints Peter and Paul, by adding Saint Augustine in 978. Since then, the abbey has been known as St Augustine&#39;s.</p><br>
<h3>Invading Danes</h3><br>
<p>The invading Danes not only spared St Augustines, but in 1027 King Cnut made over all the possessions of Minster-in-Thanet to St Augustines. These possessions included the preserved body of Saint Mildred. Belief in the miraculous power of this relic had spread throughout Europe, and it brought many pilgrims to St Augustine&#39;s, whose gifts enriched the abbey.</p><br>
<h3>Norman conquest</h3><br>
<p>Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror confiscated landed estates, but he respected Church property. At St Augustines Abbey, the Anglo-Saxon buildings were completely reconstructed in the form of a typical Norman Benedictine monastery. By 1100, all the original buildings had disappeared under a Romanesque edifice. There was further rebuilding as a result of the great fire in 1168. The fires destruction accounts for the paucity of historical records for the preceding period.</p><br>
<p>From about 1250 onwards was a period of wealth in which "building succeeded building." Boggis&#39; history calls this period a time of "worldly magnificence," marked by "lavish expenditures" on new buildings, royal visits, and banquets with thousands of guests. In addition, the papacy imposed many levies on the abbey. The large debt that was incurred by these expenditures might have swamped the abbey had it not been for generous benefactors who came to the rescue.</p><br>
<p>The cloister, frater (refectory) and kitchen were totally rebuilt. A new abbots lodging and a great hall were added. In the early 14th century, land was acquired for a cellarers range (living and working quarters for the cellarer who was responsible for provisioning the abbey&#39;s cellarium), a brewhouse, a bakehouse, and a new walled vineyard. A Lady chapel was built to the east of the church.</p><br>
<h4>Fyndon’s Gate</h4><br>
<p>The abbey gatehouse was rebuilt from 1301 to 1309 by Abbot Fyndon. It has since been known as the Fyndon Gate or the Great Gate. The chamber above the entrance was the state bed-chamber of the Monastery. In 1625, Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria slept in this chamber, following their marriage in Canterbury Cathedral. In 1660, after the Restoration, Charles II and his brothers, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, stayed in the gatehouse on their way to London.</p><br>
<p>Fyndons gate suffered such damage by German bombs during the Second World War that it had to be rebuilt. The gate faces a small square known since the reign of Charles I as Lady Woottons Green." Statues of Æthelberht of Kent and Queen Bertha stand on the green.</p><br>
<p>King Ethelbert - geograph.org.uk - 1451281.jpgKing Ethelbert&#39;s statue</p><br>
<p>Queen Bertha - geograph.org.uk - 1450143.jpgQueen Bertha&#39;s statue</p><br>
<h2>Dissolution to present</h2><br>
<p>Boggis describes the early 16th century leading up to the Dissolution of the Monasteries as "days of decadence". Although the abbey owned estates throughout Kent amounting to 19,862 acres, Boggis holds that "historical evidence proves conclusively that even if Henry VIII had never dissolved them, the English monasteries were already doomed." The "extortionate exactions" of the Papacy would lead to bankruptcy.</p><br>
<p>However, the English Reformation accompanied by the Dissolution of the Monasteries happened before bankruptcy. The Reformation replaced the Pope (a cleric) with a Monarch (a layman). Actions by the Parliament&#39;s House of Commons strengthened the power of the laity versus the power of the clergy. These actions were part of the English Reformation’s "great transfer" of power, both economic and religious, from Ecclesiastical to Secular authorities.</p><br>
<p>As part of the "great transfer," Parliament gave King Henry VIII authority to dissolve the monasteries and confiscate the property for the Crown. The rationale given was "that the religious houses had ceased to apply their property to the specific religious uses for which it was originally given."</p><br>
<p>On 30 July 1538, the Kings Commissioners arrived to take the surrender of St Augustines Abbey. The last abbot and monks complied and left the abbey. The abbey, with its site, its goods, buildings, lands and all other possessions, became the property of the Crown. This dissolution ended over 940 years of monastic presence.</p><br>
<h3>Dismantling</h3><br>
<p>During the rest of Henrys reign, St Augustines Abbey was held by the Crown with some of its buildings converted into a royal residence. However, in other parts of the abbey dismantling and sale of material began in 1541. Some of the stone was used in the fortifications of the Pale of Calais, but more of it was sold locally. The library, containing two thousand manuscripts, was destroyed and the treasure plundered.</p><br>
<p>The royal residence was used occasionally by the royal family as late as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, during which the buildings were leased to a succession of noblemen. Lord Cobham was a resident of Kent who had served her faithfully as a diplomat and parliamentarian.</p><br>
<p>On the attainder of Lord Cobham for treason in 1603 under the reign of James I, the residence was granted to Robert Cecil, Lord Essenden.</p><br>
<p>After Cecil died in 1612, the residence passed to Edward, Lord Wootton of Marley (sometimes spelled "Wotton"). Lord Wootton employed John Tradescant the elder to lay out formal gardens. Wootton died in 1626, but Lady Wootton lived on in her palace until her death in 1658. The open space before the gateway is still known as Lady Wootton&#39;s Green.</p><br>
<p>Sir Edward Hales (1626–1684) took possession of the property after Lady Wooton’s death, to be followed by his son Sir Edward Hales (1645–1695). Rather than conserving the property, these new owners dismantled the buildings and carried used stones to build a new house at Hales Place.</p><br>
<p>From then on until 1844, the desolation continued until it had engulfed the church, cloister, kitchen and refectory. Other parts of the site suffered degradation. From 1770 to 1844, the Alfred Beer & Company brewery operated within the abbey precincts. In 1804, a portion of the site was divided into lots and sold. The Great Court was used as a bowling green and skittle ground. Ethelbert&#39;s Tower, the remaining tower of the Norman abbey, was taken down in 1822. Robert Ewell, in his Guide to St. Augustine’s Monastery and Missionary College wrote that in the first half of the 19th century, the abbey "reached its lowest point of degradation".</p><br>
<h3>Restoration to present</h3><br>
<p>The condition of the abbey did not go unnoticed. In 1844 a rich young landowner, member of parliament, and generous churchman, Alexander James Beresford Hope, visited the ruins, found them deplorable, and bought them. Inspired by the missionary zeal of the Reverend Edward Coleridge, Hope and other donors gave additional money to restore and construct buildings for the establishment of a college to train young men as missionaries in the British colonies. They envisioned a dual purpose for the college: (a) to educate missionaries and (b) to excavate and preserve the abbey remains. St Augustine&#39;s Missionary College remained in existence until 1947. However, on the night of 31 May 1942, its buildings were so badly damaged by a German blitz that the College ceased operations.</p><br>
<p>From 1952 to 1967, the Missionary College buildings were used as The Central College of the Anglican Communion.</p><br>
<p>Since 1976, the college buildings, together with some new ones, have been used by the Kings School, Canterbury, for boarding houses and the School Library. This part of the St Augustines Abbey site was purchased by the School in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The ruins of the abbey are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the care of English Heritage.</p><br>
<h2>Ruins extant</h2><br>
<p>St Augustine Canterbury St Pancras church2.JPGRuins of the Anglo-Saxon St Pancras church, on the grounds of St Augustine</p><br>
<p>Staugustinescanterburyrotundaandnave.jpgRuins of the rotunda and nave of the Church of Sts Peter and Paul, on the grounds of St Augustine</p><br>
<p>View of Canterbury Cathedral from St Augustines Abbey.jpgView of Canterbury Cathedral from the ruin grounds of St Augustines</p><br>
<p>Staugustinescanterburygraveaugustine.jpgGravesite of Augustine of Canterbury</p><br>
<p>Gravesites of Mellitus, Justus and Laurence at St. Augustine&#39;s Abbey.jpgGravesites of Mellitus, Justus and Laurence, early Archbishops of Canterbury</p><br>
<h3>Notable burials at the abbey</h3><br>
<p>Æthelberht of Kent, King of Kent, in the church of St Peter and St Paul. His shrine was later placed above the high altar of the Norman church</p><br>
<p>Eadbald of Kent, King of Kent, in the church of St Peter and St Paul</p><br>
<p>Emma of Austrasia, Consort of Eadbald, also in the church of St Peter and St Paul</p><br>
<p>Justus, first Bishop of Rochester, fourth Archbishop of Canterbury</p><br>
<p>The Howard Motor Company Building  is a historic automobile showroom located at 1285 E. Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Howard Motor Company built the showroom in 1927; it was one of several car dealerships built along Colorado Boulevard. The building has a Spanish Colonial Revival design with Churrigueresque ornamentation; its design includes a decorative frieze, chanfered corners, and an elliptical arched entrance topped by the dominant Churrigueresque element. The Bush-Morgan Motor Company moved into the building in 1938 and occupied it through the 1950s. The building was still used as an auto showroom in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Hall House  is a historic home located along the 3000 block of Tyler Road in Christiansburg, near Childress, Montgomery County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The original structure was a four-room log dwelling with one staircase and sat in the top right hand corner of the property, near a natural spring and the current main road.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Hall raised the log dwelling up, situated it upon a set of large logs, and rolled the structure to its current location and began expanding the house throughout 1875 and 1876. He added four rooms (a parlor and three bedrooms) in addition to the preexisting kitchen, dining room, and two upstairs bedrooms - sheathing the preexisting log frame and the new addition with board-and-batten siding. Many decades later, with the advent of plumbing and electricity, the milk cooler (which stood behind the kitchen and had also served earlier as a grain room) was converted into a full bathroom, which is still in use to this day.</p><br>
<p>The two-story frame house features a shallow gabled roof that is covered with slate. The three-bay southwest (front) facade incorporates a central door flanked by one sidelight and is sheltered by a large gabled central porch. The porch is supported by four two-storied paneled columns. The second floor balcony is supported by angled struts and features a sawn balustrade. The house features an integral two-story ell and the roof is hipped where the ell and main-block intersect. A two-story brick exterior chimney is situated at each end of the main house with the northwest chimney being a more modern copy of the chimney at the southeast end. A one-story walled-in porch shelters the rear (northeast) of the main house. The property is partially surrounded by a board fence incorporating horizontal members. The foundation of the entire house is limestone.</p><br>
<p>The interior features the original staircase in the kitchen, an open-stringer staircase in the center passage, and simple plastered mantels in the flanking rooms.</p><br>
<p>The lawn is sheltered by a pair of maples symmetrically placed in front of the house and by a catalpa tree near the drive to the northwest side of the house. Portions of an ornamental boxwood garden remain to the southeast of the house.</p><br>
<p>A medium-sized frame granary is located to the north of the house and appears to be contemporary with it. The garage across from the granary was built sometime afterwards.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Hall House is very significant as an unusual example of a popular regional form. It is one of one sixty-seven frame single-pile, canter-passage houses in the county dating from the mid to late nineteenth century. It is one of very few to be sheathed with board-and-batten siding. The well preserved house demonstrates the influence of pattern books advocating the use of board-and-batten siding for rural residences. The two-story colossal porch and the second-floor balcony are unusual features associated with this form. The house has undergone little alteration and remains in good condition.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmark Register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The private Hall-Hylton Family Cemetery sits near the back left corner of the property along a fence line. There have been fifteen grave plots identified to date.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd y Gaer is a 295-metre-high hill in Bridgend County Borough in South Wales. The summit is crowned by a trig point.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from sandstones of the Pennant Sandstone Formation assigned to the Warwickshire Group laid down late in the Carboniferous Period. The strata here dip moderately steeply northwards into the South Wales Coalfield syncline. A number of coal seams are recorded as outcropping on the hillside including the No 1 Rhondda, No 2 Rhondda, Brithdir and Brithdir Rider.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The upper parts of the hill are mapped as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and so open to public access on foot. A public footpaths and a byway climb the southwest and southeast slopes of the hill respectively from a car park at the end of a minor road from the nearby village of Heol-y-Cyw. Both rights of way are followed by the Ogwr Ridgeway Walk. Two further public footpaths climb the hill’s northern slopes from the direction of Glynogwr.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd-y-Gaer is a hill that sits on the boundaries between the South Wales communities of Baglan , Cwmavon  and Briton Ferry, , all within Neath Port Talbot county borough. The summit, at 314 m, has grassland fields subdivided by dry stone walls. Foel Fynyddau lies 2 km to east. To the south is the coastal plain of the Severn Estuary. To the West is the Vale of Neath. To the north is the Crythan Brook and the town of Neath. It has numerous prehistoric monuments, and evidence of occupation in medieval times, as well as 19th and 20th century coalmining.</p><br>
<h2>Prehistory</h2><br>
<p>Three scheduled monuments are on the hill, all dating to the Iron Age. Close to the summit is the hillfort enclosure of Buarth-y-Gaer. On the south-west flank, close to Baglan, is a small hillfort, Craig Ty-Isaf. A third hillfort, Gaer Fawr is 800 m (870 yd) from the summit, on the northern spur.</p><br>
<p>Bronze Age burial cairns are also recorded. One, near the summit, is within the enclosure at Buarth-y-Gaer. Similarly the enclosure at Gaer Fawr has a group of 5 cairns, which may once have been as many as 19, but the rest appear to be ploughed away. Another cairn is located on the crest of the ridge, part way between the two enclosures.</p><br>
<h2>Medieval occupation</h2><br>
<p>There are records of a deserted medieval village having been located on Mynnydd-y-Gaer, although the location is uncertain. A house platform has been identified on the east side of the hill. The only high-level road over the hill is a minor road that runs north-south over the saddle between Mynydd-y-Gaer and Foel Fynyddau, close by the house platform, and also past a number of disused coalmining levels, in the vicinity of Gelligaer Fach Farm, and probably dating at least to the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Coal mining</h2><br>
<p>Although no coalmining currently takes place on the hill, two collieries were located there in the first half of the twentieth century. The numerous earlier levels had accessed the coal from levels on the east side of the hill. At a much larger scale the Cwm Mawr colliery, based further south in Cwmafon, opened up a No 3 slant around 1920, running into the side of Mynydd-y-Gaer. From 1922 it was owned by Briton Ferry Collieries Ltd, who employed upwards of 100 men at the Cwm Mawr mines for the next 20 years. It closed in 1944, with a short-lived re-opening in 1950.</p><br>
<p>On the northern tip of the Mynydd-y-Gaer ridge was the Eskyn Colliery. This was established early in the 20th century, and constructed a leat, engine house, tramroad and spoil tips, all of which remain. However it was of short duration, and was listed as disused in 1919.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>No footpaths run to the summit of the hill. On the eastern side a minor road crosses the high saddle 80m below the summit. A section of the Forestry Commission&#39;s Margam Forest may allow access to its rides. On the western side are the Briton Ferry Woods, a mixed woodland including plantations and broadleaved trees, occupying a large area of the slopes and ridges on that side of the hill, and with many paths and rides. The Wales Coast Path has an inland section that runs along the south-western rim of these woods.</p><br>
<p>In 1861 the Ynysmaerdy Railway Incline was opened along the northern edge of the hill, to transport coal down to Briton Ferry docks. The line closed in 1910.</p><br>
<p>The Hillsboro High School, in Hillsboro, New Mexico, is a historic Mission/Spanish Revival-style school building that was built in 1922. It was designed by El Paso-based architects Trost and Trost.</p><br>
<p>Located on the southeast corner of Elenora St. and First Ave., it has also been known as Sierra County High School and it has been designated SR 1304. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to Hillsboro Community Center.</p><br>
<p>It was the first dedicated four-year high school building in Sierra County and the first secondary school open to all county students. According to a 1994 report on historic resources in the county: "Most students were from Hillsboro but a few came from Kingston, Lake Valley and other Sierra County communities. Students from nearby ranches traveled to school on horseback. Some families rented or purchased homes in Hillsboro so that their children could attend high school. Other students boarded in town and by 1924 a "bachelor hall" was furnished for the convenience of self-supporting students."</p><br>
<p>Lake Magog is a freshwater lake located in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It is bordered by three municipalities: Sherbrooke, Magog and Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley. Located in the Appalachian geological province, Lake Magog consists of sedimentary rock, especially slate and sandstone. Lake Magog is part of the watershed of the St. Francois River, which flows into the St. Lawrence River.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>The drainage area of the Magog Rivers watershed is 2,032 km&sup2;. Lake Magogs the maximum length and width are 11.1 km and 2.1 km, respectively. Its area is 10.8 km&sup2;. The maximum depth is 18.85 m and its and average depth is 8.65 m. Lake Magog&#39;s water is supplied mainly by the Magog River which flows from Lake Memphremagog. There are a couple of streams of different sizes that feed the river and Lake Magog.</p><br>
<p>Four hydroelectric dams were built near Lake Magog. Their role is to generate electricity and control the level of water. Magog Lake is a reservoir resulting from these dams, the most influential being that of Rock Forest built in 1911. These dams alter the rate of renewal of the lake by changing the flow of the Magog River.</p><br>
<p>Lake Magog contains eight islands (all private), including two islets, as well as two shoals which have been small islands in the past. Two islands are constructed: the island of the nautical club, and the largest island of the Marinier Archipelago (also known as Odanak Islands). At the southern end of the lake, a 65 hectare marsh is accessible to hikers.</p><br>
<p>The Kindel Building is a historic automobile showroom at 1095 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1927-28 as James H. Kindel&#39;s auto dealership. Pasadena architects Bennett and Haskell designed it in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The main facade of the building features five arches supported by Corinthian columns and extensive plate glass windows displaying the showroom&#39;s interior, and the entrance includes cast iron piers and a transom with an iron grille. The McDaneld Motor Company, the Bush-Morgan Motor Company, and the Howard Motor Company all used the building as a dealership, and it was later used as a body shop.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1996.</p><br>
<p>Frederick Apartments is a well preserved Classical Revival-style apartment building in downtown Columbia, Missouri, across the street from the University of Missouri. Constructed in 1928 with 39 apartments the building has functioned as originally intended since that time. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 under architectural criteria. It remains one of the largest early twentieth century apartment buildings in Columbia and one of only four remaining in the vicinity. The building is a memorial to Frederick Niedermeyer, Jr., a World War I pilot who perished in a plane crash. As of 2013, the owners are in the process of restoring the building.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect David Frederick Wallace, who also designed the Jackson County Courthouse in Independence.</p><br>
<p>Cape Mountain is located 3 miles southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula in the USA state of Alaska. It was named by the surveyor, Alfred Hulse Brooks, in 1900.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Cape Mountain on Cape Prince of Wales is the northern terminus point of the Continental Divide of the Americas. At one time, it was considered to be the most western point of the United States. The mountains elevation is 2,289 ft, with a sharp peak 2,000 ft above the York Plateau, and a well-marked bench formation at 1,200 ft; the east base has an elevation below 500 ft. There is a sharp pinnacle at its western edge. Tin City developed on the southeastern side, while Kingegan is situated to the northwest; Teller is 53 miles to the southeast. Cape Creek has its headwaters on the mountains eastern side and flows southward for approximately 2 miles until it reaches the Bering Sea at Tin City. The west forks headwaters are in the mountains uplands while the east forks headwaters flow against the continental divide; a tributary, First Chance Creek, enters near Cape Creeks mouth.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Granites and fine grained porphyries are the geological formations recorded in the mountain, which are very much jointed. From the geological map of the mountain it is noted that granite formations are massive and crystalline which has generated distinctive topographic features. The crest and the pinnacles are of granite rock with double system of jointing. Feldspar crystals are seen at the margin of these massive formations. The granites are coarse crystalline normally porphyritic, and basically with geological formations of quartz, microcline and biotite. Local glaciation has been recorded on the mountain. There is also a belt of limestone inferred as belonging to the Kigluaik series. White limestone formations are inferred as intrusives and its formations on the western side of the mountain dip away from granite. While driving a 418 ft long adit from an elevation of 1,700 ft into the Cape Mountain, close to the peak, for prospecting for minerals, biotite granite formation of the hill revealed cassiterite-bearing quartz of the Late Cretaceous period. The evolution of the Cape Mountain granite has been "determined to be 78.8 +/- 2.9 my old by the K/Ar method".</p><br>
<h2>Mineral prospecting</h2><br>
<p>Tin lodes have been prospected in the mountain. Tin ore was discovered in July 1902 by W.C.J.Bartels, but attempts to explore the mountains proved unsuccessful as the engine set up at the beach, near what is now Tin City, was defective. The mountain has placer concentrates of radioactive minerals of monazite, xenotine, and zircon. The concentrates have 0.9 percent equivalent uranium (averaging about 0.03 percent equivalent uranium) attributed to thorium in the monazite content. It is inferred that the radioactive minerals found could be due to the granite formations of the mountain or to the tin deposits found in the region.</p><br>
<p>Cefn Gwyngul is a long broad ridge to the east of the Rhondda Fach valley in Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough in South Wales. Its 470m high summit is marked by an ancient cairn known as Carn-y-Pigwn, on which is a more recent trig point. Much of the hill is cloaked by modern forestry plantations though its southwestern flank between Porth and Ferndale has not been coniferised. The earthworks of a Roman camp remain on the ridge at OS grid ref ST 002982.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill lies at the heart of the South Wales Coalfield and is formed from relatively flat-lying sandstones of the Pennant Sandstone Formation assigned to the Warwickshire Group, laid down in the late Carboniferous Period. Numerous coal seams within these beds have been worked in the past and the legacy of coalmining is widespread. The important Brithdir and Brithdir Rider seams outcropped along the upper western flanks of the ridge.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Minor roads ascend the slopes of the hill from Ferndale, Ynysybwl and Pontypridd converging at the elevated hamlet of Llanwonno. Various other public rights of way cross the hill though none reaches its summit. Route 47 of the National Cycle Network runs the length of the hill on its eastern side ascending via the minor road from Pontypridd to Llanwonno and then continuing northwest on forest tracks to join the A4233 above Maerdy. Those areas of forestry in the ownership of Natural Resources Wales (successor to Forestry Commission Wales in 2013) are open to public access, as are some areas of open moorland by virtue of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Christiansburg is a historic post office building located at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was designed and built in 1936, and was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The one-story, five-bay, brick building is in the Colonial Revival style. It features a denticulated cornice and a standing-seam metal, gabled roof surmounted by a small, flat-roofed cupola. The interior features a Works Progress Administration sponsored mural by Paul DeTroot, depicting local events of the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Christiansburg Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Thumping Dick Hollow, also known as Thumping Dick Cove, is a small cove in Franklin County, south Tennessee, within the domain of the University of the South and town of Sewanee. It is noted for its unusual name, old-growth forest, and caves.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Thumping Dick Hollow is a small cove with multiple sinkholes and caves including Solomon&#39;s Temple. It is also noted for its old growth forest. It is one of the segments of the Sewanee Perimeter Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of Name</h2><br>
<p>There are multiple traditions as to the origin of the unusual name. The hollow was referred to as early as 1858 before the University of the South was built. A popular version relates that a local resident named "Dick" built a water-powered grain mill in the 19th century; when in operation, the mill made a "thumping" sound that was heard throughout the surrounding forest. Another version of the origin states that the a hydro powered sump pump or sawmill made a thumping sound when in operation.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Thumping Dick Hollow located off of the old Stagecoach route of the Breakfield Road in Sewanee, Tennessee and forms part of the Sewanee Perimeter Trail. It is approximately 700 ft in elevation below Breakfield Road. From gate #7 on Breakfield Road, follow the path beyond the gate for.8 mi until it crosses a stream with a collapsed bridge. Cross over the stream and follow a faint path to the left until the entrance to the Columned Entrance Cave is visible. The second cave, Solomon&#39;s Temple, is further ahead around the cliff on the right.</p><br>
<h2>Thumping Dick Hollow in literature</h2><br>
<p>Noted early 20th century New England author, drama critic, and Yale professor Walter Prichard Eaton wrote of the hollow. In his 1922 collection of essays Penguin, Persons, and Peppermints, Eaton describes a visit to the hollow in early spring while celebrating the Southern American gift for colorful place names.</p><br>
<p>Meems Bottom Covered Bridge  is a covered bridge in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The bridge, at 204 ft, is the longest covered bridge in Virginia. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current Meems Bottom Covered Bridge is the fourth bridge across the North Fork of the Shenandoah River at the location. The first bridge was constructed between 1867 and 1868, and was subsequently destroyed by a flood in March 1870. The bridge was replaced by 1871; however, this bridge was destroyed by floodwaters in November 1877. The third bridge was constructed in 1878 and was replaced by the current structure in 1894. Another, earlier bridge at a nearby location was destroyed by General Stonewall Jackson&#39;s troops in 1862 during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The name of the bridge derives from the locally prominent Meem family, which held large tracts of land in the area. The timbers that were used to build the bridge of 1894 were cut from Confederate General Gilbert S. Meem&#39;s former farm, Strathmoor, located nearby.</p><br>
<p>The current bridge is of the Burr Truss design, which was patented by Theodore Burr, brother of USA Vice President Aaron Burr, in 1817. The bridge spans a length of 204 ft across the river, making the bridge the longest still-standing covered bridge in Virginia. Two stone abutments, which extend ten feet below the riverbed, support the bridge on the sides of the river. The rock used in the abutments was gathered from local quarries. The bridge consists of two arches on each side spanning the length of the bridge and joining the abutments 8 ft below the top of the abutments&#39; stone construction. The arches are constructed of three sections each of 7 in by 15 in timbers bolted together. The vertical truss supports and horizontal roof supports are composed of 8 in by 10 in lumber. The diagonal truss supports are 7 in by 9 in timbers. Originally, the floor supports consisted of two 7 in by 12 in beams along the length of the bridge and 4 in by 14 in beams supporting the roadway running from side to side. The bridge was strengthened in 1937 with the addition of steel I-beams running along the length of the bridge and parallel to the roadway supports. A new road surface was also added at this time.</p><br>
<p>The bridge continued to serve traffic until it was destroyed by fire when vandals burned the bridge on October 31, 1976. The original timbers of the bridge were salvaged, however, and the bridge was reconstructed and put back into service by September 1979. The restoration included new concrete piers and steel beams.</p><br>
<p>Meems Bottom Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1975. An updated listing was added on April 23, 2008. The bridge is also on the Virginia Landmarks Register and was listed on April 15, 1975. The updated listing was added March 10, 2008.</p><br>
<p>Graig Goch is a 586m high hill in the Gwynedd area in Wales and lying within Snowdonia National Park. The hill falls within the communities of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Corris, the summit being located in the former. The hill takes the form of a NE-SW aligned ridge with a broad top which rise to subsidiary tops either side of the main summit. These are the 540m+ top of Mynydd Cedris  and the 504m top of Mynydd Rugog . The hill’s most notable feature is the large cliff which stretches the length of its northwestern face overlooking Tal-y-llyn, in part a major rock-slope failure.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is formed from a succession of mudstones and siltstones laid down by turbidity currents during the Ordovician Period. The main ridge is developed in rocks of the Ceiswyn Formation assigned to the Ogwen Group and dating from around 457 to 454 million years ago. A near vertical cleavage is developed in the steeply southeasterly dipping strata. Talus slopes (scree) lie beneath the main cliff, the massive landslip of part of which some time after the last ice age blocked the valley and is responsible for the presence of Tal-y-llyn Lake. The lake occupies a deep glacial trench excavated along the line of the Tal-y-llyn Fault.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Other than the afforested parts of its southern slopes and parts of its lowermost northern slopes, the entire hill is mapped as open country under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 thereby giving the public extensive rights to wander at will across it. There are no recorded public rights of way on the hill.</p><br>
<p>Sandgate Town Hall is a heritage-listed town hall at 5 Brighton Road, Sandgate, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Ramsay Hall and built from 1911 to 1912 by John Gemmell. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sandgate Town Hall was constructed in 1911-1912 when the previous chambers were destroyed by fire. The architect of the hall, which cost £5000, was Thomas Ramsay Hall, and the contractor John Gemmell.</p><br>
<p>Europeans first settled in Sandgate in the 1850s, and the area prospered into the following century as the principal sea-side resort in south east Queensland, encouraged by the introduction of the railway in May 1882. The Town of Sandgate was established in 1902, previously included as part of the Nundah Division from 1879, then established as a separate Borough of Sandgate in April 1880.</p><br>
<p>The first Municipal Council meetings from 1880 until 1882 were held in a large room rented in a masonry building, thought to be the oldest building in Sandgate. The first official Sandgate Municipal Chambers and Town Hall was designed by Richard Gailey in 1882, and built in Kate Street near the popular pier and bathing area in what is now Shorncliffe. However, as Sandgate progressed, the centre of development was nearer the Sandgate railway station in Rainbow Street. Therefore, when a fire in 1910 destroyed the chambers a site for the new Town Hall was chosen closer to the Sandgate railway station and the 1887 Sandgate Post Office.</p><br>
<p>The foundation stone for the Sandgate Town Hall was laid by Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Queensland, on 14 October 1911. The building was constructed by John Gemmell, in eleven months, at a cost of £5000 including £300 for furnishing. Thomas Ramsay Hall, the architect, was then the Town Clerk of Sandgate. Later in his career, Hall went into partnership with George Gray Prentice (1919–1929) and designed such buildings as the Brisbane City Hall and from 1929–1948, he was in partnership with Lionel Blythewood Phillips with whom he designed many buildings, including Ascot Chambers and the McWhirters corner block.</p><br>
<p>The Sandgate Town Hall was designed to sit on a prominent corner, and was therefore an L-shaped building with wings extending along both streets; the hall in the Brighton Road wing was accessed from the principal corner entrance and Council Chambers and various offices were accessed from a centrally located entrance on Seymour Street. The rear elevation featured a balcony opening from both the hall and the offices. The clock tower climbed three levels from the cloak room near the principal corner entrance, with room allocated for the clock on the second level and a bell on the third.</p><br>
<p>The Town Hall was opened on 21 September 1912 by the Queensland Governor, William MacGregor, at a ceremony attended by 500 people. A four dial clock, acquired from the Old Ipswich Town Hall by a Brisbane watchmaker, Frederick John Bright, was installed in the clocktower in 1923. The clock is reputedly one of the oldest working clocks in Brisbane, built by Gillet and Johnstone of Croydon, England in 1877.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, under the requirements of the City of Brisbane Act of 1924, the Town of Sandgate merged with 19 other local government areas to form the Greater Brisbane, and the Sandgate Town Hall was retained by the new Brisbane City Council for use as a community hall, variously acting as the library for the school of arts and a health clinic. The main hall is currently used for public meetings and other community gatherings the council library operates from the former Council Chambers and offices which were altered for this purpose.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Sandgate Town Hall is a single-storeyed masonry building with a partial basement floor. The building has a gabled corrugated-iron roof and features a face-brick plinth and rough-cast stuccoed facade. It is L-shaped in plan with a prominent clock tower near the intersection of the two wings. The stuccoed tower has face brick corner pilasters and decorative mouldings. A bellcast roof sheeted with decorative pressed metal conceals the three bells and is surmounted by a weathervane.</p><br>
<p>The town hall has square-arched openings to the Brighton Street wing and round arched openings to the other. The principal entrance, at the corner of the site is defined by two massive Ionic columns, behind which a recessed entrance porch is located. The entrance to the library, on Seymour Street, is emphasised by a decorative parapeted section featuring Art Nouveau signage "SANDGATE TOWN COUNCIL AD 1911" and a large round arched opening with floral leadlight window. Other decorative elements include face-brick quoining, Art Nouveau signage, roughcast stucco render in some sections, and dormer windows.</p><br>
<p>Internally the building features a large hall and stage, a library chamber and various administrative offices. The hall has a mezzanine dress circle level, with early timber and iron row seating. The ceiling of the hall and the proscenium arch are sheeted with decorative pressed metal. The clock tower is accessed in the vestibule at the rear of the dress circle by a fixed timber ladder leading to three levels containing various clock workings, weights and bells.</p><br>
<p>The library features four different patterns of pressed metal on the ceiling, which indicate the original layout of the space. An early half-glazed door in the library has an embossed pattern, featuring lettering "THE MAYOR" in stylised Art Nouveau lettering.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Sandgate Town Hall was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Sandgate Town Hall provides evidence of the Town of Sandgate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>Sandgate Town Hall, erected in 1911-1912, is significant as an excellent example of a Federation style civic building in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>It is an intact example of the civic work of renowned Brisbane architect, Thomas Ramsay Hall.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The building is a landmark on a prominent site in Sandgate, of particular note for its unusual clocktower, and as an integral element of the precinct including the Post Office and Sandgate War Memorial Park.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>The building has a long association with the local community as a focal point for social and community functions.</p><br>
<p>Hamilton Town Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall at 36-42 Racecourse Road, Hamilton, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Montague Talbot Stanley and built from 1919 to 1920. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 April 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hamilton Town Hall, a single-storey brick building comprising council chambers and public hall, was erected in 1920 for the Hamilton Town Council. It was designed by Montague Talbot Stanley, and is one eight remaining town halls from the twenty that were built prior to the formation of Greater Brisbane in 1925.</p><br>
<p>When Moreton Bay was opened for free settlement in 1842, local government was controlled from Sydney, using British Imperial Government policy. The Municipality of Brisbane was not proclaimed until 1859, and the first council was elected in the same year. As settlements sprang up around Brisbane a desire for separate municipality status developed, and in 1879 the Divisional Boards Act provided for a number of new autonomous authorities adjacent to Brisbane. By 1891, 21 local authorities had been created in the Brisbane metropolitan area under this legislation. These consisted of the City of Brisbane as well as a municipality, shires, divisions, and one borough.</p><br>
<p>In 1890, the Hamilton Division separated from Toombul Division, although the Hamilton Divisional Board initially conducted its business from the Toombul Divisional Board Offices. Andrew Petrie was appointed the first chairman. The board became a Town Council in 1904 and the first mayor was John Brett Charlton. In 1917 the council purchased 64 perches (approximately 1600 square metres) of land in Racecourse Road with the intention of building council chambers and a public hall. In 1919 plans and specifications for the new building were received from Montague Stanley, son of Francis Drummond Greville Stanley, the well-known Queensland Colonial Architect. At a special meeting, amendments were made, including a wider front door and the use of Australian manufactured materials. A tender from Messrs McArthur & Walker for £6,894 was accepted and the current mayor Alderman George Rees laid the foundation stone on 26 September 1919. Extra walling and iron railing with a double gate along Racecourse Road was added to the plan and the building was completed in 1920 for a cost of £8,873.</p><br>
<p>The town hall accommodated council officers as well as providing council chambers and a public hall. There were a kitchen and a strong room, but it is not known if the supper room was constructed at this time. An honour board for local residents who had contributed to World War I was erected in the council offices.</p><br>
<p>With rapid population increases, small local governments found it ever more difficult to fund and administer their responsibilities effectively and economically. The development of services such as roads, transport, water supply and sewerage could only be efficiently managed by an overarching authority. A move to amalgamate local authorities began in 1902 when the Booroodabin Division was absorbed into the City of Brisbane. The idea of amalgamation was promoted throughout the 1900s and culminated in the City of Brisbane Act of 1924, when Hamilton was one of the towns and shires who joined to form the Brisbane City Council. The first Greater Brisbane Council was elected on 21 February 1925 and the Hamilton Town Council was disbanded.</p><br>
<p>The Hamilton Town Hall then became the property of the Brisbane City Council and since that time has had various uses. During 1925/1926 it is recorded as a council depot in the Post Office directories. From 1927 it was known as the School of Arts and provided a venue for social events. The building was headquarters for the Australian Army Survey Corps during World War Two. After the war, major alterations were made to the council chambers to create the Hamilton Municipal Library. The hall continued to be used for various social activities. Additions were made to the northern end of the hall in 1973 to accommodate the mobile library service. Further changes in 1987 included alterations to the dressing room and a covered walkway between the Supper Room and the hall. The former town hall still houses the city council&#39;s Hamilton library and it is used by an amateur theatrical group and by other local groups for meetings and social activities. Though its use as a venue for functions and gatherings and as a local library, the building has long associations with the cultural and social life of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The former Hamilton Town Hall is on a corner block, with the entrance to the library from Racecourse Road and the entrance to the hall from Rossiter Parade. It consists of a series of linked single-storey structures comprising the original brick main building (hall and library), a timber supper room, and the 1973 brick annexe. The main building is a load-bearing face brick structure with a timber-framed floor and a timber-framed terracotta tiled roof. Externally the building features English-bond face brickwork contrasted by a rendered base, string courses and entablature. Both street elevations are emphasized by a pedimented frontispiece. The original balustraded parapet is now missing, as are the metal palisades and gates to both street alignments.</p><br>
<h3>Library (formerly council chambers)</h3><br>
<p>The entrance to the library consists of a vestibule with Art Nouveau-styled leaded glass windows and tessellated/encaustic floor tiles. Some floor tiles are replicas laid down in 2004. Only a small section of the border pattern consists of the original tiles, the others being specially made replicas laid in 2004. Panels in the French doors opening into the library and sections on either side of the doors are all matching leadlight.</p><br>
<p>Internally, the Library has been substantially altered by the removal of walls and doorways. However, the "Reliance" strongroom with steel doors remains in working order. The main windows to both street facades are original Diocletian windows and sashes. The interior features shallow coffered ceilings with plaster rose. Picture rails remain in some rooms, and the section of the library with the strongroom is half paneled. The original open verandah to the north of the library has been unsympathetically enclosed with timber boarding and glass louvres.</p><br>
<h3>Hall and Supper Room</h3><br>
<p>The hall, across the rear of the library, is much more intact and features a fibrous plaster ceiling with coffered timber beams. Two large roof ventilators are built into the hall roof.</p><br>
<p>The supper room is a small single-storey timber-framed weatherboard-clad structure with a timber floor close to the ground, paired casement windows, and a gabled corrugated iron roof. Internally, the supper room is an open space with cupboards and a sink underneath the windows at the rear of the room. It is linked to the hall by a dressing room, and a recently constructed covered walkway (without heritage significance) incorporating ornate timber detailing which is neither original nor authentic and has unsympathetically altered two of the original large hall windows.</p><br>
<h3>Annexe</h3><br>
<p>The Mobile Library Service Annexe is a modern cavity brick concrete slab on ground structure with a tiled roof. The building in its scale, form, materials and detailing are all unsympathetic to the main building to which it is attached. It is not considered to have any heritage significance.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Hamilton Town Hall was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 April 2005 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>Seven Oaks is located in Bluffton, South Carolina. It was built in 1850. This is a two-story house with double verandas on the south and east sides and two exterior chimneys. The house is called Seven Oaks due to seven very large live oak stumps that support the house. Some of the original interior details remain; there is a visible line running east to west down the center of the northeast parlor floor indicating that an addition was made at some time.</p><br>
<p>The first owner of the house was Colonel Middleton Stuart and his wife, Emma Barnwell Stoney. In 1866 the property was sold to Frances Marion Edward; subsequently, it was owned by Ephraim Mikell Baynard, then E. L Harrison and later by the Baynard family of Hilton Head Island.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s, Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders operated Seven Oaks as a popular and successful boarding house for salesmen and summer visitors.</p><br>
<p>After a complete renovation which began in 2007, the house was home to a civil war museum before being sold in 2012 as a private home.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Twyn-glas is a sprawling 472-metre-high mountain extending into Caerphilly and Torfaen county boroughs in South Wales. It lies southwest of Pontypool, west of Cwmbran and east of Newbridge and taking the form of a rolling plateau the margins of which are defined by steep slopes, many of which are cloaked with conifer plantations. A broad shoulder extending south from the summit is known as Mynydd Maen whilst to the north is Mynydd Llwyd. The thickly afforested northern slopes of the hill drop down steeply into Cwm y Glyn.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill lies on the southeastern edge of the South Wales Coalfield. The summit plateau and upper slopes of the hill are formed from sandstones of the Pennant Sandstone Formation assigned to the Warwickshire Group of the late Carboniferous Period. Amongst coal seams outcropping along its eastern flanks are the Cefn Glas and Brithdir seams. The NE-SW aligned Glyn Fault cuts through the northwestern corner of the hill. A major landslip affects its southeastern slopes at Mynydd Henllys.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The larger part of the open land of the hill is mapped as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and thereby open to access on foot by the public. In addition a number of public footpaths cross the hill and provide access from neighbouring towns and villages.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd y Lan is a 381-metre-high flat-topped hill in Caerphilly county borough in South Wales. It falls largely within the community of Ynysddu but its northern and eastern margins are within Crosskeys community.Its largely wooded southern and eastern flanks rise steeply from the Sirhowy and Ebbw valleys respectively. A wireless transmission station is located towards the northern end of the summit plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is situated towards the southeastern margin of the South Wales Coalfield. The summit plateau and upper slopes of the hill are formed from sandstones of the Pennant Sandstone Formation assigned to the Warwickshire Group of the late Carboniferous Period.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The larger part of the hill including its flanking woodlands is mapped as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and thereby open to access on foot by the public. In addition a handful of public footpaths run through the woodlands providing additional access. One is followed by the Ebbw Valley Walk, another by the Raven Walk.Ordnance Survey Explorer maps 152 Newport & Pontypool, 166 Rhondda & Merthyr Tydfil/Merthyr Tudful</p><br>
<p>The Leport–Toupin House, at 503 E. Telegraph St. in Carson City, Nevada, is a historic simplified-Second Empire-style house that was built in 1879. It was converted to a pre-school in 1969. Also known as the Hawkins House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for its architecture and also for its association with Alexander Leport (1837–1885), a French-born businessman who came to Carson City in 1879 and developed grocery, saloon, drugstore, barber shop and other businesses. He arranged for the house to be built in anticipation of his 1880 marriage to Frenchwoman Mary Blavee. In 1891, six years after Leports death, Mary Leport married Edmond S. Toupin, a French-Canadian who took over Leports businesses. In 1907 ownership of the house passed to Theodore Perry Hawkins and his wife, Clara.</p><br>
<p>The house is one of few Second Empire houses in Carson City, and the one in its east side residential area.</p><br>
<p>The Champaign City Building serves as a symbol of the city, with its likeness featured on the city seal. Designated a Champaign Landmark on July 18, 2005, the ornate decoration, art deco architecture, and copper roof distinguish the building as one of the most recognizable in downtown Champaign. The main inspiration for the building&#39;s art deco design was Los Angeles City Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Land for the original City Hall was donated to the city of Champaign in 1888 by David Bailey, who was a charter founder of the First National Bank of Champaign. It is believed that he donated the land due to the lot&#39;s odd shape, and his inability to develop the land. Bailey also insisted that the city must develop a building worth no less than $5,000 within a year of his donation. The city, in turn, built a multi-purpose structure that housed the Police and Fire Departments, an auditorium, a library, and a chamber and meeting room for the City Council.</p><br>
<p>Within almost forty years, the building was in such poor condition that the City Council voted to demolish the multi-purpose building and in its place the current City Building was constructed from 1935-1937.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Currently, the City Building serves as Champaigns city hall and includes the City Council Chambers, administrative offices, and the citys law department.</p><br>
<p>The Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure  is an earthworks complex in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Named for its location near the stream known as Cowan Creek, the enclosure is an important archaeological site, and it is protected as part of a state park.</p><br>
<p>The Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure is not easily visible to the average observer on the ground. A survey conducted in 1949 observed that the enclosure was approximately 90 ft wide, but even at that time, it had virtually no height; the only practical method of observing the site&#39;s extent was via aerial photography. This mound was part of a substantially larger group: more than twenty burial mounds were located along Cowan Creek near the enclosure, but little is known about most of them: by the time that Raymond Baby was leading the Cowan Creek Mound excavation, a dam on the creek had been completed, and the water levels of a reservoir covered the mounds before most could be investigated. The entire group remains beneath the surface of Cowan Lake to the present day, except for the enclosure.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Circular Enclosure lies near the shore of Cowan Lake; the underwater site of the Cowan Creek Mound is only about 300 ft away, and the enclosure lies in the middle of a peninsula in the lake. The site is now located within Cowan Lake State Park, slightly less than 1 mi south of the present State Route 730. Officials have sought to allow the site and surrounding lands to return to the condition in which they existed before the region was settled. As a result, the site has never been subjected to intensive professional testing; archaeologists accordingly are unaware of whether any additional sites, such as a village location, might be nearby. In 1974, the Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its value as an archaeological site. Four other Clinton County archaeological sites are listed on the Register: the Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District, and the Hillside Haven, Hurley, and Keiter Mounds.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd y Grug is a hill lying just west of the village of Cwmfelinfach and about 4 km to the northeast of Caerphilly in Caerphilly county borough in South Wales. Its summit was formerly at a height of around 358 m, but since the top has been covered by a large spoil heap and landscaped its height has now increased to 375 m, though some authorities take other values for the summit height. A number of ancient cairns are found along its edge overlooking the Sirhowy Valley, the slopes up from which are largely wooded.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mynydd y Grug is formed from sandstones of the Pennant Sandstone Formation assigned to the Warwickshire Group and laid down during the latest part of the Carboniferous Period. The hill lies in the southeastern part of the South Wales Coalfield and coal seams such as the Dirty and the Cefn Glas have been worked around its flanks.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The hill is crossed by a number of public footpaths, one of which is a restricted byway linking two cul-de-sac minor roads approaching from Machen to the east and Blackwood to the north. This route is followed by the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk. A part of the plateau is mapped as open access and available for walkers to wander freely.</p><br>
<p>The African Banks are the uninhabited northernmost islands of the Amirante Islands, of the Outer Islands of the Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The islands were discovered in 1797 and named Îlots Africains by Admiral Willaumez commanding the frigate La Régénérée.</p><br>
<p>North Island had for a couple of months a guano mining camp.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The African Banks lie about 230 km west of the city of Victoria on the main Seychelles island of Mahé, close to the edge of the Amirantes Bank. The nearest island is Remire Island, lying 27 km south.</p><br>
<p>The group is a pseudo-atoll, has 2 small islands, which are gradually undergoing Coastal erosion and appear as just small sandstone ridges exposed only at low tide.</p><br>
<p>The underwater Bank extend over 4 km north-south and 3 km east-west and occupy a total area of about 10 km&sup2;. With a shallow Coral Ring, It appears as an incomplete Atoll. the west of the coral ring, however, is 19 to 36 m deep.</p><br>
<h3>North Island</h3><br>
<p>North Island ( fr. Île du Nord ) is small and flat with an area of 3.3 hectare. It has a derelict automatic lighthouse on the north point. and is occasionally visited by tourists in charter yachts. It was formed from sandstone, is almost treeless (one coconut tree in 1995), and covered by grass and low-growing vegetation (shrubland). It is significant as a nesting site for terns, the colonies of which are subject to frequent exploitation and disturbance by poachers.</p><br>
<h3>South Island</h3><br>
<p>South Island ( fr. Île du Sud ) is small and flat island with an area of 0.6 hectare. It lies 3.1 km south of the North Island. It has a small ruin of a poachers hut.</p><br>
<p>H.M.S. Spitfire was wrecked on South Island on August 1801.</p><br>
<h2>Flora & Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The islands, with an associated tract of coastal marine habitat, form a 750 hectare Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of black-naped (10 breeding pairs) and sooty terns (5000–10,000 pairs), and brown noddies (2000–5900 pairs). green and hawksbill sea turtles nest there.</p><br>
<p>African Banks are surrounded by coral rim (the eastern side) and waters rich in fish, especially mackerel, tuna and sharks.</p><br>
<p>The C. J. Prescott House, at 12 Hickey St. in Virginia City, Nevada, is a historic house that was built in 1864. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest houses in Virginia City, one of few surviving from Nevada&#39;s pre-statehood era, and having survived the "Great Fire" of October 26, 1875.</p><br>
<p>It was built by C.J. Prescott, who owned an early lumber company serving the Comstock Lode. It is a -story wood-frame house with vernacular Victorian/Italianate style, with three chimneys and redwood shiplap siding. At the time of its NRHP listing, its exterior colors were oxblood plus gold and green trim, the original colors of the house from 1864.</p><br>
<p>It is included as a contributing property also in the National Historic Landmark and NRHP-listed Virginia City Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Luray Norfolk and Western Passenger Station is a historic train station located in Luray, Virginia, United States. The Shenandoah Valley Railroad reached Luray in 1881 and constructed a station near where the present station is located. Shortly after the Norfolk and Western Railway absorbed the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in 1890, plans arose to construct a new station in Luray. This station, which still stands, was constructed in 1906 and was designed by the railroad&#39;s Chief Engineer, Charles S. Churchill. The structure was partially destroyed by fire in 1908 when it was struck by lightning; however, it was soon thereafter reconstructed according to the original design. The station is a one-story brick structure featuring a hip roof. The building was converted to freight use around 1960</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
