<p>Oaklyn Plantation is a historic plantation and national historic district located near Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 40 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and contributing object. It was one of the major plantation establishments of the county and as the seat of the Williamson family for more than 200 years.</p><br>
<p>The property contains a 19th-century Federal-style plantation house (c. 1830s) with early 20th-century alterations, an avenue of oaks, and a flower garden; related domestic service buildings, including a brick kitchen, smokehouse, privy, garage, and servants’ house; various 19th-century and early-20th century agricultural buildings including tobacco curing barns, tobacco packhouses, livestock barns, vehicle and equipment sheds, an engine-powered grist mill, a sawmill, a planer, a 19th-century cotton gin, and a drive through barn and scales for mixing guano; 19th- and early 20th-century tenant houses; the remains of a 19th-century canal, a marl pit (min), charcoal making pits, underground drainage lines, open water wells, and a narrow gauge road (tram road); a 19th-century pecan grove and grape arbor; and agricultural fields and pastures.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Historic District is a national historic district located at Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 55 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a mixed residential section of Darlington. The focal point of the district is St. John’s School complex and campus, the Academy Green. The properties in the district are located in approximately five block area of oak lined streets. Approximately 75 percent of the buildings were constructed prior to 1925. Most of them were built between 1880 and 1925 during a period of unprecedented agricultural prosperity and reflect the architectural characteristics of that era, including Queen Anne, Neo-Classical, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow. Notable buildings include Central Baptist Church, Darlington County Library, St. Johns</p><br>
<p>High School, St. John&#39;s Elementary School, Open-Air Theatre, Haynesworth House, L. S. Welling House, and Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>West Broad Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 36 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Darlington. They were constructed between about 1890 and 1928. Most of the residences are grand in scale and reflect the prosperity of the individuals who built them. Several of the houses were owned by some of Darlington’s most prominent citizens. Most of the residences are large, two-story frame Victorian or Queen Anne structures with decorative woodwork. The dwellings are set on deep lots that are planted with large trees and shrubs. A number of these large residences are similar in appearance and were built by master carpenter Lawrence Reese. Also included in the district are 13 modest, one-story frame houses with a few decorative features, as well as two imposing brick bungalows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>East Home Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 52 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a primarily residential section of Hartsville. They were constructed between about 1890 to about 1938, and is associated with the leading figures of the town’s history. Home Avenue has historically been the major residential street in Hartsville since it was laid out and landscaped in 1890. Architectural styles and influences include Renaissance Revival, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, American Craftsman, and Bungalow. Notable non-residential buildings include the First Baptist Church, Thornwell Elementary School, and Hartsville Public School. Located in the district is the separately listed John L. Hart House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Edmund H. Deas House is a historic house located at 229 Avenue E in Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built about 1890, and is a one-story, frame Eastlake Movement-influenced vernacular cottage. It has shiplap siding and a hip and gable roof with bracketed cornices and pedimented gables. It also has projecting polygonal bays with a single window in each face. It was the home of African-American politician Edmund H. Deas, who served as county chairman of the Republican Party in 1884 and 1888. He was also a South Carolina delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1888, 1896, 1900, and 1908.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Fullerton Dam is a ruined dam located 7 mi northwest of Olustee, in Jackson County, Oklahoma. Farmer William J. Fullerton built the dam across Turkey Creek in the mid-1890s to irrigate the vegetable crops on his 1,500 acre farm. As western Oklahoma was a dry region, farmers depended on a regular water supply to produce crops, making Fullerton&#39;s dam an important innovation. The dam was the first gravity flow dam built by a European settler in western Oklahoma, and Fullerton became a successful regional farmer due to his effective irrigation system. It is even more notable because Fullerton designed the system himself using a homemade transit, and the system was built using unskilled manual labor and mules.</p><br>
<p>The main irrigation channel was built of limestone blocks and was up to 50 feet wide and up to 20 feet deep. The channel ran 3 miles to the east and 2 miles th the south.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the reservoir which the dam created became a popular local attraction. However, Fullerton&#39;s farm began to fail around 1905 because of falling produce prices and increasing production expenses. Several land developers offered to buy him out but he refused the offers. He had to borrow a large amount of money to stay in business, and was heavily in debt when he died in 1916. His whole operation was sold to satisfy creditors.The dam broke permanently during a 1919 flood. The stone ruins remain at the site of the dam and are generally in the same condition as they were following the flood.</p><br>
<p>The site of the dam was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Note</h2><br>
<p>The Fisheries Agency  is the agency of the Council of Agriculture of the Taiwan  responsible for all matters relating to fisheries.</p><br>
<h2>Organizational structure</h2><br>
<p>* Planning Division</p><br>
<p>* Fisheries Regulation Division</p><br>
<p>* Deep Sea Fisheries Division</p><br>
<p>* Aquaculture Fisheries Division</p><br>
<p>* Deep Sea Fishery Research and Development Center</p><br>
<p>* Personnel Office</p><br>
<p>* Accounting Office</p><br>
<p>* Secretariat Office</p><br>
<p>* Civil Service Ethics Office</p><br>
<p>* Fishery Radio Station</p><br>
<h2>List of Directors</h2><br>
<p>* James Sha (24 June 2008 - 30 December 2014)</p><br>
<p>* Tsay Tzu-yaw (31 December 2014 -)</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The agency headquarter office is accessible within walking distance south west from Caoya Station of Kaohsiung MRT, and its Taipei office is accessible within walking distance south east from Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Station of Taipei Metro.</p><br>
<p>Tenmile Creek is a tributary stream of Little Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The headwaters of the stream originate in Thompsons Corner area of the county, about 2 mi northwest of Clarksburg, and the creek flows south for about 2.5 mi, to Little Seneca Lake, a reservoir built on Little Seneca Creek. Little Seneca Creek drains to the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay.</p><br>
<h2>Water quality and land use issue</h2><br>
<p>The Tenmile Creek watershed is described as one of the highest quality stream systems in Montgomery County, according to government studies. It is a drinking water source as part of the Little Seneca system, an emergency water supply for the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. The creek main stem is extensively forested and the watershed contains some agricultural land. However, the basin is bisected by an interstate highway, I-270, and additional land development is planned for the Clarksburg area.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 the county government had designated a portion of the watershed as a "special protection area" (SPA) to protect water quality by requiring builders to install extensive controls for stormwater runoff. A follow-up study found that after construction of several projects, water quality in the Little Seneca basin was degraded, despite the SPA requirements. In April 2014, the Montgomery County Council set additional limits on development projects in order to protect the quality of the creek and adjacent habitat. Later that year, developers filed suit against the county, claiming that the county "illegally limited construction on its property." The suit (Pulte Home Corp. v. Montgomery County, Maryland) is pending as of mid-2017.</p><br>
<p>The Soil and Water Conservation Bureau  is the agency of the Council of Agriculture of the Taiwan  with the main tasks of soil and water conservation, watershed management and erosion control.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>SWCB was originally established as the China Rural Reviving United Committee in 1952. In 1961, it became the Mountain Agricultural Resources Development Bureau and in 1989 it was restructured to become the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau.</p><br>
<h2>Organizational structure</h2><br>
<h3>Operation units</h3><br>
<p>* Planning Division</p><br>
<p>* Watershed Conservation and Management Division</p><br>
<p>* Rural Development Division</p><br>
<p>* Monitoring and Management Division</p><br>
<p>* Debris Flow Disaster Prevention Center</p><br>
<h3>Administrative units</h3><br>
<p>* Secretariat Office</p><br>
<p>* Personnel Office</p><br>
<p>* Accounting Office</p><br>
<p>* Civil Service Ethics Office</p><br>
<h2>Branch offices</h2><br>
<p>* Taipei City</p><br>
<p>* Taichung City</p><br>
<p>* Nantou County</p><br>
<p>* Tainan City</p><br>
<p>* Taitung County</p><br>
<p>* Hualien County</p><br>
<h2>List of Director-Generals</h2><br>
<p>* Lee Chen-Yang (15 January 2015 - )</p><br>
<p>* Huang Ming-Yao (30 May 2010 - 15 January 2015)</p><br>
<p>* Wu Huei-Long (2 May 2001 - 30 May 2010)</p><br>
<p>* Chen Chih-ching (16 July 1996 - 2 May 2001)</p><br>
<p>The Cross S Ranch Headquarters is a historic building located in farmland 5 mi south of Olustee, Oklahoma. The two-story stone building served as the headquarters of the Cross S Ranch, a cattle ranch founded in 1891. As a major cattle trail passed through the area, the ranch took advantage of the open land to raise free-range cattle. By 1902, the ranch had decreased in size due to homesteaders and raised horses rather than cattle. The ranch eventually became a wheat farm, reflecting a broader shift in Jackson County agricultural production. A larger wheat farm purchased the ranch in the 1970s, and the headquarters building is all that remains of the original property.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Holland Apartments is a historic apartment complex located at 324-326 N. Vermilion St. in Danville, Illinois. The building was constructed in two sections; the northern half was built in 1906, while the southern half was completed in 1927. Both sections of the building are designed in the Dutch Revival style; architect Charles M. Lewis developed the original design in 1906. The front and side facades each feature multiple stepped gables; the front-facing gables are flanked by dormers. The first floor, which originally housed four stores and a restaurant, features arched entrances, a brick parapet, and extensive corbelling. The Dutch Revival style is rare in the Midwest, and the building is the only Dutch Revival structure in the Danville or Champaign areas.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Polegreen Church, also known as the Hanover Meeting House , is the site of what may be the first non-Anglican church in Virginia. It was named after a 17th-century landowner, George Polegreen.</p><br>
<p>After Rev. George Whitefield preached at Bruton Parish Church at Williamsburg during the First Great Awakening, and his sermons were published, local mason Samuel Morris built a reading room or log cabin near Mechanicsville in rural Hanover County. In 1743, Virginia&#39;s colonial assembly permitted religious dissenters four meeting houses: three in Hanover County (including this one) and one in Henrico County (which were sometimes called "Morris churches".</p><br>
<p>Pennsylvania Presbyterian missionary Samuel Davies, one of the first non-Anglican ministers licensed in Virginia, evangelized in Hanover County and used this as his base from 1743 to 1759. Patrick Henry attended services here with his mother, and credited Davies for his oratorical skills. In 1755, Davies helped organize what came to be known as the Hanover Presbytery, encompassing all Presbyterian ministers in Virginia and North Carolina. He also became known for writing hymns, and for educating slaves (unlike Methodist and Baptist evangelists).</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, battle lines formed on opposite sides of Totopotomoy creek during the 1864 Overland Campaign as the Union army advanced on Richmond. Polegreen Church stood between them. A Confederate artillery shell fired to dislodge Union sharpshooters by a man whose father had been baptized at Polegreen hit the wooden building, which burned to the ground. The congregation could not afford to rebuild it.</p><br>
<p>An open-air design of steel beams painted white to show the historic structure&#39;s former dimensions has been erected at the site, along with a visitor center and signage concerning religious persecution and freedom in Western civilization. The site now hosts various lectures (including on religious freedom in Virginia), as well as weddings and other private functions. The Polegreen Church site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is open to the public free of charge.</p><br>
<p>The Canaan Street Historic District of Canaan, New Hampshire encompasses the original center of the town, running along Canaan Street roughly from Prospect Hill Street in the north to Moses Flower Lane in the south. The town was established by a land grant in 1761, but "Broad Street", its principal road, was not laid out until 1788. Because it was on a major north-south stagecoach route, the area developed in the first half of the 19th century as a trading center. The old town hall was built in the 1790s to serve as a church, and was joined by institutional buildings including the 1828 Greek Revival Old North Church and the 1839 Academy . Most of the residential houses in the district are Federal and Greek Revival in styling. The area declined in economic importance because it was bypassed by the railroad, but was developed as a summer resort community in the second half of the 19th century, rivaling Bethlehem.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Conestee Mill is a historic mill in the unincorporated community of Conestee, in Greenville County, South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological investigations indicate that Cherokee routinely used the area as a camp site during the colonial period. In 1794, a 200-acre parcel of land on both sides of the Reedy River, including the land occupied by the Conestee Mill and dam, was deeded to one Andrew Nelson. Grist mills and saw mills operated on the site as early as the 1790s. In 1800, Adam Carruth and Lemuel Alston purchased nearby land where Carruth manufactured muskets for the states of South Carolina and Georgia and briefly for the USA government; but the factory went bankrupt before 1824.</p><br>
<p>In 1799, Andrew Nelson sold the downstream 100 acres of his 200-acre parcel that included a “mill seat and yard” on the south side of the river. By 1820, a small community had grown up around the mills. Before 1833, the existing mill buildings and machinery, were sold to Vardry McBee, the "Father of Greenville." As "McBee Factory," its mills produced both paper and woolen and cotton textiles. There were about fifty employees of the cotton factory, paper mill, gristmill, and sawmill, supporting a community of about 150 people. After 1875, the mill was known as the Reedy River Factory until being rechartered as Conestee Mills in 1909. In the 1890s the existing mill building was constructed; and about 1892, the rock dam was raised to its present height, creating a lake of 130 acre.</p><br>
<p>In the twentieth century the City of Greenville and twelve mills and mill villages upstream from Conestee discharged their sewage and industrial wastes into the Reedy River and therefore into Conestee Lake. The pollutants produced foul odors and so depleted the oxygen content of the lake that it became unfit for any use other than generating power.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, Conestee Mills sued the City of Greenville for damages, and although the mill eventually failed because of the protracted litigation and the Great Depression, a South Carolina Supreme Court decision of 1931 "was an early landmark in the fight to clean South Carolina&#39;s rivers." The mill closed in 1939, reopened under new ownership in 1946, then closed for a final time in 1971. The buildings were thereafter used as a distribution center and for storage.</p><br>
<p>Years of upstream industrial waste and discharge filled about 90 percent of the lake with sediment so toxic that the lake was classified as a Superfund site. In 2000 the Conestee Foundation, a 501(c)(3) conservation organization, was formed to lead the revitalization of the lake as a wetlands through the development of the nature park; and the foundation used settlement funds from a June 1996 Colonial Pipeline spill to purchase the lake and the dam. Once safety studies of the brownfield were complete, it was determined that no harm would result if the toxic sediment and dam were left in place, though in December 2016, inspectors from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control determined Conestee Dam, which is not keyed into the bedrock, to be in poor condition due to deterioration of mortar and water seepage.</p><br>
<p>On March 2, 2014, the mill, as well as its dam and the residual lake, were included on the National Register of Historic Places, and the property is currently a nature park and wildlife sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Oak Creek Descent Ruts of the Woodbury Cutoff, Ox Bow Trail of the California Road are remnants of the Ox Bow Trail located in southeastern Butler County, Nebraska, United States. They are one of the few trail remnants left of the Ox Bow Trail, which originated at Nebraska City, Nebraska and connected to the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail. In 1992, they were listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>During the early 1840s, early American pioneers began migrating west to places such in Oregon, California, and Utah, which would later become states of the United States. They followed the Oregon and Mormon trails, which followed on either side of the Platte river in what is now modern day Nebraska. The Oregon Trail ran along the south side of the Platte and the Mormon Trail ran along the North side.</p><br>
<p>Both the Oregon and Mormon trails had multiple starting points along the Missouri River. The major starting points included Independence, St. Joseph, Nebraska City, and Council Bluffs-Omaha. From each of these locations (and others) there were multiple routes to the main Oregon and Mormon trails.</p><br>
<p>As American pioneers increasingly began moving west in the 1840s, the US army began searching for sites to build forts for protection of the pioneers. Lt. Daniel Phineas Woodbury was charged with finding new locations for forts along the Platte river. He found and supervised the building of Fort Kearney and he established one of several alternate trails from Nebraska City to Fort Kearney. The route that he discovered in 1847 would come to be known as the Woodbury cutoff or Woodbury trail. The Upper Oak Creek Descent Ruts are along the Woodbury Trail in Butler county, Nebraska.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The ruts were created from 1847 to 1860 by the wagon wheels of the wagons pioneers used to move westward. The segment of preserved ruts is approximately.25 mi in length running through unploughed prairie. This segment of ruts is one of the few remaining remnants of the Woodbuy Cutoff due to extensive agriculture in eastern Nebraska where the trail once ran. The ruts are approximately 20 ft wide at their eastern edge and run southwest along a ridge for about.125 mi at which point the trail curves to the west. As the trail turns west, it descends 110 ft to Oak Creek. As of 1992, the total length of the remaining wagon wheel ruts was 2,315 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Adams Building  is a five-story office building located at 139-141 N. Vermilion St. in Danville, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Developer William Bridgett had the building constructed in 1905. The first floor of the building is built with stone, while the upper floors are built from brick; the fifth story, a 1928 addition, matches the lower floors in design. Three Doric columns on the first floor separate the buildings four bays, and Doric pilasters flank the first floor. The first floor is topped by a Doric entablature, which is separated into a frieze and cornice. On the upper stories, brick piers divide the four bays. The buildings original architrave, a remnant from the building&#39;s expansion, separates the fourth and fifth stories. A decorative stone section above the fifth floor is topped by a parapet wall.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Dale Building is a historic commercial office building located at 101-103 North Vermilion Street in Danville, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>While the building was constructed in 1873 as the Vermilion Opera House, it did not take its present form until 1914, when owner John Dale rebuilt it after it suffered severe fire damage. The reconstructed building was designed in the Commercial style, which was popular in Midwestern cities during the period. The three-story brick building uses stone for its ornamentation, providing contrast with the darker brick. The second and third floors of the front facade, as well as the attic windows, are surrounded by a stone border. Brick piers separate the four bays within the surround; arrow-shaped decorations top the piers. The building&#39;s name plate, located at the top of the surround, features a reeded torus molding and guttae along its bottom. A gabled parapet at the top of the front elevation hides the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2000.</p><br>
<p>Lake Stubbe  is a nature conservation area, and a former fjord, which in the Stone Age entered the sea, Kattegat, at the entrance to the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe. The lake is the largest lake in Djursland and is located about 6 km north of Ebeltoft.</p><br>
<p>150 years ago the lake was surrounded by moor land as the original oak forest had been depleted due to human intervention. To prevent sand drift the area was afforested, and 62 square kilometers of forest surrounds the lake today, consisting primarily of Norwegian fir and spruce, with some alder in low-lying areas.</p><br>
<p>Otters, which are rare in Denmark, live by the lake, just as the lake is a resting and foraging grounds for migrating birds to and from the rest of Scandinavia. Several large species of birds of prey can be seen by the lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1963 Lake Stubbe and adjacent woodland (381 ha) was reserved as protected in order preserve the landscape. Lake Stubbe is also an EU-habitat area, just as the area is part of Mols Bjerge National Park established in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Public access to the lake is hampered by a wall of reed surrounding most of the lake. There is a 2 km unpaved public road close to the southern shore through woodland. This road is a suitable starting point for walks including mushroom picking in the woods in late summer and autumn. On the North-eastern shore of Lake Stubbe the Danish Ornithological Society has built a public bird watching tower, that can be reached by foot via a former railroad track passing the lakes eastern side leading to the town of Ebeltoft 5 km south of the lake. The Society also owns a bird sanctuary on the north side of the lake. Here public access is possible by foot to a part of the lake where there are openings in the reed belt along the shore.</p><br>
<h2>Biomanipulation</h2><br>
<p>Streams leading to the lake are spawning grounds for sea trout. Lake fishlife includes perch, pike, bream, roach and walleye.</p><br>
<p>Around year 2000 a seemingly failed state-initiated biomanipulation project was carried out, in an attempt to make the lake water clearer. In summer Lake Stubbe can be green with algae. Part of the project was to fish up in the order of 1000 tons of roach and bream with nets, as these fish eat daphnia and copepods, small crustaceans, that devour the algae that make the water green. The idea was, that with less algae, the water would become clearer. Algae blossom is an indication of nutrient rich water. A large number of pike fry was also released, as pike eat bream and roach. Ditches with nutrient rich water from a summer cottage area north of the lake was also cut off.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 + 10 years after the biomanipulation effort, the lake still becomes green with algae in summer, indicating the attempt was in vain. The tipping balance between a clear lake type and a murky green lake type can be part of a natural cycle in lakes over years, alternating between the two separate biological states. A biologist has suggested that a missing factor might have been to raise the level of the lake in spring by some decimeters, thus flooding low-lying land, in order to increase the amount of suitable breeding grounds for pike, that eat bream and roach. This would have involved flooding privately owned land.</p><br>
<p>Laurel Meadow is an historic house at 1640 Bramwell Road in Richmond, Virginia. The oldest portion of this wood frame house was built prior to 1776, when the property was acquired by David Patteson. Patteson, who had been a steward of the Westover Plantation of William Byrd III, was an officer in the Revolutionary War, a Colonel in the Virginia Militia, a member of the House of Delegates, and represented Chesterfield County at the Virginia Constitutional Ratification Convention of 1788. He voted to ratify the Constitution. The building has three portions, forming an L shape. The oldest portion is the Northwest wing, which is 1.5 stories and now houses a library and stair hall below and a sitting room above, which was probably at first a bedroom. A dining room and upper bedchamber were believed to have been added by Patteson. A third wing including a lower passage and parlor below and an upper passage and bedchamber above, was added to the Northeast section early in the 19th century, and the building was significantly restyled, giving it a Federal interior. The house is one of only a small number of colonial-era houses in the Richmond area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Springhill Historic District is a national historic district encompassing an early-20th century residential neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. The neighborhood is located on the south side of the James River, just west of Cowardin Avenue and north of Semmes Avenue. It is roughly bounded on the north by Riverside Drive and on the west by Canoe Run Park. Although there was some residential development in this area earlier in the 19th century , and the area was platted out as early as the 1870s, most construction took place in this area during the 1920s, and is in Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. The district also includes remnants of a 19th-century water supply system, the remains of the Manchester Waterworks, an underground aqueduct, and the remains of a water-control tower.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Central Square Historic District of Bristol, New Hampshire, encompasses the central commercial district of the town. The square is a four-sided space near the junction of six roadways in the center of Bristol, just north of the Newfound River and west of the Pemigewasset River. The district includes all of the buildings that are arrayed around the square, as well as one contemporary commercial building located just south of the Newfound River on South Main Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The center of Bristol began to take shape in the 1760s with the arrival of the first non-Native settlers. A road was cut along the Pemigewasset River, which crossed the Newfound River near where South Main Street does today. A mill was built a little way to the east. By the 1790s a small town center had emerged, including two tavern buildings that still stand. A new road (now North Main Street) to Newfound Lake in 1805 further enhanced the area&#39;s importance as a transportation junction, shortly followed by what is now Pleasant Street in 1808. How the square itself formed is uncertain, since there are no formal town documents discussing the matter.</p><br>
<p>The center grew in the 19th century with the arrival of industrial mills and the railroad. Most of the municipal functions were located away from the square, which developed as a commercial business district. Early surviving instances of wood frame commercial construction include in the 1841 Bean-Tukey Block and the 1848 Cass Block. The west side of the square was subjected to destructive fires in 1861 and 1871, resulting in the construction of Victorian brick blocks on that side of the square. The square&#39;s basic structures today are, with only few exceptions, what they were in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Colburn Park Historic District encompasses the heart of Lebanon, New Hampshire. It consists of Colburn Park, a large rectangular park in the center of the city, the buildings that are arrayed around it, and several 19th century buildings that are immediately adjacent to those. The district covers 12 acre, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Colburn Park is located a short way south and east of the Mascoma River, whose generally east-west route is interrupted by a semicircular bend to the north, within which lies the center of Lebanon. The parks origin is in 1792, when the land was donated by Robert Colburn as the site of the communitys meeting house (church and town hall). Arterial roads were built to the area, and it began to develop as a commercial and civic center in the early 19th century. The Greek Revival First Congregational Church, designed by Ammi Burnham Young, was built in 1828, and a few early houses survive. The meeting house was moved in 1849 to the present location of City Hall.</p><br>
<p>Lebanons central business district was struck by devastating fire in 1887, in which more than 80 buildings were destroyed. This did not directly affect the area around the park, but Lebanons population continued to grow, and the business district expanded, resulting in the relocation of houses around the park, and the construction of a number of Victorian buildings around its perimeter. After the 1923 destruction by fire of the town hall, the area acquired a somewhat unified late-19th to early-20th century commercial and civic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jacksonville is a 442-acre reservoir located in Morgan County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located 4 miles southeast of Jacksonville, it provides drinking water and recreational opportunities to the central Illinois city. The reservoir drains into Big Sandy Creek, a tributary of the Illinois River.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lake Jacksonville is actively managed for camping, power boating, and fishing recreation. Proof of licenses and insurance are required to lower a boat into the lake. A drowned-coastline lake, Lake Jacksonville has approximately 21 miles of shoreline. It is 31 feet deep at its deepest point. The nearest exit on a limited-access highway is Exit 64 on Interstate 72, near South Jacksonville, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The Hruby Conservatory of Music is a historic building completed in 1917 and located on Broadway Avenue in the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, Ohio. It was designed by the architectural firm of Steffens & Steffens as a music school for Frank and Fred Hruby, of the locally renowned musical Hruby Family. The style is considered Late 19th and 20th century Renaissance Revival.</p><br>
<p>The two-story building housed the music school on the second floor. It had several studios for lessons and a formal concert recital hall. The first level was designed for retail stores. The school closed in 1968 after Frank and Fred retired from teaching.</p><br>
<p>In 1976 the building was purchased by Dr. Nicholas Demmy and his wife Olean Demmy. The Demmys had the building restored and arranged for the facility to become the Broadway Branch of the Cleveland Music School Settlement. The school re-opened on October 2, 1980.</p><br>
<p>In 1983 the school began operating as an independent non-profit called The Broadway School of Music and the Arts. Today the school continues to operate, however the building is owned by a private individual.</p><br>
<p>The Hruby Conservatory of Music was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. A. G. Anderson House is a historic house located at the junction of Duncan and Main Streets in Eudora, Arkansas.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a single-story vernacular T-shaped central hall cottage, built in 1901 for Dr. A. G. Anderson by hired African-American labor. The house has board-and-batten walls, and was constructed of cypress and pine. The roof, originally clad in wood shingles, was for many years covered in tin, but restoration work done in the 1990s returned the roof to wood shingling. The front facade has a full-width porch with a shed roof. The building is distinctive as an early wood frame house set in an area now filled with brick commercial construction.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 210-212 West North Street was an apartment building located at 210-212 West North Street in Danville, Illinois. The two-story Queen Anne building was built in 1902. The building&#39;s front facade had four hexagonal window bays and an entrance between each pair of bays. Each entrance had a classical porch with Doric columns and an entablature. The window bays had a set of three windows on each story; the windows featured voussoirs and large keystones, and a stone belt course ran above the windows on each story. The roof had a large central pavilion with two dormers and two side pavilions with one each; the dormers were aligned with the four window bays.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 2000. It was demolished circa 2006 but is still on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Carlton House is a historic house located at 434 South Lakeshore Drive in Lake Village, Arkansas.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two-story, Colonial Revival style house was designed by local architect Albert G. Simms and constructed in 1906. The central facade has a large central projection with a gabled roof. This section is fronted by a porch with a low pitch hip roof, which continues around the sides of the projection, and is supported by simple Colonial Revival columns. The projecting section&#39;s gable end hangs over a recessed second floor porch area that has a low railing, that also has a flush polygonal bay section that is continued on the first floor, where the main entrance is located. The house is one of a small number of surviving Colonial Revival houses from an era when Lake Village was developed as a resort area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Chicot County Training School is a historic school building at the corner of Hazel and North School Streets in Dermott, Arkansas. The single story H-shaped building was built in 1929 with funding support from the Rosenwald Fund, a major philanthropic effort to improve educational opportunities for African-Americans. It is similar to other schools of the period, with banks of windows providing plentiful light to its seven classrooms. Sometime in the 1940s an auditorium was added to the west side. The building was the second built for the training school with Rosenwald support; the first, a four-room building, was built in 1924 but has not survived.</p><br>
<p>The school building is significant as the only surviving Rosenwald-funded school in Chicot County. Its design was based on standard plans developed by Samuel Smith, an agent for the Rosenwald Fund who developed a plan book for various configurations of school buildings, to be used in the fund&#39;s work without necessating the need for an architect for each facility built. The design incorporated an "industrial" room, in which trades could be taught, and the building was sited according to Rosenwald recommendations for the best use of natural lighting. The building served as a public school facility until 1975, after which it was sold to Morris-Booker Memorial College, which was in 2004 using it as a Head Start facility.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Mount Diatuto is a mountain in East Timor, a country occupying the eastern end of the island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Wallacea.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Mount Diatuto, at an elevation of 1770 m, is the highest point in an area of steep hills and ridges on the central spine of the island in the Manatuto District, about 42 km south-east of the national capital, Dili. The mountain is covered by, and surrounded with, a 345 km forested area on ultrabasic rocks, formerly known in Indonesian as Hutan Querelau Lauberio. It is characterised by a somewhat stunted vegetation of what was originally semi-evergreen monsoon forest, now degraded and mainly confined to the higher ridges, with eucalypt woodland subject to grazing elsewhere.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of bar-necked cuckoo-doves, Timor green pigeons, pink-headed imperial pigeons, yellow-crested cockatoos, olive-headed lorikeets, Jonquil parrots, Timor friarbirds, flame-eared honeyeaters, plain gerygones, olive-brown orioles, Timor stubtails, Timor leaf warblers, spot-breasted heleias, chestnut-backed thrushes and orange-sided thrushes.</p><br>
<p>The Epic of American Civilization is a mural by the social realist painter José Clemente Orozco. It is located in the basement reading room of the Baker Memorial Library on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The mural, painted between 1932 and 1934, consists of a series of 24 fresco panels, whose principal themes are the impact of both indigenous Native Americans and European colonists on North America, and the impact of war  and rapid industrialization on the human spirit. The mural was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>The Coming and Departure of Quetzalcoatl</h2><br>
<p>The two themes of the mural are arranged in separate wings of the reading room. The west wing contains ten panels on the first theme, that of Native Americans.</p><br>
<p>This panel is located on the short western wall, to the left of the doors. It depicts the arrival of natives as a grim march, echoing the industrially-oriented panel at the far eastern end of the room.</p><br>
<p>Located over the western doors, this panel shows a rattlesnake flanked by spears. Its color palette suggests it was painted when Orozco worked on the eastern panels.</p><br>
<p>This panel, to the right of the western doors, depicts human sacrifice as practiced by ancient Mesoamericans, in which the living heart is removed from the sacrificial victim. The panel has an analog (as the first one does) on the opposite wall of the east wing.</p><br>
<p>This and the next four panels are on the north wall of the west wing. This one depicts Aztec warriors wearing eagle and jaguar costumes, and includes a representation of the head of the plumed serpent god Quetzalcoatl.</p><br>
<p>Quetzalcoatl is presented as a benevolent god in human form. He is shown granting the benefits of education and culture on his people, and driving off older gods.</p><br>
<p>The benefits of agriculture, arts, and science brought by Quetzalcoatl bring a golden age. A man works crops, another creates a stone stele, and a third studies the stars.</p><br>
<p>Adherents of the banished gods band together to drive Quetzalcoatl away. Sorcerers massed in front of a pyramidal temple oppose the departing god.</p><br>
<p>This small panel, located above a door, depicts Spanish conquistadors on horseback wielding a giant Christian cross as a weapon.</p><br>
<p>This pair of vertical panels are applied to poles in the western half of the room. They are caricatures of totem poles found in the Pacific Northwest.</p><br>
<h2>Cortez and the Modern Era</h2><br>
<p>These vertical panels depict modern industrial themes in a manner similar to a totem pole. They are applied to poles in the eastern half of the room.</p><br>
<p>This panel and the next four are located on the south wall of the eastern half of the room. Orozco depicts Hernán Cortés as a brutal anti-hero leading the 16th century Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, fulfilling the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl. Cortés stands surrounded by images of destruction, accompanied by a cross-bearing Franciscan monk.</p><br>
<p>This panel marks the transition to the 20th century, depicting a mass of machinery with no discernible function.</p><br>
<p>Orozco presents a visually mixed assessment of North American society. A schoolhouse and town meeting are shown, but an overbearing schoolteacher dominates the scene, and the town meeting is presented with rigidity.</p><br>
<p>A modern Mexican rebel, resembling Emilio Zapata, dominates a caricature of rich and militaristic society.</p><br>
<p>This panel savages the institutional churchs indifference to the social upheavals of the 1930s, with flames reminisicent of the scenes from this sections first panel.</p><br>
<p>This small panel is located above a door on the north wall of the east side. It depicts a junk pile of historical symbols of warfare and empire.</p><br>
<p>An analog to the "Ancient Human Sacrifice" panel on the west side, this panel shows the body of a soldier, wrapped in the trappings of patriotism, symbolizing the pointless sacrifice of the individual for the institution. This panel is to the left of the easternmost doors.</p><br>
<p>A depiction of Jesus, sweeps away old religious and political ideologies, discarding symbols of religion, culture, and the military. This panel is to the right of the easternmost doors.</p><br>
<p>This panel, located over doors on the south side of the eastern half, shows vultures wearing clerical collars. They hold keys to chains of bondage piled below them.</p><br>
<p>This is a series of five panels, centrally located by the reserve reading desk. It presents Orozco&#39;s vision for a possible new world (after the actions of Jesus in the "Modern Migration of the Spirit" panel) in which workers are free to benefit from their own labor, and the different cultures are able to coexist harmoniously.</p><br>
<p>Shutdown Mountain is a mountain located in Somerset County, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Shutdown Mountain lies within the watershed of the Kennebec River and has two peaks, Shutdown Peak and Bulldog Peak (elevation 2260 ft.), sometimes referred to as Bulldog Mountain. The northern and southern sides of Shutdown Mountain drain into Enchanted Stream, then into the Dead River, a tributary of the Kennebec River. The west side of Shutdown drains into Stony Brook, then into the Dead River. The east side drains into Enchanted Pond, then into Enchanted Stream and into the Dead River.</p><br>
<p>There is a marked hiking trail (called "Enchanted Lookout") to the top of Bulldog Peak which has a prominence of 817 ft. overlooking Enchanted. The trailhead is located at Bulldog Camps, a traditional Maine sporting camp on the north shore of Enchanted Pond.</p><br>
<p>The Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is the historic campus of a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Danville, Illinois. The branch, which opened in 1898, was one of eleven branches of the National Home, which formed in 1867 to treat Union soldiers disabled during the Civil War. USA Representative and Danville resident Joseph Gurney Cannon used his political influence to establish the Danville Branch, which brought money and jobs to the city. The campus served as both a medical facility and a planned community for the areas veterans, and it included housing, veteran-run shops, community halls, a school and library, and a chapel. Most of these buildings were designed in the Georgian Revival style; however, the library is a Classical Revival building, and the chapel has a Gothic Revival design. The campus also includes the Danville National Cemetery. The buildings remaining on the campus are presently divided between Danvilles Veterans Affairs hospital and the Danville Area Community College.</p><br>
<p>The campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Dual State Monument is a monument located on the border of Union County, Arkansas, and Union Parish, Louisiana. The monument was built in 1931 to mark the centennial of the establishment of the Arkansas-Louisiana state line. It also marks the birthplace of Arkansas governor George Washington Donaghey, who commissioned the monument after his retirement. The monument features Art Deco bas-relief carvings on its east and west sides. The east side features popular modes of transportation in 1831, including a steamboat, stagecoach, and covered wagon. The west side displays a locomotive, automobile, and airplane to represent the modes of transportation common in 1931. The monument was the first Art Deco-inspired sculpture erected in Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The United States Highway 61 Arch is an arch which crosses USA Route 61  at the Arkansas–Missouri state line, between Blytheville, Arkansas and Steele. The concrete horseshoe arch reads "Entering Arkansas" on one side and "Entering Missouri" on the other. The Mississippi County, Arkansas Road Improvement District built the arch in 1924 after paving the highway; it erected a similar arch over the highway at the Crittenden County line, but the other arch was removed in the 1950s. At the time, the highway was called the North–South Road, and it was already a major route between St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee; the next year, it was designated as part of US 61. The arch is the only archway over a USA Highway in Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The arch was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Rockville Bridge spans the east fork of the Virgin River in Rockville, Utah, United States. The bridge was built for the National Park Service in 1924 to provide a link between Zion National Park and the North Rim area of Grand Canyon National Park. The new bridge allowed motorists to take a circular tour of the national parks in southern Utah and northern Arizona. The Rockville route was superseded in 1928 by the construction of the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was designed by the USA Bureau of Public Roads for the Park Service, fabricated by the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, and erected by Ogden contractor C.F. Dinsmore. The bridge spans 217 ft in a single span, using a steel twelve-panel Parker through-truss.</p><br>
<p>The Rockville Bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Ruthin Gaol is a Pentonville style prison in Ruthin, Denbighshire. Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916 when the prisoners and guards were transferred to Shrewsbury. The County Council bought the buildings in 1926 and used part of them for offices, the county archives, and the town library. During the Second World War the prison buildings were used as a munitions factory, before being handed back to the County Council, when it was the headquarters of the Denbighshire Library Service. In 2004 the Gaol was extensively renovated and reopened as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first House of Correction, or Bridewell, was built at the bottom of Clwyd Street, next to the river, in 1654, to replace the Old Court House, where able-bodied idlers and the unemployed were sent to work. Following John Howards investigations into prison conditions the Denbighshire justices resolved to build a new model prison in Ruthin on the site of the old Bridewell. Work began in January 1775. In 1802 the prison had four cells for prisoners and nine rooms for debtors. By 1837 it could hold 37 inmates. The Prisons Act of 1865 set new standards for the design of prisons &mdash; as the Ruthin County Gaol did not meet the standards plans were drawn up for a new four-storey wing, and the new prison accommodating up to 100 prisoners, in the style of Londons Pentonville Prison was built at a cost of £12,000. On 1 April 1878 the Ruthin County Gaol became HM Prison Ruthin, covering the counties of Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Merionethshire. As far as is known, only one person was ever executed in the prison, William Hughes of Denbigh, aged 42, who was hanged on 17 February 1903 for the murder of his wife, his plea of insanity having failed. Another colourful prison personality was John Jones, known as Coch Bach y Bala &ndash; who was a kleptomaniac and poacher who had spent more than half his 60 years in all the prisons of north Wales and many in England; he twice escaped from Ruthin Gaol, first on 30 November 1879 when he walked out of prison with three others while the staff were having supper &mdash; a £5 reward was offered for his capture, which happened the following 3 January. On 30 September 1913 he tunnelled out of his cell and using a rope made out of his bedding he climbed over the roof of the chapel and kitchen and got over the wall; after seven days living rough on the Nantclwyd Estate several miles away, Jones was shot in the leg by one of his pursuers, 19-year-old Reginald Jones-Bateman. Jones died of shock and blood loss, while Jones-Bateman was charged with manslaughter, though the charges were subsequently dropped.</p><br>
<p>Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders filmed the series&#39; 5th episode in Ruthin in which the team investigated a Victorian Era murder. Some of the places the episode was filmed in were the Old Gaol and the town library.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jodeco is a private 70 acre man-made lake in Clayton County, Georgia east of Jonesboro, Georgia. The area now known as Lake Jodeco was once inhabited by the Creek Indians, and later a small settlement called Mayday existed in this area.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the end of World War II, the Lake Jodeco area was rural farm land connected to the City of Jonesboro by a one-car dirt road. In the lowland of this farming area was a small mill pond with a crude earthen dam. Dr. Walter Spivey (who was born on a farm in North Carolina and attended what is now Duke University) was a practicing dentist in Atlanta. One of Dr. Spivey’s patients, the Sheriff of Clayton County, Lloyd Dixon (brother of Jonesboro’s late Mayor Hugh Dixon) sold Dr. and Mrs. Spivey 800 acres just five miles east of Jonesboro which they intended to farm and eventually develop. A tenant house stood on the piece of property which is now the corner of Jodeco Road and Jodeco Drive. The lake itself was created in 1947. Its name was derived out of the Jonesboro Development Corporation, an organization formed by Dr. Spivey and several associates.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Jodeco Homeowners Association was formed in 1969. In 1975 the deed to Lake Jodeco was transferred to the association which owns and maintains the lake today. Members of the homeowners association enjoy fishing and cruising on pontoon boats. Jet-skis are not permitted on the lake. There are no marinas or common docks. Boaters are limited to speeds of 5-mph or less.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jodeco sits adjacent to the much larger Lake Spivey. Lake Jodeco was the first of the two lakes created by Dr. Spivey. The two lakes are separated by Jodeco Road which sits on a causeway and a small bridge. Outflows from Lake Jodeco enter Lake Spivey at the bridge. The outflows continue over the Lake Spivey dam spillway and into Rum Creek in Henry County, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>Fishing is an important part of life on the lake. Lake Jodeco&#39;s annual bass tournament with participants including homeowner association members, family, and friends has been well attended for over a dozen years. The tournament takes place in June of each year.</p><br>
<p>In 2008 the was created to promote the neighborhoods around the lakes. The annual foot race, which takes place in November, features a 5K and 15K course. Participants on the 15K course run the circumference of Lake Spivey and Lake Jodeco. Both courses are USA Track & Field (USATF) certified and provide a challenge to runners as the topography is quite hilly. The USATF course numbers are GA09021WC for the 5k and GA08011WC for the 15K.</p><br>
<p>The James River Steam Brewery Cellars are an historic series of brewery-related tunnels near the Rocketts Landing development on the James River in Henrico County, Virginia. The stone-lined barrel-vaulted tunnels were built c. 1866, and are the only surviving remains of the James River Steam Brewery, which operated on the site between 1866 and 1879. The brewery was owned by David G. Yuengling, Jr., son of David Yuengling, the founder of the Yuengling brewery in Pennsylvania, and two business partners. At its height, the brewery complex included a beer garden and park that remained popular even after the brewery closed in 1879. Most of the brewery&#39;s buildings were destroyed by fire in 1891. The walls of the surviving tunnels are lined with dressed ashlar granite. The west walls, which have the tunnel openings, are overgrown; only small portions of the north and south walls are visible above ground.</p><br>
<p>The tunnels were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger is a freshwater lake with a surface area of 103 acres in southern Snohomish County, Washington. It is bordered by the cities of Mountlake Terrace to the east and Edmonds to the west. It is fed by Hall Creek at its north end and its outflow is McAleer Creek at its east end, going on to feed Lake Washington.</p><br>
<p>The lake was formerly called McAleer Lake after logger Hugh McAleer, who was the previous owner of the lake and surrounding lands. It received its present name in 1901 when it was purchased by Richard A. Ballinger, future United States Secretary of the Interior, who named it after his father, Richard Ballinger.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger is a natural lake formed by the melting of the Puget Sound lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. It is fed primarily by Hall Creek, but is also fed by groundwater flowing from nearby Echo Lake as well as by surface runoff. It is just west of Interstate 5 in Mountlake Terrace and immediately north of the boundary between Snohomish and King Counties, three miles north of Seattle. Lying in the Puget Sound lowlands (around 2.7 miles east of Puget Sound itself), its surface elevation is 292 feet.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger is wide and oval-shaped, oriented north to south, with a fairly straight western bank and a wide protrusion in its southeastern portion where it drains into McAleer Creek. The lake is 0.58 miles long and 0.37 miles across at its widest, covering 107 acres including the island, the actual water surface area being approximately 103 acres. Its lowest depth is 35 feet.</p><br>
<p>Near the center of the lake is Edmount Island, a three-acre peat island. The site of houses at two separate times in the past, today it is part of Mountlake Terrace&#39;s Ballinger Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger was originally called Lake McAleer after Hugh McAleer, its first owner. McAleer was a logger and the proprietor of much of the land surrounding the lake. One Bartholomew family had a homestead on the island beginning in 1888, until the 1901 purchase of the land by Richard A. Ballinger. Ballinger renamed the lake after his father, a Civil War veteran. In 1914, Ballinger began selling plots along the lake&#39;s western shore with the intention of establishing a residential development.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, Lake Ballinger was found to have the poorest water quality out of 34 Puget Sound area lakes that were surveyed for quality. One of the most significant problems contributing to its poor state was algae growth arising from phosphorus pollution, which resulted in hypoxia. In the following decades, a series of steps were taken to mitigate water quality issues. In 1980, sedimentation ponds were built along Hall Creek to allow some of the pollutants destined for the lake to settle. Two years later, a hypolimnetic aeration system was installed to introduce oxygen from the air to the lower strata of the lake. In 1991, Mountlake Terrace received approval to treat the water with alum to reduce nutrient levels.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger experienced a major flood of over six feet above its normal elevation on New Year&#39;s Day 1997, damaging several waterfront homes. This same flood caused the overflow of a nearby sewer line into the lake. A similar incident occurred in December 2007, flooding three homes and causing sewage contamination from three separate leaks.</p><br>
<p>On July 29, 2009, coals from a barbecue ignited brush on Edmount Island. In the fire that resulted, one firefighter was injured. The peat smoldered for several days, until the last hot spot was extinguished on August 9. The island remains closed to the public indefinitely.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger suffers from a number of ecological issues. Urban runoff introduces petroleum, heavy metals, and excess nutrients to the water. Fecal coliform levels are elevated due to the presence of domestic pets and large numbers of geese, a problem addressed with the practice of egg addling. Excess nutrients cause algae growth, resulting in a loss of oxygen at the bottom levels of the lake when dead algae decomposes.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ballinger is a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Priority Habitat.</p><br>
<p>Green Lake is a lake in Chisago City, Minnesota, United States. This lake is sometimes also referred to as "Big Green Lake" because it is connected to Little Green Lake by a channel. Green Lake was named from the fact its waters are green from the high algae content.</p><br>
<h2>Physical features</h2><br>
<p>Green Lake has an area of 1,809 acre. It is the largest lake in the Chisago City area and it is 32 ft deep at its deepest point. The average water clarity is about 4.2 ft. It is connected by a channel to Little Green Lake. The main public boat access is located off of County Road 23 in Chisago City. There is a smaller public boat access on Little Green, off Green Lake Avenue, which can also be used to access Green Lake. Green Lake has three recognizable sections. "Little Green" is on the north end of the body of water. The main and biggest portion is in the middle. The south end has many bays and vegetation.</p><br>
<h2>Development</h2><br>
<p>The shoreline of Green Lake is very developed. It has approximately 335 homes It is the newest and largest park in Chisago City. Ojiketa used to be a camp, but is now a venue that can be rented out for weddings, family gatherings, or other events.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Green Lake specializes in walleye, bluegill, and crappie. Other common fish that are found in this lake are lake sturgeon, largemouth bass, and northern pike. Every year, Green Lake hosts a carp festival in which members of the contest go out late at night to catch as many carp as they can. Green Lake also hosts a bass tournament during Chisago City&#39;s annual "Ki-Chi-Saga Days" festival.</p><br>
<p>There are many different kinds of fish that can be found in Green Lake. A 2011 sample of the lake turned up the following species: black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, bowfin (dogfish), brown bullhead, common carp, golden shiner, green sunfish, hybrid sunfish, largemouth bass, northern pike, pumpkinseed, walleye, yellow bullhead, yellow perch. The DNR annually stocks walleye in Green Lake. According to the DNR, "walleye management includes annual fingerling stocking at a rate of one pound per littoral acre (1,228 lbs) and a 17 in minimum harvest regulation. Walleye abundance is within the normal range for this lake type, although survey gill net catch rates have decreased since peaking in 1986. A recent management change from biennial to annual fingerling stocking may help to boost walleye numbers; however, yellow perch, an important prey for walleye, have been declining as well. A 17 in minimum length regulation is in effect for walleye, but nearly half the walleye caught in gill nets in the 2011 assessment were 17 in or larger.”</p><br>
<p>The Upper Marlboro Residential Historic District is a national historic district encompassing a historic residential area of Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The area reflects the towns growth from the 18th to the 20th century, including its importance as the county seat of Prince Georges County. The district also contained a significant post-American Civil War African-American population, which was making the transition from slavery to freedom. Located in the district are three previously listed properties: Kingston, Content, and the John H. Traband House. Prominent features of the district include the Trinity Episcopal Church at 14519 Church Street, an 1846 Gothic Revival church designed by Robert Carey Long, Jr., and 5415 Old Crain Highway, a 1 1/2-story wood frame house dated to c. 1730, which is believed to be the oldest building in the town.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Administration Building at Randolph Air Force Base is headquarters for the 12th Flying Training Wing and located at Schertz, northeast of San Antonio, county of Bexar, in the USA state of Texas. The building is referred to as the Taj Mahal, or simply the Taj. It is Building 100 on the base, and was erected in 1931 at a cost of $252,027.50. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Design and construction</h2><br>
<p>Basic design and layout of Randolph Field (renamed Randolph Air Force Base in 1948), Clark&#39;s draft for the central building combined all administrative functions under one roof, including the water tower with a rotating beacon on the top. He later donated his drawings to the Library of Congress. Atlee B. Ayres and his son Robert M. Ayres were hired to draft the construction plans. The $252,027.50 facility designated as Building 100 was completed on July 15, 1931, and opened on October 5, 1931.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Building 100 has been headquarters for the 12th Flying Training Wing since 1972. The two-story facility, with one-story wings on both sides, was designed with space for 22 offices on the ground floor, nine offices in the basement, and 18 offices on the second story. Floors and stairways were constructed of granite terrazzo. The base printing and photography needs were handled out of the building, and it also served as the mail processing center. Courtroom facilities were incorporated into the original design, and legal proceedings continue to be part of the building&#39;s usage. The 902nd Mission Support Group Office of the Staff Judge Advocate operates on the first floor of the Taj.</p><br>
<p>The building was nicknamed the Taj Mahal in its early years, due to what some thought was an architectural similarity to the Taj Mahal in India, and is commonly referred to as "the Taj". It has been featured in movies such as West Point of the Air, Air Cadet and I Wanted Wings. A detailed 15 by replica of the Taj has sometimes been shown at military conventions. Carved from a block of wood in 1984 by base military retirees, the replica has a working electrical light beacon.</p><br>
<h3>Water tank tower</h3><br>
<p>The facility encompasses its most notable feature, a 170 ft enclosed water tank. Clarks concept of incorporating the water tank into the buildings architecture was aesthetically pleasing, but also was designed to eliminate its possibility of being the aviation hazard it might have been were it a stand-alone structure. Radio antennas and a climate detector on the dome supported the communications office headquartered in the building. The base water system is contained within the 500,000 USgal tank which rests on an independent foundation inside the central octagon tower. The removable concrete walls of the tower are designed for tank maintenance. Topping the tower is a light beacon resting on a dome with a mosaic chevron design of blue and gold. An interior elevator leads to an observation deck at the bottom of the dome. Beneath the water tank is the Clark Rotunda, which features four murals painted by William Dean Fausett in 1942–1944 to represent the training cadets of that era.</p><br>
<h3>Theater and memorial monument</h3><br>
<p>The base theater is located in the rear of the building and was designed to seat 1,200 people. It hosted the world premiere of I Wanted Wings, which had been filmed at Randolph. Its original design had an orchestra pit below the stage. In 2012, the theater was operating at a loss and stopped showing 35 mm film. At that time it underwent a renovation as a 772-seat auditorium, and in 2013 was renamed in honor of Brigadier General Kenneth Raymond Fleenor who had been held captive and tortured for over 5 years in North Vietnam. After his repatriation, he spent the remaining years of his military service at Randolph as Base Commander and in other positions of authority.</p><br>
<p>On March 4, 1977, the Missing Man Monument by sculptor Mark Pritchett was installed in front of Building 100 by the San Antonio chapter of the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots to commemorate combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. Both the monument and the theater are part of events related to veterans, combat fatalities, prisoners of war and those missing in action.</p><br>
<p>The Osgood Ditch is a 9.2 mi section of mining ditch located in southern Josephine County, Oregon, and northern Del Norte County, California. The ditch supplied water from the East Fork of the Illinois River to the High Gravel and Cameron mines, two hydraulic mines that conducted placer gold mining operations in the Upper Illinois Valley. The ditch was dug around 1900, at the same time that the High Gravel Mine was built. It took its name from F.H. Osgood, who purchased the mine shortly after its construction and expanded the ditch. When the Cameron Mine began hydraulic operations in the 1910s, the ditch brought water to that mine as well. The ditch was last used in 1942, after which point both mines had shut down.</p><br>
<p>The ditch was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 2001.</p><br>
<p>Site No. JF00-072 is a survey monument located at the quadripoint of Republic and Washington counties in Kansas and Jefferson and Thayer counties in Nebraska. The monument marks the intersection of the sixth principal meridian and its baseline, the 40th parallel north; it serves as the initial point of all land surveys in Kansas and Nebraska, as well as most of Wyoming and Colorado, and part of South Dakota. The original sandstone monument was 6 ft tall. USA Deputy Surveyor Charles A. Manners set the monument in 1856. The monument was later buried under a county roadbed; it was unearthed and reburied twice before being dug up for good in 1986, though its middle section is now missing.</p><br>
<p>The monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Deweyville Swing Bridge is a swing bridge which carries Texas State Highway 12 and Louisiana Highway 12 across the Sabine River at the Texas-Louisiana border. The bridge connects Deweyville, Texas to rural Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, near the community of Starks. The Texas Highway Department and Louisiana Highway Commission built the bridge as a joint effort in 1936-38; the two highway departments used federal funding from Depression-era relief programs to complete the project. The bridge was one of four federally funded bridges between Texas and Louisiana built during the Great Depression. The swing bridge design, in which the center section of the bridge can be rotated, allowed a variety of boats to pass by on the swift river. The bridge is the oldest surviving swing bridge of its design in Texas and one of three such bridges in the state.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The K-12 Education Administration  is the agency of the Ministry of Education of the Taiwan  responsible for formulating, executing and supervising educational policies and systems for senior high school education and below in Taiwan.</p><br>
<h2>Organizational structure</h2><br>
<h3>Operational divisions</h3><br>
<p>* Division of Academic and Vocational Senior High Education</p><br>
<p>* Division of Junior High, Elementary School and Preschool Education</p><br>
<p>* Division of Indigenous People and Special Education</p><br>
<p>* Division of Student Affairs and Campus Security</p><br>
<h3>Administrative divisions</h3><br>
<p>* Office of the Secretary</p><br>
<p>* Office of Personnel</p><br>
<p>* Office of Civil Service and Ethics</p><br>
<p>* Office of Accounting</p><br>
<h2>List of Director-Generals</h2><br>
<p>* Wu Ching-shan (1 January 2013 –)</p><br>
<p>The National Academy for Educational Research  is the agency of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan .</p><br>
<h2>Organizational structure</h2><br>
<h3>Operational divisions</h3><br>
<p>* Research Center for Educational System and Policy</p><br>
<p>* Center for Educational Resources and Publishing</p><br>
<p>* Research Center for Testing and Assessment</p><br>
<p>* Research Center for Curriculum and Instruction</p><br>
<p>* Development Center for Textbook</p><br>
<p>* Center for Educational Leadership and Professional Development</p><br>
<p>* Development Center for Compilation and Translation</p><br>
<h3>Administrative divisions</h3><br>
<p>* Office of R&D and International Affairs</p><br>
<p>* Office of General Affairs</p><br>
<p>* Personnel Office</p><br>
<p>* Accounting Office</p><br>
<h2>Branches</h2><br>
<p>* Taipei Branch</p><br>
<p>* Taichung Branch</p><br>
<p>Jacob Kelley House is a historic home located near Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. The original one-story, log portion of the house predates 1830. The home was enlarged, weatherboarded, and a second story added about 1830-1840. It was later doubled with the addition of a two-story annex. It was the home of Jacob Kelley , prominent early settler and founder of the small agricultural community, Kelley Town. Its military significance stems from its use as headquarters for the Union troops of Gen. John E. Smith, Commander of the 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, in March 1865. From this location the Federal troops commandeered the nearby Kelley Mills, ransacking and laying waste to the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The house is open for tours on the first Sunday of the month from March through December.</p><br>
<p>South Branch Newport Creek is a tributary of Newport Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is 3.6 mi long. The entire watershed of the creek is considered by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to be impaired. Mining has also been done in the watershed.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>South Branch Newport Creek begins in strip mines near the community of Wanamie in Newport Township. The headwaters are located north of Penobscot Mountain. The creek flows east for some distance before gradually turning north slightly west of the community of Alden. It then flows into the western part of Nanticoke, where it joins Newport Creek.</p><br>
<h3>Tributaries</h3><br>
<p>South Branch Newport Creek has one named tributary, which is known as Reservoir Creek. It also has an unnamed tributary.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>At the headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek, the daily load of iron is 0.07 lb. The concentration of iron at this location is 0.26 milligrams per liter. Downstream of UNT 28346, the daily iron load is 16.81 lb per day and the concentration is 3.34 milligrams per liter. Downstream of the Sheatown Discharge, the load of iron is 40.96 lb per day (with a concentration of 4.62 milligrams per liter) and upstream of the mouth, the load is 13.32 lb per day, where the concentration of iron is 1.11 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<p>At South Branch Newport Creeks headwaters, the manganese load is 0.45 lb per day. The concentration at this location is 1.61 milligrams per liter. Downstream of UNT 28346, the daily manganese load is 10.77 lb, with a concentration of 2.14 milligrams per liter and downstream of the Sheatown Discharge, the load is 19.69 lb per day. The manganese concentration downstream of the Sheatown Discharge is 2.22 milligrams per liter. Upstream of the creeks mouth, the daily load is 26.65 lb, where the concentration is 2.23 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<p>The daily aluminum load at the headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek is 0.56 lb. The concentration of aluminum at this location is 2.00 milligrams per liter. The load is 22.82 lb per day downstream of UNT 28346, with a concentration of 4.53 milligrams per liter and 30.00 lb daily downstream of the Sheatown Discharge, with a concentration of 3.38 milligrams per liter there. The daily aluminum load is 13.04 lb upstream of the creek&#39;s mouth, where the concentration is 1.09 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<p>The daily load of acidity at the headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek is 9.43 lb. The concentration of acidity at this location is 33.80 milligrams per liter. Downstream of UNT 28346, the daily load of acidity is 314.40 lb, with the concentration being 62.47 milligrams per liter and downstream of the Sheatown Discharge, the load is 377.36 lb per day, with a concentration of 42.57 milligrams per liter there. Upstream of the mouth of the creek, the daily load of acidity is 166.56 lb, where the acidity concentration is 13.93 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<p>The concentration of alkalinity at the headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek is 2.3 milligrams per liter and the load is 0.64 lb per day. The alkalinity concentration upstream of the creek&#39;s mouth is 9.1 milligrams per liter and the daily load is 108.78 lb.</p><br>
<p>There is a daily sediment load of 2,936.489 lb in the South Branch Newport Creek watershed. 1,512.712 lb per day comes from hay or pastures. 447.507 lb per day comes from forests, 439.284 lb per day comes from stream banks, 285.151 lb per day comes from land classified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as "transition", and 116.822 lb per day comes from coal mines. 80.767 lb of sediment per day comes from land classified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as "low-intensity development", 40.767 lb per day comes from land classified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as "high-intensity development", and 12.986 lb comes from croplands. 0.493 lb of sediment from wetlands flows into South Branch Newport Creek each day.</p><br>
<p>The discharge of South Branch Newport Creek at its headwaters ranges from 0.010 to 0.133 cubic feet per second, with an average of 0.052 cubic feet per second. The discharge of the creek downstream of UNT 28346 ranges from 0.085 to 2.276 cubic feet per second and the average discharge is 0.933 cubic feet per second. Below the Sheatown Discharge, it ranges from 0.127 to 4.492 cubic feet per second, with an average of 1.644 cubic feet per second. Above the mouth, it ranges from 0.424 to 5.284 cubic feet per second and the average is 2.216 cubic feet per second.</p><br>
<h2>Geology, geography, and climate</h2><br>
<p>South Branch Newport Creek is entirely in the ridge and valley geographical region of the Appalachian Mountains. The southern part of the watershed is on Little Wilkes-Barre Mountain.</p><br>
<p>79 percent of the rock in the watershed of South Branch Newport Creek belongs to the Llwellyn Formation. 7 percent belongs to the Pottsville Group, 7 percent belongs to the Mauch Chunk Formation, and 7 percent belongs to the Pocono Formation. 70 percent of the soil in the watershed is of the Udorthents-Urban Land-Volusia series. The remaining 30 percent belongs to the Lackawanna-Arnot-Morris series.</p><br>
<p>The Llwellyn Formation occupies all of the northern and central reaches of the South Branch Newport Creek watershed. South of the Llwellyn Formation is the Pottsville Formation. South of the Pottsville Formation is the Mauch Chunk Formation and then the Pocono Formation. The southernmost reaches of the watershed are occupied by rock of the Duncannon Member formation. The area near the mouth of the creek, it flows over a coal sheet called Sheet III. South of the middle reaches of the tributary Reservoir Creek, all of the soil belongs to the Lackawanna-Arnot-Morris series. North of this area, the soil all belongs to the Udorthents-Urban Land-Volusia series.</p><br>
<p>There is some drift on the banks of South Branch Newport Creek, but not as much as on Newport Creek itself.</p><br>
<p>The average annual rainfall in the South Branch Newport Creek watershed is 43.5 in. The average runoff is 1.03 in per year.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed</h2><br>
<p>South Branch Newport Creek&#39;s watershed has an area of 5.05 square miles. 58 percent of the land is forested land, 28 percent is developed land, 13 percent is agricultural land, and 1 percent of the land is in other categories. Most of the watershed is in Newport Township and Nanticoke, but the southwestern edge of the watershed is on the border between Newport Township and Slocum Township.</p><br>
<p>Most of the developed land in the South Branch Newport Creek watershed is in the central part of the watershed, around the community of Wanamie or in the northeast part of the watershed, in Nanticoke. Forested land is found throughout the watershed, except for the northeast part. Agricultural land is mostly found in the central part of the watershed and disturbed land is mostly found in the western reaches of it.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek can be accessed by State Route 3004.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1800s, there was a swamp at the headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1874, there was a large release of quicksand at the Alden shaft on South Branch Newport Creek. Several collieries discharged into South Branch Newport Creek in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>Totomoi is an historic plantation in Hanover County, Virginia. The 544 acre property is located at 8055 Rural Point Road, near Studley. The property was, according to long-held family tradition, believed to belong to the family as early as the 17th century, but the discovery in the 21st century of family records place its purchase to 1800. The main plantation house is a brick two story building constructed in 1800 by Thomas Tinsley, one of six generations of that name. The main block is three bays wide, with a broad hall across the front and two rooms behind. Additions in 1820 and 1840 added single story ells to the east side of the house. The property includes a cluster of early 20th century farm outbuildings, and probably contains archaeological remnants of its 19th-century structures. The property, was, as of 2012, still owned by Tinsley&#39;s descendants.</p><br>
<p>Totomoi was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
