<p>The Riesenstein  is a megalith or menhir, which is situated close to the village of Wolfershausen. It is the largest megalith in the district of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Riesenstein is located 1.14 km directly north of the village of Wolfershausen. It can be reached from a tarmacked road north of the railway bridge, where it is signposted. It is located on the south-eastern corner of a small woodland. The megalith is also close to the eastern bank of the Eder River, which is just 180 m away (over the railway).</p><br>
<h2>Composition, Dimensions, and Geometry</h2><br>
<p>Riesenstein is composed of Neogene Miocene (from to ) quartzite. In contrast to quartzites produced by metamorphism, the Tertiary sedimentary quartzites were the product of intense weathering of local Triassic Buntsandstein sandstones in a tropical climate. This entailed bleaching of sandstone and silicification by movement of silica-saturated groundwater through the strata. Consequently, the rock is practically made completely of quartz, with very little porosity.</p><br>
<p>The megalith has an oblate rectangular cuboid shape. It has a maximum height of 4.7 m, a maximum width of 4.6 m, and it is approximately 1 m thick. A rough estimate of the surface area of the flat large side is 14 m&sup2;. Hence the Riesenstein has an above-ground volume of ca. 14 m&sup3;. Quartzite is composed wholly of quartz, which has a density of 2,648 kg/m3. Therefore, the above-ground mass of the stone is ca. 37 metricton. For comparison, the sarsen (also a kind of silicified sandstone) stones of Stonehenge only weigh ca. 7 metricton.</p><br>
<p>The weak, originally-horizontal bedding planes of the quartzite are now vertical, which rules out the stone being in a natural position. Furthermore, the surrounding area (in the wood) is covered with small blocks of quartzite, as are many other nearby hills, proving that Tertiary quartzite outcrops or is close to the surface in these places. Riesenstein is therefore unlikely to have been transported far, if at all.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Archeological digs found neolithic human remains at the base of the megalith, proving the stone was in use approximately 3000 yrs B.C.</p><br>
<p>In 1615 the megalith was first referred to in documents as "Großer Stein" (large stone).</p><br>
<p>In 1986 Riesenstein became a German natural monument.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>Two legends are connected with the Riesenstein.</p><br>
<p>In the wide floodplain, monks and men from the neighbouring villages built a large monastery. The building took a long time. Finally the Breitenau Monastery was finished and pious monks song could be heard mixed with the first chimes of the monastery bells. For a long time a malicious giant on the Lotterberg hill had been watching the festivities. Now he couldnt hold back his anger and hate any more. He ripped up a huge rock and threw it with all his might at the monastery to reduce it to rubble. But in his haste he threw wrongly and the stone dropped before it passed the Ellenberg hill on the other side of the Eder River. The stone is still present and admonishes future generations to past events.</p><br>
<p>In a different story, two male giants had a fight over the giantess Nagathe, because they were both in love with her. Nagate had moved in with the Giant Lothar on Lotterberg, but his rival Kunibert wouldnt accept this. Kunibert left his home at Heiligenberg and kidnapped Nagate in front of Lothar. In a mad fury Lothar threw a large stone at his disappearing rival, but he missed and the stone was rammed into the soft ground. Because this story was often told, the stone was given the name "giants stone".</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Berry Hill is a historic home and farm complex located near Berry Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The main house was built in several sections during the 19th and early 20th century, taking its present form about 1910. The original section of the main house consists of a two-story, three-bay structure connected by a hyphen to a 1 1/2-story wing set perpendicular to the main block. Connected by a hyphen is a one-story, single-cell wing probably built in the 1840s. Enveloping the front wall and the hyphen of the original house is a large, two-story structure built about 1910 with a shallow gambrel roof with bell-cast eaves. Located on the property are a large assemblage of contributing outbuildings including the former kitchen/laundry, the "lumber shed," the smokehouse, the dairy, a small gable-roofed log cabin, a chicken house, a log slave house, log corn crib, and a log stable.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Gunther Building is an historic building at 469 Broome Street on the corner of Greene Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Griffith Thomas in 1871 and was completed in 1871 or 1872. It is styled in the cast-iron architecture of its day, which is common in the area, but is distinguished from its neighbors by its bright white facade, its richly decorated Corinthian columns, and its curved glass corner.</p><br>
<p>Built for William Gunther, a prominent 19th century furrier, the building was originally used as a warehouse for textiles and furs. Today it is used primarily by artists and architects.</p><br>
<p>The building is listed as contributing to the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 Beyhan Karahan and Associates completed a five-year project to restore the building&#39;s facade.</p><br>
<p>Tošč  is the highest hill in the Polhov Gradec Hills. The neighbouring hill Pasja Ravan  used to be the highest before Yugoslav Army reduced its height by eight meters in the 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Like nearby Toško Čelo, the name Tošč is ultimately derived from the Slovene adjective tolst fat, referring to the mountains wide base and gentle summit. No medieval transcriptions of the name are known, but it probably developed from a form such as *Tolstič the fat one&#39;.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>1h from Selo</p><br>
<p>1h from Kmetija Gonte farm</p><br>
<p>2½h from Polhov Gradec over Grmada</p><br>
<p>2¼h from Topol over Grmada</p><br>
<p>2h from Topol</p><br>
<p>1¾h from Polhov Gradec through Mačkov Graben</p><br>
<p>1¼h from Rovtar Farm</p><br>
<p>1¾h from Mihelčič Lodge at Govejek</p><br>
<p>1½h from Trnovec</p><br>
<p>The Kamnik Saddle Lodge  is a mountain hostel located just below Kamnik Saddle , with Mount Brana to its west and Mount Planjava to its east, and the Kamnik Bistrica Valley to its south. On its north is a steep descent toward the Logar Valley, home to Rinka Falls.</p><br>
<p>The hut was first built in 1906, then rebuilt in 1983, and then again slightly modified in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>3.30 h: from the Kamnik Bistrica Lodge (Dom v Kamniški Bistrici; 601 m)</p><br>
<p>1:30 h: from the Frischauf Lodge at Okrešelj (Frischaufov dom na Okrešlju; 1396 m)</p><br>
<p>1:45 h: from the Suhadolnik Farm (ca. 850 m)</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring mountain lodges</h2><br>
<p>6 h: to the Zois Lodge at Kokra Saddle (Cojzova koča na Kokrskem sedlu; 1793 m) above Turska gora</p><br>
<p>3 h: to the Kocbek Lodge at Korošica (Kocbekov dom na Korošici; 1808 m) above Planjavo</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring mountain peaks</h2><br>
<p>1.30 h: Brana (2252 m)</p><br>
<p>2 h: Planjava (2394 m)</p><br>
<p>4 h: Ojstrica (2350 m) over Škarje</p><br>
<p>2.30 h: Mount Turska (Turska gora; 2251 m)</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Laurence in East Harptree, Somerset England was built in the late 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The original 12th-century church was expanded in the 13th century and the tower added in the 15th. The three-stage west tower, which was built in the 15th century is supported by diagonal buttresses. The parapet was restored in 1633. The tower has a small poylgonal turret in the north west corner and a parapet with gargoyles beneath it. It contains six bells.</p><br>
<p>New seating was provided during repairs in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The parish is now part of the benefice of East Harptree with West Harptree and Hinton Blewitt within the Bath archdeaconry.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>In a recess within the Norman porch of the church is the tomb of Sir John Newton who died in 1568. He is depicted in armour, lying beside his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz. The two panels in front of the tomb depict his eight sons and twelve daughters kneeling. It is covered by a canopy supported by six fluted Ionic columns. It was previously where the altar stands and was moved to the porch in 1883.</p><br>
<p>In the nave is a Norman font and a Jacobean pulpit.</p><br>
<p>The church includes a stained glass window by Karl Parsons which was installed as a War Memorial in 1919 to the eight men from the village who died in World War I. It is a three-light window with St George in the centre light, St Laurence in that to the left and St Agnes on the right. St Agnes holds a lamb.</p><br>
<p>The organ, a two manual electrically blown organ, which was made by Vowles of Bristol, was refurbished in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Hillary Peak is the name which has been proposed by the Government of Nepal for a 7,681 m peak in the Himalayas in honour of Edmund Hillary, who made the first ascent of Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1953.</p><br>
<p>In September 2013 a government panel recommended that two mountains be renamed Hillary Peak and Tenzing Peak as part of a batch of summits that would be opened to climbers in 2014. The coordinates given by the government indicate that it is one of a clutch of peaks on the Nepal and Tibet border between Cho Oyu and Gyachung Kang, known variously as Ngojumba Kang, Ngozumpa Kang and Ngojumba Ri.</p><br>
<p>In the fall of 2016, two time Everest summiter Elia Saikaly along with Pasang Kaji Sherpa made an expedition to Hillary Peak. They called off their summit bid due to dangers encountered including rock-falls, bad weather, hidden crevasses, and snow related issues.</p><br>
<p>The Kilauea School, on Kolo Rd. in Kilauea, Hawaii, on Kauai, is a historic school that was founded in 1882 and known as an "English School". The current school complex, whose main building was built in 1922, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983; the listing included three contributing buildings on 6.5 acre.</p><br>
<p>It was located on the edge of the former Kilauea Plantation community. The three buildings are a U-shaped administration-classrooms building, a cafeteria, and a teachers cottage. A big lawn in front of the three buildings is crossed by a circular driveway. The main building was designed by County Department of Public Works architect John Waiamau, and the others were designed by Tai King Leong.</p><br>
<p>The complex was deemed significant for NRHP listing "as a typical rural schoolhouse on the</p><br>
<p>island of Kauai and for its associations with the development of public</p><br>
<p>education in the town of Kilauea."</p><br>
<p>The Hunt-Sitterding House, located at 901 Floyd Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, is a late Victorian Era building originally constructed to serve as residence and office of the architect and contractor Gilbert J. Hunt, Jr. .</p><br>
<p>It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2008 (building listing #08000877).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1889 and 1891, the Hunt-Sitterding House is a noteworthy example of Richmond&#39;s late 19th century town house architecture. Gilbert J. Hunt, Jr. lived and worked from the house since its completion in 1891, up to his death in 1921. His widow Ella Hunt inherited the house, but she died the following year.</p><br>
<p>Richmond realtor Frederick Sitterding, Jr. purchased the property from the Hunt estate in 1922. Like Hunt, Sitterding used the house as his office as well as residence.</p><br>
<p>The Virginia Commonwealth University acquired the house in 1975 from Edward and Edith Shaw and currently uses it for its Student Commons offices.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is an impressive example of the late Victorian Era architectural style fashionable at the time of its construction. It displays influences of both the Queen Anne style architecture and Romanesque Revival. Despite renovations and alterations done to the interior of the house, some key elements have been preserved, such as the decorative main staircase, which retains its honey-brown natural oak finish. The exterior of the house remains vastly unchanged, with the exception of the backyard garden which has been turned into a parking lot.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the house is clad in pressed red brick veneer, with rough-faced gray granite trims and window sills and lintels, and stucco foundation. Characteristic of its period, the house is vertically imposing, with a 3-story tower flanking its east side, topped by a steeply pointed octagonal roof. The original double front door is sheltered by a brick porch entered by a wide Romanesque arch. The roof has patterned slate decorations with touches of red and green. Because of its proximity to neighboring houses at the time of construction, the sides were left relatively plain, and this is evident on the west wall as it was never intended to be visible, with the neighbor house standing only a few meters from it. However, the six 3-story town houses also built by Hunt to the west of his house were all subsequently demolished.</p><br>
<p>The interior has suffered extensive renovations and alterations through the years, and while the main staircase remains intact, only fragments of the once richly decorated spaces remain. All interior spaces have been modernized, and the original layout of the rooms has been altered, but still some mantels and fireplaces remain as artifacts of significance, giving a notion of the splendor once showcased by the interior.</p><br>
<p>The Triglav Lakes Lodge   is a mountain lodge between Double Lake  and the artificial Lake Močivec  below Mount Tičarica in the heart of the Julian Alps, northwestern Slovenia. The first structure was built in 1880 by an Austrian hiking club. In 1955 and 1988, it was rebuilt and expanded. It has four dining rooms with 150 seats, 13 rooms with 30 beds, and 13 larger sleeping rooms with 170 bunks. The lodge is open from the end of June until the start of October</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>3 h from the Savica Lodge via Komarča</p><br>
<p>6 h From the village of Stara Fužina via Vogar and the Dedno Polje Alp</p><br>
<p>5½ h Soča via the Velika Vrata</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring mountains</h2><br>
<p>1 h Mala Tičarica (2071 m) 1 h</p><br>
<p>2½ h Big Mount Špičje (2398 m)</p><br>
<p>3½ h Zelnarica (2320 m) 3–4 h</p><br>
<p>The George Austin McHenry House is located in Stone County, Mississippi. It was constructed between 1895 and 1901 to serve as the family home of Dr. George McHenry. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>In 1889, Dr. George McHenry and his wife, Una, led a group of 54 families from Michigan to homestead in northern Harrison County, Mississippi. They settled in an area which would become part of Stone County, where the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was under construction. George McHenry opened a general store and also handled the USA mail. A small town developed with timber-related industries that prospered because of the vast virgin pine forests of south Mississippi. A Post Office opened under the name of McHenry in honor of the settlement&#39;s founder. While Dr. McHenry was in military service during the Spanish–American War, his wife oversaw the construction and expansion of their family home.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story wood frame structure with a steep-pitched roof, three gable projections, and a single chimney. The first story was completed in 1895, but the second story was not added until 1901. The original design included a wrap-around porch which was later modified. The building was constructed with virgin yellow pine lumber and rests on brick foundation piers. A one-story rear addition was completed in 1957.</p><br>
<p>The house has been used continuously as a single family dwelling by descendants of Dr. McHenry. As of 2013, it was the oldest surviving structure in the town of McHenry.</p><br>
<p>The old Belvidere High School is a complex of four connected buildings that reflect three different architectural styles: Classical Revival, Prairie School, and Art Deco. It is composed of the 1893 Garfield School, a 1900 powerhouse, the 1916 Belvidere High School, and the 1939 Belvidere High School Auditorium & Gymnasium.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first public schooling in Belvidere, Illinois began in 1842. Classes were typically taught in churches or private residences. The first public school building built in the town was a stone building built in the 1850s. In 1893, the Garfield School was built just south of Washington High School for both grade and high school students. The two-story building originally had thirteen rooms. As Belvidere&#39;s population continued to grow, school officials struggled to prevent classrooms from overcrowding. In 1914, they determined that a new high school should replace the demolished Washington High School. In 1916, the new building, designed by Prairie School architect Grant C. Miller of Miller, Gullenwider & Dowling, was completed. The two buildings were together known as Belvidere High School. By 1938, the high school population of Belvidere High School grew to 500. The school district successfully applied for grants from the Public Works Administration, receiving over $62,000. Rockford architect Raymond A. Orput of Orput & Orput designed the resulting auditorium and gymnasium addition. The addition was one of the first buildings to use fluorescent lighting. US Representative Noah Mason dedicated the building. A new Washington School was built in 1956 for the junior high student population, and ten years later, the present Belvidere High School was completed. On July 25, 1997, the building complex was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It received this distinction as a locally significant example of the Classical Revival, Prairie School, and Art Deco styles. The different buildings reflected the changing opinions of school architectural styles.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Belvidere High School is located on the northeast cover of Pearl and First Streets. The four-building complex is connected by recent additions, although these connections do not negatively impact the historic integrity of the property. There is no record of an architect for the original 1893 Garfield School. The Garfield School stands two-and-a-half stories with a painted brick exterior. It is built on a coursed, rock face stone foundation and features a full raised basement. The hipped roof was clad with slate shingles. The main entrance was originally on the south facade facing First Street. Some time between 1912 and 1915, an addition was made to the north facade which nearly doubled the size of the structure. At this time, the main entrance to the school was changed to the western elevation. Fireproof stairways were installed in 1919. A two-story addition was completed on the east end in 1936. The Garfield School is in the Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The 1900 power plant building was built to the northeast of the Garfield School. It is now connected to the 1916 building via an addition in the 1950s or 1960s. The building features of pyramidal hipped roof with a square cupola. A smoke stack rises near the south of the building. The base of the stack is octagonal and built with dark brown brick. The power plant provided heat to the complex.</p><br>
<p>In 1916, the main Belvidere High School was completed to the north of the 1893 building. This building combined elements of the Classical Revival with the popular Prairie School. The two-story building on a raised basement was built with dark brown brick. The roof is red tile, decorated with a brown terra cotta cornice. Large pilasters decorate the corners with terra cotta capitals and bases. The main entrance is on the west elevation. It is flanked with brick pilasters and sits below a decorative cornice. The original wood doors were replaced by modern aluminum ones in the 1950s or 1960s. Windows were originally double hung and wood sash, but are now mostly smaller one-over-one windows on a fixed panel; a few original windows remain on the north. A brick cafeteria addition was completed in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The 1939 Art Deco addition was built to the east of the 1893 building. The exterior of the building is concrete faced with stucco. Three bays are found on the south elevation and function as the main entrance. A large, recessed elliptical arch features prominently over the entrance. The arch features glass block designs. The center section of the arch had a panel for art glass; the original art has been replaced. The roof is flat.</p><br>
<p>The Geologic history of the Chiricahua Mountains concerns the Chiricahua Mountains, an inactive volcanic range located in Coronado National Forest of southeastern Arizona, in the United States. They are part of an "archipelago" of mountain ranges known as the sky islands that connect the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico with the Rocky Mountains. The Chiricahua Mountains are home to a number of unusual geologic features associated with the Turkey Creek Caldera, some of which are protected by Chiricahua National Monument. The landscape has been dominantly shaped by faulting due to Basin and Range extension during the Miocene, volcanic activity, and erosion.</p><br>
<h2>Precambrian-Mesozoic</h2><br>
<p>During the Precambrian, the southwestern coastline of North America extended as far north as the present-day borders of Wyoming and Colorado. Continental growth began around 1.8 billion years ago as a sequence of island arcs (separated by seas) moved to the northwest and accreted onto the edge of North America. By 1.4 Ga, most of Arizona had been added to the continent.</p><br>
<p>Paleozoic deposition in southeast Arizona occurred from about 510 to 251 Ma in a passive margin setting. Permian-aged strata rich in fossil brachiopods, echinoid spines, and gastropods are the only Paleozoic rocks exposed in the Chiricahua Mountains, and reflect a shallow-marine coral reef environment. These rocks are also the oldest known rocks exposed in the Chiricahuas and were formed around 280 Ma.</p><br>
<p>A 150-million-year unconformity in the Chiricahua Mountains’ geologic history occurs between the Paleozoic and earliest known Mesozoic rocks due to a period of uplift and erosion. Numerous volcanoes then formed in southeastern Arizona during the Mesozoic as oceanic crust subducted beneath the southwestern portion of the United States, resulting in continued continental growth.</p><br>
<h2>Volcanic activity in the Cenozoic</h2><br>
<p>The most active period in the volcanic history of the Chiricahua Mountains began near the end of the Mesozoic. Volcanism, as well as the formation of compressional structures, were due to the presence of a subduction zone beneath the southwest United States associated with the Laramide orogeny. This period began around 70 Ma with the subduction of the Farallon and Kula plates beneath the North American Plate, and ended around 20 Ma when the Pacific Plate’s spreading ridge ran into the subduction zone. The subduction of these slabs led to a period of intense volcanic activity in the western United States, and specifically in the Chiricahua Mountains around 35-25 Ma. Small, scattered volcanoes formed in the area, producing dark andesitic and basaltic lava flows, along with more viscous rhyolite flows. Around 26.9 Ma, a massive magma chamber formed beneath the crust just south of the present-day Chiricahua National Monument. The overlying rock eventually ruptured, expelling around 100 cubic miles of magma. Pyroclastic flows of hot silicious ash and pumice were laid down over a 1,200-square-mile region that eventually cooled and lithified into rhyolitic tuff. The volume of material ejected was sufficiently massive to cause the magma chamber to collapse and form what is now known as the Turkey Creek Caldera. Large folds and faults associated with compressional tectonics can also be observed in Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks.</p><br>
<h2>Basin and Range faulting</h2><br>
<p>When the spreading ridge of the Pacific Plate ran into the subduction zone along the west coast of the United States, subduction ceased and volcanism diminished. The Chiricahua Mountains lie within this province and graben blocks are the most common structure found. Extension continues today due to pressure from the San Andreas Fault that runs through the length of California. Extension also led to the formation of more volcanic features. Small amounts of basaltic magma leaked out and formed the San Bernardino volcanic field (San Bernardino Valley) along the southeastern flank of the mountains between Rodeo, New Mexico, and Douglas, Arizona. Cinder cones, lavas, and small explosion craters are still clearly seen today.</p><br>
<h2>Sculpting the modern landscape</h2><br>
<p>During the past 27 million years, faulting and erosion have had the greatest impact on the landscape and topography of the Chiricahua Mountains. Uplift continued into the Quaternary, subjecting the mountains to increased erosion. Alluvial fans formed along the flanks of the range as down-cutting streams flushed sediments from the canyons. The most notable geologic features in the mountains are found in the Chiricahua National Monument. Massive stone columns, or hoodoos, blanket the area and are the result of hundreds of thousands of years of weathering and erosion. The hoodoos originated from a thick deposit of tuff laid down by the Turkey Creek Caldera. As the tuff cooled, it contracted and formed joints. Differential chemical and physical weathering concentrated along these joints, initiating the formation of thousands of rock columns. Balanced rocks that perch, sometimes precariously, on top of many of the hoodoos are a distinctive feature of the monument.</p><br>
<p>Centennial Neighborhood District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The area originated as the Bartholomew and Davis Additions to Lafayette in 1829. Growth came rapidly after the Wabash and Erie Canal arrived in 1843. Growth continued with the arrival of the railroad in 1853. The Centennial Neighborhood Historic District takes its name from the Centennial School, which was constructed in 1876 on the centennial of the nation. The school was located on the north east corner of Brown Street at North 6th Street. The school has been removed and a park created at its original location.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area began to grow in the 1830s as the boundaries of Lafayette expanded north and east of the Wabash River. It was the introduction of the Wabash Canal in 1843 that lead to rapid growth. The Canal followed the route of Canal Road and the current tracks on the west side of the neighborhood. The area began to develop mills, warehouses and wharves serving the canal. The Reverend Samuel Johnson built a house in 1844 on the north east corner of Ferry and Sixth Streets, which is the oldest structure in the district. The following year, 1844, Richard DeHart House was constructed at 602 N. Fifth Street (northeast corner of Cincinnati and Fifth Streets). The canal growth came to a close with the arrival of the railroads in 1853. Five houses represent the canal era, located 716 and 729 Brown Street, 636 Ferry Street, 713-715 North Fourth Street.</p><br>
<p>The Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad (L&I) was the first railroad to arrive in Lafayette in 1852. It ended on Main Street near the current Amtrak Depot, in the Downtown Historic District several blocks south of the neighborhood. It was the New Albany and Salem Railroad, later called the Monon Railroad that arrived in 1853, following Fifth Street that began the growth of the area. The following year, 1854, the Wabash Railroad cut an angle along the Erie Street route, just east side of the district. The railroads needed housing for their crews. The row house at 417-427 North Fourth Street (1870) is representative of the housing built during this boom.</p><br>
<p>The more affluent residence built along Ferry Street. Outstanding examples include the Handley House (874) at 632-634 Ferry Street and the Oppenheimer House at 604 North Sixth Street.</p><br>
<p>It was in this district that religious and educational structures predominate. St. Johns Episcopal Church was built from 1851 to 1858, and is the district’s oldest surviving church. Built during the 1860s and 1870s in the Gothic Revival Style are St. James Lutheran Church, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and St. Boniface Catholic Church. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church began ad Lafayettes first black school. The Albert A. Wells Memorial Public Library was built in 1928 and is an outstanding example of the Neoclassical style.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Significant structures</h2><br>
<p>1844, Reverend Samuel Johnson House, 608 Ferry St.</p><br>
<p>1849, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 820 Ferry St.</p><br>
<p>1858, St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, 800 Cincinnati Street</p><br>
<p>1858, St. Johns Episcopal Church, 600 Ferry Street</p><br>
<p>1865, St. Boniface Catholic Church, 318 N 9th Street</p><br>
<p>1869, Trinity United Methodist Church, 404 N 6th Street</p><br>
<p>1872, First Baptist Church, 411 N 7th Street St.</p><br>
<p>1876, Centennial School (demolished), 2007 Centennial Park, Centennial Park, 501 N 6th Street</p><br>
<p>1893, Pottlitzer House, 801 Brown St.</p><br>
<p>1893, Wallace Bros. Building, 320 - 328 Ferry St.</p><br>
<p>1901, Monon Depot (Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette), 328 N 5th Street</p><br>
<p>1908, St. Boniface Catholic School, 815 North Street</p><br>
<p>1913, First Christian Church, 329 N 6th Street</p><br>
<p>1914, Haywood Printing Company, 300 North 5th St.</p><br>
<p>1916, Sons of Abraham Synagogue, 661 North 7th St.</p><br>
<p>1928, Albert A. Wells Memorial Library, 638 North Street</p><br>
<p>The Downriver Residential Historic District is a 57 acre historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The listing included 96 contributing buildings, 57 non-contributing ones, one contributing structure  and one non-contributing one .</p><br>
<p>It includes Greek Revival, Italianate, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Post-Modern architecture.</p><br>
<p>The district includes six already-NRHP-listed properties, including:</p><br>
<p>Ravenna</p><br>
<p>Charles Patterson House (1898), at 506 Union Street, South, designed and built by Robert Bost</p><br>
<p>Ravennaside (c.1900), at 601 Union Street, South</p><br>
<p>Ravennaside outbuilding, at 601 Union Street, South.</p><br>
<p>another Ravennaside outbuilding, at 601 Union Street, South.</p><br>
<p>The district was the eighth historic district in Natchez to be NRHP-nominated, and the seventh nominated by the Historic Natchez Foundation. Primarily residential, it had lower priority for historic preservation as it was less immediately threatened by commercial development.</p><br>
<p>Slack Roman Fort was a castellum near Outlane, to the west of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. Its site is a scheduled monument. The ruins of the fort which lay alongside the Pennine section of the Roman road from Deva Victrix  to Eboracum  are no longer visible. The fort may have been the Cambodunum mentioned as a station on this route in the Antonine Itinerary.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological digs indicate the fort was constructed of turf and wood to defend the Roman road in the time of Agricola in 79.</p><br>
<p>In December 2016, a retired professor from Bangor University, Peter Field, hypothesised that the fort&#39;s site was a potential location for the mythical Camelot.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site of the fort is on gently sloping ground sheltered by a hill rising to 1,200 feet above sea level about 4 miles from Huddersfield. Observation posts on the surrounding hills commanded views towards Blackstone Edge, Standedge, Huddersfield and the Stainland Valley in the Halifax direction.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The Huddersfield Archaeological and Topographical Society, whose secretary was George Lloyd, excavated the site in 1865. It excavated the remains of a residence measuring 60 feet by 68 feet with a courtyard. Nearby was a cremation site and on the slope 80 yards below the house are the remains of a hypocaust for the hot air bath. Also found nearby were a British stone axe, pottery, part of a brooch and a quantity of galena, (lead ore). On another part of the site are the remains of a cold bath comprised a slab of concrete 13 ft long by 6 ft wide. The room it was in had a red tiled floor. Copper or bronze coins from the reigns of Vespasian and Nerva, an earthenware jar and a tile stamped "COH IIII BRE" were also uncovered.</p><br>
<p>Excavations between 1913 and 1915 and 1958 to 1963 uncovered the fort&#39;s ramparts and the foundations of its gateways and corner towers. The ramparts, constructed of turves on a stone footing, surrounded an area 356 feet (111 metres) square. They were surrounded by a ditch, in some parts a double ditch when the fort was built in about 79. Inside are the outlines of several wooden buildings including the military headquarters and barrack blocks. Another phase of development about 20 years later added two granaries roofed with tiles stamped COHIIIIBRE, the mark of the 4th cohort of Breuci who operated a tilery in the nearby Grimescar Valley. A phase of building in stone began in the early 120s. but by then the garrison had been reduced. The fort was occupied until about 140.</p><br>
<p>Outside the fort to the east was the bath-house and to the north was a small civilian settlement which may have continued until 200.</p><br>
<p>The Tolson Museum in Huddersfield has a collection of artefacts including the reconstructed Grade II listed remains of the hypocaust, comprising the rubble columns and tiled floor, that were moved to Ravensknowle Park from the fort.</p><br>
<p>Locust Hill is a historic home and farm complex located near Hurt, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The house was built in two sections with the main section built in 1861, and expanded with a three-story rear ell in 1930. The original section is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, frame dwelling in the Swiss Gothic style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof that incorporates two central chimneys and four gable ends decorated in ornamental bargeboard. Also on the property are a number of contributing resources including a tavern, a servants quarter, a kitchen, an icehouse, a chicken house, a smoke house, a dairy, a servants quarter, a caretaker&#39;s house, a grist mill, a dam, a family cemetery, and the ruins of an 18th-century house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The former Bowling Green Post Office is a historic governmental facility in downtown Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the early twentieth century, this post office features an unusual combination of distinctive architectural styles, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1913 of brick with an asphalt roof, the post office features substantial amounts of sandstone. Its design, produced under the direction of a Mr. Wenderoth, combines prominent elements of two common architectural styles of the early twentieth century. The arched windows display the influence of the Neo-Renaissance style, as do the side quoins and certain details of the portico. Meanwhile, the overall appearance of the facade is clearly Neoclassical, due to details in the portico, the architect&#39;s choice of smooth stone for the exterior walls, and the generally symmetrical appearance. One large window sits on either side of the main entrance, which is covered by a four-column portico; the pediment at the top of the portico features a central oculus.</p><br>
<p>Located in downtown Bowling Green, the post office lies at the northern end of the citys main commercial district. As Wood Countys leading post office and only substantial federal building, the post office was for many years among the most prominent buildings in the city. The building is no longer used for postal purposes, as the Postal Service moved to another facility in the late 1970s. Since that time, it has served as the Wood County Senior Citizens Center, but even in this new use, it retains its place as a landmark for residents countywide: the Wood County Committee on Aging, which operates numerous centers countywide, uses the building as its headquarters.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its distinctive historic architecture. It is one of five National Register-listed sites in the city, along with the Main Street Historic District a short distance to the south, the county courthouse downtown, Floral Hall in a city park, and the Boom Town Historic District on the west side.</p><br>
<p>Pisgah Mountain or Pisgah Ridge  is a long ridgeline 12.5 mi Tamaqua to Jim Thorpe  oriented NNE-to-SSW whose northside valley is followed by USA Route 209 from river gap to river gap. The ridge is a succession of peaks exceeding 1,440 ft looming 300–540 feet above the towns of Lansford, Coaldale, Summit Hill, and Tamaqua in the Panther Creek valley. Near Summit Hill was the Sharpe Mountain , where in 1791 Phillip Ginter is documented as having discovered Anthracite leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company. In 1818 the Lehigh Coal Company took over the mines and the mining camp gradually became a settlement and grew into Summit Hill.</p><br>
<p>The Pisgah Ridge forms the left bank drainage divide on the south and the streams source in the east. The peak at the east end of the ridge is named Mount Pisgah and represents a hard rock knob that towers 900 ft above the Lehigh River towns of Jim Thorpe to the east, and Nesquehoning to its north. The municipalities are located relative to one another just around a near ninety-degree bend in the Lehigh a few miles apart by road or river.</p><br>
<p>Geologically, the Pisgah Ridge divide is classed as of semi-major degree, the waters enter the same body, the Delaware, but do so over fifty miles apart as the north draining waters are feed waters of the Panther Creek running east as a Little Schuylkill tributary, whilst the eastern south slope waters drain into the valley formed by the Mauch Chunk Ridge paralleling Pisgah Ridge to the south, via the Mauch Chunk Creek (White Bear Creek).</p><br>
<p>Furthermore, the terminal but subordinate peak of the ridge and Mount Pisgah is located at the joining of two ridgelines of similar height, the more northerly, Nesquehoning Mountain forming the right bank drainage divide for Panther Creek, and being sundered from Mount Pisgah proper by a short very steep characteristic V-shaped water-erosion valley (oriented below a right bank prominence named "Indian Peak") that US-209 climbs steeply from the town of Nesquehoning westwards 2–3 miles to reach the head of the Panther Creek Valley.</p><br>
<p>The railroad tracks paralleling PA-54 also transiting the town of Nesquehoning&#39;s flat river-bank terrain takes over sixteen miles farther to climb and descend to once again reach an elevation where it can turn to enter the Panther Creek Valley near the confluence with the Little Schuylkill via the rail yard at Tamaqua in a longer more circuitous climb&mdash;and demonstration why dump trucks have replaced railroads in short haul situations.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Pisgah is a typical end-ridge formed by a watercourse gap. Pisgah Mountain is but one average folded mountain in a succession of near parallel ridgelines, where each are made by a succession of peaks of nearly the same height. This Ridge and Valley province is a geological feature that extends from New Jersey into Virginia forming a great barrier of successive valleys. Pisgah Mountain, located along the southern fringe of northeastern Pennsylvania&#39;s Poconos region is also central to the Southern Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania&mdash; known as the site of the Richest Anthracite Seam, in the heart of the Southern Pennsylvania Anthracite Field and the geological province known as the Anthracite Upland section. The ridgeline parallels the escarpment of the Blue Mountain region but unlike that barrier with several major cuttings, Mount Pisgah is a divide between waters running southwesterly in the historic Panther Creek (Pennsylvania).</p><br>
<p>The Tana River Delta Ramsar Site is a wetland on the Tana River protected under the Ramsar Convention located in the Coast Province of Kenya. It was gazetted as Kenya&#39;s 6th Ramsar Site.</p><br>
<p>The Tana River Delta is the second most important estuarine and river delta (deltaic) ecosystem in Eastern Africa, comprising a variety of freshwater, floodplain, estuarine and coastal habitats with extensive and diverse mangrove systems, marine brackish and freshwater intertidal zone (intertidal areas), pristine beaches and shallow marine areas, forming productive and functionally interconnected ecosystems.</p><br>
<p>This diversity in habitats permits diverse hydrological functions and a rich biodiversity including coastal and marine prawns, shrimps, bivalves and fish, five species of threatened marine turtles and IUCN red-listed African elephant (Loxodonta africana), Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus), Tana River red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus rufomitratus) and White-collared Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis albotorquatus). Over 600 plant species have been identified, including the endangered Cynometra lukei and Gonatopus marattioides.</p><br>
<p>Tana River delta is one of the only estuarine staging posts on the Asian–East African Flyway, it is a critical feeding and wintering ground for several migratory waterbirds such as waders, gulls and terns.</p><br>
<p>The main anthropogenic activities include fishing, small-scale family-oriented agriculture, mangrove wood exploitation, grazing, water supply, tourism and research (ongoing research on the protection and monitoring of breeding turtles and the conservation of dugongs).</p><br>
<p>The Tana River delta is also an Important Bird Area (IBA).</p><br>
<p>Koh Rong Sanloem  is an island off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, 4 km south of Koh Rong island. It is around 9 km long , 4 km wide  and 1 km wide at its narrowest point. Its distance from the local port of Sihanoukville is 25 km  and 23 km  from the Serendipity/Ochheuteal beach pier. The word "Sanloem" translates to: 1. drowsiness and to: 2. far out and hard to discern, in a wider sense. Inconsistencies on how to spell the island&#39;s name in its Latinized version date back to the 19th century. The first controversial spelling variants were issued by map makers during French rule. Alternatives have since become widespread and are in common usage. Often confusion ensues as Google Maps offers the phonetically most consistent variant, whereas Google Search redirects to an alternative.</p><br>
<p>Koh Rong Sanloem lies within Sihanoukville provinces Mittakpheap district in Commune 5 (Sangkat Koh Rong). Alongside its sister-island Koh Rong it has developed into a popular holiday destination for individual travelers. With respect to the islands very tiny population, the tourism sector is by 2014 the core economy.</p><br>
<p>In 1975 the crew of SS Mayaguez was shipped to Koh Rong Sanloem, detained and interrogated by Khmer Rouge soldiers during the Mayaguez incident.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island resembles its northern sister, Koh Rong in many ways, although it has noticeably less landmass in relation to its coastline. The terrain is predominantly hilly with a few mountains of moderate size (e.g. La Chameau - The camel) and a maximum elevation of 210 m in the North-West. The interior is almost entirely covered in dense jungle. The coastline is characterized by a succession of sandstone rock formations and beautiful beaches. There are three yellow sand beaches at the island&#39;s long western coast. Its eastern side, facing towards the mainland and less exposed to the weather and the monsoon, is characterized by bays and headlands. A very attractive feature is the crescent shaped Saracen Beach bay with an inner diameter of around 3 kilometers. Saracen bay got its name from a British survey brig, HMS Saracen, that charted the area in the late nineteenth century. North of the island lies the uninhabited Koh Koun island, followed by Koh Rong.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements and infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>There are two discernible villages on the island; one in the north, called Ma-pay Bay (means 23 in Khmer) and one in the south, called Koh Rong Sanloem Phumi Kang Khnong (kang khnong means inside in Khmer), which is little more than a fishers hamlet. Another little hamlet is situated in the southwest, called Phumi Kang Krau (Village on the outside). There used to be a basic road network, built during the period of the French Protectorate, which is by now almost completely overgrown with vegetation. Sole reminder of this period is a lighthouse at the islands southern tip. Depending on the season, some structures that resemble a landing field near the light house are still recognizable.</p><br>
<p>Most transport is being done by boat, although the islands very narrow center permits water buffalo carts to operate. Koh Rong Sanloem is not connected to the main power grid, nor to the internet, except for the 4G tower at MPai bei.Smart and Cellcard SIM. There is local mobile phone coverage. The island is home to a base of and is administered by the Cambodian Navy.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>As of 2017, Saracen Bay has established itself as the main tourist area on Koh Rong Sanloem, with more than a dozen bungalow and villa resorts. Accommodation and prices range from cheap dorm beds to modern villas with air-conditioning, wide-screen TV’s, comfortable beds, and en-suite bathrooms with a hot shower and a western toilet. Other notable tourist destinations include ‘Lazy Beach’ and ‘Sunset Beach’ (located on the western side of the island), and Ma-Pay Bay (located on the northern side of the island).</p><br>
<p>There are 5 main ferry services between Sihanoukville and Koh Rong Sanloem, each taking approximately 40 minutes to get to the island. All services leave from the Ochheuteal (AKA ‘Serendipity’) pier in Sihanoukville. There are also a couple of ‘Slow Boat’ services that take 1.5 – 2.5 hours. These services depart from the local port of Sihanoukville and the piers at Serendipity beach and Victory beach.</p><br>
<p>Currently there are no banks or ATMs on Koh Rong Sanloem, though its neighbouring island Koh Rong now has an ATM. Therefore, travellers to the island are advised to bring cash in order to pay for food, drinks, accommodation and any activities. Businesses that are operating on the island appreciate small denominations as it can be difficult to give change for large bills.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>The islands formidable jungle is the ideal habitat for a great variety of endemic invertebrate species. Vertebrates are less abundant and, typically for island populations, are small in comparison. Amphibians and reptiles are the most numerous and the islands brooks, ponds and streams are home to a variety of small freshwater fish. Birds include the great hornbill, the kingfisher and the osprey.</p><br>
<p>There is a group of macaques living on the island and rodents are very common as a consequence of human activities.</p><br>
<p>Small reefs and the rocky surface of the surrounding waters are home to a remarkable variety of marine species. Divers and snorkelers regularly emphasize the abundance of delicate miniature eco-systems, seahorses and nudibranches.</p><br>
<p>Lake Uniamési or the Uniamesi Sea was the name given by missionaries in the 1840s and 1850s to a huge lake or inland sea they supposed to lie within a region of Central East Africa with the same name.</p><br>
<p>Three missionaries, confined to the coastal belt, heard of the region of Unyamwezi in the northwest of what is now Tanzania and exaggerated its size to include a large part of the continental interior. They heard of a great lake, and imagined an enormous lake that would be the source of the Benue, Nile, Zambezi and Congo rivers. They drew a map showing a huge "Lake Uniamesi" that was published in 1855. The map spurred the expedition of Burton and Speke to investigate the African Great Lakes region, where they found that lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa were separate bodies of water. It was not until 1877 that it was confirmed that these lakes did feed the Nile, Congo and Zambezi, albeit separately.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The Great Lakes of East Africa include lakes Albert, Edward, Kivu and Tanganyika, all of which lie in the western or Albertine branch of the East African rift system, Lake Victoria to the east of this chain and Lake Nyasa (Malawi) to the south. Lake Victoria is the third largest lake in the world, and lies on the plateau between the west and east rifts. Unlike the long, narrow and deep lakes of the rift, Lake Victoria is wide and relatively shallow.</p><br>
<p>Bantu peoples moved into the region between the Great Lakes and the Indian Ocean some time after 1000 BC and mingled with the local population. By the first century AD ships from the Arabian peninsula were trading along the East African coast. Muslim Arabs from Oman began to colonize the coast in the 8th century AD. The coastal Bantu peoples intermarried with the Arabs to form the Swahili people, with a language that combines Bantu, Arabic and Persian elements. The Swahili culture incorporated many Arabic and Islamic aspects, while remaining essentially Bantu in nature.</p><br>
<p>The Unyamwezi region lies around the modern town of Tabora, between the coast and Lake Tanganyika, and includes the Tabora, Nzega and Kahama districts of the western plateau of modern Tanzania. In the 19th century the inhabitants were called Nyamwezi people by outsiders, although this term covered various different groups.</p><br>
<p>Unyamwezi lay at a juncture where a trade route from the coast split, with one branch continuing west to the port of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika while another branch led north to the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro.</p><br>
<p>Coastal traders settled in Unyamwezi, some with hundreds of well-armed retainers.</p><br>
<p>The Nyamwezi provided most of the porters for the caravans organized by the coastal Arabs and Swahilis,</p><br>
<p>and also conducted their own caravans. The Nyamwezi were long-distance traders throughout East Africa.</p><br>
<p>Ivory was not widely used by the Nyamwezi, but at some point they became aware that there was an overseas market for the product, and began to carry ivory along the route from Tabora down to the Indian Ocean coast opposite Zanzibar. There are records of Sultan Sayyid Said of Zanzibar negotiating with envoys from Unyamwezi in 1839 for safe passage for caravans to the interior.</p><br>
<p>The Nyamwezi did not sell their own people as slaves, since they needed manpower for the ivory trade, but after the 1850s the slave trade began to become important. Slaves brought from the Congo Basin or the Great Lakes region would be held at Tabora, then sent down to the coast in small groups for onward shipment.</p><br>
<h2>Early European contacts</h2><br>
<p>Early in 1844 Sultan Sayyid Said gave the German missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810–1881) permission to establish a mission on the coast. Krapf arrived in Mombasa on 13 March 1844. He was joined in 1846 by Johannes Rebmann (1820–1876). On 12 November 1848 Rebmann started a journey into the interior. The Church Missionary Intelligencer reported that, "The ultimate object, which our Missionaries had in view, has been to reach Uniamési, that interior country where the roads to East Africa and West Africa diverge." Uniamési was said to lie about 150 to 200 hours to the west of the Chagga kingdom, which lay on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.</p><br>
<p>On 10 June 1849 Jakob Erhardt (1823–1901) and John Wagner arrived at the Rabbai Mpia mission station near Mombasa. Wagner died on 1 August 1849. In the spring of 1850 Erhardt and Krapf traveled by dhow down the East African coast from Mombasa. On the journey they met traders from Unyamwezi. Krapf recorded that caravans of three to four thousand men from Unyamwezi would arrive at the coast in December after a three-month journey, and would leave on the return journey in March or April. The Arabs of Zanzibar were hostile to Europeans reaching Unyamwezi. In 1847 they arranged for Washenzis to kill a French trader, Mr. Maison, on his way to the interior.</p><br>
<p>The missionaries were impatient to learn more about "the great central country of Uniamési, whither converge the great rivers which have their embouchures on the western and eastern coasts... from which, according to the native conception, is an outlet to the four quarters of the globe." There seemed to be "no doubt that the Natives of this central land traffic with the western as well as the eastern coast." In 1850 Krapf exclaimed that, "Had we sufficient pecuniary means at our command, and were it not our bounden duty to subordinate all secondary objects to our chief vocation, which consists in the preaching of the Gospel, the map of East Africa would soon wear another aspect."</p><br>
<p>Krapf wrote, "I have lately perused a paper making the lake Niassa and that of Uniamesi appear as one and the same volume of water... from other native authorities I know at least that the Natives clearly distinguish between the Niassa and the Uniamesi lakes. But as I have made it a rule to distrust all native reports, until they be confirmed by personal observation, I shall say nothing more on this point." Later that year the Church missionary intelligencer published an account by Krapf of a journey to Ukambani that he had made in November and December 1849. He speculated that the Niger and its tributary the Tshadda (Benue), the Congo, Nile and Kilimani (Quelimane – near to the mouth of the Zambezi) would all provide access to the center of Africa.</p><br>
<p>Uniamési was thought to contain a great lake. Krapf said,</p><br>
<h2>Erhardt's map</h2><br>
<p>Jakob Erhardt spent six months at Tanga studying the Kisambara language, where he heard the stories of ivory traders who had visited the interior. According to Rebmann, whose account was published in Krapf&#39;s memoirs,</p><br>
<p>Erhardt was struck by the fact that various travelers who had gone inland from different points on the east coast of Africa had all come to an inland sea, and made a map based on available information, including the findings of Krapf and Rebmann.</p><br>
<p>In November 1854 while talking about the problem to Rebmann, "at one and the same moment, the problem flashed on both of us solved by the simple supposition that where geographical hypothesis had hitherto supposed an enormous mountain-land, we must now look for an enormous valley and an inland sea." On the map that he and Rebmann drew the three lakes are shown as one very large S-shaped lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1855 Erhardt was repatriated due to poor health, and took the map with him.</p><br>
<p>Rebmann wrote letters to the Calwer Missionary Intelligencer (Calwer Missionsblatt), received and published in 1855, in which he called the lake Uniamesi or Ukerewe. He said that according to accounts by traders, considered trustworthy by the missionaries, the lake extended from latitude 0.5°N to 13.5°S and from longitude 23.5°E to 36°E, and had an area of 13,600 German square miles, as compared to 7,860 German square miles for the Black Sea and 7,400 for the Caspian.</p><br>
<p>The map was first published in the Calwer Missionsblatt later in 1855, and then in the Church Missionary intelligencer in 1856. August Heinrich Petermann published the map in his Mittheilungen, but warned that the missionaries may not have accounted sufficiently for exaggeration by their informants. He provided a supplementary sketch showing the lake extending from 7°S to 12°S and 22.5°E to 30.5°E, one third of Rebmann&#39;s estimated size.</p><br>
<p>The map was reproduced with commentary in other publications.Ferdinand de Lesseps saw a pen-and-ink version of the map made by "Mr. Rehman of Moubar, on the Zanguebar coast." In a letter of April 1857 to the Académie des Sciences of Paris he commented that the inland sea would be larger than the Black Sea. He said, "The existence of this sea was certified to me during my stay at Khartoum by a pilgrim from Mecca, who inhabits Central Africa, and who gave Mahmoud Pasha, one of the Viceroys ministers, particulars corresponding to Mr. Rehmans map. This pilgrim added that he had seen larger vessels on the Uniamesi than that in which he had sailed down the Red Sea."</p><br>
<p>The reports of snow on mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya, near to the equator, caused considerable controversy. Sir Francis Galton, who had won the Royal Geographical Societys gold medal in 1853 for his southwest African explorations, had Erhardts map published in the society&#39;s Proceedings. Galton was pressed to travel to Africa to confirm the report about Mount Kilimanjaro. He declined on the basis that he had not yet fully recovered his health from his previous expedition. Instead, the Royal Geographical Society persuaded the British government to provide ₤1,000 for an expedition by Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke to investigate the great lake, or lakes, and determine if they were the source of the Nile. The map came to be known as the "slug map" from the shape of the Uniamesi or Niassa inland sea. Burton called it the Mombas Mission Map.</p><br>
<h2>Exploration</h2><br>
<p>Burton and Speke reached Zanzibar on 20 December 1857, visited Rebmann at his Kisuludini mission station, and paid a visit to Fuga, capital of the Usambare kingdom. Burton met king Kimweri ye Nyumbai, once a powerful warrior who had controlled the trade routes to the interior but now extremely old. They left for the interior on 26 June 1858. After travelling through mountainous country they reached the inner plateau of Uniamesi. At the Arab trading post of Kazeh (now Tabora) they recorded an elevation of 3,400 ft.</p><br>
<p>At Kazeh Burton and Speke found a mixed population of Nyamwezi, Tutsi and Arabs engaged in cattle farming and cultivation of foods such as rice, cassava, pawpaw and citrus. Burton called Unyamwezi the garden of inter-tropical Africa.</p><br>
<p>The land sloped down from there to Lake Takanyika, or Uniamesi, which they reached on 3 March 1849 and where they recorded an elevation of 1,843 ft.</p><br>
<p>Burton and Speke found that the lake extended about 300 mi north from Ujiji, where it was closed by a crescent-shaped mountain range. They were told by the local people that the lake reached down to latitude 8° south. Later David Livingstone was given consistent information by an Arab trader who had skirted the south of the lake, and a Swahili traveler also confirmed that the "Taganyika" was not connected to the Niassa to the south.</p><br>
<p>Burton and Speke returned to Kazeh, where Burton was forced to rest while Speke traveled north to explore Lake Victoria (also called Lake Ukerewe), reaching it on 3 August 1849. Speke recorded an elevation of 3,788 ft and was told that a river left the north of the lake and flowed into the Nile.</p><br>
<p>There was continued controversy about the Great Lakes and the rivers that fed and drained them. Speke made a long journey with James Augustus Grant between October 1860 and February 1863, traveling from the coast opposite Zanzibar via Tabora and Uganda to Khartoum. However, the question of whether the Nile issued from Lake Victoria was left uncertain.</p><br>
<p>In 1866–73 David Livingstone left the coast at Pemba, followed the Ruvuma River inland and walked to the southern end of Lake Nyasa, which he rounded to the west. He then traveled north to Lake Tanganyika. After lengthy explorations of the country southwest of Lake Tanganyika, with his health broken Livingstone reached Ujiji on the east of Lake Tanganyika, where he had his famous meeting with Henry Morton Stanley on 10 November 1871.</p><br>
<p>Verney Lovett Cameron was sent in 1873 to assist David Livingstone. Shortly after he left Zanzibar he learned that Livingstone had died, but continued to Ujiji. He circumnavigated Lake Tanganyika and found that it had its outlet to the west, feeding into a tributary of the Congo River. Cameron went on to the Atlantic, becoming one of the first Europeans to make an east-west crossing of Equatorial Africa. It was not until Stanley circumnavigated Lake Victoria in 1874–1875 that it was confirmed that the lake was the source of the White Nile. With Stanley&#39;s return to Zanzibar in 1877 the last of the main questions surrounding the Great Lakes drainage had been settled. Krapf had conjectured there was one great lake feeding the Congo, Zambezi, Nile and Benue. There had turned out to be three great lakes, feeding the Congo, Zambezi and Nile.</p><br>
<p>Camp Sloggett in Kokee State Park near Kokee, Hawaii is a historic site with significance from 1921. It is within state lands, but has buildings owned by the Kauai Young Womens Christian Association.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The listing included one contributing building and one contributing structure, as well as four non-contributing buildings and structures.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant "as a surviving example of camp architecture from the</p><br>
<p>early 1920s and for its associations with the Sloggett family and the YWCA." The Kauai YWCA took ownership in 1964 and tried to run it as a traditional YWCA-type camp providing one or two week camp experiences for children; this proved unworkable and the YWCA since operated it as a fee-for-services camp available to various groups.</p><br>
<p>Raduha is a mountain in the eastern part of Kamnik–Savinja Alps in northern Slovenia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is separated from its main group by the Savinja Gorge. It has relatively flat top in the northeast–southwest direction. Its lower peaks are Jelovec (1,845 m), Lanež (1,925 m), and Little Raduha (Mala Raduha, 2,029 m), and the highest peak is Big Raduha (Velika Raduha, 2,062 m). The Loka Lodge (Koča na Loki; 1,534 m) stands east of the summit. The highest-elevation show cave in Slovenia, Snow Cave (Snežna jama), lies on the western side. The western and northern parts are rocky. It is the site of the Grohat mountain pasture with the Grohat Lodge (Koča na Grohatu pod Raduho, 1,460 m).</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Raduha was attested in written sources in 1426 as Radoch. It is based on the hypocorism Radoh, derived from a Slavic personal name such as *Radoslavъ.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>Solčava (660 m)</p><br>
<p>Luče (520 m)</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>3h: from Rogovilc, over the southeastern ridge</p><br>
<p>1½h: from the Loka Pasture, the southern course</p><br>
<p>1½h: from the Loka Pasture, via the Durce Notch</p><br>
<p>1½h: from the Grohat Pasture, via the Durce Notch</p><br>
<p>1h: from the Grohat Pasture, via the northern plains</p><br>
<p>Upper Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Sixth Street was the City of Lafayette’s eastern boundary when it was originally platted. By 1840, the boundary was extended to include Lake Erie and Wabash Railroad at Eleventh Street. This area became the cities commercial center. Businesses around Eleventh Street developed to meet the traveling publics needs. The Enterprise Hotel, at 1015 Main Street, as well as the Alt Heidelberg, American Lafayette and the Derby Hotel were early established by 1899.</p><br>
<h2>Significant structures</h2><br>
<p>1873, Vollmer-Conrad Building, 1001 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1875, Enterprise Hotel, 1015 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1877, Beck Building, 731 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1877/1897, Carnahan Hall, 800 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1880/1919, Duplex, 612-614 Columbia Street</p><br>
<p>1884, Haderle Building, 1010 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1887, Krabbe Building, 1000-10`02 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1892-1893, Carnahan Building, 622 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1899, Weigle Townhouse, 932-925 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1915, D.L. Ross Building, 652-688 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1920-1921, Mars Theater, 111 North Sixth Street</p><br>
<p>1938, Lafayette Theater, 600 Main Street</p><br>
<p>All structures are historically ‘Notable’ or ‘Outstanding’ examples within the Historic District. An ‘O’ rating signifies that the structure had enough historic or architectural significance to be considered for individual listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The ‘N’ rating signifies that the structure is above average and may, with further investigation be eligible for an individual listing. The contributing structures meet the basic inventory qualifications, but fails to meet individual merit, but in combination with other closely placed similar structures warrants inclusion in an historic district.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pisgah is a peak in Carbon County, Pennsylvania situated north-northwest from and looming over the right bank business district in downtown Jim Thorpe.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Mount Pisgah is located above Jim Thorpe and is the northeastern end of the 12.5 mile long Pisgah Mountain (or Pisgah Ridge) above the Lehigh Valley. The peak is located in northeastern Pennsylvanias Anthracite Upland region on the west bank of the Lehigh River just North of and parallel to Broadway which is a block downhill from the lower looping end of the historic Lehigh Coal & Navigation Companys historic Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill Railway, which delivered coal to barges through chutes crossing what is now USA Route 209 and the rail yard along the Lehigh.</p><br>
<p>While the lower south slope of the mountain and the ends of the railroad loop and yard have now been developed into private lots and a town street, there are still two railway rights-of-ways&mdash;railroad bed road ends now turned into bike & hiking trails to travel the 7.6 mi trip to the upper terminus and loop at Summit Hill, Pennsylvania. The former Upwards or climbing roadbed connects via a switchback path the steep climb to the Mount Pisgah summit that has a view of the surrounding countryside, especially the Lehigh Valley and the Mauch Chunk-Bear Mountain Gap and the slackwater area above the last canal dam 600 ft below, and two hiking-biking trails now depart along the pathways up to Summit Hill, Pennsylvania once the uproad and downroads of the United States and North Americas second railroad, Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway is also located at the base of the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Mt. Pisgah is named for the biblical mountain in Jordan from which Moses first saw the promised land.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Lassen House is a historic house located at 605 South Hoff in El Reno, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The three-story, Neoclassical-style residence was built after the Land Run of 1889 but prior to 1895, and was first owned by A.F. and Sadie Masterman. It was purchased in August 1898 by Henry Lassen, a resident of El Reno who was instrumental in the early history of the city, and his wife Mary. Between the end of 1901 and the summer of 1904, the house underwent major renovations, including the addition of a third story and construction of a two-story high, wraparound porch with large, regal-looking columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Canadian County Jail and Stable comprises two buildings constructed at different times. The jail is a building located at 300 South Evans in El Reno, Oklahoma. It is the abandoned site of the county jail of Canadian County, and sits west of the current county jail on the same block.</p><br>
<p>The stable, located at 301 N. Choctaw was listed in 1995. The stable was built sometime between 1908 and 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The jail and stable are the oldest remaining county government structures in Canadian County.</p><br>
<h2>Jail Building</h2><br>
<p>Designed by noted Oklahoma architect Solomon Andrew Layton, in partnership with W. J. Riley, and built by A.C. Kreipke, the jail was designed and built between 1904 and 1907, while the stable was built between 1908 and 1913. The jail is an example of Layton&#39;s early Oklahoma work, and features unusual Italian Renaissance characteristics for a utilitarian building like a county incarceration facility. It is the only public building that Layton designed in El Reno which is still standing; it is also the oldest intact county government building in Canadian County.</p><br>
<h3>Jail description - exterior</h3><br>
<p>The jail is a two story, masonry building that has a symmetrical, T-shaped floor plan, about 47 feet by 58 feet. The exterior walls have alternating horizontal bands of rustic faces and smooth wide surfaces. These are interrupted by the vertical openings of windows and doors. The banded walls appear to rest on a base of smooth stone that terminates about 4 feet above grade with a water table. The west elevation is the front of the building.The main entrance has two doors, with a Doric column at each side, topped with a pediment and entablature. The other major wall openings contain tall, wood-framed windows. Except for the windows flanking the main entrance, the windows are covered with iron bars and red-painted screens. The upper windows contain diagonal muntins.</p><br>
<p>A single brick chimney penetrates the roof, which is covered with composition shingles. Inspection of the chimney about the time of the NRHP application showed that it needed unspecified repairs.</p><br>
<p>Several alterations have been made during the building&#39;s history. For example, air-conditioning units project from three of the windows. A structure</p><br>
<p>added during the 1970s connected the jail with an existing building described as a carriage house (sic). The additional structure was removed in 1991, and the door that connected it to the jail was filled with concrete blocks. Another exterior addition, providing more office space, was constructed along the east wall between 1954 and 1960. It connected the jail to the stable. This addition was also removed in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Jail closure</h2><br>
<p>The Oklahoma State Health Department ordered Canadian County officials to close the upper floor jail cells in October, 1982, because the building did not have a fire escape. The first floor of the building was allowed to remain open until a new jail facility could be finished. Part of the old jail was used for county offices until October 1986, and was then used to store guns, alcohol and drugs confiscated by county deputies.</p><br>
<p>Avant&#39;s Cities Service Station is a historic service station located at 220 S. Choctaw in El Reno, Oklahoma. The Art Deco building was constructed in 1933 as a service station for Cities Service Company to fuel automobiles traveling on USA Route 66. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station was constructed in 1933 to provide fuel to travelers on Route 66, which was designated in 1926 and marked through El Reno in 1927. It was built at the site of the Campbell Hotel, which was demolished to allow for the station&#39;s construction. The hotel had primarily catered to railroad travelers; as automobile travel rose in popularity, the hotel lost business and closed. Tom Avant managed the station on behalf of the Cities Service Company, which leased the station from A. D. Connelly, for its first years of operation.</p><br>
<p>While the station competed for business with the Jackson Conoco Service Station at the same intersection, it still faced less competition than most Route 66 stations, four of which were often situated on the same corner. In fact, the two stations had no history of contentious competition despite their proximity, a sign that both received sufficient business from travelers on the highway. The station survived a contraction in the gas station business during World War II, though it changed ownership during the period; it continued to operate well into the postwar period, albeit under different owners and affiliations. By 1948, the station became a Phillips 66 affiliate and was owned by William J. Schulte. The station became a Texaco affiliate in the 1960s and passed through a succession of owners during the decade. As Interstate 40 bypassed Route 66 in the 1960s, traffic to the station declined after the decade. The station has since been converted to a muffler store, which is still in business.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Avants Cities Service Station is designed in the Art Deco style; the building also features Moderne influences. The station was originally built with an office and a service bay; the original service bay was eventually converted to office space, and four additional service bays were added to the north end of the building. The concrete building features a flat roof with a zig-zag parapet rising to a peak at the center of the original office sections roof line. Stepped pilasters marked by vertical lines frame the central window below the parapet; additional pillars adjoin the offices door, which is located in the original bay. The stations appearance reflects the design standards of Cities Service, which promoted Moderne styles and allowed individual owners more say in station design. These practices contrasted with most of the companys competitors, who preferred more familiar domestic designs. To promote Cities Service, the station was originally painted white with green trim and featured the companys logo under the parapet; a recessed circle and empty light socket still mark the location of the logo.</p><br>
<p>Chatham Historic District is a national historic district located at Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The district includes 188 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of the town of Chatham. The district includes a variety of government, commercial, residential, religious and educational buildings and structures dating from the early-19th century to the mid-20th century. At the center of the district is the separately listed Pittsylvania County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the Judge Tredway House, Tunstall-Hargrave House, The Oaks , Morea , Hugh Weir House , Planters Bank, Thompsons Drug and Haberdashy Building, Corinth Christian Church, Emmanuel Episcopal Church , Chatham Presbyterian Church , Canada-Melton House , United States Post Office, Chatham High School, Chatham Elementary School , Chatham Savings Bank, Masonic Temple , Collie Hotel/William Pitt Hotel , Beauty Plaza , and the Moses Building. Also located in the district and separately listed are the Clerks Office, Bills Diner, and Burnett&#39;s Diner.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>North Danville Historic District is a national historic district located at Danville, Virginia. The district includes 426 contributing buildings in a primarily residential area of Danville. The district also includes three blocks of primarily two-story, brick commercial buildings. Buildings within the district were constructed from about 1880 to about 1955 and reflect a wide variety of architectural styles including vernacular Victorian, Italianate, Queen Ann, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow designs. Notable buildings include the Calvary United Methodist Church , Shelton Memorial Presbyterian Church , Bellevue Public School , Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church , Keen Street Baptist Church , and Woodrow Wilson High School .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Ruše Lodge , or the Tine Lodge at Areh  is a mountain lodge in the Pohorje Mountains , built by locals in 1907. It is open through the whole year.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before World War II, three lodges – Ruše Lodge, Čander Lodge (Čandrova koča; named after an old Pohorje family Robnik–Čander), and Planika, together with St. Henry&#39;s Church (cerkev sv. Areha), formed a mountain resort. The lodges were burned during the war. The current lodge was built in 1946 and expanded in 1977. Due to the demand, a new Čander Lodge was also built.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>3½ hr drive from Ruše, passing an old limekiln</p><br>
<p>4 hr drive from Ruše over Smolnik, passing the Šumnik Falls</p><br>
<p>5 hr drive from Slovenska Bistrica, passing the Štuhec Lodge</p><br>
<p>3½ hr drive from Fram through he village of Planica</p><br>
<p>2 hr drive from Šmartno na Pohorju passing the Videc drag lift</p><br>
<p>2½ hr drive from Šmartno na Pohorju through Bojtina, passing the Zgornji Bojčnik Farm</p><br>
<p>By car from Hoče (18 km), or from Ruše (14 km) or Slovenska Bistrica (26 km)</p><br>
<p>The Ribnica Lodge  is the highest mountain lodge in the Pohorje Mountains . It lies on a small plateau under Mali črni vrh in the central area of the Pohorje. The hut is open all year round. It is accessible by car from Ribnica na Pohorju. There is also a small ski resort with three surface lifts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the time of former Yugoslavia, a villa was built at the site by the Maribor merchant Josip Hutter. It was burnt down during World War II. In 1949, hillwalkers built a new hut at the same place.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>1½h from the Grmovšek Lodge (Grmovškov dom)</p><br>
<p>3¼h from the Pesek Lodge (Koča na Pesku; via the Lakes Lovrenc (Lovrenška jezera)</p><br>
<p>2h from Ribnica na Pohorju – walking trail</p><br>
<p>3h from Planja Hotel (via Lakes Lovrenc)</p><br>
<p>3h Ribnica na Pohorju – by road</p><br>
<p>The Smrekovec Lodge  is a mountain hostel on the southern slope of the Smrekovec Mountains  in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps. The first lodge was built in 1933, but it was burned down during World War II. A new lodge was built in 1951, and expanded in 1976–77.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>3h: from the town of Črna na Koroškem,</p><br>
<p>4½h: by car from the town of Šoštanj (26 km)</p><br>
<p>3½h: by car from the town of Ljubno ob Savinji (16 km)</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring lodges</h2><br>
<p>2½h: the Mozirje Lodge at Golte (Mozirska koča na Golteh; 1356 m)</p><br>
<p>5h: the Loka Lodge at Raduha (Koča na Loki pod Raduho; 1534 m), passing the Travnik Lodge (Koča na Travniku; 1548 m)</p><br>
<p>2½h: the Andrej Lodge at Sleme (Andrejev dom na Slemenu; 1086 m)</p><br>
<p>4½h: the Mount Ursula Lodge (Dom na Uršlji gori; 1680 m)</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring mountains</h2><br>
<p>½h: Smrekovec (1577 m)</p><br>
<p>2h: Komen (1684 m)</p><br>
<p>The Zois Lodge at Kokra Saddle  is a mountain hostel that stands on Kokra Saddle , part of the Kamnik–Savinja Alps. It is named after the brothers Karl Zois , and Sigmund Zois .</p><br>
<p>The first lodge was built from wood in 1897 by the Austrian hiking club. After World War I it had to be rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>In 1966 it was expanded and connected via a ropeway conveyor to Konec in the Kamnik Bistrica Valley. The lodge operates from the start of June through the middle of October.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>3½h: from the Kamnik Bistrica Valley (601 m)</p><br>
<p>2½h: from the Suhadolnik Farm in the Kokra Valley (896 m)</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring lodges</h2><br>
<p>5h: to the Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni (Češka koča na Spodnjih Ravneh; 1542 m) via the Mlinar Saddle (Mlinarsko sedlo)</p><br>
<p>5h: to the Czech Lodge at Spodnje Ravni (Češka koča na Spodnjih Ravneh; 1542 m) via the Dolci Notch Pass (Dolška škrbina)</p><br>
<p>5½h: to the Frischauf Lodge at Okrešelj (Frischaufov dom na Okrešlju; 1396 m) via Turski Žleb Ravine</p><br>
<p>6h: to the Kamnik Saddle Lodge (Koča na Kamniškem sedlu; 1864 m) via the Sleme Pass and Mount Turska</p><br>
<p>5h: to the Gospinec Lodge (Planinski dom na Gospincu; 1491 m) via the Kalce Plateau (planota Kalce)</p><br>
<p>6h: to the Gospinec Lodge (Planinski dom na Gospincu; 1491 m) via the Kalce Ridge (Kalški greben)</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring mountains</h2><br>
<p>2h: Grintovec (2558 m)</p><br>
<p>1h: Kalce Mountain (2047 m)</p><br>
<p>2½h: Kalce Ridge (2224 m)</p><br>
<p>3½h: Jezersko Combe (2540 m)</p><br>
<p>3½h: Skuta (2532 m)</p><br>
<p>The Cordelia A. Culbertson House is a historic house located at 1188 Hillcrest Ave. in Pasadena, California. Built in 1911, the house was designed by prominent Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene. The Greenes designed the house in the Craftsman style; the design also features Chinese elements throughout, particularly on the south side of the home. Both styles frequently appeared in Greene and Greenes designs, and the houses U-shaped floor plan can also be seen in the brothers other houses. However, the home features gunite exterior walls and a tile roof, a unique combination among the Greenes works. An Italian garden is situated at the center of the home. The house was built for Cordelia, Kate, and Margaret Culberson, three unmarried sisters; Cordelia, the eldest sister, officially commissioned the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The House at 530 S. Marengo Avenue is a historic house in Pasadena, California. Built in 1905, the American Craftsman house was designed by Pasadena architect Louis B. Easton. Easton was one of several prominent Craftsman architects in Pasadena in the early 1900s; the house at 530 S. Marengo, located next to his own self-designed house at 540 S. Marengo, was one of his earliest designs. The house features exposed beams and hand-carved joint work in the spirit of the Craftsman style, which emphasized function over form. The interior of the home was inspired by homes in The Craftsman, Gustav Stickleys architecture magazine, which ultimately featured some of Eastons later works.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Frank A. and Rae E. Harris Kramer House is a private house located at 221 North Center Avenue in Gaylord, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1993 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Frank Kramer was a Russian Jewish immigrant who settled in Gaylord and began a clothing and dry goods business known as "Kramer’s Busy Big Store." He and his wife Rae were prominent local citizens in Gaylord. Frank Kramer was a school board member, was active in fraternal organizations, and was one of the organizers of the Gaylord State Savings Bank in 1893. Rae Harris Kramer was a member of the Red Cross and the Ostego County Board, among other organizations. In 1896, the couple built this house for their own use.</p><br>
<p>Frank Kramer died in 1928 at the age of 72, and Rae Kramer died in 1960 at the age of 92.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Frank and Rae Kramer House is a 5-bedroom, 2-1/2 story wood frame Queen Anne structure on a concrete foundation. It is covered with clapboard to the second-story line, above which it is clad with a variety of decorative shingling. It has a steeply pitched cross-gable roof, and multiple decorative bracketry. A wide porch wraps around two facades.</p><br>
<p>The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store is a company store located at 10816 M-32 East in Johannesburg, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1901 by lumbermen Ernest Salling, Rasmus Hanson, and Nels Michelson. The trio built Johannesburg as a lumber mill and company town, in the same way as they had built the nearby towns of Grayling, Salling, and Lewiston. The first building constructed in the new town was this company store, which was used as the headquarters of the company.</p><br>
<p>The store offered hay, grain, ice, and bulky items from sheds behind the store building. The building also housed the offices of the Johannesburg Manufacturing Company until 1916, when they moved to a nearby bank building. The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company lasted until 1929, with the mill cutting over 300 million board feet and employing as many as 200 people. When the mill ceased operations, the lands and buildings were offered for sale at inexpensive prices, with former employees getting preference. Company accountant Alfred Larsen purchased this building in 1929.</p><br>
<p>Larsen operated the store until 1942, when he sold the store to Andrew (Buck) Philips, who then sold it in 1945 to Howard Kelly. The Kellys operated the store until 1979, living in the upstairs space that had once housed the company offices. The building was vacant from 1979 to 1991, when it was sold again to William and Norma Lange who opened an antique store. The store closed a few years later, and in 2000 it was sold to Scott and Vicki Courtier. The Courtiers in turn sold it to Stacy Jo Schiller and Barton Briley, who as of 2010 planned to restore the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store is a flat=roofed balloon-frame building on a fieldstone foundation covered with clapboard and consisting of two parts: a deep rectangular two-story section, and smaller L-shaped one-story section attached to one side having the same setback as the larger section. The two-story section measures 28 feet by 80 feet. The single story section forms an L shape, 34 feet wide by 48 feet deep. An additional rectangular one-story extension was once behind the two-story portion, but was demolished in about 1970.</p><br>
<p>The two-story section has a first-floor storefront with large windows set on low paneled bulkheads. A recessed, slant-sided entrance is located in the center of the front facade and a second diagonal entry at the corner. The second floor of the two-story section contains paired square-head one-over-one windows. The single story section contains three entries, one in the center and one at each end. A pair of palladian windows is spaced between the entrances.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building originally housed the company store on the first floor of the two-story section, with a rooming house upstairs. The one story part housed the company offices and a barber shop. One of the doors in the single-story section leads to a staircase to the upper floor of the two-story section.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Lafayette Historic District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Lafayette began in 1825 as a transportation center for the west central area of Indiana. Its development and growth reflects the changes in transportation over the intervening years. From its location along the Wabash River, it grew first with river travel then for a short while from the Wabash and Erie Canal. When the railroads arrived in the 1850s, the town began to grow, initially along the rail lines. The Downtown Lafayette Historic District reflects these early changes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lafayette was settled here, because of the nearness of the Wabash River. William Digby platted the town in 1825. The boundaries were the river on the west, Sixth Street on the east, with North Street and South Street creating the north and south edges. Development followed along with the advances in transportation.</p><br>
<p>The first period of expansion began with the construction of a log courthouse in 1829. The second period of expansion began in 1843 with the arrival of the Wabash and Erie Canal, connecting the county with Toledo and markets on the east coast. The courthouse was replaced with a brick building and Fifth Street was widened to create an open market.</p><br>
<p>Within a decade, the railroads arrive din town and the third period of expansion began. The Lafayette & Indianapolis Railroad was the first railroad to arrive in Lafayette in 1852. In 1853, the New Albany and Salem Railroad, later called the Monon Railroad that arrived, following Fifth Street. The following year, 1854, the Wabash Line cut across the southeast corner of the city, crossing Main Street at Eleventh.</p><br>
<p>The railroads spurred the growth of the town by expanding its markets. Commercial structures such as the Hatcher Building, 1865; the Milwaukee Block, 1866; the Perrin Building, 1877; and many other buildings along Main Street reflect this period of growth.</p><br>
<h2>Significant structures</h2><br>
<p>1860, River City Market, 102-112 North Third Street</p><br>
<p>1865, Hatcher Building, 10 North Third Street</p><br>
<p>1866, Milwaukee Block, 502-518 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1870/1914, Oppenheimer Building, 400 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1877, Perrin Building, 332 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1881-1884, Tippecanoe County Courthouse, Courthouse Square</p><br>
<p>1890, Hirsh Brothers Building, 427 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1892/1913, Murdock Building, 226 North Sixth Street</p><br>
<p>1907 Heiremans Building, 219 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1910, O’Farrell Building, 408-414 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1910, Sharp Block, 516 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1912, Robertson Building, 336-340 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1915, Fowler Hotel, 407 Ferry Street</p><br>
<p>1917/1918, First Merchants National Bank, 216 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1918, Lafayette Life Building, 200-206 Main Street</p><br>
<p>1926, Lafayette National Bank, 337 Columbia Street</p><br>
<p>1931, USA Post Office Building, 301 Ferry Street</p><br>
<p>Adjacent to, but not within the district</p><br>
<p>1902, Big Four Depot,</p><br>
<p>The Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District is a 75 acre historic district that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is roughly bounded by S. Canal St., Broadway, and the Mississippi River.</p><br>
<p>The "Under-the-Hill" area once contained all of Natchez, i.e. about 20 buildings at the time of the USA revolutionary war. Gradually houses were built on the bluffs above, an "Upper Town" emerged, and eventually the center of Natchez shifted.</p><br>
<p>The districts primary historic assets are the Natchez landing site ("Under the Hill") and, on the bluff above, a city park area which includes the site of the second French Fort Rosalie, built during 1730-34. The landing site area was where the Natchez Trace began. The area was frequented by gamblers, river pirates, highwaymen, and prostitutes and was described, in 1810, as a place such that "...for the size of it, there is not, perhaps in the world, a more dissipated spot." The fort was renamed Fort Panmure by the British after they took possession following the 1756-1763 Seven Years War, then later fell into ruin. In 1971, the district area included six "dilapidated" brick buildings on Silver Street of uncertain age.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Rosalie portion of the district is included in the Natchez National Historical Park.</p><br>
<p>A map delineating the district appears on page 15 in its NRHP nomination document.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Historic District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. In 1864, St. Mary’s Catholic Church relocated from its original site at Fifth and Brown Streets to Columbia Street. With the move, many of the congregation also moved to this area. The Church became both a religious and social center for the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Many of the homes date from the 1860s and 1870s and include fine examples of the Italianate, Greek Revival and Queen Anne styles as well as vernacular house types. Most of the people who built in this area were Lafayette businessmen. At 1202 Columbia Street James Ball, a local wholesale grocer left his name stamped into the front steps. Across the street is the James H. Ward House, who along with his brother, William, owned a local carpet and wallpaper business.</p><br>
<p>James Murdock House moved onto Columbia Street in approximately 1891 after he left Michigan City, where he had been the warden of the state prison He was the operator of a grocery and produce business and in bridge and road construction. The home was sold to Ferdinand Dryfus who, with his brother Leopold, ran the Dryfus Packing and Provision Company.</p><br>
<p>All structures are historically ‘Notable’ or ‘Outstanding’ examples within the Historic District. An ‘O’ rating signifies that the structure had enough historic or architectural significance to be considered for individual listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The ‘N’ rating signifies that the structure is above average and may, with further investigation be eligible for an individual listing. The contributing structures meet the basic inventory qualifications, but fails to meet individual merit, but in combination with other closely placed similar structures warrants inclusion in an historic district.</p><br>
<h2>Significant Structures</h2><br>
<p>Columbia Street</p><br>
<p>1104 - Dr. George Beasley House, Colonial Revival, 1902 (O)</p><br>
<p>1116 - James H. Ward House, Italianate, 1860 (O) NR</p><br>
<p>1207 - Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Gothic Revival, 1864, (O)</p><br>
<p>1211 – Joseph Shearn House; Italianate, c. 1870 (N)</p><br>
<p>1214 - James Ball House, Gable-front/Greek Revival/Italianate, 1862 (O)</p><br>
<p>1307 - James Murdock House, Queen Anne, c. 1890 (N)</p><br>
<p>1304 - Robert Davidson House, American four-square, c. 1910 (N)</p><br>
<p>1311 – Laura and Philomene Wabner House; Colonial Revival, c. 1895 (N)</p><br>
<p>1318 - Francis Duffy House; Italianate,1868 (O)</p><br>
<p>1321 – House; Queen Anne, c. 1890 (N)</p><br>
<p>1402 – House; Italianate, c 1880 (N)</p><br>
<p>1413 – House, Italianate, c.1870 (N)</p><br>
<p>1417 – House, Italianate, c.1870 (N)</p><br>
<p>Main Street</p><br>
<p>1501 – House; Gable-front, c. 1880 (N)</p><br>
<p>Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Indiana.jpgCathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Gothic Revival, 1864, (O)</p><br>
<p>James H. Ward House.jpgJames Ball House, Gable-front/Greek Revival/Italianate, 1862 (O)</p><br>
<p>The Clifton Heights Historic District is a 26 acre historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It then included 41 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood started as a subdivision, one of the first in Natchez, in 1888 by the Clifton Heights Improvement Corporation. Its historic buildings were built mostly during 1888-1910 in Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles of architecture. It includes all three known Natchez examples of Shingle Style article, at 217 and 219 and 310 Linton Avenue, and also the only known Tudor architecture in Natchez. Other architecture also appears.</p><br>
<p>The district was deemed significant as "the most architecturally and historically significant collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century residences in Natchez."</p><br>
<p>Sengar River is a tributary of the river Yamuna in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>Sengar originates near Adhawan lake in Aligarh district and drains Etawah, Mainpuri and Kanpur districts before it confluences with the Yamuna between Kalpi and Hamirpur. It has a total length of 304 km (190 miles). The Sengar flows parallel to the Yamuna in Etawah district and is joined by the Sirsa river near Amritpur. It forms a doab with the Rind in Kanpur district. Much of the Sengars basin in Etawah and Kanpur districts is under red loamy soil. The 1878 settlement report for Kanpur district also notes that the river is fringed by a series of ravines that had impacted adversely the fertility of the soil in the rivers vicinity.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Sengar - originally called Basind - is said to have been named after the Sengar Rajputs after they captured most of Etawah following the fall of Kannauj in the medieval period.</p><br>
<h2>Ecological issues</h2><br>
<p>Rapid urbanisation and industrialisation and the discharge of domestic and industrial effluents into the river has caused severe pollution in the river.</p><br>
<p>Starting point:Ranuah</p><br>
<p>End point: in Yamuna keotra Katari Uttar Pradesh</p><br>
<p>The Parson Smith Tree is a historic tree in the Okanogan National Forest in Okanogan County, Washington, located 19 ft south of the Canada–US border. In 1886, prospector and trapper Alfred L.  Smith passed the tree during a trek through the wilderness. Smith stopped to carve the following poem into the tree:</p><br>
<p>I have roamed in foreign parts my boys,</p><br>
<p>And many lands have seen,</p><br>
<p>But Columbia is my idol yet</p><br>
<p>Of all lands, she is Queen.</p><br>
<p>As the tree was located in a remote area away from existing trails, the poem went unnoticed until 1902 or 1903, when surveyor John Bell noticed the tree during his work. The tree came to the attention of the USA Forest Service when a ranger saw the tree in 1913. The Forest Service built a shelter over the tree in 1913 in order to preserve it. The tree, which has since died, is now marked by a sign and accessible via a hiking trail.</p><br>
<p>The tree was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Upriver Residential District is a 145 acre historic district in Natchez, Mississippi that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It includes Colonial Revival, Late Victorian, Queen Anne, and other architecture, and has significance dating to 1790. It includes 389 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Its border was defined, on the south and west, by the borders of the already-NRHP-listed Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District (essentially Monroe Street) and the Downriver Residential Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It includes the John Dicks House, which is believed to be the only work of McKim, Mead, and White in Mississippi and "one of the most outstanding Colonial Revival buildings in the state."</p><br>
<p>Dibang River is a tributary river of the Brahmaputra that flows through the northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Dibang originates near Keya pass on the Indo-Chinese border in the Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh. The drainage basin of the river within Arunachal Pradesh covers the districts of Dibang Valley and Lower Dibang Valley. The Mishmi Hills lie in the upper course of the Dibang which enters the plains at Nizamghat. Between Nizamghat and Sadiya the Dibang has a steep river gradient and exhibits braided channel morphology with its width varying from 4 to 9 km. It often changes its course resulting in flooding and destruction of cultivable land and forests along its banks. The Dibang, with a total length of 195 km, enters the River Lohit north of the Dibru-Saikhowa sanctuary near the Assamese town of Sadiya.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>The Mathun, Tangon, Dri, Ithun and Emra are the major tributaries of the Dibang. The Dibang is also joined by a number of tributaries such as the Airi Pani, Ilu Pani, Imu Pani, Ahi, Ashupani, Epipani and Deopani rivers during its course. Most of these rivers join it in the upper course in the hills thus giving it a wide fan shaped catchment region.</p><br>
<h2>Hydro projects</h2><br>
<p>In 2008 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for a 3000 MW dam as part of the Dibang Multipurpose Project the district of Lower Dibang Valley. Seventeen other dams with power potential between 20 and 4500 MW have also been proposed for the Dibang. The proposed Dibang dam, at 288 m, on completion would be among the largest dams in India and among the world&#39;s tallest gravity dams has since run into opposition from the Mishmi people and the Assamese who live downstream of the project.</p><br>
<p>The former Fremont High School is a former school building located at 204 East Main Street in Fremont, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Fremont school system was established in the 1850s with the construction of a plank school in the center of town. This soon proved inadequate, and another school was established between Fremont and nearby Elm Corners in 1865. In 1876, Fremont built a brick school at the site of the present structure, and enlarged it in 1888. This structure was soon dedicated to the high school classes, with the primary school moved to a different location.</p><br>
<p>At the start of the 20th century, the school faced serious overcrowding, and an annex was added in 1909. Still, by 1925, the increase in students and the deterioration of the high school building led the school district to approve a bond measure in late 1925. The bond issue raised $200,000, and the district hired Lansing architect Judson N. Churchill, who specialized in educational buildings, to design a new high school. Construction began in 1926, and students moved into the new facilities in February 1927. The new school incorporated the 1909 addition from the earlier building; the remainder of the earlier building was demolished.</p><br>
<p>An addition housing the manual arts classes and a bus garage was constructed in 1946, and a second addition for the shop and music facilities was constructed in 1955. In 1961, a new athletic facility, not connected to the 1926 high school, was constructed one block south. The school district hired the Lansing firm of Warren S. Holmes Company to design the building. In 1984, the old 1909 addition was demolished; in 1988 the original courtyard was filled in with a new structure, and the 1961 athletic facility was connected to the 1926 building.</p><br>
<p>By 2009, the district had decided that a new school was necessary. They began work on a new high school building to the south of town, and students moved to that facility in fall of 2012. As of 2013, the previous high school building was vacant,</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The former Fremont High School consists of three distinct sections. The first is the original two-story yellow and tan brick Arts and Crafts-inspired 1926 school building. The second is the one- and two- story red brick 1961 International Style gymnasium. The third is the one- and two- story red and tan brick 1988 connector between the two earlier buildings.</p><br>
<h3>1926 building</h3><br>
<p>The 1926 high school building is a two-story rectangular structure built of yellow and tan brick with limestone and decorative brick detailing and a flat roof. The building is Arts and Crafts-inspired with Classical Revival features. The main north façade has a projecting central portion flanked by two entry towers; a third tower is on the west side. The windows are separated by brick pilasters; the original nine-over-nine double-hung wooden windows have been replaced with one-over-one aluminum double hung windows. The original building courtyard has been built in; the original gymnasium was renovated in 1961 to add classrooms to both floors.</p><br>
<h3>1961 building</h3><br>
<p>The 1961 gymnasium/natatorium building is a low red brick International Style building with a long flat roof. The gymnasium and natatorium are both two stories in height, while the remaining portions of the building are one story. The building generally lacks exterior ornamentation, save for brick pilasters lining the gymnasium wall.</p><br>
<h3>1988 building</h3><br>
<p>The 1988 portion of the building links the rear of the 1927 building to the rear of the 1961 building. It is constructed of tan and red brick, intended to harmonize with the earlier portions of the school. It has a flat roof and a covered entryway, and paired tall, narrow aluminum and glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The Woodlawn Historic District in Natchez, Mississippi is a 97 acre historic district that was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The listing included 360 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn was an estate owned by the Beaumont family that was subdivided in 1867 into building lots which were sold to African-Americans. This original area is bounded by what is now Bishop St., N. Union, Martin Luther King St., and Woodlawn St. The district is significant for associations with African-American history, community planning and development, and also for its architecture. It includes the location of Natchez College, founded in 1885, and the Prince Street School, built in 1913.</p><br>
<p>Noted author Richard Wright grew up partly at the home of his grandparents Richard and Margaret Wilson, at 20 Woodlawn Avenue, in the district, and he later drew upon his childhood memories of there in his writing.</p><br>
<p>The district includes vernacular architecture with Italianate, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, and other architectural style elements.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Family Catholic Church Historic District, in Natchez, Mississippi, is a 9.2 acre historic district that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places  in 1995. The district is small, relative to other historic districts in Natchez such as the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District which is adjacent, on the west. Its most significant building is the Holy Family Church, the first African-American Catholic church in the state; dedicated in 1894, it is Natchez&#39;s best piece of Gothic Revival architecture. Most other buildings in the district are cottages in Queen Anne, Eastlake, Colonial Revival, bungalow, and American Craftsman architectural styles. The district as a whole is significant for its architecture and for its African-American historical associations.</p><br>
<p>The listing included 49 contributing buildings and one other contributing site. It includes Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne architecture.</p><br>
<p>The area is a historically black neighborhood, like the Woodlawn Historic District, also NRHP-listed, nearby. The district is a cluster of buildings near to the Holy Family Catholic Church, which is on St. Catherines St., which was originally the old Natchez Trace.</p><br>
<h2>Other city districts</h2><br>
<p>There are several other NRHP-listed historic districts in Natchez:</p><br>
<p>Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District, abutting the Holy Family HD on the west, and south of the Upriver HD</p><br>
<p>Upriver Residential District, adjacent to the Woodlawn HD, on the west</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn Historic District, another historically black neighborhood historic district (HD)</p><br>
<p>Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District, on river side of On-Top-of-the-Hill HD</p><br>
<p>Downriver Residential Historic District, further south below the On-Top-of-the-Hill HD</p><br>
<p>Clifton Heights Historic District, on the river side of the Upriver HD</p><br>
<p>Cemetery Bluff District</p><br>
