<p>The Citizens State Bank is a historic bank building at 1402 Odenton Road in Odenton, Maryland. It is now a local history museum operated by the Odenton Heritage Society. The single story Classical Revival masonry building was built in 1917 to serve the military population of nearby Camp Meade, which had been established as a cantonment for the First World War. The bank provided many soldiers with financial services, as Odenton was an off-base destination for social activities, and the bank was located near the train station. It only operated until February 8, 1918, when it was closed due to lack of funds. The building was next used as a shop, and was moved in 1945 to make room for a new train station . After the war it was converted for use as a parcel post service office, which closed in 1966. The Odenton Heritage Society acquired the building in 1989 and restored it.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Mount Tupper 2,804 m is a mountain about 37 km west of Golden, British Columbia, Canada and three kilometres east of Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park. Part of the Selkirk Mountains, it was formerly named Hermit Mountain until renamed  in honour of Sir Charles Tupper when he was minister of Railways and Canals in Sir John A. Macdonald&#39;s cabinet during the siting and construction of the CPR line through the Selkirk Mountains, and later Prime Minister.</p><br>
<h2>Raspberry Rising Cave</h2><br>
<p>In 2013, the mountain was the scene of cave explorations by a team of eight, led by Nicholaus Vieira and funded by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, who followed the Raspberry Rising cave system for nearly a kilometre, climbing two waterfalls and traversing four sumps. The end of the cave was not reached and further explorations are planned.</p><br>
<p>Japonica Hall, also known as the Major J.J. Lucas House, is a historic home located at Society Hill, Darlington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1896-1897, and is a 2 1/2-story over basement brick residence with a rusticated first story and a second story. It is in the Beaux Arts style with a facade reminiscent of Italian Renaissance palazzos. It has a projecting hipped-roof central entrance bay and a one-story Tuscan order verandah. It was the home of Major James Jonathan Lucas, a prominent local railroad builder and businessman. Lucas, who represented Charleston in the state House of Representatives from 1856-1862, was a prominent Confederate artillery officer in the defense of Charleston during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Welsh Neck-Long Bluff-Society Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Hurricane Canal is a hand-excavated irrigation canal that diverted water from the Virgin River to the vicinity of Hurricane, Utah. The 7.5 mi canal was built starting in 1891 and completed in 1904. The work included a diversion dam on the Virgin River, the 12 ft wide canal grade with an 8 ft wide by 4 ft deep channel, and a series of flumes and trestles. Work was done by local men, mainly between November and May. The work was paid for by the canal&#39;s shareholders, whose lands on the Hurricane Bench were to be irrigated by the canal. Allotments were limited to 20 acre for shareholder. The 2,000 acre of new agricultural lands allowed the settlement of Hurricane after 1906.</p><br>
<p>The work and the shareholder system were organized by James Jepson and John Steele. The superintendent of construction was J.T. Willis. Work was hampered by the failure of the first two diversion dams at the Narrows section of the Virgin River. The final dam was a timber crib and boulder structure, later augmented with concrete. From the dam the canal runs westerly 3.5 mi along the wall of the Virgin River Canyon, then south for three miles along the Hurricane Cliffs to the Hurricane Bench. It passes through twelve tunnels and six flumes. Wood flumes have been replaced with metal, and ten cisterns for drinking water have been abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The Hurricane Canal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1977. Eleven of the twelve tunnels remain accessible to hikers.</p><br>
<p>The Riverland Historic District encompasses an early 20th century neighborhood on the south side of the Roanoke River in Roanoke, Virginia. The area consists of a portion of the residential area bounded on the south by Walnut Avenue SE, on the east by Arbutus Avenue SE, and on other sides by the river. Most of the included properties are either on Arbutus Avenue or Riverland Street, with some also on Piedmont Street and Walnut Avenue. The neighborhood is one of closely spaced residential properties built to provide housing for workers in nearby businesses. It was developed by the Highland Land Company, and was mostly built out between 1900 and 1930.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The International Boundary Marker, also known as the Republic of Texas Granite Marker, is a boundary marker located on the Louisiana-Texas border near the junction of Texas FM 31 South and Louisiana Highway 765, southeast of Deadwood, Texas. The marker was created in 1840 and placed in 1841 to mark the international border between the United States and the Republic of Texas. The survey which established this border lasted from May 1840 to June 1841; the survey team faced hazardous, swampy conditions in their work and were forced to take several extended breaks due to weather and a lack of funding. The boundary marker is the only marker remaining from the Texas border survey and is one of only two known international boundary markers located entirely within the United States .</p><br>
<p>The marker was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Dogwood Creek is a creek in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Dogwood Creek is 212 km long and drops from an elevation 361 metres to 260 metres (101 metres in total).</p><br>
<p>Fish found in the creek include golden perch, Mary River cod, Murray cod, silver perch, spangled perch and yabbies.</p><br>
<p>The creek eventually merges with the Balonne River to become part of the Condamine River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The creek was named after the dogwood bushes in the area by explorer Ludwig Leichhardt on 23 October 1844 on his expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington (now Darwin, Northern Territory).</p><br>
<p>A commonly used track to access homesteads in the area (now the Warrego Highway) crossed the creek; that location became known as Dogwood Crossing. This would later develop into the town of Miles.</p><br>
<p>Dogwood Creek has flooded on many occasions, including 1908 and 1938.</p><br>
<p>The Roanoke River and Railroad Historic District encompasses a predominantly industrial area on the north side of the Roanoke River in Roanoke, Virginia. The area is bounded by South Jefferson Street on the west and the Roanoke River to the east, and extends north as far as Albemarle Avenue. The district&#39;s resources are defined primarily by their relationship to the railroad tracks that bisect this area. The area was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and consists primarily of functional industrial buildings that were built between about 1900 and 1930. Notable exceptions are the Virginian Railway Passenger Station, a Spanish Revival passenger station built 1909-10 and previously listed on the National Register, and the Walnut Street and Jefferson Street bridges, both designed with Egyptian-style decorations.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Bare Hills Historic District encompasses a residential area north of Baltimore, Maryland in Baltimore County, which had industrial beginnings before being transformed into a suburb of the city. The district includes Lake Roland Park  as well as a cluster of largely vernacular dwellings between the park and Falls Turnpike that was built mainly in the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) describes the district as follows:</p><br>
<p>The Bare Hills Historic District represents a community&#39;s development from its industrial beginnings in milling and mining into a transportation corridor along the Falls Turnpike, and finally to residential area after rail services enabled commuting into Baltimore. The district includes 90 properties which provide:</p><br>
<p>The 19th-20th century African American Scott Settlement—one of the earliest free-black communities in Baltimore County.</p><br>
<p>Late 19th and 20th century residential development along the railroad and Lake Roland.</p><br>
<p>Lake Roland Park (so-named since 28 September 2015) Originally named Robert E. Lee Park, the portion included in the historic district encompasses a wooded landscape on the side of the undeveloped 1898 Sorrento subdivision</p><br>
<p>The MHT description also states:</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Situated on a serpentine barrens, its thin and unfertile serpentine soil defined the Bare Hills area. H. H. Hayden documented the discovery of the area&#39;s mineral value:</p><br>
<p>The discovery occurred on Jesse Tysons farm. Tysons son Isaac Tyson, Jr. successfully mined the Bare Hills for chromite and identified other serpentine barrens in Maryland as chromite sources, including the Soldiers Delight area in western Baltimore County. His acumen established Maryland as the world&#39;s leading producer of chromium until the middle of the 19th century. All extraction at Bare Hills ceased by 1833.</p><br>
<p>The Bare Hills rock formation forces Jones Falls into an approximately 2.5 mile half-circle detour to the East before it resumes its south-southeasterly flow.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bare Hills is also notable as the site of one of the earliest free African-American communities in Baltimore County, established about 1830 by Aquila Scott. Per the registration document for Bare Hills in the National Register of Historic Places:</p><br>
<p>Note. Scott&#39;s original log church burned in 1876. Its replacement, built in 1886, remains standing. The church site lies on the opposite side of Lake Roland, outside of this historic district.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It includes the previously-listed Bare Hills House.</p><br>
<p>The Administration/Science Building, originally known as Science Hall, is a building on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. It is the second-oldest building on campus, constructed in 1909. It currently houses the University Club, a members-only institution open to faculty, staff and community members.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building, designed by D. W. Millard and built by Harvey D. Patton, was constructed in 1909 as one of three original buildings that formed the first quad of the Territorial Normal School in Tempe. (Old Main is the only other building that survives today.) It was originally constructed to house the school&#39;s small science department as well as administrative functions.</p><br>
<p>As the normal school grew, the building was soon modified. It was remodeled in 1935 and again in 1950; the latter renovation coincided with the science department moving to a new Sciences Building (now known as Discovery Hall) and the conversion of "Old Science Hall" into the home of Arizona State College&#39;s English department. The 1950 addition, with Mel Ensign as architect, added a fire stair and restroom projection and was one of several alterations to the now-historic buildings on campus (around the same time, an expansion was made to Old Main). In the mid-1960s, the English department moved to its own new home: the Language and Literature Building, located across from the Old Science Building on the quad and at the corner of University Drive and College Avenue. Soon after, during the Vietnam War, ROTC programs moved in, and by the 1980s it was known as the "Fine Arts Annex" and housed some arts programs.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 1983, the School of Art was told that the structure, whose foundation had been damaged by rot and termites, was no longer suitable to be occupied; the building was slated for demolition. However, in the mid-1980s, several university buildings from the 1930s and earlier were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Fine Arts Annex.</p><br>
<p>After the building&#39;s designation as historic, renovations were made to remove the 1950 Ensign addition and restore the building to its original appearance. In 1989, the University Club was created as a members-only club for faculty, staff and parents of current ASU students.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Science Hall is a two-story brick building measuring 70 ft by 92 ft, constructed on a granite foundation.</p><br>
<p>While Science Hall is executed in the Queen Anne style with its scale, massing and steeply pitched roof, it also reflects how Classical Revival influences had been growing since the turn of the century, with denticulated cornices; an arcaded entry; and a pedimented Palladian dormer.</p><br>
<p>The Louise Lincoln Kerr House and Studio  is a facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, owned and operated by Arizona State University. It was originally the house of Louise Lincoln Kerr and was willed to the university upon her death in 1977.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Louise Lincoln Kerr</h3><br>
<p>Louise Lincoln was born in Cleveland in 1892. She learned the piano and viola from her mother and then studied at Barnard College in New York.</p><br>
<p>She married Peter Kjer in 1936 (the family name was changed to Kerr) and had eight children. One of them had a respiratory condition, which prompted the family to move to Phoenix in 1936. She bought 47 acres of land in Scottsdale along Lincoln Drive, named for her father. After Peter died three years later, Louise returned to writing music. She also was a benefactor of musical institutions in the Valley, including the Phoenix Symphony and the ASU School of Music. Other musical societies met at her house, including the Phoenix Chamber Music Society and National Society of Arts and Letters.</p><br>
<p>The Kerr studio was Scottsdale&#39;s premier music venue until the Scottsdale Center for the Arts opened in 1975.</p><br>
<h3>Under the university</h3><br>
<p>Upon Kerrs death on December 10, 1977, Arizona State Universitys College of Fine Arts (now the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) received the property, and in 1981, management of the center passed from the College of Fine Arts to Gammage Memorial Auditorium. The transfer also involved further renovations to the site, including a lighted parking lot, new furnace and air conditioning units for the house, and code compliance work. Further changes were made in 1988, primarily involving re-roofing the studio and repairing the walls.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The five-room house was constructed in 1948. It is of a Spanish Colonial style and is made of adobe that was made and built on the property. On the north end of the east wall is a simple ramada, and the southeast corner of the house features a wooden staircase that provides access to the flat roof. The entry doors were carved out of sugar pine by Tucson artist Charles Bolsius, a friend of Kerr. The windows are plain squares with brick windowsills and oversized wooden lintels.</p><br>
<p>The studio was completed in 1959 to the north of the house, with an addition on the west end finished in 1969. Featuring the same natural adobe bricks as the house, the studio is covered by a low-pitched roof that flattens out further to cover the patios on the west and east sides. The studio features exposed rafters and a brick chimney at one corner. Bolsius carved the entry doors for the studio; the main east entry is surrounded by a doorframe featuring empty beer bottles set into the brick. The 1969 expansion was completed by architect Fred Fleenor and included built-in seating for 100, improved lighting, and kitchen and restroom facilities; special attention was paid to making this addition match the rest of the building. The floor tiles are exceptionally rare today; they are made of a mixture of cement and white marble dust.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property were several cottages, nicknamed "The Shacks&quot guests including Pablo Casals, Isaac Stern and the Budapest String Quartet stayed in these cottages. They were removed sometime between Kerr&#39;s death in 1977 and the construction of the Marriott Renaissance Scottsdale resort in 1979/1980.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The Kerr Cultural Center still sees regular use, in part due to its intimate setting and also because it is commonly regarded as the best venue for chamber music in the Phoenix area. It is used as a venue for musical performances as well as small conferences and private parties.</p><br>
<p>The Saxon Lutheran Memorial in Frohna, Missouri, commemorates the German Lutheran migration of 1838/1839, and features a number of log cabins and artifacts from that era. The memorial opened in 1962 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Memorial</h2><br>
<p>The Saxon Lutheran Memorial is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009, it was recognized by the Friends of Missouri State Archive Association as the last complete home and farmstead complex of its era. The entire facility depicts aspects of the Saxon migration and settlement, and displays the domestic and farming artifacts of 19th century German rural settlements in Perry County, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>The Saxon Lutheran Memorial is an outdoor history museum in the setting of a log cabin village located on the homestead and farm of the Bergt Farm Complex.Greatriverroad.com</p><br>
<p>The Saxon Lutheran Memorial complex has been open as a historic site since 1964 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1980. The complex consists of 30 acre dominated by the log-cabin frame house and hewn log section building that was the home of brothers Wilhelm and Christian Adolf Bergt. Now restored, the Bergt Home contains household utensils and furniture from the pioneer period. This historic building has been through many changes through the years. A lean-to porch was added across the west side when the second log cabin was built. In the 1840s, a board and batten lean-to was built across the east side to serve as kitchen, bedroom, and porch, and was then removed in the 1920s. In 1870, a room was added beyond the west porch. Later the porch was closed in to serve as a kitchen. In 1913 the larger frame addition completed the house. The house serves as the curator&#39;s residence.Greatriverroad.com</p><br>
<p>The site also contains a granary, a timber frame barn which contains within it an earlier double crib hewn log barn, and two log outbuildings whose original use is uncertain. These buildings were constructed in the period from the second quarter of the 19th century to the first quarter of the 20th century. The site also hosts a visitors&#39; center and an outdoor museum for farm equipment. The Memorial was dedicated October 31, 1964, on the 125th anniversary of the Saxon Immigration.</p><br>
<p>A machine shed was added to the site in 1990 and is filled with old machinery. Several buildings with connections to the descendants of the Saxons living in the area have been moved to the site in recent years, including the Fenwick Cabin, the Hamilton-Goehring Cabin, the Schuppan Haus, and the newest addition, the 1904 Confirmation Room from Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna. Other buildings have been constructed on the site to depict the customs and way of life of the 19th century settlers: a bake oven, a blacksmith shop, and a woodworking shop.Lutheranhistory.org</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 19th-century German Kingdom of Saxony, Lutheran pastor Martin Stephan and many of his followers found themselves increasingly at odds with the established Lutheran Church. In order to freely practice their Christian faith in accordance with the Lutheran confessions outlined in the Book of Concord, approximately 700 Saxon Lutherans left for the United States in November 1838. Their ships arrived January 5, 1839 in New Orleans. After spending some time waiting for that last ship (which was lost at sea), most of the remaining 600 immigrants settled in Perry County, Missouri, and in and around St. Louis. Among the group were Christian Adolph Bergt and Caroline Louise Voelker, who married in 1841. In 1847 the Bergts acquired the property of an early pioneer named Thomas Twyman who had settled in the area in 1820. The property remained in the Bergt family until 1957. The property was purchased by the Concordia Historical Institute of St. Louis in 1961. The property was restored and in 1964 was dedicated and opened to the public as a "walk-in History Book" of German immigrant life in America.</p><br>
<h2>Festival</h2><br>
<p>Saxon Lutheran Memorial&#39;s annual Fall Festival is held on the second Saturday in October each year andThe Saxon Lutheran Memorial</p><br>
<p>features demonstrations of activities common in the mid-1800s, such as blacksmithing, quilting, cross-cut sawing, cider-pressing, bread-baking, butchering, apple-butter-cooking, spinning, and the making of brooms, shingles, and soap.</p><br>
<p>The festival also offers horse-and-buggy rides, a silent-auction, skits, live music, food, and handmade crafts.Saxon Lutheran Fall Festival set for Oct. 12</p><br>
<p>http://blogs.lcms.org/2013/saxon-lutheran-fall-festival-set</p><br>
<p>Saxon Lutheran Memorial opens mini-festival Saturday in Frohna</p><br>
<p>The Abram Hatch House was built circa 1892 by Abram Chase Hatch, a prominent Mormon community leader. The Victorian style house features a complex roofline with a small tower over the entrance and two projecting bays in the front framing a small porch, all with small gables superimposed on the hipped bays. The 1-1/2 story house is built of red sandstone with extensive wood detailing, including wood spindles on the front porch.The interior features extensive wood trim, glazed doors and windows with colored glass panes.</p><br>
<p>The house is arranged with a center hall, entered through a porch in the indentation between the projecting bays. A parlor and an office flank the entrance, followed by a sitting room and a dining room which have projecting bays to each side, then bedrooms and a kitchen. A small rear wing comprises service rooms. The upstairs features sleeping rooms on either side another center hall.</p><br>
<p>The Abram Hatch House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1975. After being threatened with demolition in the 1970s, the house was restored by Zions Bank and used as a branch bank.</p><br>
<p>Booby Pond Nature Reserve is a protected wetland on Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The reserve lies on the south coast of Little Cayman, near the western end of the island. It comprises a 43 ha seasonally flooded hypersaline lagoon with a fringe of mangroves and a strip of dry forest on its northern side. The forest is dominated by Bursera simaruba, Canella winterana, Coccothrinax procterii, Ficus aurea, Guipera discolour, Myrcianthus fragrans and Plumeria obtusa, while the mangroves are intermixed with Thespesia populnea and Cordia sebestena var. caymanensis.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The site has been identified by BirdLife International as a 136 ha Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of West Indian whistling ducks (with 20 breeding pairs), magnificent frigatebirds (with up to 200 breeding pairs), red-footed boobies (with up to 20,000 individuals), white-crowned pigeons, Caribbean elaenias and vitelline warblers. Much of the site is also recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.</p><br>
<p>Halfway Lake is a lake in Hartley Township, Union County, Pennsylvania in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Halfway Lake is the main focus of R. B. Winter State Park. The lake is filled by spring-fed mountain streams. It was formed by a man-made sandstone dam. The water temperature is usually approximately 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) due to much of the lake being filled with water from directly underground. There is an artesian spring, Little Bubbler, that comes up through the sand on the west end of the beach at the park.</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>Swimming is permitted, but there are no lifeguards posted at the beach as of 2008. Fishing is also permitted. The lake is a cold fishery that is stocked with brook, brown, and rainbow trout. Ice fishing is permitted when the ice is at least 4 inches (10 cm) thick.</p><br>
<p>Toca da Tira Peia is a rock shelter site, located in the municipality Coronel José Dias, Piauí state, near the Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil, assumed to hold evidence of prehistoric human presence in South America dating to 22,000 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The Toca da Tira Peia rockshelter was discovered in 2008. There are four well preserved sediment layers, the youngest of which dates to 4,000 years BP. 113 knapped stone tools and artifacts have been recovered.</p><br>
<p>The site has been dated through optically stimulated luminescence technique.</p><br>
<p>"Digging turned up 113 stone artifacts consisting of tools and tool debris in five soil layers. Using a technique that measures natural radiation damage in excavated quartz grains, the scientists estimated that the last exposure of soil to sunlight ranged from about 4,000 years ago in the top layer to 22,000 years ago in the third layer."</p><br>
<p>According to the authors, this site offers some advantages to the other sites such as Pedra Furada in regard to dating. As opposed to the Pedra Furada sites, Toca da Tira Peia doesn&#39;t have so many naturally occurring pebbles that can be confused with those that “were brought and knapped by human beings”.</p><br>
<p>Also, the authors claim that the Toca da Tira Peia artifacts “are in their original position; they had not been subject to movements since their burial”.</p><br>
<p>Hraundrangi  is a conical peak in the Drangafjall ridge dividing Öxnadalur from Hörgárdalur in north Iceland. It rises to 1,075 m above sea level, 80 m above the ridge. The ridge is often erroneously referred to as Hraundrangar, the plural of Hraundrangi.</p><br>
<p>The mountain rises to an unusually sharp point, less than half a square metre at the peak. It is a lava spire that remains with the rest of the ridge after much of the original mountain, Háafjall, fell in a large rockslide many centuries ago.</p><br>
<p>The first successful ascent of Hraundrangi was on 5 August 1956, by Finnur Eyjólfsson and Sigurður Waage of the Icelandic Air Ground Rescue Team and United States Air Force Lieutenant Nicholas Clinch.</p><br>
<p>The mountain features in "Ferðalok" ("Journeys End"), a poem written at the end of his life by Jónas Hallgrímsson, who was born at Hraun. The last stanza of the poem alludes to a legend that the saga hero Grettir the Strong climbed it and left his knife and belt on the peak as proof; Hraundrangi was supposedly also called Grettisnúpa" ("Grettirs Crag") by the people of Öxnadalur.</p><br>
<p>The 10,000 Icelandic krónur banknote issued in October 2013 honours Jónas Hallgrímsson and has on the obverse a background image of Hraundrangi and the rest of the ridge formed out of neologisms coined by the poet.</p><br>
<p>Tall Jawa is an archaeological and historical site in central Jordan.</p><br>
<p>Excavations and research have revealed the remains of an Iron Age village of the ancient Kingdom of Ammon. A two-storey house of the early Islamic period was also found, providing insight of the seventh to eighth century transition from Christianity to Islam in Central Transjordan. Today, Tall Jawa stands as a tell — a mound of ruins — overlooking the Madaba Plain. Amongst local people, it is known as the Rock but the ancient name of the settlement is not known.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Tall Jawa stands at an elevation of 928 m above sea level, close to the Iron Age capital city of Rabbath-Ammon. It is located west-northwest of the modern city of Jawa, 10.9 km south of modern Amman.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tall Jawa was known to nineteenth-century travellers and explorers. Nelson Glueck conducted the first archaeological survey on site in 1933 and modern day excavations commenced in 1989. No other research is known to have taken place between Glueck&#39;s survey and the start of modern excavations. Tall Jawa underwent 6 seasons of research and excavations, first as part of the Madaba Plains Project and, after 1992, as the Tall Jawa excavation Project. Lawrence T. Geraty (Project Director, Madaba Plains Project) was in charge of the excavations in 1989 and 1991 and Michèle Daviau oversaw them from 1992 to 1995.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological finds, including architecture and artefacts dating from the Iron Age (1100–600 BC), have revealed information about the Kingdom of Ammon. Some of the artefacts found on site have been retained by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan for the National Museum in Amman. The remaining objects are either at Wilfrid Laurier University or in storage at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological research has revealed that the site was reoccupied 1200 years after the destruction of the Iron Age town, during the transition from the Byzantine to the Umayyad period.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological finds</h2><br>
<p>Excavations and research in 1989, 1991 and 1992–95, uncovered Iron Age settlements at Tall Jawa dating from 1100 to 600 BC.</p><br>
<p>The earliest settlement on site dates back to the Iron Age I period (1100-900 BC). After the destruction of the Iron Age I village, excavations revealed the existence of a fortification wall and a multi-chambered gate dating to mid-late Iron Age II.</p><br>
<p>The majority of the ceramic material found date primarily to Iron Age II, putting the site within the range of Iron Age II residential towns. Items excavated include artefacts of daily life such as flasks, jars and ground stone tools, jewellery, figurative objects, coins, seals and even marine shells.</p><br>
<p>The presence of pottery sherds from the Byzantine period suggested the reoccupation of the site during the Late Antique period. Building 600, a two-storey house, was used in the Early Islamic Period and abandoned thereafter. Pottery, mould-made lamps, glass, a small coin hoard and mosaic pavements were amongst the artefacts and architectural elements found in or near the building. Research on this building and the material culture attached to it has made a contribution to our understanding and knowledge of village life during and after the Islamic conquests in Central Transjordan, as well as the overall seventh to eighth century Christian–Islamic transition.</p><br>
<p>The zenith of Tall Jawa can be traced to during the period of the Assyrian Empire, according to evidence of ceramic artefacts that are more advanced and of higher status compared to others at the site.</p><br>
<p>Hartsville Post Office, also known as the Hartsville Memorial Library and Hartsville Museum, is a historic post office building located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1930, and designed under the supervision of James A. Wetmore, Office of the Supervising Architect, United States Department of the Treasury. It is a one-story, five bay, brick Colonial Revival style building. It has a rectangular plan and flat roof with parapet. The symmetrical façade features large arched window openings with decorative keystones. This building served as Hartsville’s post office until 1963, when a new post office was built.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to the Hartsville Museum, which offers local history and art exhibits.</p><br>
<p>Prochoma  is a village and a community of the Chalkidona municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Koufalia, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 1,214 inhabitants in the village and 2,440 inhabitants in the community. The community of Prochoma covers an area of 38.537 km.</p><br>
<h2>Administrative division</h2><br>
<p>The community of Prochoma consists of three communities:</p><br>
<p>Akropotamos (population 596)</p><br>
<p>Kastanas (population 630)</p><br>
<p>Prochoma (population 1,214)</p><br>
<p>The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The population of Prochoma consists of Greek refugees from Pontus. The village was named Dogantzi until 1926.</p><br>
<p>The Hallock–McMillan Building, also known as the Hallock and McMillan Building, is the first and oldest commercial brick building in downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The building was designed by Absalom Hallock and completed in 1857. It is adjacent to the Fechheimer & White Building. In 1975, it was listed as a "primary landmark" in the National Register of Historic Places  nomination of the Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District, the building&#39;s designation subsequently "translated" to "contributing property" under post-1970s NRHP terminology.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1857, the Hallock–McMillan Building is downtown Portlands first and oldest commercial brick building, according to the Architectural Heritage Center, a preservation advocacy non-profit organization. The building was designed by Absalom Hallock, the "citys first architect", on behalf of the San Francisco Bay Area&#39;s Phoenix Iron Works.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, Portland developer John Russell purchased the building for $700,000. In 2011, Russell announced his plans to restore the buildings exterior to its original appearance. Plans include three "graceful" Romanesque-style cast iron arches on the first floor and partial arches above the second floors windows. Exterior renovation plans must be approved by the Portland Historic Landmarks Commission.</p><br>
<p>Tomhicken Creek  is a stream in Luzerne County and Schuylkill County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 11 mi long and is the largest tributary of Catawissa Creek. Named tributaries of the creek include Little Crooked Run, Little Tomhicken Creek, Raccoon Creek, and Sugarloaf Creek. The watershed of the main stem has an area of 20.6 square miles. A number of mine tunnels discharge into the creek and its tributaries.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The headwaters of Tomhicken Creek are inside a deep mine. Tomhicken Creek begins in southwestern Hazle Township, Luzerne County immediately west of an area of strip mines and north of Pismire Ridge. It flows west-southwest, roughly paralleling Pennsylvania Route 924 and shortly leaves Hazle Township and Luzerne County. Upon leaving Luzerne County, the creek enters East Union Township, in Schuylkill County. It crosses Pennsylvania Route 924 and flows immediately north of another area of strip mines before turning northwest to flow off Green Mountain and entering North Union Township. It receives Sugarloaf Creek in the eastern reaches of the township and shortly afterwards passes the community of Millers Corner. At Millers Corner, Tomhicken Creek turns southwest and then north, receiving Raccoon Creek. The creek then turns southwest again and meanders several times south of Red Ridge before reaching its confluence with Catawissa Creek near the community of Zion Grove.</p><br>
<h3>Tributaries</h3><br>
<p>Tomhicken Creek&#39;s tributaries include Sugarloaf Creek, Little Tomhicken Creek, and Raccoon Creek.</p><br>
<p>Raccoon Creek is approximately 3 mi long and flows west from Black Creek Township, Luzerne County into North Union Township, Schuylkill County, where it joins Tommhicken Creek.</p><br>
<p>Little Tomhicken Creek is approximately 1 mi long and flows southwest to join Tomhicken Creek in East Union Township. Sugarloaf Creek is approximately 3.5 mi long and flows from Hazle Township, Luzerne County to North Union Township, where it joins the main stem.</p><br>
<p>Other tributaries include Little Crooked Run and "Trib 27568 to Tomhicken Creek".</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>Little Tomhicken Creek contributes acid mine drainage to Tomhicken Creek. There are also high concentrations of nutrients in the creek.</p><br>
<p>Upstream of Little Tomhicken Creek, Sugarloaf Creek, and the Oneida No. 3 Tunnel, the iron concentration is 0.5 milligrams per liter. The daily load is 4.8 lb. The manganese concentration is 0.08 milligrams per liter, equating to a daily load of 0.8 lb. The concentration of aluminum is 0.69 milligrams per liter, so the daily load is 6.7 lb. The concentrations of acidity and alkalinity are 0.83 and 23.37 milligrams per liter respectively and the loads are 8.0 lb per day and 226.1 lb per day. The concentration of sulfates ranges from 10 to 65 milligrams per liter with an average of 25.69 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<p>At the mouth of Tomhicken Creek, the concentration of iron is 0.15 milligrams per liter. The daily load is 4.8 lb. The manganese concentration is 0.17 milligrams per liter, equating to a daily load of 0.8 lb. The concentration of aluminum is 0.42 milligrams per liter, so the daily load is 6.7 lb. The concentration of acidity is 10.92 milligrams per liter and the concentration of alkalinity is 6.04 milligrams per liter. The daily load of acidity is 1,401.6 lb and the load of alkalinity is 775.2 lb. the minimum sulfate concentration is 21 milligrams per liter, the average concentration is 30.04 milligrams per liter, and the maximum concentration is 49 milligrams per liter.</p><br>
<p>The pH of Tomhicken Creek upstream of Little Tomhicken Creek, Sugarloaf Creek, and the Oneida No. 3 Tunnel ranges from 5.6 to 7.2 with an average of 6.52. At the mouth, the pH ranges from 5.8 to 6.2 with an average of 6.0. Before 1997, much of the lower reaches of the creek had a pH from 4.0 to 4.9.</p><br>
<p>The discharge of Tomhicken Creek near its headwaters is 10,681 gallons per minute. Near Zion Grove, the discharge is 10,687.5 gallons per minute.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Oneida No. 3 Tunnel empties into Tomhicken Creek downstream of the mouth of Little Tomhicken Creek. There is a small and narrow basin of coal in the watershed of Tomhicken Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Mauch Chunk Formation is found near the confluence of the creek with Catawissa Creek and much of the rest of the Tomhicken Creek watershed. However, some of the upper reaches of the watershed are occupied by the Hamilton Group. The soils in the watershed include the Leck Kill soil in the lower reaches and the Hazleton Soil in the upper reaches.</p><br>
<p>There are deep valleys north and south of the Tomhicken Creek basin due to erosion.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed</h2><br>
<p>The watershed of Tomhicken Creek has an area of 20.6 square miles. The creek is the largest tributary of Catawissa Creek. The watershed is not far from the headwaters of Black Creek at Little Sugarloaf Mountain. The Tomhicken Creek watershed does not border any other major sub-watersheds of Catawissa Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Rock Resort is located in the upper reaches of the Tomhicken Creek. It consists mostly of second homes or retirement homes.</p><br>
<h2>History and recreation</h2><br>
<p>Gristmills and other types of mills were built on the creek some time before 1901. The Red Ridge Road bridge over Tomhicken Creek was built in 1937. A nine-ton weight restriction was placed on it in 2010. A number of large private campgrounds have been established along the creek.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<p>Tomhicken Creek is a coldwater fishery. Little Tomhicken Creek was studied by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission in 1997 and found to be completely devoid of fish. Tomhicken Creek was found to be a lifeless stream in 2005. However, if the acid mine drainage problem were remedied, it would be capable of serving as a recreational trout stream. The tributary Raccoon Creek is classified as a high-quality coldwater fishery.</p><br>
<p>There are four species of fish in the upper reaches of Tomhicken Creek and five species of fish between two sites in the lower reaches. A large population of brook trout, as well as several other fish species, inhabit the tributary Raccoon Creek. There is also a significant population of brook trout in the tributary Little Crooked Run.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, 700 rainbow trout were observed in Tomhicken Creek and Little Tomhicken Creek.</p><br>
<p>Significant numbers of Allocapnia and Taeniopteryx were observed on Tomhicken Creek near Zion Grove in 2003. Sweltsa have also been observed in the creek.</p><br>
<p>The Edmondson Avenue Historic District encompasses several neighborhoods on the west side of Baltimore, Maryland. The area was developed primarily between 1900 and 1940, radiating from the streetcar line that ran along Edmondson Avenue, an east–west thoroughfare. It includes significant portions of the Evergreen Lawn, Bridgeview/Greenlawn, Rosemont, and Midtown-Edmondson neighborhoods, including hundreds of buildings, many of them residential rowhouses. Although initially populated by European-Americans, the neighborhood population became predominantly middle class African-American in the year after World War II, and became a center of civil rights activism and community organizing. The Red-Light District of Balitimore is also in close proximity to the district with houses in the area contributing to the cause.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Botanic Park and Salina Reserve Important Bird Area comprises two separate sites on Grand Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Both sites lie in the East End district of Grand Cayman. The 50 ha Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park in the centre of the island contains fragments of native dry forest and shrubland, with a lake and Conocarpus erectus dominated wetlands. The Botanic Park site is also largely surrounded by the Frank Sound Forest IBA.</p><br>
<p>Salina Reserve, lying inland from the north-east coast, is a 125 ha freshwater herbaceous wetland. It is surrounded by a fringe of Typha sedgeland and Conocarpus shrubland, with 135 ha of Swietenia mahagoni dominated dry forest on the northern boundary. The reserve lies over the northern part of the largest freshwater lens in the eastern part of the island and is not easily accessible.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The two sites, with a combined area of 276 ha, have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of West Indian whistling ducks (with 10 breeding pairs), white-crowned pigeons, Cuban amazons (10 pairs), Caribbean elaenias, thick-billed and Yucatan vireos, and vitelline warblers.</p><br>
<p>E. W. Cannon House and Store is a historic home and general store located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. The main house was built about 1880 and incorporates a small one-story residence built about 1840 that now serves as a rear wing. It is a two-story, rectangular, frame residence with weatherboard siding. It features a one-story hip roof porch that extends across the full façade. The store was built about 1870 and is located to the rear of the house. It is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular, hand-hewn heavy timber frame building that served as a post office from 1873 to 1878. Also on the property are a contributing frame garage  and a frame smokehouse . The house and store were built by Elihu W. Cannon , prominent Hartsville farmer, postmaster, and Darlington County politician.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Colony House is a historic house at 104 West Street in Keene, New Hampshire. The oldest portion of the house, its front block, was built in 1819 by Timothy Hall, a local merchant. The house was purchased in 1863 by Horatio Colony, in whose family&#39;s hands it was for a century. It is a brick two story structure with a hip roof. The exterior has modest Federal styling, predominantly in its main entry, with half-length sidelight windows topped by a half-oval fanlight and sheltered by a modest portico. The interior of the building has well-preserved woodwork that took its inspiration from the publications of Asher Benjamin. A c. 1900 addition to the rear emulates the style and building materials of the original block.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Colony&#39;s Block is a historic commercial building at 4-7 Central Square in the heart of Keene, New Hampshire. The five story brick building was built in 1870 to a design by Worcester, Massachusetts architects E. Boyden & Son. The owners were Henry and Alfred T. Colony, whose family controlled the Cheshire Mills. The building is one of the most imposing buildings on Central Square, and is an elaborate example of Second Empire styling.</p><br>
<p>The building was built together with the adjacent Bank Block. Also by the Boydens, it and the Colony were meant to be seen as a single structure. The Bank Block was altered in the twentieth century, attaining a more Colonial Revival appearance.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The House at 130 Mohegan Avenue, also known as the House of Steel or Steel House, is a prefabricated, modular, International Style house in New London, Connecticut, United States. The House was designed by Howard T. Fisher, who founded General Houses, Inc. in 1932. Winslow Ames, a professor of art history at Connecticut College and the art director of the Lyman Allyn Museum, had the home built after attending the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. The House is a single story 21 ft by 37 ft rectangular steel prefabricated home that rests upon a concrete slab. It originally had a flat roof and included an attached garage. Throughout the years, the house has undergone significant alteration, including the addition of a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was used by Ames, and later by Connecticut College, as a rental property, until the structure was slated for demolition in 2004. The push to restore the house is credited to Doug Royalty, who worked with the college&#39;s Abigail Van Slyck. Completed in 2013, restoration cost $500,000 and involved several phases, including the dismantling, transportation, and reassembly of the house. The house was added to the Connecticut Historic Register in July 2007 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and use</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by Howard T. Fisher, who founded General Houses, Inc., and commissioned by Winslow Ames, a professor of art history at Connecticut College and the art director of the Lyman Allyn Museum. In 1933, Ames decided to construct two houses on the museum-owned property after seeing prefabricated homes at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Ames had a strong interest in the Modernism movement and believed such houses would become predominant.</p><br>
<p>Completed in November 1933 and costing about $4,500 in total, the House is a single story 21 ft by 37 ft rectangular steel prefabricated home that rests upon a concrete slab. The house is frameless, with the weight borne by 4 ft by 9 ft steel panels; the exterior panels are flanged and vertically bolted through wooden T-shaped pieces. The interior wall panels are made of steel and filled with insulation. Originally the house had a flat roof, but it changed to a gable roof at an unknown time. The house has two bedrooms, one bathroom, and an open living-dining-kitchen space. The house also has an attached garage.</p><br>
<p>After its completion, Winslow Ames used the house as a rental property until 1949 when he went to work in a museum in Springfield, Missouri. The house was sold to Connecticut College. Changing the flat roof to a gable roof was a significant alteration from the original plan; the date of the alteration is unknown, but it preceded 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 2008, an article in The Day stated that the push to restore the house came from conservation specialist Doug Royalty, who was researching prefabricated homes from the 1920s and 1930s. Royalty approached Abigail Van Slyck, the chairwoman of Connecticut Colleges art history department and architectural studies program about the house. The Day referred to the houses historic value as a new discovery, but its history was included in the Winslow Ames House National Register of Historic Places nomination in 1995. The Winslow Ames House nomination detailed the House&#39;s origin, but criticized its gable roof modification. After its re-discovery, Connecticut College began collecting grants to restore the house under the direction of Royalty and Van Slyck. Royalty stated that the House and Winslow Ames House are very rare, with only a few surviving examples in the United States.</p><br>
<p>In April 2007, the leaking roof was repaired. The grant was used to complete lead-paint abatement, which would make conducting other restoration work safer. It was reported that other college grants totaling $15,500 were given for preservation planning, in part by the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The celebration for the House&#39;s completed restoration was held in October 2013. The work was performed by Milner + Carr, a conservation company.</p><br>
<p>The Peterskopf, near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a 487-metre-high hill in the Haardt mountains. On its summit is the Bismarck tower.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The hill lies 3 km northwest of Bad Dürkheim on the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest on the forest estate of the municipality of Kallstadt; the actual village being in the northeast, 4 km away. On the southeastern slope of the hill, 700 metres from the summit, are the ruins of the Weilach farmstead, first mentioned in 1381. The River Isenach flows past the Peterskopf to the southwest before entering the town of Bad Dürkheim.</p><br>
<h3>Accessibility</h3><br>
<p>A tarmac road runs to the Peterskopf from Leistadt, the distance to the car park by Forsthaus Lindemannsruhe (470 m) being 2.5 km. From there the summit may be reached on foot in about ten minutes.</p><br>
<h3>Surrounding area</h3><br>
<p>In the area around the Peterskopf there is a host of historic sites: the Teufelsstein hill to the southeast with its eponymous rock formation, which was a cult site in Celtic times; and a Celtic circular rampart, the Heidenmauer and the Roman quarry of Kriemhildenstuhl on the Kästenberg, a southeastern spur of the Teufelsstein.</p><br>
<p>On the far side of the Isenach valley lie the medieval ruins of Limburg Abbey and the castle of Hardenburg.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>On the summit plateau of the Peterskopf the good 30-metre-high Bismarck tower offers a panoramic view of the Upper Rhine Plain, 400 metres below to the east, the Palatine Forest to the west and its eastern ridge, the Haardt, which runs from north to south. There is a restaurant on the lower floor of the tower.</p><br>
<p>On 27 May 1925 the concrete ceiling of the second viewing platform collapsed whilst a school class was visiting the tower. One schoolboy was killed and several children were injured.</p><br>
<h2>Sport</h2><br>
<p>The Peterskopf is the finish of the annual Bade Durkheim Hill Race (Bad Dürkheimer Berglauf) in October. The route is 8,700 metres long and involves 510 metres of overall climbing, making it the longest and steepest element of the Palatine Hill Running Cup. the hill and its environs are also suitable for mountain bike tours.</p><br>
<p>Latta Historic District No. 1 is a national historic district located at Latta, Dillon County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 47 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Latta. The buildings were erected between about 1890 and 1930. The houses are mostly one- to two-story frame residences with late Victorian era details. In addition, the district has examples of local usage of neo-classical details and more sophisticated examples of the Neo-Classical style. Early 20th century bungalows illustrate the development of the area during the early century. The district also contains the Latta Public Library, the Latta Methodist Church, the Latta Baptist Church, and a few commercial buildings, most notably the Fairey Agency and Dr. L.H. Edwards dentist office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Dillon Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Dillon, Dillon County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 66 contributing buildings in the central business district of Latta. The buildings were erected between about 1903 to 1948. The district’s buildings reflect the one- and two-part commercial blocks found in towns throughout the nation and represent stylistic influences ranging from late Victorian period examples displaying elaborate brick-corbeled cornices and pediments to the more simplified and minimalist Depression-era examples with typical low relief detailing and vertical piers. The 1911 Neo-Classical Dillon County Courthouse, corner stores and banks featuring Classical Revival vocabulary, the brick depot, other highly decorative buildings, as well as modest but intact commercial stores help to define and anchor the district along both the town’s Main Street and its intersecting railroad corridor.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Mary at Templecombe, within the English county of Somerset, was built in the 12th century and is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Abbas and Templecombe, Henstridge and Horsington within the archdeaconry of Wells.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>One of the manors within the parish was held by Earl Leofwine who gave it to Bishop Odo of Bayeux after the Norman Conquest. The church was probably established during the period when the manor was held by Shaftesbury Abbey, but granted to the Knights Templar while it was held by his descendant Serlo FitzOdo. who established a preceptory in the village in 1185. After the Knights Templar were suppressed following the 1307 order by Pope Clement IV, it was granted to the Knights of St John, who held it until the dissolution of the monasteries.</p><br>
<p>Parts of the original 12th-century church remain; however it underwent a major Victorian restoration in the 19th century, which included complete rebuilding of the chancel and the addition of the vestry. The foundations of the tower are probably Saxon.</p><br>
<p>The church was damaged by bombing in World War II. Four bombs falling near the church on its southern side damaged some of the arches in the nave along with the roof and tower, breaking some of the windows and damaging the organ.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stone church is dressed with Hamstone with clay tile roofs. It has a two-bay chancel, four-bay nave and a south transept. The entrance porch is at the southern end of the church at the base of the two-stage tower.</p><br>
<p>In the churchyard is a 15 ft high stone cross which serves as the war memorial for the village. The churchyard also contains four Commonwealth war graves, of two British Army soldiers of World War I and an airman and a WRNS Petty Officer of World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The font was made from Purbeck Marble in the 12th century; however the cover is from 1897. A cup and cover from 1628, two salvers made by Anthony Nelson in 1725 and a flagon from 1845 are included in the church plate.</p><br>
<h3>The Templecombe Head</h3><br>
<p>In the church is a painting on wooden boards of a head, which was discovered in the roof of an outhouse of a local building in 1945. The tenant of the cottage was collecting wood in an outhouse where part of the ceiling had fallen down. She noticed a face above her which was on a wooden panel fixed by wire to the inside of the roof and previously plastered over.</p><br>
<p>The painting is thought to be from the 13th century,</p><br>
<p>Restoration work in the 1950s and again in the 1980s has identified gold stars on the picture and microscopic evidence for bright colours which are no longer in evidence. The colours were present in the 1940s when it was discovered, but impaired when the local vicar cleaned it in his bath with Vim. The addition of a keyhole and hinges at some time in the past suggests it was used as a door.</p><br>
<p>For many years the head has been believed to be that of Christ but without the halo which was the norm in religious iconography at the time. The Knights Templar were suppressed partly because of their use of the image of Christ without the halo. There has been speculation linking the image with the Shroud of Turin. Other explanations suggest the image is not of Christ but of John the Baptist.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Creek Furnace  is a former blast furnace site near Russellville in Franklin County, Alabama. It was the first iron ore furnace in Alabama, preceding an industry that would come to dominate the state&#39;s economy in the late 19th and early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The furnace was built by Joseph Dilliard, who had experience running iron works in his native Pennsylvania, Virginia and in Tennessee. Heslip, Dilliards overseer operated the property in Franklin County around 1818 using slave labor. A cholera outbreak in 1820 killed Heslip and many of the slaves who operated the furnace. The furnace and site were sold in November 1825 and purchased by Josephs son John Dilliard a native of LaGrange Tennessee. John Dilliard operated the iron works implemented many improvements to the process, and the furnace became a commercial success producing high-quality product. The furnace operated until around 1859 to 1863, possibly due to a flood on the creek that reached the furnace and extinguished it, hardening the metal and rendering the furnace inoperable.</p><br>
<p>Before the furnace was constructed, most local blacksmiths used imported iron. The furnace&#39;s pig iron was used by locals and also transported to the Tennessee River near Pickwick Landing and shipped to New Orleans and overseas to London and Paris.</p><br>
<p>Erected 1815 by Joseph Dilliard who used the iron to make utensils for early settlers. Iron was from surface brown ore smelted by charcoal fires.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The furnace was situated in a bend of Cedar Creek, from which it gets its name. The furnace was 15 feet (4.5 meters) high, 25–30 feet (7.5–9 m) in diameter at the base tapering to an 8 feet (2.5 m) diameter chimney at the top. It was built of limestone quarried nearby and lined with refractory brick made on site. It was fired with charcoal made from the surrounding forests. A bellows which supplied the furnace with air was powered by a 12-foot (3.5-m) wide mill race which was diverted from the creek. The mill race also powered a forge hammer, grist mill, and saw mill. A warehouse was built on the river bank, only the foundation of which remains. The overseer&#39;s house was located northeast of the furnace. A small cemetery near the site contains about a dozen graves, mostly unmarked.</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Hall of Natchez, Mississippi, is also known as the Henderson-Britton House and was built in 1858. As a Greek Revival mansion it is a contributing property to the Natchez On Top of the Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Hall was built by Thomas Henderson, a wealthy merchant, planter and cotton broker. The home is one of the finest examples in Natchez of the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>During a bombardment of Natchez by the Union gunboat Essex, a shell hit the soup tureen in Magnolia Hall&#39;s kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The Natchez Garden Club has restored Magnolia Hall. Rooms on the main floor are filled with mid-nineteenth century antiques, while rooms on the upper floors contain a costume collection.</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Hall is open for tours, and there is a gift shop.</p><br>
<p>Peters Hill, , formerly Peter&#39;s Hill  is the highest peak in the Belvidere Range of hills in South Australia, a northern extension of the Mount Lofty Ranges.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Peters Hill sits atop a north-south ridge about 7 km west of the surveyed town of Hamilton and around 8 km nearly due east of the town of Riverton. The surrounding country supports grazing on the higher peaks and dry grain farming on the slopes and plains.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>Peters Hill has been named as such since as early as 1842. Without doubt, the hill is named after William Peter, a Scottish grazier who in 1841 pioneered European settlement in this district. His sheep runs extended all round this hill, one of his head stations being nearby." Peters Hill, as well as the neighbouring Mr Peters Head Station, are both marked and named on a survey plan drawn up in 1842 for the Secondary Towns Association.</p><br>
<p>Despite that evidence, some history sources have caused confusion by citing alternative origins which are obviously incorrect. Among these are the Manning Index. This identifies three sources for the hills name. One is William Spence Peter, as already mentioned. Another asserts it was named after “Peter Inkster (c.1829-1917), an early settler.”, However, Inkster did not migrate to South Australia until 1852, by which time the name had been in use for at least ten years. Lastly, it was supposedly named Petatz Hill&#39; after Martin Petatz, a Germanic settler who owned a nearby property. However, Petatz’s name is not recorded in official records as a landholder. More likely, Petatz is simply a translated form of the name Peter.</p><br>
<p>The William L. Holmes House, also known as Rose Farm, was built in 1848 by William L. Holmes in Oregon City, Oregon. One of the oldest structures in Oregon, it was the site of the inauguration of the first Territorial Governor of Oregon, Joseph Lane in 1849. The house replaced an 1844 log cabin built by Holmes, a South Carolina native who moved with his family to Oregon in 1843.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 2-1/2 story frame structure. It has been extensively altered, with the removal of a rear ell. The changes have not been well documented, and the National Register of Historic Places nomination notes that information about the house, including its Historic American Buildings Survey data, includes "romanticized misinformation."</p><br>
<p>The Holmes house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Timberville Historic District encompasses the historic center of the small town of Timberville, Virginia, which straddles the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in Rockingham County. Although the area was settled in the mid-18th century , the area did not develop economically until after the arrival of the railroad in 1868. The area saw significant development in the early 20th century, developing a commercial center north of the river. Businesses migrated south of the river in the mid-20th century, and the area&#39;s economy declined in the 1960s. The district includes a number of Italianate commercial buildings, a streamlined Moderne gas station, and housing in a wide variety of styles dating from the 18th to 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Holman & Merriman Machine Shop, also known as the Derby Shop, Goodnow Pail Factory, L. A. Carpenter Machine Shop, and Streeter Shop, is an historic industrial building at 63 Canal Street in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. This three story brick building, built in 1837, is the only building with a clerestory roof in Hinsdale, and one of only four in the state. This feature enabled the construction of larger industrial buildings prior to the introduction of artificial lighting. It is also distinctive as the only known example in the state of a building purpose built as a large-scale cooperage. The building is prominently sited immediately adjacent to Canal Street in eastern Hinsdale.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Kehrsatz Castle  is a castle in the municipality of Kehrsatz of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle was built in the late 16th century. In 1795 Emanuel von Tscharner purchased it from the family of General Karl Hackbrett. The Tscharner family already owned two other estates in Kehrsatz, Lohn Estate and Blumenhof. The 1798 French invasion and creation of the Helvetic Republic reduced the political power of the local patricians, but the Tscharner family retained ownership of all three estates. However, over the following years, the estates were inherited by various members of the family and eventually sold. In 1862 the Tscharners in Kehrsatz Castle died childless and bequeathed it to the Inselspital in Bern.</p><br>
<p>In 1889 the castle became a girls&#39; boarding school. Between 1950-54, most of the surrounding farm land was leased out, the old barn was demolished and a farm house was built. The building was eventually changed from a girls school into a school for children and parents who had trouble socializing or needed therapy. In 1998, two public school homes, Landorf Köniz and Schlossli Kehrsatz, were combined into a single institution.</p><br>
<h2>Owners of the castle</h2><br>
<p>Old Town is an historic neighborhood of College Park, Maryland. It is roughly bounded by the University of Maryland campus, the B&O Railroad tracks, and US Route 1. The area was platted out in 1889, and built out over the next several decades, its developers seeking to attract commuters to Baltimore and Washington, DC, and individuals affiliated with the Maryland Agricultural College . Most of the neighborhood is residential, with American Foursquare and Cape style housing predominating. Closer to the university campus, the developers built garden-style apartment houses and other types of housing to cater to the academic community. The major non-residential structures are a Gothic Revival church, and a modern post office and Washington Metro station.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Lamprechtsofen  is a limestone karst river cave in Austria. With a depth of 1,632 m, it is one of the deepest caves in the world. Before the discovery of the Krubera Cave in Georgia, it was the deepest-known cave in the world. Lamprechtsofen is located 2 km northwest of Weißbach bei Lofer , Austria, in the Leogang Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>The cave has been known for centuries. In 1701 it was walled up to prevent the intrusion of treasure seekers, who were lured to the cave by legends of wealth hidden by a knight named Lamprecht after the Crusades.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, several human skeletons were found in the cave, probably the remains of treasure hunters. At the same time, a 600 m portion of the cave was opened to the public as a show cave.</p><br>
<h3>Exploration and depth record</h3><br>
<p>The exploration of Lamprechtsofen has been primarily conducted from the bottom (from the resurgence of its cave river), rather than the top-down exploration typical for vertical caves.</p><br>
<p>On August 19, 1998, a team led by Polish caver Andrzej Ciszewski discovered a connection between Lamprechtsofen and the PL-2 cave system, which established the height difference of the united cave system as 1,632 m. This new discovery made Lamprechtsofen the deepest-known cave in the world for less than three years, since Krubera was discovered in June 2001 to be 2,197 m deep.</p><br>
<p>As of 2014, Lamprechtsofen is the fourth-deepest cave in the world, since two more Georgian caves have since been discovered to be deeper. Sarma Cave is 1,830 m and Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya Cave is 1,753 m.</p><br>
<h2>Show cave</h2><br>
<p>Today, about 700 m are open to visitors, a portion of the cave that covers a 70 m altitude difference.</p><br>
<p>Because of the cave&#39;s river, it is subject to flooding from heavy rain and melting snow. As such, visitors and explorers have been occasionally trapped in the cave.</p><br>
<p>The Crenshaw-Burleigh House is a historic house at 108 North Main Street in Dermott, Arkansas. The two story wood frame house was built in 1903 to replace the Crenshaw house that burned in 1902, and is a distinctive early example of Colonial Revival architecture. Its first owner was Anna Crawford Crenshaw, granddaughter of Hon William Harris Crawford; its second owners were James Sherer Burleigh and Mattie Crenshaw Burleigh . The house has a gambrel roof with cross gables, and a wraparound porch supported by Tuscan columns. The second floor, built into the steep section of the gambrel roof has gable dormers with architrave surrounds. An elevator was added by the Burleighs after Sherer had a heart attack. Mattie Burleigh lived here until her death in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Oates House  is a historic home in Abbeville, Alabama. The house was originally built in 1900 by local farmer Ephraim Oates, cousin of Alabama Governor William C. Oates. In 1910, he greatly expanded the house, adding a second story and remodeling it in a Neoclassical style. The house was purchased in 1927 by the Shoemaker family, who added floor-to-ceiling casement windows to the front rooms.</p><br>
<p>The main façade is dominated by four Tuscan columns supporting a triangular pediment, creating a full-height entry portico. The main entrance has a transom and sidelights, and is flanked by floor-to-ceiling casement windows with a balcony above. End windows on the first floor and the four second floor windows are two-over-two double hung sash windows. The north side of the house features a porte-cochère supported by two Tuscan columns, with a balcony above. A shed-roofed sleeping porch adorns the south side, and on the rear is a one-story kitchen addition and screened porch. The interior features a central hall with rooms on either side on both floors.</p><br>
<p>D&#39;Evereux is a mansion in Natchez, Mississippi, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>D’Evereux was built for William St. John Elliot, a wealthy planter, and his wife Anna Conner. The couple were social leaders in Natchez, and the home was named for Elliots mothers family.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1840, D’Evereux is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in Natchez. The builders and architects are not known, though in the home&#39;s attic are the signatures of William Ledbetter of Virginia, and P.H. Hardy of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>D’Evereux was one of the first residential structures in Natchez built with a full-length two-story portico. The six fluted Doric columns are spaced 12 ft apart and are each 24 ft in height. The home included the first cupola in a Natchez mansion.</p><br>
<p>D’Evereux is currently a private residence and there are no tours.</p><br>
<p>The Crown Wetlands lie on Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. Collectively they form one of the territory’s Important Bird Areas .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Crown Wetlands cover about 40% of the area of the island. Apart from Tarpon Lake they all dry out seasonally. They vary greatly in size and consist of four distinct types:</p><br>
<p>* On the northern and southern coasts, there are several hypersaline lagoons surrounded mainly by mangroves. They comprise the Tarpon Lake complex (236 ha), Grape Tree Pond (10 ha), Jackson&#39;s Pond (9 ha), Spot Bay Pond (5 ha), Sandy Point Pond (3.5 ha), Easterly Pond (3 ha) and Rosetta Flats Pond (2 ha). The fringing vegetation consists of varying combinations of four mangrove species mixed with Cordia sebestena, Rhabdadenia biflora and Thespesia populnea.</p><br>
<p>* At the south-western end of the island, near Preston Bay, there are 8.4 ha of brackish wetlands. They support a shrubby vegetation of Conocarpus, Laguncularia and Acrostichum aureum, as well as the herbaceous Rhachiallis americana, Ruppia maritima, Salicornia bigelovii and Sesuvium portulacastrum.</p><br>
<p>* The 8.5 ha Charles Bight Pond, on the eastern bluff, has a monospecific stand of Conocarpus sp.</p><br>
<p>* Coot Pond on the south-eastern coast is a 0.1 ha ephemeral freshwater wetland that supports Conocarpus grassland.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The IBA was identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of West Indian whistling ducks (with 135 breeding pairs), least terns (with 60 breeding pairs) and white-crowned pigeons.</p><br>
<p>The Eastern Dry Forest lies at the eastern end of Grand Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. It is one of the territory’s Important Bird Areas .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Eastern Dry Forest is a 239 ha tract of native tropical dry forest lying north of the town of East End. The only area of dry forest left at the eastern end of the island, it is privately owned, unprotected and is subject to clearance and fragmentation. In the 1980s the site contained some of the largest trees on the island and was an important breeding site for parrots.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The IBA was identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of Cuban amazons, Caribbean elaenias, thick-billed vireos, Yucatan vireos and vitelline warblers.</p><br>
<p>The Horace L Dibble House was built circa 1859 in Molalla, Oregon for Horace Lasalle Dibble and his family. The house is unusual as an example of a saltbox, a dwelling type more commonly associated with Colonial-era New England. The timber-framed house has two stories on the eastern main facade, and one story in the rear. It is unusual for a Settlement Era house to have such large rooms, large windows, and two fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>Dibble was born in Madison County, New York in 1815 to Thomas and Ruth Gates Dibble. He married his wife Julia Ann Sturges in Van Buren County, Iowa in July 1845. In 1852, Horace, Julia, their three children, along with members of the Sturges family, traveled overland to Oregon and settled in the Needy area of the Willamette Valley. While riding out looking for lost cattle, Horace came upon a knoll covered with apple trees not far from the four corners of what is now Molalla. He decided that this is where he wanted to live out his life, and arranged to purchase the land belonging to the widow Rachel Larkins. He hired a local builder who was a former seafarer, who took three years to build the house. The Dibbles and their then 6 children moved into their new home in 1859. Two more children were born to them in the house. The family lived in the home until 1909. Horace died in 1899, a man noted for his thrift. Julia died in 1904, and was a loving mother, a kind friend, and as long as she was physically able, was very ready to extend a helping hand to the sick and needy.</p><br>
<p>In 1909 the house was rented and then sold to Dudley and Goldie Boyles. They lived in the house only until 1914, when Dudley was elected Clackamas County Recorder, and they moved to Oregon City. In 1930 Dudley lost his life in an automobile accident, leaving Goldie with two daughters to raise. She maintained ownership of the house, renting it out, until she was finally able to return to Molalla and live in the house until her death in 1968. Her heirs then sold the house to Ruth McBride (Mrs Albert) Powers, who did some immediate restoration work and arranged for the house to be purchased by the Molalla Area Historical Society. The historical society was incorporated in January 1970 for the purpose of restoring the Dibble house and using it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Dibble House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1974. The Dibble House is operated as a museum by the Molalla Area Historical Society, together with the Fred Vonder Ahe House and Ivor Davies Hall. The museum is open for tours on Fridays and Saturdays from 1-4 PM from May through October, and by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The Haverhill Corner Historic District encompasses the early civic center of Haverhill, New Hampshire, United States. The district is focused on the junction of New Hampshire Route 10 and Court Street, which was historically a major through route. Court Street is flanked at the junction by a pair of large grassy common areas which are bounded by School Street and Route 10. Buildings, predominantly Federal in character and built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, are arrayed around these commons, and historic buildings line Route 10 and Court Street for a short distance away from the commons. Prominent buildings in the district include the 1827 Federal-style First Congregational Church, the 1840 former courthouse that now houses the public library and local historical society, and the Romanesque Revival 1897 Haverhill Academy Junior High School building. The area declined in importance after the railroad bypassed it, resulting in the gradual relocation of civic functions to the Woodsville area.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Becaguimec Stream is a minor tributary of the Saint John River in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick. It rises in the hilly,woods along the county line dividing Carleton County, Canada from York County, Canada in the western region of the province. Its watershed is adjacent to the South Branch of the Southwest Miramichi River, the Nashwaak River, the Keswick River and the Nackawic Stream.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Three primary branches, the North Branch Becaguimec, the South Branch Becaguimec and the Cold Stream compose the Becaguimec Stream. The Cold Stream originates from springs on the western slope of Skedaddle Ridge and the eastern slope of Garvie Mountain in the community of Knowlesville. The North Branch originates in three tiny lakes only a short distance west of the upper reaches of the Nashwaak River: Malcolm Lake, Long Lake and Owl Lake respectively. The South Branch flows from Becaguimec Lake 13 kilometres southeast of the community of Cloverdale. Where the North and South Branches meet is known as the Becaguimec Forks, lying just northwest of the intersection of Provincial Highway 104 and Provincial Highway 575. After that point the stream is sometimes called the Mainstream, from which the adjacent community derives its name. The stream is slow-paced and meandering between the forks and Mill Brook near Ashland, not infrequently changing course because of floods. The gradient of the stream increases from Mill Brook towards the Saint John River. There are several notable eddies and Class 2 rapids along this stretch, not the least of which is known as Hell’s Eddy, 2 miles upstream from the stream’s mouth. The Becaguimec enters the Saint John River at the town of Hartland, the site of the world&#39;s longest covered bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Fishery</h2><br>
<p>The notable fish species found predominately in the upper reaches of the Becaguimec are brown trout and rainbow trout. The best time of year for fishing trout is from mid-May to mid-June, after the sediment clears from the water after the thaw, but before the summer heat increases the water temperature.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people named the river for the bountiful salmon pool which lay at the mouth of the stream. The name "Becaguimec" literally means "the place where the salmon lie." The construction of the hydroelectric dam at Mactaquac Dam in 1967 has since decimated the salmon population in the Saint John River.</p><br>
<p>The fertile land at the mouth of the Becaguimec has likely been inhabited for millennia. The hill above the south bank of the stream’s mouth (Hagerman’s Hill) made an exceptional look-out point from which several miles up the Saint John River can be seen. One of the earliest records of permanent settlement at this site indicates that in 1790 a Wolastoqiyik man by the name of Governor Toma was found "tilling his cornfield" at the mouth of the Becaguimec. The first white settler to arrive at the mouth of the Becaguimec was Loyalist William Orser in 1797. Several more families soon followed and a community coalesced known as Mouth of ‘Guimac. Mouth of ‘Guimac was renamed Hartland in 1860. Settlement of the Becaguimec Valley itself began with the establishment of the community of Rockland in 1825 and Coldstream in or about 1826.</p><br>
<h2>Covered bridges</h2><br>
<p>Only one of the three covered bridges that once crossed the Becaguimec Stream remains standing. The Mangrum or Stormdale Bridge (Becaguimec Stream No. 3), which was constructed in 1909, burned in 2011. The Adair Bridge (North Becaguimec No. 1), which was constructed in 1948, burned in 2009. Only the Ellis Bridge (North Becaguimec No. 4) remains.</p><br>
<h2>Mills</h2><br>
<p>It is not clear when the first water-driven grist (flour) mill at the mouth of the Becaguimec was established; however it was recorded in the Carleton Sentinel that this mill burned in 1853. A new grist mill and sawmill was then established at some point between the fire and 1872 by Benjamin Jewett. The mill was then leased to Alexander Shaw in 1887 who introduced a steam engine to the operation the following year. Jewett eventually sold the mill to Al Sawyer, a lumber merchant from St. Stephen, under whose direction the mill expanded and began to ship lumber directly to St. Stephen by rail. Sawyer sold the mill in 1905 to Fred E. Sayre. The administration of the mill then passed on to Fred Sayre’s son, John Sayre who closed in the mill in 1928, after being reconstructed the previous year due to a 1926 fire.</p><br>
<h2>Alternative spellings</h2><br>
<p>Becaguimic, Becaguimac, Bekagoomik, Abekagumic</p><br>
<p>Bush Mountain, at an elevation of 8,631 ft is the second highest peak in the USA state of Texas. Located in the Guadalupe Mountains of Culberson County, Bush Mountain is about 2.87 mi northwest of Guadalupe Peak, its nearest higher neighbor. Its proximity to Guadalupe Peak gives Bush Mountain the 22nd greatest prominence of any mountain in Texas at 951 ft. Bush Mountain is within the Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness of Guadalupe Mountains National Park and can only be accessed via hiking or horseback.</p><br>
<p>Bush Mountain can be accessed via trailheads at both Pine Springs (6.7 mi one way) and Dog Canyon in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and the Bush Mountain Trail passes over the summit of the mountain. The Bush Mountain Campground is located along the trail just below the southeast side of the summit, and the National Park Service has a radio repeater on the summit.</p><br>
