<p>Tholos de El Romeral, situated 2.5 km north east of the town of Antequera , is one of the most important examples of Neolithic architecture in southern Europe. Tholos de El Romeral, also known as Cueva de Romeral  and Dolmen de Romeral, is a megalithic burial site built circa 1800 BCE. It is one of three tombs in region, the others being Dolmen de Menga and Dolmen de Viera, both situated to the south west.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the dolmens of Menga, Viera, and El Romeral were all inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name "Antequera Dolmens Site".</p><br>
<h2>Date</h2><br>
<p>As late as the 20th century it was believed that the three megalithic tombs in the area (Dolmen de Menga, Dolmen de Viera and Tholos de El Romeral) originated from the same period. However subsequent research supports widely spaced dates between the first two (around 3800 BCE) and the construction of Tholos de El Romeral which is now thought to have been built around 1800 BCE. It is recognised and attributed to the wider culture of the Los Millares, which had its centre more than 200 kilometres to the east. The main reasons for this are the different stone materials used and the differing floor plans of the chambers, as the other two tombs have rectangular chambers.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Tholos de El Romeral is a chambered tomb covered by a mound. It consists of a long corridor with drystone walls made of small stones and a ceilings made of megalithic slabs. The corridor culminates with two consecutive round beehive-like chambers. The larger chamber has a diameter of approximately 4.20 m and has corbelled walls built in the same way as the corridor, projecting inwards and culminating in a megalithic capstone. The floor of the corridor and main chamber are made of packed earth. The second chamber is linked to the first by a rectangular corridor (and is not accessible to the public). It has a diameter of approximately, contains a stone slab bier, and the floor of the small room is covered with stone slabs. Bones and grave goods were found within the dolmen.</p><br>
<p>Although it is believed that these megalithic buildings had different uses (tombs, temples, etc.) the Romeral Dolmen is certainly a burial site because human remains, shells, and two types of ceramics were found within it.</p><br>
<p>The Greek theatre of Syracuse lies on the south slopes of the Temenite hill, overlooking the modern city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily. It was first built in the 5th century BC, rebuilt in the 3rd century BC and renovated again in the Roman period. Today, it is a part of the Unesco World Heritage Site of "Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica".</p><br>
<h2>Ancient theatre</h2><br>
<p>The existence of a theatre at Syracuse is attested by the end of the fifth century BC by the mime author, Sophron, who names the architect as Damokopos, called "Myrilla" because he made heavy use of perfume ("myrrha") at the inauguration. It has not been proven, however, that the passage records this monument and some think that it refers to another theatre in another location. However it is certain that a theatre was used in Syracuse from the early classical period and in it, it seems, the theatrical activities of the playwrights Epicharmus, Phormis and Deinolocus took place. At Syracuse, Aeschylus put on "The Aitnans" (a tragedy written to celebrate the re-foundation of Catania with the name Aitna, or of a centre with the name of Aitna where the Catanian exiles had found refuge after the destruction of Chalcidean Katane at the hands of Hieron I), probably in 456 BC. Also The Persians, which had already been performed at Athens in 472 BC, may have been performed at Syracuse. This latter work survives to this day, while the former has been lost. At the end of the fifth century or the beginning of the fourth, the plays of Dionysius I were probably performed here, along with those of the playwrights hosted at his court, such as Antiphon.</p><br>
<p>It has been theorised by Polacco that in this period the theatre did not yet have the semicircular form that became canonical in the course of the third century, but might instead have been made up of straight banks of seating arranged in a trapezoid. Diodorus Siculus refers to the arrival of Dionysius at Syracuse in 406 BC as the people were exiting the theatre. Plutarch recounts the escape of an angry bull during a citizen assembly in 355 BC and the arrival of Timoleon in a carriage in 336, while the people were meeting here, testifying to the importance of the building in public life.</p><br>
<h2>Hellenistic theatre</h2><br>
<p>It seems that the theatre was renovated in the third century, after 238 BC and certainly before the death of Hieron II in 215 BC, transforming it into the form seen today. Its structure was extended, taking into account the shape of the Temenite hill and the best possibilities for acoustics. Another typical characteristic of Greek theatres is the celebration of the panoramic view, also applied to the theatre of Syracuse, offering a view of the bay of the port and the island of Ortygia.</p><br>
<p>The cavea had a diameter of 138.6 metres, one of the largest in the Greek world, and originally had 67 rows of seating, mostly cut into the living rock, and divided into nine sectors (cunei) by access stairs. A pathway (diazoma) runs around the theatre halfway up the cavea, dividing it in two. On the walls there are inscriptions for each of the cunei, with the names of divinities (Olympian Zeus, Herakles) and of members of the royal family (Hieron II himself, his wife Philistis, his daughter-in-law Nereis, daughter of Pyrrhus, and his son Gelo II), which has encouraged some authors to consider the inscriptions valuable for dating the monument&#39;s construction or renovation. The upper portion of the seating, now destroyed, was built up on top of an embankment held up by a retaining wall. On the central axis of the cavea, a platform was cut into the rock, perhaps a place for particularly important people to sit.</p><br>
<p>The orchestra was originally bounded by a wide euripos (drain), with a space on the outside before the beginning of the steps, by which the public entered.</p><br>
<p>The scene building is entirely destroyed and only the cuttings in the bed rock for its foundations are now visible. These belong to multiple phases and are difficult to interpret. A passage dug under the orchestra, accessible by a staircase from the stage and ending in a small room probably belongs to Hieron IIs time: it is hypothetically identified with the "Stairs of Charon," which allowed the actors sudden entrances and exits. A ditch for the front curtain probably belongs to this phase too (in ancient theatres these did not fall from above, but rose from below). The traces of an element on which columns and pilasters must have stood have been interpreted as the remnants of a small mobile stage for Phlyax plays. A statue of a caryatid now preserved in the Museo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi, which contains material excavated and recovered in the theatre, probably formed part of the theatres decoration.</p><br>
<p>Above the theatre there is a terrace, excavated in rock, accessible by a central stairway and by a recessed path, known as "Via dei Sepolcri" (Street of the Tombs). Originally, the terrace had a large portico at the left. In the centre of the foundation wall was a grotto, the grotta del Ninfeo, excavated in the rock, bordered by niches probably designed to host statues and originally probably surrounded by architectural elements of the Doric order (of which only parts of a frieze survives). Inside the room (9.35 x 6.35 m, 4.75 m high) was a tub made of Opus signinum, into which water from the ancient Greek aqueduct flowed. From here the water flowed into the hydraulic system of the theatre. The whole thing might be identified with the Mouseion or sanctuary of Muses, seat of the company of actors. According to the anonymous Life of Euripides, Dionysios dedicated objects belonging to the tragic poet Euripides acquired at great expense in Greece in this sanctuary.</p><br>
<h2>Roman period theatre</h2><br>
<p>Important modifications were made to the theatre, perhaps at the time when the colonia was founded in the early Augustan period. The cavea was modified to a semicircular form, typical of Roman theatres, rather than the horseshoe used in Greek theatres and corridors allowing access past the scene building (parodoi). The scene building itself was reconstructed in monumental form with rectangular niches at centre and two niches with a semicircular plan on the sides, containing doors to the scene. A new ditch was dug for the curtain, with a control room. In the orchestra, the old euripos was buried, replaced by a new canal, much tighter and closer to the stairs of the cavea, expanding its diameter from 16 m to 21.4 m. The decoration of the scene probably underwent renovations in the Flavian and/or Antonine periods.</p><br>
<p>In the late Imperial period other modifications were conducted, designed to adapt the orchestra for water games and the scene was probably moved back. Traces of adaptations to allow the theatre to host gladiatorial battles and spectacles with beasts by the elimination of the first steps of the cavea to create a raised wall protecting the spectators do not exist. Instead, these spectacles probably continued to take place in the amphitheatre found in Syracuse since the Augustan period.</p><br>
<p>An inscription which is now lost mentioned a Neratius Palmatus as the one responsible for a renovation of the scene: if this was the same person who restored the Curia at Rome after the Sack of Rome by Alaric in 410, then the final works on the theatre at Syracuse can be dated to the beginning of the fifth century AD, by which time the building was nearly nine hundred years old.</p><br>
<h2>Subsequent history</h2><br>
<p>Remaining abandoned for centuries, it underwent progressive spoliation at the hands of the Spanish under Charles V, who used the stone blocks to construct new fortifications on Ortygia. This process led to the destruction of the scene building and the upper part of the seating. After the second half of the sixteenth century, the Marchess of Sortino, Pietro Gaetani, reactivated the ancient aqueduct which brought water to the top of the theatre, allowing the creation of several water mills in the cavea, of which the so-called casetta dei mugnai (Millers&#39; Cottage) at the top of the cavea remains visible.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the eighteenth century, interest in the theatre revived and it was mentioned and depicted by the erudites of the period (Arezzo, Fazello, Mirabella, Bonanni) and by famous travellers (d&#39;Orville, von Riedesel, Jean-Claude Richard, Houel, Denon, etc.). In the following century proper excavations took place, thanks to the interest of Landolina and Cavallari who busied themselves with freeing the monument from the dirt which had built up on top of it. Subsequently, archaeological investigation was carried out by Paolo Orsi and other archaeologists, ending with Voza in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (INDA) began the annual performance of Greek drama in the ancient theatre (the first was the tragedy Agamemnon of Aeschylus, directed by Ettore Romagnoli). The ancient Greek tragedies are performed at sunset, in Italian (with translations by famous writers such as Salvatore Quasimodo), without sound systems because of the quality of the theatre&#39;s acoustics. Each theatre season begins in May and ends in July, attracting thousands of spectators from all over the world. Some of the most illustrious performed tragedies are Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Medea and The Bacchae. Aside from this, the theatre has enjoyed use for concerts and official prizegivings, like the Premio Vittorini, but such use has been tightly limited for conservation reasons.</p><br>
<p>Since 2010 the theatre has been one of the monuments of the Servizio Parco Archeologico di Siracusa and of the archaeological area of the surrounding comuni, an organ of the Regione Siciliana, Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell&#39;Identità Siciliana. In 2014, the Assessorato authorised the use of the theatre for summer events like music, singing and dance performances.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>B. Pace, Arte e cività della Sicilia antica, Roma 1938</p><br>
<p>F.S. Cavallari, Relazione sullo stato delle antichità di Sicilia, sulle scoperte e sui restauri dal 1860 al 1872, Roma 1958</p><br>
<p>C. Anti, Guida per il visitatore del teatro antico di Siracusa, Firenze, 1948.</p><br>
<p>C. Anti, Il teatro greco trapezoidale ad ali convergenti, in Dioniso, Bollettino Ist. Naz. Dramma antico, 1948, pp. 152–162</p><br>
<p>P.E. Arias, il teatro greco fuori di Atene, Firenze, 1934, pp. 139–142</p><br>
<p>G.V. Gentili, Siracusa, in EAA, Roma 1966, pp. 329–330, 333-334</p><br>
<p>L.Bernabò Brea, Studi sul teatro greco di Siracusa, Palladio, XVII, 1967, pp. 97–154</p><br>
<p>G. Traversari, Tetimino e Colimbétra, ultime manifestazioni del teatro antico, in Dioniso, Bollettino Ist. Naz. Dramma antico, 1950, pp. 21–22</p><br>
<p>L.Polacco, C. Anti, Il teatro antico di Siracusa, con la collaborazione di M.Trojani; rilievi di I. Gismondi e A.C. Scolari, Rimini 1981</p><br>
<p>L. Polacco (a cura di), Il teatro antico di Siracusa pars altera, con scritti di L. Polacco, S.L. Agnello, G. Lena, G. Marchese, Padova, 1990</p><br>
<p>L. Polacco, la posizione del teatro greco di siracusa nel quadro dell’architettura teatrale antica in Sicilia, in APARCHAI, studi sulla Magna Grecia e la Sicilia antica in onore di PE Arias, Pisa 1982, pp. 431–443</p><br>
<p>D. Mertens, Recensione a Polacco Anti 1981, Gnomon. 91, 1984, pp. 263 s.</p><br>
<p>K. Mitens, Teatri greci e teatri ispirati all’architettura greca in Sicilia e nell’Italia Meridionale, Roma 1988, pp. 116–120</p><br>
<p>L. Polacco, M. Trojani, A.C. Scolari, Ricerche e scavi nell&#39;area del teatro antico di Siracusa, "Kokalos", XXX-XXXI, 1984–85, ii,2, pp. 839–846, tavv. CLXXXVI-CLXXXIX</p><br>
<p>H.P. Isler, Siracusa in Teatri greci e romani, alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato- censimento analitico, Roma 1994, V, III</p><br>
<p>D. Mertens, Città e monumenti dei Greci d’Occidente: dalla colonizzazione alla fine del V sec. a.C., Roma, 2006, p. 313.</p><br>
<p>U. Pappalardo, Daniela Borrelli, Teatri greci e romani, Verona, 2007, pp. 46–49.</p><br>
<p>M.A. Mastelloni, “Syracuse. The “via sacra” and the Ancient Theater of Neapolis” description and demands. In “Architettura e archeologie dei paesaggi della produzione” Erasmus Intensive Programme - “Archaeology’s places and contemporary uses” in “Archaeology’s places and contemporary uses” design Workshop 3, pp. 172-177</p><br>
<p>M.A. Mastelloni, Cave e materiali utilizzati in alcuni monumenti di Siracusa, in Arquelogía de la Construcción IV, Le cave nel mondo antico: sistemi di sfruttamento e processi produttivi, Conv Int. Padova 22-24/11/2012, Merida 2014, pp. 223-245</p><br>
<p>Aventine Hall is a historic home located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. It was built in 1852 by Peter Bouck Borst, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It is topped by a hipped roof with cupola and has four interior end chimneys. The front facade features a tetrastyle portico, which runs almost the complete length of the facade. The portico is in the Corinthian order based on the Tower of the Winds in Athens. It has corner pilasters in the Tower of the Winds mode and a frieze and cornice that continue around the entire, almost square structure. Aventine Hall served as the main building of Luray College which operated from 1925 to 1927. It was moved to its present location in 1937.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Ruffner House, also known as Luray Tannery Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. It was built in two phases, about 1825 and about 1851. It is a two-story, Federal / Greek Revival style brick dwelling with a hipped with deck roof, a stone foundation, and one-story porches on the two fronts. The house was remodeled in the 1920s. Also on the property are the contributing rambling two-story frame residence known as The Cottage; a stone spring house with attached brick pumphouse that served an adjacent tannery; schoolhouse and shop; root cellar; secondary barn; dairy; machinery shed; chicken house; a swimming pool; an 1890s bank barn, and the small Ruffner Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>John Beaver House, also known as the Thomas Shirley House, is a historic home located near Salem, Page County, Virginia. It was built in 1825-1826, and is a two-story, four bay, single pile brick dwelling. It has two entryways, a three-course molded brick cornice under the eaves of the gable roof, and exterior end chimneys. A two-story, five-bay kitchen/dining room ell was added in the late-19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The home is set among the rolling farmlands of Massanutten Old Fields near the Shenandoah River in Page County. The original section was erected in 1825-6 by John Beaver; the ell was added in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The original portion of the structure is a two-story, four-bay, single-pile building built of brick laid in Flemish bond on the facade, with five-course American bond on the ends. A three-course molded brick cornice embellishes the eaves of the gable roof and exterior end chimneys flank the ends of the house. The facade is symmetrical with a pair of front doors flanked by 9/6 windows in the first story and with four 6/6 windows in the floor. All of the facade windows are embellished with gauged jack arches. In the center between the two pairs of openings is a tall diaper pattern formed of glazed headers.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Spitler House is a historic home and farm complex located near Luray, Page County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built in 1826, and is a two-story, brick dwelling with a gable roof. A wing was added in 1857 to create an "L"-shaped building. Located on the property are the contributing remains of a double-unit stone outbuilding which sheltered and sustained the original settlers  and two succeeding generations; chimney and remains of a log building; stone wellhouse and dairy; large vernacular Switzer or Swisher barn dated to the 1750s; combination wagon shed and corn crib; a set of stone steps which were used to assist persons in mounting horses and getting into wagons; two eight-foot-high stone gateposts; and a small family cemetery containing nine graves.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Missionary Lake is located in the municipalities of Trois-Rives and Lac-aux-Sables in the Mekinac Regional County Municipality , in Batiscanie, in the administrative area of the Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is named in honour of missionary and explorer Paul Le Jeune, one of the founders of the Jesuit mission that was opened in 1634 in nearby Trois-Rivières, Quebec.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In Aboriginal history, the Mekinac River and Missionary Lake together served as paths between the Saint-Maurice River and Batiscan River. In winter, this route was also very useful for forest contractors using horse-drawn sleighs to access logging areas around Missionary Lake or Mekinac Lake.The need for this path for forestry was greatly reduced when a railway was completed in 1908 in the nearby Tawachiche sector connecting Hervey-Jonction to La Tuque. Today, this Mekinac/Missionary route is used recreationally by snowmobiles and ATVs between early December and late March.</p><br>
<p>In 1938, the Groleau Company built a sawmill at the south end of Missionary Lake, 4.3 km from Hervey-Jonction. On June 27, 1955, the mill was destroyed by a fire. It was rebuilt in the village of Sainte-Thècle, opposite the train station and next to the Groleau factory.</p><br>
<p>Today, the region&#39;s economy is based on tourism and forestry. The area is suitable for hunting, fishing, camping, water activities, nature observation and gathering wild fruit.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Missionary Lake is divided into two parts, north and south, which are interconnected by Groleau Strait which is 0.77 km in length.The southern part of Missionary Lake discharges into the northern part of the lake through the Groleau Strait. Small boats can navigate through the southern entrance to the strait. There is a wider channel of about 0.5 km long in the middle portion of the strait, but the strait otherwise is difficult to navigate, being narrow and shallow in places with stones at the bottom. The northern part of the strait entry requires a portage with a canoe. A bridge spans the strait at its northern portion to serve the cottages located on the northeast shore of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The south part of Missionary Lake is located partly in the municipality of Lac-aux-Sables (5th and 6th Row Price) and partly in Trois-Rives (from 1st row N.-E. to 5e row N.-E.). The Trois-Rives section was part of the unorganized region of Lac-Masketsi until August 28, 2004. The southern part of the lake is elongated along the north-south axis, with a length of 5.1 km and a maximum width of 0.5 km. The southern part of the lake is accessible by road from Hervey-Jonction&#39;s sector (in the municipality of Lac-aux-Sables), connected by Lac en coeur Road to Missionary Lake Road which runs along the south-western part of the lake. Missionary Lake Road continues beyond the Groleau strait, along the southwestern bank of North Missionary lake.</p><br>
<p>The northern part of Missionary Lake is elongated along the north-south axis, measuring 7.1 km in length and 1.2 km wide. Its discharge, at the northwest end of the lake, flows north and west 3.18 km to Mékinac Lake through several smaller lakes, the largest of which is Lac à la Puce. It discharges into Mékinac Lake, just upstream of the dam at the mouth of the latter lake.</p><br>
<p>The northern part of Missionary Lake is accessible by road from the village of Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac in the Municipality of Trois-Rives, north along Lake Mékinac Road 8.5 km, then along Missionary Lake Road for 4.2 km.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The name "Missionary Lake" was chosen to honour the Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune who came from France, and is one of the founders of the mission Trois-Rivières in 1634 and Ville-Marie (Montreal) in 1642. Paul Le Jeune was a great explorer of New France after the founding of Trois-Rivières. In the region of Sainte-Thècle, several sites are associated with his life&#39;s work: Canton Lejeune, Lac Lejeune and Lake Jesuit. In Saint-Tite, the École secondaire Paul Le Jeune (High School) which opened in 1969, also pays tribute to the missionary. The name "Missionary Lake" was recorded on December 5, 1968 at the Bank of place names of Commission de toponymie du Québec.</p><br>
<p>The Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex, in Malheur County, Oregon near Westfall, is a historic property that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes Italianate architecture. Also known as the Mose Hart Stone House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The houses design is a copy of the Rinehart Stone House built in 1872 in Vale, Oregon. In 2000, it was identified as endangered and valuable: as "an intact, rare example of Vernacular-Italianate style architecture...one of the finest examples of pioneer architecture in eastern Oregon." According to the NRHP nomination, it had been identified by authors Nielsen and Galbreath in Oregons Fading Past, as "an architecture gem, soon to be forever lost unless restoration</p><br>
<p>occurs in the near nature."</p><br>
<p>The Anchorage Hotel is a hotel located at 330 E Street in Anchorage, Alaska. The original Anchorage Hotel building was built in 1916; the current hotel building, which was constructed as an annex to the hotel, opened in 1936. C.B. Wark built the first hotel building; while the building was originally a wood frame structure, Frank Reed upgraded the building to a luxury hotel in 1917. The hotel outgrew its original building due to Anchorages growth in the 1930s, so the Anchorage Hotel Annex was built in 1936 to house additional guests. The annex, designed by E. Ellsworth Sedille, had a Gothic design and was one of the tallest buildings in Anchorage at the time. Guests at the hotel included Warren Harding, Harold L. Ickes, Walt Disney, Wiley Post, and Will Rogers; the latter two stayed at the hotel only two days prior to their deaths in a plane crash. In addition, artist Sidney Laurence lived in the hotel for parts of the 1920s and 1930s; Laurence once exchanged a painting of Mount McKinley for a years rent at the hotel.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s, the hotel declined in status, and the buildings suffered from a lack of maintenance. The original hotel building was demolished in the 1960s, while the annex became the Hotel Ronald Lee; after a number of ownership changes, Bob and Carolyn Neumann rehabilitated the hotel in the late 1980s. After its renovation, the hotel regained its original name; it now operates as the Historic Anchorage Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The annex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Olivenhain Town Meeting Hall is a community meeting house located at 423 Rancho Santa Fe Rd. in Olivenhain, California. The wood frame building was constructed from 1894 to 1895 by the settlers of Olivenhain. The residents of Olivenhain used the building for nearly all community functions, including political meetings, agricultural discussions, weddings, and community dances. Almost every important event in the community&#39;s history took place in the hall, and one author called the building "the nerve center of Olivenhain". An annex was added to the hall in 1916, using redwood from a second meeting hall which had fallen into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Mékinac Lake is a large lake of freshwater of province of Quebec , located mainly in the municipality Trois-Rives, in Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. The northern part of the lake and the bottom of the Bigué Bay  are within the La Tuque .</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>Like many historic waterways in the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes Basins, Mékinac Lake&#39;s name derives from a First Nations language. The Algonquin people who settled by the lake likened the shape of the high promontory overlooking a peninsula jutting into the lake from the east to a turtle, and so named it makinak (Ojibwe mikinaak—snapping turtle). The French used a version of the original pronunciation—Mékinac.</p><br>
<p>The name "Lake Mékinac" was officially registered as of December 5, 1968 at the "Bank of place names" of Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec).</p><br>
<p>The surname "Mekinac" is used in 1808 in the baptismal act of the child Pierre-Olivier Launière said Mekinac, from Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan. The designation "lake Mekinac" appears in 1863 as "Mekina" in a work of Stanislas Drapeau. The designation "Mekinac River" is mentioned in an 1870 report of the surveyor Hilarion Lefebvre. The designation "lake Mekinac" is shown on the official plan of Mékinac (township) in 1899. Finally, the Dictionary of rivers and lakes in the province of Quebec, published in 1914, mentions it. Forestry workers and other travelers coming from the south to reach the Mékinac Lake named on their way the Little Mékinac North River (Petite rivière Mékinac nord), located in the territory of Saint-Tite and Grandes-Piles.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mékinac lake has the shape of a cross, because of two bays forming the arms of the cross in the middle of the lake:</p><br>
<p>"Arm Bigué" (West side) that receives water from the outlet of "lac aux sleighs" (lake of Sleighs). The outlet of Lake Tom flows North into the "lac aux sleighs&quot</p><br>
<p>"Grosleau Arms" (East side) that receives water discharge (long 0.4 km) of Lake Gélinas, which is located in the mountains.</p><br>
<p>In the northern part of the lake (on the west bank), a camping site was built at the foot of the mountain "Cap à l&#39;aigle" (Cape eagle), where the views are stunning.</p><br>
<p>Mekinac lake covers 23 km² in the townships of Carignan (North part), Hackett (central part) and Mekinac (south part). Its length is 18 km by 2 km wide. The lake drains into the Mekinac River, which is a tributary of the Saint-Maurice River. A water retention dam located at the mouth of Lake Mekinac was rebuilt in 2011 and 2012. The two main tributaries of Lake Mekinac are :</p><br>
<p>Rivière du milieu (River of the Middle) which flows from the eastern shore, in the northern part of the lake</p><br>
<p>discharge of Missionary Lake which flows near the Mékinac dam, located south of Lake Mekinac.</p><br>
<p>By road, the mouth of the lake is located about 99 miles north of Trois-Rivières downtown or 52 km from Grand-Mère downtown. Starting from Grand-Mère, the path is to take the Route 155 (north) along the east bank of the Saint-Maurice River. Just before the bridge over the Mekinac River, 4.7 km after the village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, turn on Saint-Joseph path towards Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, Quebec (municipality of Trois-Rives), a legendary authentic village that was developed through forestry, agriculture and tourist activities. After this town, turn left onto "Chemin du lac Mékinac" (Lake Mekinac Road). The distance between the Mekinac bridge (Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac) and the dam of Mekinac Lake (Trois-Rives) is 18.4 km (measured by road).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A peninsula in the middle of Lake Mekinac, on East bank (in the municipality of Trois-Rives) is designated the "Trou-du-Steamboat". It is located off the bay designated "Bras Grosleau" (Grosleau Arm) whose top of the neighbor mountain (north side) reaches over 320 meters. In this area, the mountains on the east side of the lake form a long promontory which falls into the lake Mekinac. Consequently, navigators have few places to hide when the wind rises.</p><br>
<p>The name of this place is associated with a boat powered by a steam engine (commonly called "steamboat") who found refuge regularly in the large bay of "Bras Grosleau" when the lake became too agitated. To enter the bay, the boat had to cross a strait of 270 meters wide, between the peninsula and the headland, to take refuge in one of the four bays of "Bras Grosleau". This ship sank in 1930&#39;s near the same peninsula, in front of the "Grosleau Arm". The bay called "Bigué Arm" also was another haven for boats.</p><br>
<p>The steam boat was used to circumvent the peninsula, on which the central mountain rises to over 260 meters, including commuting between bay "Grosleau Arm" (East side), with the bay "Bigué Arm" located at the opposite on the west shore of the lake. The steam boat was carrying forestry workers and goods to supply the logging camps established around the lake.</p><br>
<p>The name "Trou-du-Steamboat" was officially registered on January 25, 1990 at the Bank of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec)</p><br>
<p>Mission Brewery Plaza is a historic brewery building in the Middletown neighborhood of San Diego, California. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989. It is also the name of a San Diego microbrewery which opened in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Historic building</h2><br>
<p>Built from 1912 to 1913, the brewery was the first in the USA to be designed in the Mission Revival style; it is still the only Mission Revival industrial building in San Diego. The brewery was operated by the San Diego Consolidated Brewing Company, a group led by August F. Lang. Due to the impending threat of Prohibition on the brewing industry, the brewery began production of a non-alcoholic drink called Hopski in 1915; however, the drink sold poorly and was discontinued, and the brewery closed in 1918.</p><br>
<p>The building served as an isolation hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic; the physician in charge of the hospital, Dr. Peter C. Remondino, claimed to have never lost a patient to the flu. The American Agar Company purchased the building in 1923 and converted it into San Diego&#39;s first agar production plant. While the American Agar Company folded in 1933 due to Japanese competition, the building became an agar plant again after Japanese imports ceased during World War II. The American Agar and Chemical Company produced agar in the building from the 1940s until 1987.</p><br>
<p>In 1987 developer Mike Foote bought the property, restored it, and converted it into offices. He hoped to open a microbrewery and restaurant at the site but lost the property to foreclosure in 1992. Pacifica Company bought it and continues to operate it as an office building. Pacifica later developed an adjacent residential complex called the Mission Apartments.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 a new craft brewery called Acoustic Ales Brewing Experiment opened in the reconditioned old brewery space.</p><br>
<h2>Craft brewery</h2><br>
<p>In 2007, the name was revived when a new Mission Brewery craft brewery opened in Downtown San Diego. It is housed at 1441 L Street in the historic Wonder Bread building, built in 1894. The former commercial bakery is now a 14,000 ft&sup2; brewery with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a year and a tasting room that can accommodate up to 400 people. The brewery produces hefeweizen, IPA, blonde ale and amber styles, as well as extreme beers like Shipwrecked Double IPA, Carrack Imperial Red, Dark Seas Imperial Stout, and El Conquistador.</p><br>
<p>The White House in Aston Munslow, Shropshire is a medieval hall house that has undergone considerable alteration over the centuries. It is a grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The East end is the oldest part, dating from the 14th or 15th century. It is a hall house supported by cruck trusses. The interior was later divided by an inserted floor. The walls were originally half-timbered but later rebuilt in stone.</p><br>
<p>The central part of the current building dates from the late 16th or early 17th century. It is a box framed structure typical of the period.</p><br>
<p>The West end was added in the late 18th century when a drawing room and bedroom were added in the Georgian style. The North facade of the building was remodeled, hiding the Elizabethan framing.</p><br>
<p>The trusses of the East end provide evidence that this was originally the cross-wing of a still older building, demolished during the Elizabethan-era alterations. It is possible that the cellars beneath the central portion date from this earlier building. This would have been the manor house of Aston Munslow.</p><br>
<p>The name, "The White House", is recorded in a conveyance dated 1694, and shows that the house was whitewashed at that period.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership</h2><br>
<p>The house was the home of the Stedman family for some three hundred years, eventually passing by marriage to owners named Smith and then Farmer.</p><br>
<p>In 1947 it was sold to Walter Purser, whose daughter Miss J. C. Purser made an extensive study of the building and its history. She ran the building as a County Life Museum exhibiting agricultural and domestic implements.</p><br>
<p>In her eighties, Purser was unable to continue running the museum, and transferred the building to the Landmark Trust. The building is now maintained using income from its use as holiday accommodation.</p><br>
<h2>Dovecote</h2><br>
<p>Ashigara Pass is a mountain pass on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka Prefectures, near to Mount Kintoki in Japan. The pass traverses the mountains at 759 m.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The pass on the ancient Tōkaidō highway was described as the 8th century, in the Man&#39;yōshū. This pass was the border of Sagami and Suruga provinces, and the entrance of Kantō region in Japan. Checkpoint was built in 899, and castle was built in the 16th century (These are not exist now).</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>by Car</p><br>
<p>Kanagawa Prefecturel Route 78, from Tomei Expressway Oi-Matsuda Interchange.</p><br>
<p>Shizuoka prefecturel Route 78, from Tomei Expressway Gotemba Interchange via Gotemba City Hall.</p><br>
<p>by Train, Bus and walk</p><br>
<p>Hakone Tozan Bus from Shin-Matsuda Station on the Odakyu Line, or Daiyuzan Station on the Daiyuzan Line, to Jizodo, and an hours walk. Direct operations are available from Daiyuzan Station or Jizodo to Ashigara Manyo Koen (near this Pass) on Saturday & Holiday, in April and May, October and November.</p><br>
<p>90 minute&#39;s walk from Ashigara Station on the JR Gotemba Line.</p><br>
<p>Castle Downs is a dome-shaped hill, 216 m high, located in mid Cornwall, UK. There is a major hillfort, Castle an Dinas, on the summit and extensive and panoramic views across the county to both north and south coasts.</p><br>
<p>The open summit of Castle Downs is located just north of the A30 road in mid Cornwall, about 2 miles east-southeast of St Columb Major, 2 miles northeast of Indian Queens and about 7 miles west-southwest of Bodmin. About 1½ miles to the east is the sister hill of Belowda Beacon (227 m).</p><br>
<p>The major summit feature of Castle an Dinas is a massive Iron Age hill fort comprising 3 concentric ramparts and ditches that were probably originally surmounted by wooden palisades. The main entrance is to the southwest. Within the castle are 2 Bronze Age barrows. The hillfort has been partially damaged by a, now closed, 20th century wolfram mine.</p><br>
<p>Legend has it that the site was one of the seats of the Duke of Cornwall and, according to folklore, it is also where Cador, Duke of Cornwall and Ygraine, King Arthur&#39;s mother, were killed.</p><br>
<p>The Mary Ray Memorial School, now the Raymond Community Center, is located on Raymond Sheddan Avenue in Raymond, Georgia, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The school was founded in 1908 as a one-room schoolhouse. When it opened, it had around 30 students. In 1909, there were around 70 students, and a wing was added. In 1910, it had over 100 students, and a second wing was built. The school was closed in 1948, and in the early 1950s the building was given to the community for a community club. In the mid-1980s, it fell into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, new trustees were appointed, who met outside the building in the "kudzu" and decided to save it. Volunteer workers began the restoration in October 2007, and the work was completed in June 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. W. T. Bolton House is a historic house located at 370 W. Del Mar Boulevard in Pasadena, California. Built in 1906, the Craftsman-style house was designed by prominent Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene. The houses design emphasizes function over form, a key concept in Craftsman designs; its joints and beams are exposed, and the wooden front door was oiled by hand to highlight its natural grain and color. The houses light fixtures, stained glass windows, and even furnishings were also designed by Greene and Greene to give the house a unified design. Dr. W. T. and Alice Bolton commissioned the house, which was their second residence designed by the Greene brothers; while W. T. Bolton died before he could live in the house, Alice Bolton lived there until 1917. The house was one of several Craftsman homes built in Pasadenas "Millionares Row" district, which included a number of large homes in the vicinity of Orange Grove Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Eads Community Church is a historic church in Eads, Colorado. It was deemed significant for its Jacobean Revival architecture and as Kiowa County, Colorado&#39;s "oldest, largest, and best-preserved religious building."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1920, Eads was one of only four towns in Kiowa County to have a church. Eads residents determined that they needed a larger church building in 1920, one that could also serve as a community center to host sporting events. Pueblo, Colorado architect William White Stickney submitted designs for the structure in 1920. Projected to cost $35,000, Eads struggled to raise the necessary funds during construction. The town was only about to collect 24% of the promised $30,754 in cash, labor, and materials from residents. Community officials decided that construction would finish on the church basement, which extended to the first floor. Amid the Dust Bowl and Great Depression plans to complete the building were put on hold for decades.</p><br>
<p>In 1949, resident William T. Holland presented cost-effective plans to complete the church. In January 1951, the project resumes. Pueblo architect John James Wallace, Jr. was tasked with designing the rest of the church. The first services in the completed church were held on October 28, 1951. The building extension provided seating for 220 people. In 1969, the congregation became affiliated with the United Methodist Church, which continues to worship in this building.</p><br>
<p>The Baron Hill  is one of the 42 hills of the city of Valparaiso. It is located on the east end of the plan of the city, next to the Dairy Hill, and is a purely residential area. His name is that in 1795 the place was built a fort to protect the area from El Almendral and the northern part of the bay pirate attack, and to call it, the city council decided to pay tribute to Governor Ambrosio O&#39;Higgins, who held the title of Baron of Ballenary, naming the fort finally as Fort of Baron Ballenary, finally giving the name to the hill.</p><br>
<p>Its development began with the development of the sector of El Almendral and construction in 1852 and the station armory Baron, first railway station of Valparaiso to Santiago. Besides the hill going the only path to the city of Quillota. Also hosted a lot of Italian immigrants, who had business in the plan.</p><br>
<p>On the hill is the Church of San Francisco, responsible for the nickname given to Valparaiso, Pancho, as it was the most recognizable by the sailors who came to the city. It is also the location of the Baron elevator, built in 1906.</p><br>
<p>The Château de Jully  is a ruined building, originally a castle but later having other uses, in the commune of Jully in the Yonne département of France. Built originally in the 10th century, it was subsequently used as a convent, a priory and a farm.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle was built around 987 by the Count of Tonnerre, Milon I. The counts owned the land until 1144, when Saint Bernard of Clairvaux demanded the castle to establish a convent linked to the Abbey of Molesmes. With the founding of the convent, the castle was named Loge-aux-Convers. It consisted of numerous buildings including a chapel, with a terrace, orchards and meadows. It had fallen into ruins by 1708 and, during the French Revolution, it became a farm. Above the door of the cattle shed is a coat of arms, below which is carved the date 1544. In the early 20th century, builders repairing the roof discovered bundles of parchments, including charters from the 12th and 16th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Garrow Tor is a bare, tor-crowned hill, 330 m high, located on Garrow Downs in the northwest of Bodmin Moor in the county of Cornwall, England, UK.</p><br>
<p>At the summit of Garrow Tor are granite rock outcrops and panoramic views, including Caradon Hill to the south, Rough Tor and Brown Willy to the north, Butter&#39;s Tor to the east, clay country to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the northwest. The hill also bears extensive evidence of early settlement, including a massive stone hedge, Bronze Age settlements and hut circles and Medieval settlements.</p><br>
<p>The De Lank River runs past the eastern flank of the tor from north to south, before swinging southwest around the southern foot of the hill. King Arthur&#39;s Hall lies a kilometre to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>When visiting the hill, a useful place to park is by the waterworks to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>Lotz Cisterns  is an archaeological site in Negev Mountains, Israel, where 17 ancient water cisterns are located. Of those, about 8 are still filled with water after winter rains.</p><br>
<p>The cisterns are spread over an area of two square kilometers in the vicinity of Mount Ramon. At the site, there is also an ancient pistacia atlantica tree. During the winter and spring months, numerous flowers grow in the area, primarily around sources of water.</p><br>
<p>The first research on the sites was performed by Nelson Glik in the 1950s. The cisterns were rarely visited by Israelis until they became accessible by road in the 1980s. In 1980, following the peace agreement with Egypt, interest in the Negev began to grow. Route 171 was paved to the site, where archaeological excavations and restoration was conducted in cooperation with moshav members. Until these excavations, the prevailing view, introduced by archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni, had been that the cisterns were dug during the reign of Solomon, and that they were in use until the Babylonian Captivity. However, with the discovery of Canaanite artifacts at the site, many began to believe that the cisterns are even older.</p><br>
<p>Because the site is located in one of the most isolated regions in Israel, and as a result has little light pollution, it is a popular spot for amateur astronomy.</p><br>
<p>Miss Ortons Classical School for Girls was a private girls school in Pasadena, California. The school, which was run by educator Anna Orton, opened in 1890. The school was designed to prepare girls for a higher education at a college in the Eastern United States, as most secondary schools in Pasadena at the time assumed their students would go to Stanford or Berkeley if they desired further education.</p><br>
<h2>Curriculum</h2><br>
<p>The schools college preparatory curriculum reflected a national shift in womens educational opportunities; until the late nineteenth century, girls schools were mainly finishing schools or arts schools and were not academically equivalent to mens schools. Miss Ortons School was the first non-religious private girls school in Pasadena, as well as the only such school in the city until 1913, making Orton a pioneer of women&#39;s education in Pasadena. The school closed in 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Brief History</h2><br>
<p>The first building at the school, which housed a single classroom, was constructed in 1892. A gymnasium was built at a later point, and a dormitory was constructed in 1900. A bungalow which served as Miss Orton&#39;s home was built in 1908. The buildings were designed by Frederick Roehrig in the Victorian Colonial Revival style; they were probably the only educational buildings designed by Roehrig, a significant Southern California architect. The classroom and gymnasium burned down between 1910 and 1925 and were replaced by a social hall. The dormitory is now the only building remaining at its original location; while the bungalow is also still at the site of the school, it was moved to a new foundation in 1947. The dormitory was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Notable Alumnae</h2><br>
<p>Inez Asher, novelist and television writer</p><br>
<p>The Calais Observatory is a pair of granite fixtures in Meridian Park in Calais, Maine. The two stones were used for mounting scientific equipment used in a variety of astronomical observations, principally for the accurate calculation by the United States Coast Survey of Calaiss longitude with respect to meridians in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Greenwich, England. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, and is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Heritage Trail program. At the time of its longitude determination in 1866 with respect to the Greenwich Meridian, it was arguably one of the most precisely located places in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Calais Observatory site is located on a granite knob in Meridian Park, on the grounds of the former Calais Academy, at the corner of North and Lincoln Streets. The surviving elements of the observatory are two granite fixtures, along with flat pads chiseled out of the bedrock, and several drill holes. The site was known to be sheltered by a nominally permanent structure in both 1857 and 1866, but had by 1895 lost whatever shelter it had.</p><br>
<p>The shorter of the two granite fixtures is called the transit stone; it stands about 3 ft tall, 2 ft wide, and 2 ft deep, and is oriented so that its sides align with the cardinal compass points. The top of the stone is incised with two channels, for aligning an astronomical transit and to accommodate the device&#39;s crank. The taller fixture is known as the clock stone, and about 1 ft square at its base, tapering to 8 in at its top 8 ft off the ground. It is located about 2 ft west of the transit stone, and has a number of grooves and holes carved into it. The exact function of this stone is not documented, but its features are consistent with the mounting of a Hardy pendulum clock of the type used by the survey crews. The clock would have been removed from its case and mounted on this stone; the transit stone would not have accommodated the clock. In addition to the two stone fixtures, there are rough square pads carved out of the bedrock about 4.5 ft north and south of the transit stone, and there are two holes drilled into the bedrock, 20 ft and 36 ft west of the transit stone; the function of these features is not known.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The accurate calculation of a locations longitude was long a critical element of maritime navigation. The United States established the United States Coast Survey in the 1830s to produce a consistent set of nautical charts for the nations coastline. The Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts was chosen in 1847 as the site of the prime reference point for the longitude determinations, and survey work extended from there. The advent of telegraphy made possible the simultaneous exchange of time signals between distant locations to determine the difference in time between observed passage of an object in the sky (often Polaris) at different locations. With sufficiently accurate time pieces, longitude could be determined with significant precision.</p><br>
<p>On August 31, 1857, a survey crew installed equipment at this site, and at Thomas Hill in Bangor, Maine, and its longitude was established with respect to Cambridge, and to facilitate the determination of longitude at the observatory in Fredericton, New Brunswick. With the advent of transatlantic communications cables (first laid in 1858), the idea of coordinating the longitude with respect to the Greenwich Meridian became feasible. Although the first cable failed soon after operation, a second cable was laid 1866, connecting Foilhommerum on Valentia Island in Ireland with Heart&#39;s Content, Newfoundland. The longitudes of the Irish and Newfoundland stations were determined with respect to Greenwich in the summer of 1866, and in December of that year, observations were conducted at Calais to determine its longitude with respect to Greenwich. This allowed the entire United States longitudinal framework to be coordinated with that of Great Britain. The observatory was used once more, in 1895, to determine with greater precision its longitude with respect to Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 the transit stone was found to have been pushed over and set against a nearby tree. The city returned it to its original 1857 location, and a surveyor with the United States Geodetic Survey (successor to the Coast Survey) in 2004 confirmed the stone&#39;s location to be within 2 in of its 1866 observed location.</p><br>
<p>The Poncan Theatre is a historic theater in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a contributing property of the Downtown Ponca City Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Poncan Theatre was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened on September 20, 1927. The building and its equipment cost $280,000, and it housed a $22,500 Wurlitzer pipe organ. The building served as a combination vaudeville–movie theater from its opening until the late 1940s when the vaudeville component was discontinued.</p><br>
<p>In 1939, the marquee was replaced with a neon-lit one. In 1954, the marquee was enlarged, obscuring much of the theater&#39;s second floor, and was enlarged again in 1962. In 1985, the theater closed; in 1990, the Poncan Theatre Company was founded to revive it. The building was renovated, which included the removal of the marquee in 1992 and replacement with one matching the 1927 original. The theater reopened on September 18, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984. It was nominated for its local significance as the finest example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Ponca City and its role as an entertainment venue. In 2001, additional documentation on the theater was submitted, revealing that the theater was designed by the Boller Brothers, not John Duncan Forsyth as originally identified in the 1984 nomination. In 2011, the theater was designated a contributing property of the newly listed Downtown Ponca City Historic District. At the time, the Poncan Theatre was the only site in the district previously listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The north-facing theater is a three-story building that extends 75 ft wide. The first floor has a stone facade, while the upper floors are clad in polychrome brick. The facade features a large, central curvilinear gable parapet rimmed with terra cotta ornamentation and five finials. The midline of the gable features a two-story rectangular window with stained glass sidelights, topped by a circular stained glass oculus window highlighted by a terra cotta sunburst. The central window is rimmed by spiralled Corinthian columns and flanked by three rectangular windows on both sides on the second and third stories. Above is a terra cotta cornice supporting a red-tiled hip roof. The central entrance is recessed behind the box office, and on either side is a shallow store front.</p><br>
<p>The Jezersko Combe , at 2,540 m high, is the second-highest mountain in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps and the westernmost peak of the Grintovec Range . Its prominent and easily recognized peak is visible from far around. The mountain actually consists of two peaks: the higher Jezersko Combe and the nearby lower Kokra Combe .</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>Zgornje Jezersko (889 m)</p><br>
<p>Kamnik, Kamnik Bistrica (601 m)</p><br>
<p>Kokra, Preddvor</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>4½-5h: from Kokra: the Suhadolnik Route</p><br>
<p>3¼h: from the Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni (Češka koča na Spodnjih Ravneh; 1542 m): the Kremžar Route</p><br>
<p>3½h: from the Zois Lodge at Kokra Saddle (Cojzova koča na Kokrskem sedlu; 1793 m)</p><br>
<p>1¾h: from the top of Mount Grintovec: the Šprem Route</p><br>
<p>Storžič  is the highest mountain in the western part of the Kamnik–Savinja Alps. The top is a nicely shaped cone , from which the mountain got its name. Storžič has a good panoramic view. To the south are the Ljubljana Basin, Mount Krim, the Javornik Hills, Mount Snežnik, the Nanos Plateau, and the Škofja Loka Hills. To the west are the Julian Alps with prominent Mount Triglav. To the north are the Karawanks with Mount Stol,</p><br>
<p>Mount Begunjščica, and Mount Košuta. To the east are the Jezersko Cirque, Mount Grintovec, the Kalce Ridge and Mount Krvavec.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>Bašelj (Preddvor)</p><br>
<p>Gozd (Tržič)</p><br>
<p>Lom pod Storžičem (Tržič)</p><br>
<p>Preddvor</p><br>
<p>Spodnje Jezersko (Jezersko)</p><br>
<p>Trstenik (Kranj)</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>4 h: from the Storžič Lodge (Dom pod Storžičem, 1,123 m), over Male Poljane via Psico</p><br>
<p>3½ h: from the Storžič Lodge (1,123 m), over Škarjeve peči</p><br>
<p>3 h: from the Storžič Lodge (1,123 m), through Žrelo, over Transverzala</p><br>
<p>1¾ h: from Planinski dom na Kališču hut (1534 m), over Transverzala</p><br>
<p>4½ h: from Zavetišče v Gozdu hut (891 m), passing Mala Poljana</p><br>
<p>4½ h: from Spodnje Jezersko, over Bašeljski vrh</p><br>
<p>3½ h: from Trstenik, passing Velika Poljana or Javornik</p><br>
<p>3 h: from Bašelj, passing Koče nad Malo Pečjo over ridge on an unnmarked route</p><br>
<p>Ojstrica  is a mountain in the eastern part of the Kamnik Alps With its pyramide shaped top, it is visible from far away. The name Ojstrica derives from slovene word ostro - sharp in slovenian language. There is a 600 meter deep wall on its northern side to the bottom of Logarska Dolina. The eastern side, down to Robanov Kot, also has a deep wall. There are several climbing routes available.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>Kamnik, Kamniška Bistrica (601 m)</p><br>
<p>Solčava, Logarska dolina (761 m)</p><br>
<p>Solčava, Robanov kot (ca. 700 m)</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>1½h: from Kocbekov dom na Korošici hut (1808 m), on the southern side</p><br>
<p>1½h: from Kocbekovega doma na Korošici hut (1808 m), on the eastern side</p><br>
<p>4h: from Koča na Kamniškem sedlu (1864 m), under Planjava over Škarje</p><br>
<p>3½h: from Koča na Klemenči jami pod Ojstrico hut (1208 m), over Škarje</p><br>
<p>3h: from Koča na Klemenči jami pod Ojstrico hut (1208 m), over Škrbina</p><br>
<p>Planjava  is the highest mountain of the eastern Kamnik Alps in northern Slovenia. On the western side there is a steep wall over the Kamniško sedlo pass, on the eastern side runs a long ridge and on the northern side there is an almost 1,000 meters high wall above Logarska dolina.</p><br>
<h2>History of climbing</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded climb was by Franz Hohenwart in 1793 with local a from Kamniška Bistrica although it is speculated that there were local hunters who climbed the mountain before them. Planjava is now one of the most visited peaks in Slovenia.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>2 hrs from the Kamnik Saddle Lodge</p><br>
<p>1½ hrs from the Kocbek Lodge at Korošica</p><br>
<p>2½ hrs from the Kocbek Lodge at Korošica above Lučka Baba</p><br>
<p>5¼ hrs from the Klemenšek Cave Lodge at Ojstrica</p><br>
<h2>Climbing routes</h2><br>
<h3>South eastern wall</h3><br>
<p>Memorial route Štefana Kukovca (VI/V, 350m)</p><br>
<p>Route Humar - Škarja (V-/IV, 270m)</p><br>
<p>Route Sobotna smer (V+/IV+, 210m)</p><br>
<h3>Western wall</h3><br>
<p>Route Steber Planjave - smer X (IV, 400m)</p><br>
<p>Route Svetelova (IV/III, 170m)</p><br>
<p>Route Smer skozi rov in okno (IV/III-II, 300m)</p><br>
<p>Route Kratkohlača (V-/IV, 310m)</p><br>
<h3>Northern wall</h3><br>
<p>Route Gradišnik - Ogrin (V-/IV, 700m)</p><br>
<p>Route Dular - Juvan v Glavi (VII, 200m)</p><br>
<p>Kanjavec is a 2,569 m mountain in the center of Triglav National Park. It lies between the Dolič Pass at 2,164 m, the Hribarice Pass at 2,306 m and the Prehodavci Pass at 2071 m. Kanjavec is also a popular ski touring destination. From the summit, there is a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains. It is relatively easy to ascend, with a few exposed areas.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>Zadnjica (609 m)</p><br>
<p>Blato Mountain Pasture (Planina Blato; 1,147 m)</p><br>
<p>Savica Lodge (Koča pri Savici; 653 m)</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>6¼ hrs from Zadnjica, over the Prehodavci Pass</p><br>
<p>6 hrs from Zadnjica, via the Dolič Pass</p><br>
<p>6 hrs Koča pri Savici (1,542 m) via the Triglav Lakes Valley</p><br>
<p>6¼ hrs from Blato Mountain Pasture via Mišelj Peak</p><br>
<p>5¾ hrs from Blato Mountain Pasture via Za Kopico</p><br>
<p>6 hrs from Blato Mountain Pasture over the Krstenica Mountain Pasture (Planina Krstenica)</p><br>
<p>Platja Pou d&#39;es Lleo is a beach on the north east seaboard of the Spanish island of Ibiza. It is in the municipality of Santa Eulària des Riu and is 11.8 km north-east of the town of Santa Eulària des Riu, and 6.3 km east of the village of San Carlos.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The beach at Pou d&#39;es Lleo is a small crescent of sand encompassed by many typical Ibizan Fishermans rustic boathouses.</p><br>
<p>The cove is in fact a bustling little fishing port and has two seafood restaurants as well as a small beach bar. On both sides of the cove there are cliff paths which lead to many smaller secluded coves. The slipways on the small main beach are always busy with local and tourist launching their boats. Great care should be taken in the port area when swimming as the launching of boats are a regular occurrence for most of the day. The cove is a very popular snorkelling spot because of its interesting rock formations and underwater meadows of Neptune Grass.</p><br>
<h2>1936 Republican Landings</h2><br>
<p>During the Spanish Civil War Platja Pou des Lleo was the location for the re-capture of the island of Ibiza following the rebellion which saw the island fall under the control of nationalist at the start of the conflict. On the 8 August 1936 a thousand strong invasion force of republican troops led by an Air force captain Alberto Bayo. They had disembarked in the bay, from a task force of republican navy ships made up of two destroyers, four transport ships, a submarine and six seaplanes which were escort by the battleship Jaime Primero. The troops came ashore at Platja Pou des Lleo following the advice and guidance of local republicans from the nearby town of Santa Eulària.The Life and Death of a Spanish Town: Author: Elliot Paul</p><br>
<p>Publisher: London: Peter Davis; Publisher USA; Random House, New York;1st Edition (1937). Work:Part two, Chapter 21, page 340, the Volunteers.</p><br>
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<p>Carinthia Mount Rinka  or the Cross , with an elevation of 2,433 m, is a mountain in the central Kamnik–Savinja Alps in northern Slovenia. It is connected via a pass with Carniola Mount Rinka , the northern ridge descends to the Jezersko Pass and the Savinja Pass, whereas the western ridge with Styria Mount Rinka ends with the Turski Žleb Ravine. There is also the fourth Rinka, called Little Mount Rinka . The names of the mountains imply that there is a border between the traditional regions of Slovenia, Carinthia, Carniola, and Styria.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>Zgornje Jezersko (906 m)</p><br>
<p>Logar Valley (761 m)</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>3h: from the Carniolan Lodge at Ledine (1,700 m), passing the Jezersko Pass</p><br>
<p>3½h: from the Frischauf Lodge at Okrešelj (1,396 m), through the Turski Žleb Ravine</p><br>
<p>Cold Mountain  is a 2,203 m mountain in the Kamnik Alps. Cold Mountain rises over three valleys: the Logar Valley, the Matk Combe , and the Vellach Combe . It is rarely visited because it is relatively difficult to ascend with many exposed areas. The border with Austria runs along the northern and western side, and until 1967 it was difficult to access because of political problems. Its first climbers had problems scaling it. In 1876, Robert von Lendenfeld and a guide named Matijevec from Luče reached the western peak and they descended, thinking they had reached the highest peak. In 1877, Karl Blodig  tried two times, but quit due to weather well below the top. In the same year Johannes Frischauf, Piskernik, and Matek finally conquered the top. The Frischauf Lodge on Okrešelj is named after him.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>3½h from the Frischauf Lodge at Okrešelj (Frischaufov dom na Okrešlju)</p><br>
<p>4½h from the Logar Sisters Lodge (Dom sester Logar)</p><br>
<p>5½ from the Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni (Češka koča na Spodnjih Ravneh)</p><br>
<p>5½ from Vellach through the Vellach Combe</p><br>
<p>Krofička  is a mountain in the eastern part of the Kamnik Alps. Together with Ute Peak  and nearby Strelovec Peak, it forms a barrier between the Logar Valley and the Roban Combe . The southern part descends steeply to Škrbina, with which it is connected with Ojstrica. The eastern side is very steep, and grassy on the upper part, and on the western side it descends into a gorge. There is a nice panoramic view at the top.</p><br>
<h2>Starting place</h2><br>
<p>Solčava, Logar Valley (761 m)</p><br>
<p>Solčava, Roban Combe (700 m)</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>2½h: from Koča na Klemenči jami pod Ojstrico hut (1208 m), over Puklovc</p><br>
<p>3h: from Koče na Klemenči jami pod Ojstrico hut, over Škrbino</p><br>
<p>5½h: From the Roban Combe, via the Knez Pasture (Knezova planina)</p><br>
<p>Derrick Cave is a lava tube cavern located in the remote northwest corner of Lake County, Oregon. The cave is approximately 1,200 ft long. It is up to 80 ft wide and 46 ft high in places. It was named in honor of H.E. Derrick, a pioneer rancher with a homestead 3 mi southeast of the cave. The land around the cave is managed by the United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Derrick Cave is open to the public year-round; however, camping is no longer permitted in the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Derrick Cave is a classic lava tube structure. It was created by lava flowing downhill from a volcanic vent located north of the cave. Lava from the vent also created Devils Garden, a 45 square miles lava bed southwest of the cave. Most of the lava deposited around the Devils Garden area was delivered through the Derrick Cave lava tube.</p><br>
<p>Derrick Cave began as an open channel of lava flowing south from a large volcanic vent. Eventually, a lava crust solidified over the top of the flowing lava. This formed a roof over the river, enclosing it in a lava tunnel or tube. When the eruption from the vent stopped, the lava drained out of the tube leaving a lava tube cave behind. After the cave cooled, several sections of its roof collapsed. These collapsed ceiling sections provided entrances to both the uphill (northeast) and downhill (southwest) parts of the cave.</p><br>
<p>The age of the eruption that formed Derrick Cave has not been definitively determined. However, it is known that the flow is no older than 13,000 years and no younger than 6,845 year-old, dated from overlaying Mount Mazama tephra that blankets the entire Devils Garden area including the surface area above Derrick Cave.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cave was named for H. E. Derrick, a pioneer rancher with a homestead 3 mi southeast of the cave. Because it was large and cool, early homesteaders in the Fort Rock area often used the cave as a summer recreation site. During social gatherings at the cave, families used the ice found in the cavern to make ice cream.</p><br>
<p>During the early days of World War II, local residents planned to use Derrick Cave as an air-raid shelter if the Japanese began bombing the west coast of the United States. While residents of Central Oregon never needed an air raid shelter during World War II, Derrick Cave was designated as a nuclear fallout shelter in 1963. Supplies of food and water for up to 1,200 people were stored at the site. The supplies were stored in a small branch of the cave behind a locked steel door. However, vandals broke into the supply vault on several occasions and plundered the food cache. The vandals left the civil defense water cans, probably because they had frozen solid. By 1970, all of the supplies had been stolen by vandals or removed by civil defense authorities.</p><br>
<p>The National Aeronautic and Space Administration also used Derrick Cave in the 1960s. As the agency was planning lunar landings, it was interested in determining if underground caverns could be detected from high altitude using gravimetric instruments. To support the National Aeronautic and Space Administration, North American Aviation and Pacific Northwest Bell conducted high altitude gravimetric tests using Derrick Cave as the underground target.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the Bureau of Land Management issued new rules for Derrick Cave. These new rules closed the cave to camping, camp fires, and cigarette smoking. Also, large group gatherings were discouraged. These activities raised the temperature inside the cave, disturbing bats and fragile microorganisms. Climbing with bolts was prohibited as well. The rules were posted on a sign near the entrance to the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>The area near the cave entrance is dominated by Western juniper and Ponderosa pine with big sagebrush, bitterbrush, mountain mahogany, rabbitbrush, and a veriety of desert grasses as the main ground cover. Common grasses in this area include Idaho fescue, bunch grass, and bluebunch wheatgrass.</p><br>
<p>Inside the cave, water from rainfall and snow melt seeps down through the soil and cracks in the cave roof, accumulating as ice during the winter months. Dripping winter drainage often forms ice stalagmites that are 3 ft tall. While the ice normally melts away in the summer, it has been known to last through an entire year before disappearing the following summer.</p><br>
<p>Derrick Cave is home to a population of Townsend&#39;s big-eared bats. The bats are very shy so visitors rarely see them. In fact, the bats usually remain in hibernation until July, and when active they are nocturnal so they are asleep during the day when the cave is open to the public. If a bat is sighted, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recommends that it be left undisturbed. This is particularly important when the bats are hibernating. Waking a bat from hibernation is extremely stressful, and can cause the bat to die from the sudden expenditure of energy.</p><br>
<h2>Cave tour</h2><br>
<p>Derrick Cave is open year around. The mouth of the cave is at an elevation of 4,960 ft above sea level. The cave is between 14.5 ft and 53 ft below ground level. The total length of the cave is 1,134 ft. The Bureau of land Management rates the cave as moderately difficult.</p><br>
<p>The entrance to Derrick cave appears as a large broken-face hole in the ground. From its mouth, the entrance leads to a wide lava tube. The lava tube runs in two directions from the entrance cleft, northeast and southwest. The north cave is relatively small. This is the area where the civil defense shelter was once located. The main section of the cave runs gradually downhill in a southwestly direction from the entrance. In this area of the lava tube, the floor is covered by volcanic sand. Over the centuries, the ceiling has collapsed in several areas of the cave, creating natural skylights. The collapsed ceiling rock rests in large boulder piles on the cave floor. The sunlight from these holes is sufficient to allow trees to grow up from the floor of the cave through the openings in the ceiling. Visitors do not need lamps or flashlights to enjoy this section of the cave. In this area, the cave is about 30 ft wide. Beyond the last skylight, the cave is dark and artificial light is required. After a short walk, the cave opens into a large room 80 ft wide with a ceiling that reaches a height of 46 ft. This area is known as the Big Room. In the Big Room and beyond, the lava flow’s current can be seen molded in the tunnel walls. They appear as rounded over-hanging shelves and lateral markings etched in the walls. In places, there are also 5 in lavacicles hanging from the ceiling. These formations were created after the lava had drained out of the tube leaving superheated gases trapped in the lava tube. The hot gases melted the walls of the lava tube causing drips to form. As the gas cooled, the remaining drips hardened into lavacicles.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>Derrick Cave is located at the northeast corner of Devils Garden, 22 mi northeast of the unincorporated community of Fort Rock, Oregon. The land around the cave is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The road to Derrick Cave is very rough and there are no facilities at the site. The Bureau of Land Management recommends that visitors plan their trip carefully and use caution along the road to the cave site. Because the cave is quite cool, visitors should wear a jacket while exploring. Battery powered lights are best, as long as they provide reliable illumination.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Bureau of Land Management has established rules designed to protect caves located on government property. The rules that apply to Derrick Cave and other Bureau of Land Management administered caves in Oregon and Washington state specifically prohibit the following activities in and around natural caves:</p><br>
<p>Defacing, removing or destroying plants, soil, rocks, minerals, or other cave resources</p><br>
<p>Digging, excavating, or displacing any natural or cultural features</p><br>
<p>Camping</p><br>
<p>Building campfires, using stoves, or smoking</p><br>
<p>Depositing or disposing of human waste in or near a cave</p><br>
<p>Discharging a firearm, air rifle, or paint gun</p><br>
<p>Possessing or discharging fireworks or other pyrotechnics</p><br>
<p>Bringing a domestic animal into a cave</p><br>
<p>Any activity that disturbs the environment within a 350 ft radius of a cave opening or any known cave passages</p><br>
<p>The Louise C. Bentz House is a historic house located at 657 Prospect Boulevard in Pasadena, California. Built in 1906, the bungalow was designed by prominent Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene. While the house has a typical bungalow design, its design also exhibits chalet influences in its overhangs and pitched roof and Japanese influences in the edges of the roof and overall horizontal emphasis. The house is the best remaining example of the houses the Greene brothers designed for middle-class Pasadena residents, most of which have been demolished or significantly altered. In addition, the house was the first built in the Prospect Park Tract, a neighborhood of historic homes designed by prominent architects. John Bentz, a significant Pasadena businessman and developer, commissioned the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Shenandoah Historic District is a national historic district located at Shenandoah, Page County, Virginia. The district includes 451 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures in the town of Shenandoah. They include residential, commercial, and institutional buildings in a variety of popular late-19th century and early-20th century architectural styles. Notable buildings include the Eagle Hotel and annex, Western Railway Young Men’s Christian Association, Shenandoah General Store , Fields United Methodist Church, Christ United Methodist Church, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Norfolk and Western Railway Station , and Shenandoah High School. Located in the district is the separately listed Shenandoah Land and Improvement Company Office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Luray Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. The district includes 75 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 3 contributing objects in the central business district of the town of Luray. They include residential, commercial, governmental, and institutional buildings in a variety of popular 19th and 20th century architectural styles. Notable buildings include the Skyline Building , Luray Motor Company , Luray United Methodist Church , Luray Post Office , Page County Record Building , Bridge Theatre , Casey Jones Overall Factory , Mansion Inn, Jordan-McKim Building, Hotel Laurance, and Mimslyn Inn . The contributing objects include the Confederate Monument  and clock. Located in the district are the separately listed Luray Norfolk and Western Passenger Station and Page County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Krn  is a mountain of the southwestern Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia. It is the highest mountain of the Krn Mountains The mountain is located about 50 km from the Adriatic Sea. The Soča River flows west of the peak, and the smaller Lepenjica River northeast and the Tolminka River southwest of it. Krn has a mighty western wall, which can be best seen from Kobarid or Drežnica.</p><br>
<p>On the southern slope of the mountain lie the small villages of Vrsno, Krn, Drežnica, Drežniške Ravne, and Magozd. On the northern side lies Lake Krn, the largest glacial lake in Slovenia.</p><br>
<p>During the First World War, the Battles of the Isonzo took place in the area. The top of the neighbouring mountain Batognica (2,164 disp=or) was blown off by an accidental weapon depot explosion. A lot of remnants from the war remain scattered around the peak.</p><br>
<h2>Lodges</h2><br>
<p>On the southern side near the top is the Gomišček Krn Lodge (Gomiščkovo zavetišče na Krnu; 2,182 disp=or)</p><br>
<p>On the northern side near the lake stands the Krn Lakes Lodge (Planinski dom pri Krnskih jezerih; 1,385 m)</p><br>
<p>On the Kuhinja Pasture stands the Kuhinja Pasture Lodge (Dom na planini Kuhinja; 991 m)</p><br>
<p>Below its northern slope, in Lepena, stands the Dr. Klement Jug Lepena Lodge (Dom dr. Klementa Juga v Lepeni; disp=or abbr=on).</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>3 hours from Kuhinja Pasture,</p><br>
<p>5 hours from Dr Klement Jug Lepena Lodge,</p><br>
<p>5 hours from Drežnica, via the Silvo Koren Route,</p><br>
<p>7¾ hours from the Savica Lodge over the Prehodavci Pass.</p><br>
<p>Riyue Mountain , known in Tibetan as Nyima Dawa La, is actually a mountain pass situated in Huangyuan County, Xining, Qinghai Province, China. The mountain pass is above sea level and separates the Qinghai Lake endorheic basin from the Huangshui River basin, a tributary of the Yellow River. The Daotang River  flows west from the pass into Qinghai Lake. The pass separates Qinghai Province into a pastoral zone in the west and an agricultural zone in the east.</p><br>
<p>The mountain pass is currently crossed by China National Highway 214 that follows the ancient trade route into Tibet.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>The Nyima Dawa La (pass) was made famous due to its association with Chinese Princess Wencheng when she was en route to marry Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century. She is said to have looked in a magic mirror here with a sun-moon design which was supposed to show her family in Chang&#39;an. She only saw her own reflection and she smashed the mirror in despair. The Daotang River which, unusually in this region, flows east to west is said to have originated from the tears of the princess. Every year about the 6th day of the 6th lunar month a Flower Song Festival (Ch. Huarhui) is held here. Two small new concrete temples have been built on the pass with modern murals showing the royal couple and scenes of nomadic life.</p><br>
<h2>Tongkor Monastery</h2><br>
<p>Tongkor Monastery is a monastery, now mostly in ruins, that was located northeast of Riyue Mountain pass.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Opera House, located at 123 S. Third in Tecumseh, Nebraska, is a historic building built in 1880. It is a two-part commercial block building, and has also been known as Seaver Bros. Opera House, as Smith Theatre, as Hahn Opera House, as Spicknall & Goodman Opera House, as Goodman & Canfield Opera House, and as Villars Hall, and it has been denoted NeHBS #J007-53 and OHBIN #ll-29-OI.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>The building</h2><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Opera House is a brick structure measures 76 feet wide by 80 feet wide. The roof is pitched and tar-covered and has sustained significant water damage, but it was repaired. Access to the second-floor auditorium is only by way of a wide staircase, at the top the ticket counter that was there has been removed.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium of the Tecumseh Opera House stands 30 feet wide by 60 feet, 6 inches long. The theatre does not have a balcony. The original molded white tin ceiling is still there, however it and the surrounding walls have experienced rain damage. The proscenium arch spans 20 feet across and 11 feet high. The stage floor is 18 feet deep from the beginning of the arch at the front of the stage to the back wall. The stage has no apron and contains no trap doors.</p><br>
<p>The structural and historical integrity of the building has been preserved.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<h3>Performing arts</h3><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Opera House brought a variety of entertainment to the people of Tecumseh and the surrounding areas. As a center for the performing arts, the Tecumseh Opera House, was home to productions such as musical concerts, touring stock companies, performers such as Maude Atkinson, Katie Putnam, and John Dillon, classics such as Monte Cristo, Uncle Tom&#39;s Cabin, and East Lynn, minstrel shows such as the Tecumseh Ticklers, grand and comic opera, dialect comedies, and home talent shows.</p><br>
<h3>Performing Arts History</h3><br>
<h3>Entertainment/recreation</h3><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Opera House served as a place where the whole community of Tecumseh and the surrounding areas would be able to gather to attend dances, lectures, temperance meetings, and silent movies.</p><br>
<h4>Entertainment/recreation history</h4><br>
<h4>=Social=</h4><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Opera House was a nonaffiliated place where people could have political meetings, church socials, basketball, and school entertainment. Before radio and television were invented to tell people about events, they were often scheduled and anticipated months in advance.</p><br>
<h4>==Social history==</h4><br>
<p>The Wallace Warren and Lillian Genevieve Bradshaw Kendall House, at 412 E. Seventh St. in Superior, Nebraska, is a historic, prominent Shingle Style house built in 1898.</p><br>
<p>It is a large two-story building that, when built, was one of the largest houses in Superior. It has a prominent location in Superior, occupying half of a block and hence having streets on three sides. The house has a round two-story tower with a conical roof, and a Palladian window, and many other interesting details outside and inside. It is primarily of Shingle style, but that style itself can incorporate Queen Anne architecture elements, as this house does (in the round tower, for example), and Colonial Revival architecture elements, as in this house&#39;s use of columns and the Palladian window. Expressing the Shingle style per se is the shingle cladding of its second floor exterior.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Pateras  is a mountain of West Attica, Greece, with an elevation of 1,131 meters. Its highest peak is named Leontari. It is situated between the plain of Eleusis  and the plain of Megara, and stretches between the Gulf of Corinth at Aigosthena and the Saronic Gulf near Eleusis. It is separated from its northern neighbour Cithaeron by the plain of Vilia. The mountain is covered with woods with Aleppo pine and Mediterranean maquis. In the tops of the mountain, that belong to a CORINE biotope, there are firs, of species Abies cephalonica.</p><br>
<p>Settlements around the mountain include Aigosthena to the northwest, Vilia to the north, Mandra to the east, Nea Peramos to the southeast, Megara to the south and Kato Alepochori to the west.</p><br>
<p>The Old School Room in Chew Magna, Somerset, England was built around 1510. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a church house for the neighbouring Church of St Andrew. The upstairs room was the local school from the mid or early 15th century, with the village poorhouse below. The ground floor was divided into cubicles which housed the destitute and occasionally prisoners. It also served as the meeting place of the Court leet.</p><br>
<p>The building was declared unsafe in 1965. In 1971 the building underwent major renovation, which included replacement of oak beams supporting the upper floor were replaced and preservation work on the wodden roof carried out. The building was then used as a youth club until it was purchased by the parish council in 1981 as a village hall. Since then it has been a venue for social activity in the village.</p><br>
<p>The Rectory in Chew Stoke, Somerset, England was built in 1529. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1529 for Sir John Barry, who was the rector between 1524 and 1546 of the nearby St Andrew&#39;s Church. It has undergone substantial renovations including the addition of a clock tower for the Rev. W.P. Wait, which has since been removed and further alterations c.1876 for Rev. J. Ellershaw. The building has an ornate south front with carvings of shields bearing the coat of arms of the St Loe family, who were once chief landowners in the area, alone or impaled with arms of Fitzpane, Ancell, de la Rivere and Malet.</p><br>
<p>Towards the end of the 18th century a new rectory was built in the village and this building became a private house. In 1945 it started to be used again as the rectory. It was sold by the church in 2008 and is now a private dwelling again.</p><br>
<p>Aurora, also known as the Pink House, Boxwood, and the Penn Homestead, is a historic home located at Penn&#39;s Store near Spencer, Patrick County, Virginia. It was built between 1853 and 1856, and is a two-story, three-bay, hipped-roof frame house in the Italian Villa style. It features one-story porches on the east and west facades, round-arched windows, clustered chimneys, and low pitched roofs. Also on the property is a contributing small one-story frame building once used as an office. It was built by Thomas Jefferson Penn , whose son, Frank Reid Penn founded the company F.R & G. Penn Co. that was eventually acquired by tobacco magnate James Duke to form the American Tobacco Company.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Richard C. Burtis House or Wedding Cake House is a Historic Site in Tuscola County, Michigan. The two-story Second Empire building was built from 1879 to 1880 for Richard C. Burtis, a shoemaker and local landowner. Ornamentation includes brackets and a decorative frieze supporting a mansard roof with decorative slate shingle. A bay window topped by a steep octagonal tower dominates the front facade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Work began in 1879 on 40 acres on the highest point in Tuscola County, Michigan. Located about 1/4th mile south of Caro Rd. in the logging village of Watrousville. Construction was finished in 1880</p><br>
<p>The house was designated a Michigan State Historic Site on November 15, 1973. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Burtis</h2><br>
<p>Richard C. Burtis was born in Pittstown, near Troy, New York, in April 1824. While quite young, Burtis moved with his parents to Hoosick Falls, N.Y. When Burtis was only five years old, his father died. Burtis&#39;s mother and family soon moved to Troy, New York, where they resided about six years. Then they moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio, returning to Troy, New York in 1838. Burtis accepted a position in a grocery store, where he remained three years, at which point he went to Ithaca, New York and learned the shoemakers’ trade. He remained there three-and-a-half years and worked in nearly all of the Eastern cities for the following fifteen years.</p><br>
<p>In 1855, Burtis went to Michigan on a hunting expedition, and two years later relocated to Watrousville, Tuscola County, where he engaged in shoemaking up to 1862. Burtis&#39;s brother died in 1862, and Burtis took ownership with his sister, Sara, in a general store. After seven years, Burtis took full ownership of the entire stock and conducted the store alone about thirteen years until he retired in 1882.</p><br>
<p>Burtis also became the postmaster of Watrousville for four years, from 1862 to 1866, when the Postmaster General was given orders to relieve postmasters across the country and replace them with veterans returning from the Civil War. One-hundred-seventy were replaced in Michigan.</p><br>
<p>Burtis married Miss Flora A. Chubb, of Nankin, Wayne County, Michigan, in 1868. Burtis and his wife remained in their home until his death on January 17, 1901, at the age of 77. The house was then sold to Byron Cole in 1901.</p><br>
<p>Jobs/Possessions Held</p><br>
<p>Stuart Uptown Historic District is a national historic district located at Stuart, Patrick County, Virginia. The district includes 18 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of the town of Stuart. The district includes a variety of commercial and governmental buildings including the Stuart Post Office constructed by the Public Works Administration in 1940, the Patrick County Bank , Bank of Stuart , Stuart United Methodist Church and the Stuart Baptist Church. The district includes one and two-story brick commercial buildings dating from the early to mid 20th century including the Stuart Drug Store  and the Hudson&#39;s Drug Store . Located in the district and separately listed is the Patrick County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Wolf House was a 26-room mansion in Glen Ellen, California, built by novelist Jack London and his wife Charmian London. The house burned on August 22, 1913, shortly before the Londons were planning to move in. Stone ruins of the never-occupied home still stand, and are part of Jack London State Historic Park, which has been a National Historic Landmark since 1963.</p><br>
<h2>Planning</h2><br>
<p>In an essay called "The House Beautiful", written in 1906 and published in his 1909 book Revolution and Other Essays, London described his ideal "dream house". He wrote that "Utility and beauty must be indissolubly wedded" and said the house must be "honest in construction, material and appearance". He described modern bathrooms, spacious and well-appointed servant&#39;s quarters, easy cleaning and maintenance, good ventilation and ample fireplaces. He predicted that he would build his dream house in seven to ten years.</p><br>
<p>London had purchased a 130 acre farm in the Sonoma Valley in about 1905. He later purchased several adjoining parcels, increasing the size of the farm to approximately 1,200 acre. About one third was cultivated, and two thirds was wooded hillsides. He called the property "Wonder Ranch".</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>London hired San Francisco architect Albert L. Farr to design the home. Farr was a leading exponent of Arts and Crafts architecture in California. The design was described as "rustic and individualistic", and featured a library measuring 19 by, and a living room two stories high measuring 18 by. In response to Londons wish for modern amenities, Farrs plans included a water heater, electric lighting, refrigeration, a built-in vacuum cleaning system, laundry facilities including a "steam dryer rotary wringer", and a wine cellar. Mindful of the severe damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, London and Farr incorporated great strength and durability into the design of the structure.</p><br>
<p>A 1987 study by a group of architectural historians said that Wolf House "can be thought of as a combination of one of Greene and Greenes ultimate bungalows&#39; of Southern California and one of the great lodges of the Adirondack mountains".</p><br>
<p>The house was 15,000 ft&sup2, with 26 rooms and nine fireplaces.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction began late in 1910 as stones were blasted and trees cut. London hired Italian stonemason Natale Forni (1871&ndash;1948) as foreman for the project. He also hired his older sister Eliza London Shepard (1867&ndash;1939) as his ranch superintendent, and she was involved in the day-to-day management of the construction.</p><br>
<p>The structure of the home was built of five primary materials, all obtained locally: Coast Redwood logs with bark intact, boulders, chunks of volcanic rock blasted out of the ground and otherwise unquarried, blue slate, and concrete.</p><br>
<h2>Fire</h2><br>
<p>Construction of Wolf House was almost complete and the Londons were planning to move in when a fire began late on the night of August 22, 1913. The fire spread rapidly and gutted the interior of the house, although the massive masonry walls remained standing. The red tile roof collapsed into the interior. Although arson was suspected, no strong evidence was ever discovered.</p><br>
<p>The fire had a profound effect on those most involved in the project. Jack&#39;s sister Eliza wept that night. Charmian London later wrote that Eliza was "scarred to her soul" and that the foreman Forni was "like a father who had lost his child, and in danger of losing his reason". His wife also wrote that "the razing of his house killed something in Jack, and he never ceased to feel the tragic inner sense of loss".</p><br>
<h2>Aftermath</h2><br>
<p>Financial losses were estimated at $35,000 to $40,000. London had several insurance policies on the home, and collected $10,000 in claims. The National Union Fire Insurance Company later featured a thank you letter written by London in an advertising campaign.</p><br>
<p>Jack London pledged to rebuild the house, and his workers began to cut fresh redwood logs, which had to be dried and cured for 18 months before reconstruction could begin. However, London&#39;s health declined, and he died three years and three months after the fire, on November 22, 1916.</p><br>
<p>Charmian London continued living at Beauty Ranch until her death in 1955, settling eventually into a home she called "The House of Happy Walls", about half a mile (800 m) from the Wolf House ruins. There she protected her husbands legacy and wrote a biography of him. Her home is now a museum. Both Jack and Charmian London are buried at Beauty Ranch, as is Jacks sister Eliza.</p><br>
<p>Heirs of the London family donated the property to the State of California in 1960. The Wolf House ruins were designated a California Historical Landmark in 1959, and a National Historic Landmark in 1963. Steel bracing was added to the masonry structure in 1965 to prevent deterioration. Although the interior of the ruins is fenced off, visitors can walk up to the exterior walls of the structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1995, a forensic analysis of the cause of the fire was completed by a team of ten experts led by Robert N. Anderson, a retired engineering professor from San Jose State University. Various possible causes were ruled out. The day had been very hot, but there was no lightning. The investigators found no evidence of arson, or of an electrical fire, since the generator had not been installed. Instead, they identified spontaneous combustion as the most likely cause. Earlier on the day the fire started, a linseed oil finish was being applied to the "magnificent" oak and walnut interior cabinets and woodwork. Workers had previously been rebuked for carelessness with the flammable finishing materials. The fire probably started in oil-soaked cotton rags, in the ground floor dining room, below the library and Jack London&#39;s work room. Some of the windows had not yet been installed, allowing free air flow to feed the fire. The fire probably ignited the wood floor first, then spread to the wood wall paneling. By the time the fire was discovered, it was out of control.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Historic District is a residential historic district in Pasadena, California, consisting of homes along Prospect Boulevard and several surrounding streets. The district includes 108 residences and roughly encompasses the Prospect Park and Arroyo Park Tracts, a pair of early Pasadena subdivisions. Development on the Prospect Park Tract began in 1904, and the first house was built there in 1906. The Arroyo Park Tract was first surveyed in 1910, and its development soon followed; the two tracts were linked by the Prospect Boulevard Bridge, which was built in 1908. The houses in the district represent a wide variety of architectural styles and include works by several prominent architects, such as Frank Lloyd Wrights Millard House, Charles and Henry Greenes Bentz House, and a 1909 mansion designed by Alfred and Arthur Heineman. The varied architecture of the district&#39;s homes is united by its landscaping, particularly through the camphor trees which line its streets.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1983.</p><br>
