<p>The Col du Petit Ballon  is a mountain pass situated in the Vosges Mountains in the Haut-Rhin department of France, close to the summit of the Petit Ballon mountain .</p><br>
<p>It was crossed on Stage 10 of the 2014 Tour de France cycle race.</p><br>
<h2>Details of climb</h2><br>
<p>From the north, the climb starts in Munster from where the climb is 11.6 km long, gaining 773 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 6.7%. The climb proper starts at Luttenbach-près-Munster, where it leaves the D10. From here, the climb is 9.3 km long, at an average gradient of 8.1%.</p><br>
<p>From the north-west, the climb starts at Metzeral, passing through the village of Sondernach, where the route leaves the D10. The total distance is 12.8 km, gaining 678 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 5.3%.</p><br>
<p>It is also possible to access the col via the D43 from Wihr-au-Val to the north-east from where the climb is 16.0 km long, gaining 1,163 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 5.3%.</p><br>
<h2>Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>The col was used for the first time on Stage 10 of the 2014 Tour de France, when the leader over the summit was the Spanish rider, Joaquim Rodríguez.</p><br>
<p>The Col du Platzerwasel  is a mountain pass situated in the Vosges Mountains in the Haut-Rhin department of France, between Sondernach and Le Markstein. It has been crossed occasionally during the Tour de France cycle race, including on Stage 10 of the 2014 race.</p><br>
<h2>Details of climb</h2><br>
<p>From the north-east, the climb starts in Munster from where the climb is 16.2 km long, gaining 781 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 4.8%. At Sondernach, the climb meets the descent from the Col du Petit Ballon; from here the summit is 7.1 km at an average gradient of 8.4%. The steepest sections of the climb are at a gradient of 9.6% between 6 km and 4 km from the summit.</p><br>
<h2>Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>Including 2014, the col has been crossed three times by the Tour de France.</p><br>
<p>On the 10th stage of the 2014 Tour de France, Alberto Contador crashed on the descent from the Col du Platzerwasel, breaking his tibia. After riding on for 20 km, he eventually abandoned the Tour.</p><br>
<p>The Pelska  is a river in southeastern Estonia, although its headwaters are on Russian territory.</p><br>
<p>The river has little organic matter in it, but it belongs to the “List of spawning places and habitation of salmon, brown trout, sea trout and grayling” in Estonia. The length of the river is 5.5 km, river basin is 85.2 km². Võmmorski village is situated by the river.</p><br>
<p>The Pelska belongs to the “List of spawning places and habitation of salmon, brown trout, sea trout and grayling” in Estonia (RTL 2004, 87 1362). The name of the river is derived from the village of Pelska, through which the river flows on the Russian side of the border. On Estonian territory, the river flows through the village of Seto and is also called the Pelska Stream. The name Belka has come into use through Russian topographic maps. The river is a public watercourse in Estonia. The information about the size of its basin is based on accurate, contemporary information. Basin information is provided by the Land Improvement Offices put together in 2008 and 2009, or in the absence of it, information about the surface area of basins calculated from the 1990s drainage area map is used. Earlier used sources or other sources used for basin size: The list of 1986 - 85.2 km²; calculated from the basin map put together in the end of 1990s - 14.9 km².</p><br>
<p>The Mustoja and Helbi streams flow into the Pelska; the river itself discharges into the Piusa. The catfish (Cottus cobio) is well-known among the species of fish in the river.</p><br>
<p>The Nutter-Rymes House is a historic house at 48 School Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1809, it is an unusual double house with an arched carriageway in the middle, and an important surviving early example of urban residential design in the city. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nutter-Rymes House stands in The Hill, a cluster of closely spaced historic houses bounded on the north by Deer Street and the east by High Street at the northern edge of downtown Portsmouth. This grouping was created by a road widening project from houses originally located on or near Deer Street. This house, located at the southeastern corner of The Hill, is one of the few in the group that remains at its original location. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its most distinctive feature is the large central keystoned arch, which originally provided a vehicular passage between the two halves of the building. The building entrances are located at the outermost bays of the long southern facade.</p><br>
<p>The two houses were built by James Nutter for himself and Christopher Rymes, a merchant and real estate speculator, and were originally mirror-image duplicates. The house is important because Nutter was a major local builder at the time, and the house serves as a window into his building practices. It is also an early surviving example in the city of a house that was specifically designed for an urban setting, rather than being an adaptation of an older rural form.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Pinkham House is a historic house at 400 The Hill in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built c. 1813–15, it is one of the finest Federal period houses surviving on the city&#39;s north side. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Pinkham House is one of a cluster of houses known as The Hill, located south of Deer Street north of downtown Portsmouth, that was created as the result of a road works project in the 1970s. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide with a center entrance; the windows are simply trimmed, with smaller windows on the third floor. Its front entry is flanked by Adamesque pilasters with rope molding, and topped by a semicircular fanlight window. The interior features original cornices, doors, and other woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1813–15 by Daniel and Isaac Pinkham, in the wake of Portland&#39;s devastating 1813 fire. The latter was a noted local cabinetmaker, whose work is presumed to decorate the interior. Although its exterior was altered in the late 19th century by the addition of Victorian elements, these were removed when the house was renovated and moved in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Parsons Homestead is a historic house at 520 Washington Road in Rye, New Hampshire. Probably built about 1800 but including portions of older buildings, it is a well-preserved example of a distinctive local variant of the Federal style of architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Parsons Homestead stands in the village center of Rye, on the southeast side of Washington Road, nearly opposite its junction with Lang Road. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has two interior brick chimneys, and a five-bay front facade. The central bay is a two-story gabled projection, a distinctive local variant of the Federal style that is now seen in only a few surviving examples. The main entrance is at the base of the projection, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a half-round transom. Sash windows are placed in the other bays, framed by moulded surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The construction date of this house is traditionally given as 1757, but there is no significant architectural evidence supporting a construction date before about 1800. Portions of the house (a stairway and some posts) appear to have been recycled from an older house. The interior woodwork is among the finest of the period in Rye. The builder of the house is not known.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Jenkins Mikell House is an imposing Greek Revival residence in the style of grand Italian villa that was built in 1853-1854 by Edisto Island cotton planter Isaac Jenkins Mikell for his third wife, Mary Martha Pope. The house should not be confused with Peter&#39;s Point Plantation, an Edisto Island plantation built in about 1840 by Isaac Jenkins Mikell which is also sometimes referred to as the Isaac Jenkins Mikell House.</p><br>
<p>The southern facade (overlooking Montagu Street) is dominated by a pedimented portico with six columns with Composite capitals carved from cypress and ornamented with rams’ heads. In addition to the main house, there is a kitchen building and separate coach house on the premises.</p><br>
<p>The house was bought in 1935 by the Charleston Free Library and served as a public library until the early 1960s when it was sold and restored as a private residence. In 2008, the house sold for $4.8 million to Manhattan socialite Patricia Altschul. The house was frequently featured on the Bravo television reality show, Southern Charm; Altschul is the mother of one of the program&#39;s regular cast, filmmaker Whitney Sudler-Smith, who is also executive producer of the show. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1938 and was the first centralized municipal hospital to treat indigent patients in Houston, Texas. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The building, located in Houston&#39;s Historic First Ward, was designated as a protected historic landmark on November 13, 2013, by the Houston City Council and is monitored by the Historic Preservation Office of the City of Houston Department of Planning and Development.</p><br>
<p>The location of the former hospital has gained notoriety as a stigmatized property due to public perception of its haunted origins.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of the hospital building, the lot was used as the former municipal cemetery and burial grounds for the City of Houston where thousands of Confederate States Army soldiers, former slaves, and city officials were laid to rest. The municipal cemetery operated on the lot from 1840 until the mid-1890s when it fell into decay, resulting in the reclassification of the lot for use as a municipal hospital by the Houston City Council in the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural style</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Wilkes Alfred Dowdy, Architect for the City of Houston, the building for Jefferson Davis Hospital was constructed as a 4-story red brick structure with handsomely detailed façade that included stone veneers and rows of double-hung windows.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior design</h3><br>
<p>The cast stone detailing, portico, and brick corner quoins, are elements of the Classical Revival style that was popular in the early 20th century. The building entrance is a square portico that is framed by four monumental Ionic fluted capital and pilaster columns. The front façade features several square rock stone walls that are believed to have been either gravestones salvaged from the original cemetery or flower beds, although neither use has been confirmed. Other neo-classical elements included keystones over the basement windows and keystones over the pedimented entry doors at the basement level.</p><br>
<p>The architect leveraged high ceilings and rows of numerous large windows to harness sunlight and increase ventilation, thus avoiding the cost of more expensive decorative adornments. The raised placement of the building atop an above-ground basement, paired with the buildings location on a high ridge, enhanced the flow of cross-through breezes. The tall stature of the building emphasized ventilation, which was considered as a method of combating airborne illnesses and increase the spirits of the critically ill and dying who inhabited the facilities. The second and third floors of the building featured two screened balconies to allow patients an opportunity to enjoy fresh-air without having to leave the hospital premises.</p><br>
<h3>Interior design</h3><br>
<p>In contrast to the lavish exterior, the interior features of the building were simple and unadorned, which appropriately reflected its establishment as a charity hospital for the indigent. A children&#39;s rooftop garden and playground also enhanced the traversable function of the building without increasing its overall size.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, W.O. Neohaus and Associates in collaboration with Development Partner Avenue Community Development Corporation, underwent a $6.3 million renovation project sponsored by Artspace to restore the building.</p><br>
<h2>Occupancy and tenants</h2><br>
<h3>Pre-construction era (1840–1924)</h3><br>
<p>Prior to its construction, the property was first used as a municipal cemetery beginning in the 1840s to replace Old City Cemetery. Over the next few decades, thousands of people were buried on the site and it became the final resting place for over 6,000 Confederate soldiers, former slaves, and city officials. Also included among the graves were thousands of victims of the yellow fever and cholera epidemics. Use of the location as a cemetery by the city discontinued in the 1879, although family burials continued into the 1890s. By the early 1900s, the cemetery was in a gross state of deterioration due to a lack of maintenance, causing the city to reconsider use of the location for public health services.</p><br>
<h3>Operating years of Jefferson Davis Hospital (1924–1938)</h3><br>
<p>In the early 1920s, the Houston City Council began planning the construction of Jefferson Davis Hospital. Controversy erupted over the proposal that the hospital would disturb the graves of those resting in the former municipal cemetery. When construction began in 1924, the basement of the building was placed above ground in the effort to dispel the public controversy and to leave the graves undisturbed. Although many graves were relocated, later discoveries revealed that there had been no widespread removal of remains.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was named for Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, in honor of the Confederate soldiers who had been buried in the cemetery and as a means to console the families of the deceased.</p><br>
<p>Construction was completed in 1924 and the hospital opened its doors to patients in 1925.</p><br>
<h3>Mixed use (1938–1986)</h3><br>
<p>Secondary city-operated medical services were offered in the building until 1939 when the remaining clinical facilities relocated to Buffalo Drive (now known as Allen Parkway) in a facility called Jefferson Davis, which later become a community clinic and psychiatric treatment center. The similarity between the two facilities, Jefferson Davis Hospital and Jefferson Davis on Allen Parkway, has been the source of confusion for many commentators, resulting in false rumors that Jefferson Davis Hospital was once a mental asylum.</p><br>
<p>During the period following the closing of Jefferson Davis Hospital, the building underwent numerous tenancy transfers. The building was first retained by the Harris County Hospital District as a medical records storage facility.</p><br>
<p>The probation office also inhabited a building next to the site that is also rumored to be haunted, due to its sharing of the same cemetery as the hospital building, the morgue of the former Jefferson Davis Hospital, and because it is bordered by the black earth graves, which are theorized to have been left by an English colony dating back to the 1600s. Reports of paranormal activity in the probation building have included: noises in the attic, a woman spotted in the upper stories that is believed to have been used as a dormitory for the nurses who worked at Jefferson Davis Hospital, and figures entering the ladies&#39; restroom never to be seen again, and police dogs which refused to enter the building when a fire alarm was triggered.</p><br>
<h3>Abandonment and vacancy (1985–2003)</h3><br>
<p>Half the windows in the four-story building are boarded up. The rest are wide open to the weather, which, along with a generation or two of vandals and squatters, has wreaked havoc on the inside. Plaster curls off the walls. The dirt-encrusted floors are covered with glass slides stained with indistinguishable bodily fluids. Each room has become the repository for a different type of junk: old gurneys, office furniture, surgical scrubs. A nurse&#39;s station is piled waist-high with filthy mattresses. A restroom floor is lined, wall to wall, with bags of plastic cups and lids. Weeds grow out of every crack. Trees have somehow taken root in the concrete sills of blown-out windows."</p><br>
<p>Senator John Cornyn&#39;s office described the building as, "a magnet for gangs and the homeless, as well as an attractive nuisance for youths." Due to its reputation for paranormal activity, the building had garnered tradition among the local population as a landmark that offered could be broken into on Halloween night for no-cost thrills.</p><br>
<p>In 1995, the site of the former Jefferson Davis Hospital was listed as a State Archaeological Landmark because of the lot&#39;s prior use as a major municipal cemetery.</p><br>
<h3>Historical declaration and rehabilitation (2003 to present)</h3><br>
<p>In March 2002, the City of Houston Archeological and Historical Commission (HAHC) approved the notion of declaring the building a city landmark.</p><br>
<p>On June 20, 2002, the Harris County Commissioners approved the sale of Jefferson Davis Hospital to Avenue Community Development Corporation (popularly known as Avenue CDC) and ArtSpace Projects Inc. of Minneapolis, which pledged to rehabilitate the dilapidated property. The building was in a severe state of dilapidation due to its prolonged period of vacancy.</p><br>
<p>31 July 2003: A group of college students looking for ghosts was robbed on the premises. KTRK Television reports that the robbers fired gunshots at them, but no one was hurt.</p><br>
<p>Efforts towards rehabilitation began in 2003, resulting in what was to become a substantial $6.3 million renovation project. The project would convert the former hospital quarters into a combined total of 34 artist lofts and residential housing units, now known as the Elder Street Artist Lofts. Funding for the project was provided in part by the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Development. The United States Environmental Protection Agency also granted $200,000 for environmental clean-up that included asbestos abatement, lead abatement, and the removal of an underground storage tank. Construction planning commenced in 2003 and work began on September 23, 2004.</p><br>
<p>Due to the sites designation as a historical landmark and building, the USA Department of the Interior carefully monitored the rehabilitation through the Texas Historical Commission. The overall footprint of the interior space was to be preserved and a historically accurate restoration helped to restore the plaster walls, the interior window frames that were designed with curved-corners, and the modillion blocks at the buildings eaves. The concrete ceilings were left exposed and are crisscrossed with a modern intricate weaving of utility conduits, which avoided the need to modify the interior walls. Exterior preservation was also monitored to ensure historical accuracy. An archaeological survey of the property was required to precede construction to be sure that existing graves were not disturbed since the site was a designated State Archaeological Landmark. Many of the exterior bricks had to be replaced and the walls repointed. The roof where the childrens garden and playground once sat was replicated with asphalt of a similar color to the original tile that had fallen into severe disrepair.</p><br>
<p>Restoration was completed on the former Jefferson Davis Hospital building in 2005, although an unrestored building remained on the East side of the property. In 2013, the remaining unrestored portion of the historic Jefferson Davis Hospital Building was destroyed in a two-alarm fire that resulted in one casualty by a Houston firefighter struck by a falling piece of burning tile.</p><br>
<p>Following its completion the building was renamed the Elder Street Artists Lofts. The 34 residential/studio units were originally intended for only artists&#39; occupancy, but was later opened to the community-at-large. HGTV presented the developers with a "Restore America award".</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<h3>Film</h3><br>
<p>The former Jefferson Davis Hospital building was featured in the Hollywood production of Robocop 2 as the location where the fictitious drug "nuke" was manufactured.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank is a historic bank building in Huntsville, Alabama. The temple-form Greek Revival structure was built in 1835–1836. Designed by locally famous architect George Steele, it occupies a prominent position, facing the courthouse square and sitting on a bluff directly above the Big Spring. It was the longest-serving bank building in Alabama, operating until 2010 when Regions Bank moved their downtown branch to a new location. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The First National Bank building is situated on the west side of Courthouse Square, on a bluff above the Big Spring and Big Spring Park. The site is where the founder of Huntsville, John Hunt, built his cabin in 1805. The first bank to open in what was then the Mississippi Territory was the Planters and Merchants Bank, chartered in 1817. Beginning in 1818, they occupied a small brick building on the square, which had been built as a mercantile store two years prior. Despite its long list of wealthy local investors, the bank soon became over-leveraged. Governor Israel Pickens ordered the bank to be shut down in 1822, but legal challenges staved off dissolution until 1825. The bank&#39;s building burned sometime between 1828 and 1830.</p><br>
<p>Pickens won re-election as Governor in 1823, running on a platform that included the establishment of a state bank. The bank was founded in 1824 in the capital, Cahaba, moving to Tuscaloosa along with the government in 1826. Assets came from bond sales and trust funds owned by the State. Branches were established in Mobile, Montgomery, and Decatur in 1832. Feeling slighted that the North Alabama branch was given to the younger and smaller Decatur, Huntsville legislators fought for a branch, which was awarded in 1835. Construction of the building was completed the following year.</p><br>
<p>The availability of credit further fueled the land rush known as Alabama Fever. The banks provided enough revenue to the state government that the legislature abolished state taxes. The good times were short-lived, as the bank quickly became over-leveraged in the Panic of 1837. Benjamin Fitzpatrick was elected Governor in 1841, promising to shut down the state bank. The charter expired in 1844, and was not renewed; the bank&#39;s debts were not settled until 1853.</p><br>
<p>The same year, the Northern Bank of Alabama was founded in the old State Bank building. It operated until the Civil War, when Union troops occupied Huntsville in 1862. During the war, the building was used as a commissary. At the end of the war, the National Bank of Huntsville was founded, using assets hidden from Union troops inside the building. In 1889 the bank changed its name to the First National Bank of Huntsville. First National merged with the Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham to form the First Alabama Bank in 1971. First Alabama changed its name to Regions Bank in 1992. Regions occupied the building until February 2010, when they moved their downtown branch to a larger location and donated the building to a non-profit redevelopment group.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The National Bank represented a shift in architectural design, both for architect George Steele, and for North Alabama as a whole. Prior to submitting a bid for the bank, most of Steele&#39;s work was in the Federal style, which was popular in the first quarter of the 19th century. Steele drew inspiration for his design from a trip to Washington, D.C. and Charlottesville, Virginia. The building is similar in form to the Bank of Pennsylvania and has a similar floorplan to the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, both buildings featured in pattern books of the day. Steele also won the bid for the second Madison County Courthouse, another temple-form Greek Revival building located across from the bank and completed in 1840.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the building is 53 feet (16 m) wide by 77 feet (23.5 m) long. The hexastyle portico and façade are constructed of locally quarried limestone blocks, with the rest of the building constructed of stuccoed brick. The Ionic columns support a plain entablature, adorned only with the name of the bank (currently Regions). The 15 foot (4.5 m) tall double entry doors are made of red cedar, and have five square relief panels each. Two smaller doors, which open directly into front offices, flank the main door, each of which is topped with a four-panel transom; these doors were added in 1899. An iron-railed balcony formerly stretched across the middle portion of the front, but was removed sometime between 1934 and 1973. Windows on the second floor façade and sides are sashes, with five narrow, vertical panes in the top and two in the bottom. First floor windows along the sides are six-over-six sashes. The small cupola and weather vane atop the copper gable roof are from the second Madison County Courthouse, which was demolished in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance to the building opens into a vestibule which is flanked by the two offices. The vestibule opens into the main lobby area, which is bisected by the mahogany tellers desk. Between the teller stations, the desk has columns and entablature that mimic the façade. A tellers room and the directors room are behind the desk, on either side of the bank vault. A fireplace mantel in the directors room also mimics the façade with Ionic pilasters. A service room and stair hall are at the rear of the building. The second floor was living quarters for the cashier, which was required by law when the bank was built.</p><br>
<p>Behind the main block, off the southeast corner, is a two-story wing, originally used as slave quarters. There are four rooms on each floor, and four more in the basement. A stair loggia with a deck above opened onto a sidewalk between the main building and Fountain Circle; the loggia was enclosed and access to the deck removed sometime after 1934. The northwest side was originally an open courtyard overlooking the Big Spring, but further additions now cover the entire area. The basement was used to house slaves who were being kept as collateral for mortgages by their owners. Windows on both floors on the Fountain Circle side are the same as those on the second floor of the main building. A door to the basement was removed and replaced with a night drop.</p><br>
<p>The Col des Chevrères  is a mountain pass situated in the Vosges Mountains in the Haute-Saône department of France, between Servance and Plancher-les-Mines. The Tour de France cycle race will cross the col for the first time on Stage 10 of the 2014 race.</p><br>
<h2>Cycle racing</h2><br>
<h3>Details of climb</h3><br>
<p>From Servance, to the north-west, the climb is 10.3 km long, gaining 516 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 5%. The steepest sustained sections are in excess of 11%,</p><br>
<p>From Plancher-les-Mines, to the south, the climb via Belfahy is 12.8 km long, gaining 495 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 3.9%.</p><br>
<h3>Tour de France</h3><br>
<p>On 14 July 2014, the Tour de France cycle race crossed the col for the first time en route from Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles. When announcing the route, Christian Prudhomme explained his reasons for deciding to send the 2014 Tour over passes not used previously: "I like to use the other massifs than the usual Alps and Pyrenees. I believe the race can be won and lost anytime."</p><br>
<p>The first rider over the summit was the Spaniard, Joaquim Rodríguez.</p><br>
<p>Mal di Ventre  is a private island located off the coast of Sardinia. Mal di Ventre is notable for its Roman ruins and a Sardinian nationalist attempt at creating a micronation in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Location and geography</h2><br>
<p>Mal di Ventre is located in the Mediterranean Sea, 7 km from Oristano in central-west Sardinia. The island is inside a marine protected area and its western coast is exposed to the Mistral, giving it a rugged topography as a result. There is a lighthouse at the island&#39;s highest point, 18 m above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name of the island comes from Piedmontese cartographers, who mistranslated into Italian the Sardinian name Malu &#39;Entu ("bad winds") as Mal di Ventre ("stomach pain"). Ancient civilizations used to live on the island. The island was also inhabited during Roman times. The island contains ruins of Roman buildings, as well as the remnants of an ancient well. In 1898, the island became part of Parco del Sinis-Montiferru (Sinis-Montiferru institutional park).</p><br>
<p>Mal di Ventre was owned by British entrepreneur John Miller, who had owned the island since 1972. In July 2014 the island was put up for sale, with an asking price of.</p><br>
<h3>Republic of Malu Entu</h3><br>
<p>In September 2008 a former truck driver named Salvatore "Doddore" Meloni and his followers seized Mal di Ventre and declared it to be an independent state as part of a broader and controversial effort to win the independence of Sardinia. Inspired by the independence movements of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Meloni declared himself president of the Republic of Malu Entu and set up a presidential residence in a blue plastic tent. He declared the nation tax free and claimed that over 300 people had expressed an interest in moving there. The island was previously a meeting place for the Sardinian Independentist Party. Not long after he took over the island, Meloni sent drafts of his initiative to both the United Nations and Silvio Berlusconi, who was President of the Council of Ministers at the time.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, Meloni was charged with tax evasion to the sum of 5 million euros. In the summer of 2012 Meloni was convicted for his role in trying to take over the island and sentenced to 20 months in prison. In April 2017, Meloni was arrested and started a hunger strike in prison, asking to be considered a political prisoner. On July 5th, 2017, after two months of hunger strike, he died.</p><br>
<p>The Pike House is a historic house, located on New Hampshire Route 10, two doors south of its junction with Brook Road, in Goshen, New Hampshire. The 1-1/2 story Cape style house was built c. 1812, and is one of a cluster of 19th century plank-framed houses in Goshen. The walls are framed with three inch wood planking, and sheathed with aluminum siding. It originally had two windows on either side of the central door; these have been replaced with modern multi-pane windows. Attached to this main block are a connecting ell and garage of modern construction. The house was in the 20th century the home of Althine Sholes Lear, a locally prominent poet.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Altzomoni is a volcanic peak located in the State of Mexico. Situated between the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl in the northern portion of the Paso de Cortés, Altzomoni rises 4,200 m above sea level. It is located inside Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park.</p><br>
<p>The area is used as a base for those climbing Ixtaccíhuatl. It also is recognizable for its large television tower, used by Televisa for the transmission of analog television to Puebla and Cuernavaca.</p><br>
<p>The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México also maintains an atmospheric observatory on the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Television</h2><br>
<p>Three digital television stations are based on the same tower. While each of them primarily serves Puebla, Cuernavaca and the state of Tlaxcala, they are licensed to Altzomoni:</p><br>
<p>*XEX-TDT (channel 42)</p><br>
<p>*XHTM-TDT (channel 36)</p><br>
<p>*XHATZ-TDT (channel 47)</p><br>
<p>Each of these stations has digital facilities which are on Televisa&#39;s tower in Puebla.</p><br>
<p>The Monte Sano Railroad Workers&#39; House is a historic boarding house in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. Built in 1888, it is the only remaining building relating to the Monte Sano Hotel and Railroad. The North Alabama Improvement Company built the three-story, Queen Anne hotel on Monte Sano Mountain in 1887. The following year, construction began on a rail line connecting the hotel with the Memphis and Charleston Depot downtown. The house was constructed to house workers building and later operating the railroad.</p><br>
<p>The workers&#39; house was originally a saddlebag plan building, consisting of two rooms sharing a central chimney. A shed roofed, two-room addition was added in 1925. The façade has two doors, flanked by two-over-two sash windows. The house is clad with board-and-batten siding, and topped with a gabled metal roof. The structure was modernized after 1997, and a shed-roof front porch added.</p><br>
<p>The hotel and railroad venture was not a financial success, and the railroad shut down in 1895, followed by the hotel in 1904. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Haystack Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about 6 km south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Conservation Park.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Haystack Island is about 6 km south-west of Stenhouse Bay. It is described as ‘a narrow wall of sheer cliffs, undermined, indented and marked by fresh scars and rockfalls’ and that ‘has been eroded to a series of tall lobes connected by thin necks of rock that narrow to an almost knife-edge ridge’. It is surrounded by a ‘fringing wave-cut reef’. The island is about 500 m long by a maximum width of about 120 m and with the tallest lobe having a height of 43 m. Its long axis is aligned in a north-west to south-east direction.</p><br>
<p>Access is reported as best done in calm seas and that the summit ridge can be reached from the island’s east coast via a rubble cone of rubble, taking care when climbing the slope’s ‘loose and crumbling’ surface. A survey carried out in 1982 by the responsible government agency used a helicopter to access the island’s summit.</p><br>
<p>A number of sources consider Haystack Island along with the Althorpe Islands and Seal Island to be a group of islands known as the Althorpe Islands Group.</p><br>
<h2>Formation, geology and oceanography</h2><br>
<p>Haystack Island was formed about 7350 years ago after sea levels rose at the start of the Holocene thereby separating Yorke Peninsula from Kangaroo Island.</p><br>
<p>Haystack Island consists of a seam of Bridgewater Formation calcarenite that sits on a largely submerged ridge of Gleesons Landing Granite.</p><br>
<p>Haystack Island rises from a depth of 20 m within 300 m from its southern shore.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>A survey carried out in November 1982 found 11 species of plants making up a shrubland covering the island’s ridge including Grey Samphire, Marsh saltbush, and Nitre-bush in the deeper soils, and Cushion-bush, Round-leaved Pigface and Southern Sea-heath in the shallower soils.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>A survey carried out in November 1982 reported evidence of the presence of the following vertebrate animals - the White-faced storm petrel by the presence of ‘shallow burrows’ used during the ‘summer breeding season’, Pacific gull by the existence of a ‘large midden of shell fragments was found on the highest dome, indicating a feeding site…’, and the White-bellied sea eagle by the presence of a ‘maintained nest’.</p><br>
<h2>Protected areas status</h2><br>
<p>Since 1972, Haystack Island has been part of the Althorpe Islands Conservation Park. Since 2007, it has been a prohibited area where access is only allowed by permit in order to protect the breeding population of seabirds. Since 2012, the waters surrounding its shores are part of a habitat protection zone located within the boundaries of the Southern Spencer Gulf Marine Park.</p><br>
<p>The Schiffman Building is a historic commercial building in Huntsville, Alabama. It was built sometime before the Civil War, although the exact date is not known. Originally, it was a three-bay brick building divided by large, flat pilasters. The southern bay, at the corner of East Side Square and Eustis Avenue, was remodeled in the Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1895. The other two bays were demolished in the 1970s. Future Speaker of the USA House William B. Bankhead used the building as an office while he was Huntsville&#39;s city attorney from 1898–1902; his daughter, actress Tallulah Bankhead, was born in the second floor apartment. Issac Schiffman, a businessman and banker, purchased the building in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The façade is of rough limestone blocks, and is dominated by turrets on the corners that extend above the cornice. The arched entry sits beside a large, arched window on the first floor. The window&#39;s keystone acts as a corbel for a massive bay window on the second floor. Above the door is a stone panel, flanked by turrets and marked with "I. Schiffman". Above the panel are two small windows and a smaller version of the cornice. Three windows on the third floor, two above the bay window and one above the door side, each have a decorative stone arch above a single lintel. The stone cornice has large dentils; the same design is carried down the Eustis side of the building on a pressed metal cornice. The side is faced with stuccoed brick and divided into five bays by protruding pilasters. Each bay has a one-over-one sash window on each floor, with the final bay containing a door surrounded by a stone arch. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Cowee–Wests Mill Historic District encompasses an area of Macon County, North Carolina, which has historic significance predating the arrival of European settlers, and extending into the 20th century. It is located about 6 mi north of Franklin, the county seat, along either side of Cowee Creek as it flows toward the Little Tennessee River. The district includes the archaeological site and platform mound of the Cherokee town of Cowee, a major settlement until the time of the American Revolutionary War. In the first half of the 19th century the area was developed as a mining community centered on a mill operated by the West family, and after the American Civil War it became one of a small number of rural African-American communities in western North Carolina. The core of the Wests Mill area is centered on the junctions of SR 1350, SR 1341, SR 1340, and West&#39;s Mill Road, and North Carolina Route 28 is the major road passing through the district. Its northern and southern bounds are roughly where the valley floor gives way to hills on either side of Cowee Creek, ending in the west at Hall Mountain and in the east at the mouth of Caler Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Humphreys–Rodgers House  is a historic residence in Huntsville, Alabama.</p><br>
<p>Since its construction in 1848, it has been expanded and altered at least three times, saved from demolition twice, and moved once. The house was built by David Campbell Humphreys, a four-term member of the Alabama House of Representatives and anti-secessionist during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally a two-story, hall and parlor design with a gable roof. Prior to 1861, an additional room was added to the west of the entrance, creating a three-room plan with a central hall. Many Greek Revival details were added to the interior around this time. The house was extensively modified around 1886, when Augustus D. Rodgers bought the house from Humphreys, who had been appointed a judge on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. A one-story, two-room ell was added to the rear of the east side of the house, adding an attached kitchen and dining room. The previous gable roof was replaced with a hipped roof, and a two-story hipped roof portico was added to the façade, giving the house its current Colonial Revival appearance. By 1913, the ell had been replaced with a central, two-story ell that featured a one-story portico with fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s, the house was vacant and in disrepair, and the encroaching development of a Coca-Cola bottling plant and the Von Braun Center threatened its demolition. Efforts by preservationists led the bottling plant to purchase the house and renovate it for use as offices and a Coca-Cola memorabilia museum. Part of the effort led to the house&#39;s listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. In 1990 the bottling plant needed to expand, and the house faced demolition once again. The house was purchased by the Alabama Constitution Village and moved to a site one block from the museum. Today, the house is owned by the City of Huntsville and the property is managed by, who use it for their International Headquarters. The historic Humphreys Rodgers house is available for events both business related and purely social.</p><br>
<p>Pyrgadikia  is a Greek village in Chalkidiki peninsula. It is located in the south-east part of Chalkidiki 110 around Km south-east of Thessaloniki, built in the coast of Siggitikos bay . It is part of Aristotelis municipality and Panagia municipal unit. The population of the village is 320 residents according to 2011 census. The central church of the village is dedicated to Panagia and celebrated every September 8.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name of the village probably derives from the phrase "peri Gardikeia" (around Gardikeia) that ended up to Pyrgadikeia and finally Pyrgadikia. In Byzantine era the village was mentioned with its current name. After the Asia Minor disaster many refugees from the village Afthoni (located on the Island of Marmaras) was installed in Pyrgadikia. Today the educational and cultural society of Pyrgadikia is named Afthoni after the name of the village Afthoni.</p><br>
<h3>Historical population</h3><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Nowadays the main occupation of the residents is the providing tourist services. The village is surrounded by many beautiful beaches. The most famous is the Campus beach. Other beaches are the beach of Salonikios, Gyalikes, Eirini, Agios Theodoros and Latomeio.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Noden George House is a historic house in rural Graham County, North Carolina. It is located on the south side of a private road, 0.4 mi west of SR 1200 and 1 mi north of United States Route 129, near Tulula Creek. It is a single-pen log structure built c. 1853, which faces east at the top of a 20 acre pasture and overgrown orchard. The logs are poplar, and are joined by half-dovetail notches. A fieldstone chimney rises from the uphill side of the structure, and there is a kitchen ell and a wraparound porch on the south and west sides, added c. 1900. It was built by a veteran of the War of 1812 during the second major wave of development in western North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Plainfield Town Hall is one of two town halls in Plainfield, New Hampshire. This town hall stands on New Hampshire Route 12A, north of its junction with Daniels Road. The building was built in three phases, the first occurring in 1846, when the Greek Revival main block, a simple rectangular wood frame structure with wooden clapboards, was built.</p><br>
<p>In 1916 an addition was made to the rear of the building, increasing its size by about 1/3, in which a stage and theatrical facilities were added. This section is particularly notable for the stage backdrop and wings, which are one of only three known examples of such work decorated by the artist Maxfield Parrish, a resident of Plainfield and a participant in the nearby Cornish Art Colony. A shed addition was later added to the rear of the building. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Governance of Plainfield has traditionally been divided between Plainfield Village and Meriden, where a second 19th-century town hall stands.</p><br>
<p>The band Okkervil River used the stage as the set of their lyric video for the song."</p><br>
<p>The Protectworth Tavern, also known as the Stickney Tavern, is a historic house on New Hampshire Route 4A in Springfield, New Hampshire. It is a nearly-intact example of a late-Georgian early-Federal vernacular house, dating to the time of the construction of the "Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike", a major early highway through this region of central New Hampshire whose route is followed here by Route 4A. The house was long used as a tavern, and one of its early owners was Daniel Noyes, a proprietor of the Turnpike. Meetings of the Turnpike&#39;s owners are known to have taken place here. A later owner, Nathaniel Stickney, was also a stagecoach driver on the route.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Nutt-Trussell Building is a historic commercial building at 202 North Main Street in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas, USA. Built in 1883, this two-story structure was the first brick building erected in Fordyce, a railroad town in southwestern Arkansas. Its exterior was covered in stucco c. 1920. It was built by Robert Nutt, who operated a dry goods shop on the premises. It later housed the Bank of Fordyce, and its upper floor has a long history of use for social club meetings , and also housed the city&#39;s first telephone exchange. The descendants of L. L. Trussell, a later owner, gave the building to the city in 2000 for use as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Squire Chase House is a historic house on Main Street in Fryeburg, Maine. The oldest portion of this house, now a portion of the elongated ell attached to the main block, was built c. 1767 by Nathaniel Merrill, one of the early settlers of Fryeburg after its land was granted to Joseph Frye in 1762. It was sold in 1799 to James Osgood, the son of another early settler. Stephen and Mary  Chase inherited this property in 1824, and moved the main block of the house across the street to its present location, and attached the older house to it. The exterior of this house was Federal in styling, although its interior is now Greek Revival in character.</p><br>
<p>The property was acquired in 1854 by David R. Hastings, who extended the main block&#39;s eaves, adding the brackets and cupola of the then-fashionable Italianate style. In 1908 the house was purchased Hattie Pike, a descendant of James Osgood, and was reported in 1979 to still be in the Pike family.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house connected via the ell to a 19th-century barn. A single-story porch extends across the south side of the house, and another extends across much of the eastern face of the ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located on the northwest side of Main Street, just south of its junction with Bridgton Road, and opposite part of the campus of the Fryeburg Academy.</p><br>
<p>The Barrows-Steadman Homestead is a historic house at the northeast corner of Main and Stuart Streets in Fryeburg, Maine, United States. Built c. 1809, this frame house is a good vernacular example of Federal architecture, but is most notable for the murals painted on the walls of one of its bedrooms by Rufus Porter and Jonathan Poor, noted itinerant painters of the 19th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Barrows-Steadman House is a 2-1/2 story timber-frame structure, resting on a fieldstone foundation. It is sheathed in clapboard siding, and has a gable roof pierced by two large internal chimneys. Its main facade, facing Main Street to the northwest, is five bays wide, with a center entry flanked by sidelight windows and Doric pilasters and topped by a fanlight and entablature. The secondary entry is on the southwest side, facing Stuart Street, and is centered on a three-bay facade. The house&#39;s southwestern gable features a round-arch window and paired brackets, later Italianate additions. An ell, built c. 1910, extends to the rear (along Stuart Street). It has two doorways in its four bays.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1809, and has been owned by members of the Barrows family since 1820. The house&#39;s most notable feature is a room in which murals were drawn in 1830 by the itinerant artist (among many other professions he engaged in) Rufus Porter and Jonathan Poor. This mural is a landscape work, featuring richly colored trees, and is extremely well preserved.</p><br>
<p>The New Market Historic District is a historic district in New Market, Alabama. The town was founded in the 1820s as a trade center along the road between Huntsville and Winchester, Tennessee. The town incorporated in 1837, and had grown to around 500 residents by the 1850s. Although much of the town was destroyed in the Civil War, some antebellum structures survive, including Classical Revival houses built in 1854 and 1860, and the Whitman-Cobb House built circa 1861.</p><br>
<p>After the war, the town rebuilt, and a dam was constructed across Mountain Fork Creek to power various mills; it was rebuilt in 1913. The New Market Presbyterian Church built their first building in 1852, which was destroyed in the war. Its second building, constructed in 1884, was destroyed in a tornado in 1885; the current Gothic Revival building was completed in 1888. An Akron Plan New Market United Methodist Church was built in 1923. Many commercial buildings that were constructed in the early 1900s were destroyed in a fire in 1925. Many were rebuilt, including the Classical Revival bank.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1991 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph D. Bernard House  is a historic house located in Rayne, Louisiana in the United States. The house is the former home of the first mayor of the city of Rayne, Joseph Bernard. As one of the oldest homes in Rayne, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the house serves as the Rayne Cultural Center.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house is the former home of Joseph Bernard, also known as J.D. Bernard. The house was built in 1881. Bernard was co-founder of and the first mayor of Rayne, Louisiana, which was incorporated in 1883. The house was built on West South 1st Street. Bernard sold the house in 1918 to E.J. Bertrand, who ran the town power plant. Around 1999, the house was threatened to be demolished. That year, it was moved to its current location to avoid demolition.</p><br>
<p>Randolph Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1872, and expanded in 1899. It was named for Benjamin F. Randolph , who was reburied at the cemetery in 1871. Gravemarkers include both manufactured and vernacular homemade varieties. It is the burial site for eight Reconstruction-era state legislators.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Randolph Cemetery was established as the first cemetery for Columbias African-American population (up until then, African-Americans has been buried in the local potters field called Lower Cemetery between the river and the current Randolph Cemetery) It initially consisted of three acres purchased from Elmwood Cemetery in 1872. An additional acre was purchased in 1899.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery fell into decline as the descendants of those interred and the owners of the remaining plots moved away, many as part of the Great Migration, eventually becoming a wilderness by the middle of the 20th century. The city of Columbia began to clear it out with bulldozers as part of its urban renewal program in 1959, but the clearing was halted when a Minnie Simons Williams, a local resident, drew the city&#39;s attention to the historical significance of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Williams, along with descendants of the founders of the cemetery, reestablished the Randolph Cemetery Association and were given (through a legal suit) stewardship of the cemetery. The association has organized donations and volunteers to restore and maintain the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Washburn Lake is a 1,554 acre lake located about three miles northwest of Outing, Minnesota in Cass County, Minnesota, USA. The lake occupies three distinct basins. A public access is co-located at the Clinton Converse DNR Forestry Campground at the south end of the eastern basin. Based on 2009 data, development is considered moderate, with 17.2 homes/cabins per shoreline mile. The maximum depth is 111 feet and about 48% of the lake is 15 feet deep or less. Shallow water substrates consist primarily of sand and gravel, although areas of rubble, boulders and muck are also present. The aquatic plant community is quite diverse and is critical to maintaining healthy fish populations. Emergent plants such as bulrush are common along much of the shoreline, however just as common are numerous gaps in these beds along shorelines with developed lots. The remaining emergent plants should be protected as they are important for shoreline protection, maintaining water quality, and providing essential spawning habitat for bass and panfish species. Submerged plants provide food and cover needed by fish and other aquatic species.</p><br>
<p>Washburn Lake was named for an early lumberman.</p><br>
<p>The Plaistow Carhouse is a historic trolley barn at 27 Elm Street in Plaistow, New Hampshire. Built in 1901, it is a surviving reminder of a short-lived trolley service that served the town until 1930. The building now houses the town&#39;s police and fire departments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Plaistow Carhouse is located in Plaistow&#39;s central village, at the southeast corner of Elm Street and Palmer Avenue. It is a brick structure, consisting of a large structure in which trolleys were serviced, and a smaller area originally used as an office and waiting room. The service area measures 50 x, and is covered by a flat roof with a monitor section at the center. The office is two stories in height, also with a flat roof, and is five bays wide and two deep.</p><br>
<p>The carhouse was built in 1901 for the Haverhill, Plaistow & Newton Street Railway, which introduced service that year between Plaistow, Haverhill, and Amesbury, Massachusetts. This company was eventually consolidated into one providing service as far as New Hampshire&#39;s seacoast. The company provided year-round service to the industrial employment centers of Haverhill and Amesbury, with seacoast service running mainly in the warmer months. Coastal service was abandoned in 1920, and altogether by 1930. The Plaistow carhouse is one of several to survive in southern New Hampshire, but is one that is the least altered. It was designed by the New York City firm Sheaff & Jaastad.</p><br>
<p>After trolley service was discontinued, the building was used as a storage facility by an amusement company, and was purchased by the town in 1979, which has since adapted it to house the town&#39;s fire and police services.</p><br>
<p>The General Porter House is a historic house at 32-34 Livermore Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built about 1751, it is a well-preserved example of a Portsmouth gambrel-roofed double house, and has been home to a number of prominent individuals. Now housing residential condominiums, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The General Porter House is located on the east side of Livermore Street, a short residential street facing Haven Park south of downtown Portsmouth. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gambrel roof and clapboarded exterior. A "Portsmouth double house", it is five bays wide and two deep, with additions on either side, and an ell to the rear. The main entrance is at the center of the facade, topped by a rounded pediment and flanked by pilasters. The roof is pierced by five dormers, all but the center one with gabled roofs. The center one matches the entry trim in having a rounded roof. The right-side projecting has a secondary entrance, also flanked by pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1751 by Matthew Livermore, who was New Hampshires first formally-educated lawyer, and was a representative to New Hampshires provisional government during the American Revolutionary War. The house has been moved twice, both times in the 19th century. Another major owner was Samuel Coues, a leader of the shipbuilding industry in Portsmouth during the 19th century, and leader of the American Peace Party in the 1840s. Its most recent notable resident was General Fitz John Porter, a United States Army general who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. The building was converted into condominiums in 1983, at which time the doorways were reconfigured, removing one in the left projection.</p><br>
<p>The Portsmouth Cottage Hospital was the first hospital built in the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Opened in 1884, it was one of the first hospitals in New Hampshire, and it served as the city&#39;s primary hospital facility until 1986, when Portsmouth Regional Hospital opened. Its 1895 campus has been repurposed to house city offices and the police station, and a senior living facility. A portion of that facility, representing its oldest buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Portsmouth Cottage Hospital was founded in 1884, and was an outgrowth of charitable impulses that included the operation of almshouses for the poor and needy, and the provision of care for wounded veterans of the American Civil War. The driving force in its founding was Harriet Kimball, the daughter of a local pharmacist. The hospital was originally located at 51 Court Street, in a large house now located in the Strawbery Banke museum complex. That building quickly proved inadequate as a hospital facility, and fundraising began in 1889 for construction of a proper dedicated facility.</p><br>
<p>Land for the new facility was purchased on the south side of the South Mill Pond, and the core of the hospital complex, a 2-1/2 story brick building designed by Boston architect Harry Ball, was opened in 1895. The hospital was run as a secular charity, providing a significant number of patient stays at no or reduced cost. It received a small amount of funding from the city until 1903. The main building was enlarged several times before 1962, when a more modern facility was built directly adjacent. At that time, the old building was converted to house an outpatient mental health clinic as well as hospital administrative offices. The entire complex was acquired in 1983 by the for-profit Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). HCA opened the Portsmouth Regional Hospital in 1986, closing the old campus.</p><br>
<p>The city purchased the campus in 1986. The 1962 building and a former nurses&#39; housing building were adapted to house city offices and its main police station. The original 1895 building was later converted into a senior living facility.</p><br>
<p>The Olde Woolen Mill  is a historic mill complex at Canal Street, on the Great Works River in the center of North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1862, it is the only major mill complex in the Berwick region of York County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The mill is located between Canal Street and the Great Works River, just south of Wells Street (Maine State Route 9) in the village center of North Berwick. The associated mill pond is located just north of Wells Street. The mill complex is a somewhat typical 19th century New England mill complex, with a large rectangular main building, with a series of attached wings. The complex exhibits an eclectic mixture of architectural detailing, including elements of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>An earlier wooden mill built on the site in 1832 was destroyed by fire, and the existing brick structure built in 1862. Primarily owned by Quakers, the mill, one of the first to automate the manufacture of blankets, produced uniforms and blankets for Union soldiers during the American Civil War. At its foundation level has been preserved one of the earliest steam engines in the United States, and the only one of its kind to survive.</p><br>
<p>The mill closed in 1955 and remained mostly unused for nearly 40 years, when it served as the site of the Parrish Shoe Factory in the 1995 fantasy movie Jumanji. In 2009 the structure was renovated into a senior housing site by the Caleb Group, a nonprofit housing organization of New England. It was the first property to be awarded a tax credit under the Maine State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Act of 2008.</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Tulip, a small hamlet in rural Dallas County, Arkansas. It is located off Arkansas Highway 9, just behind the Tulip Methodist Church, occupying a high spot in the area. Tulip was one of the first settlements in Dallas County; the cemetery&#39;s oldest documented grave dates to 1847. It also includes the graves of six Confederate Army soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery, 4 of 7.JPGHeadstones at cemetery</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery Church.JPGTulip Cemetery Church</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery, 3 of 7.JPGField of headstones</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery, 5 of 7.JPGHeadstone from 1857</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery, 6 of 7.JPGHeadstone</p><br>
<p>Tulip Cemetery, Main Gates.JPGMain Gates</p><br>
<p>The Hüttenberg near Maikammer in the Rhineland-Palatinate county of Südliche Weinstraße is a subpeak, of the Kalmit the highest mountain in the Haardt in the eastern Palatinate Forest of Germany. There is a blockfield, the Hüttenberg Felsenmeer, along the crest.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Hüttenberg lies in the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve and the Palatinate Forest Nature Park. Like the Breitenberg, the Taubenkopf, the Kanzel and the Wetterkreuzberg, it is one of the subpeaks of the Kalmit, the Palatinate Forest&#39;s highest summit. It is covered by woodland and is about 950 metres as the crow flies southwest of the main summit, with which it is linked via a gently sloping saddle, and west-northwest of the top of the Breitenberg. Its northern part, including the summit, is in the parish of Maikammer, the southern part belongs to Sankt Martin.</p><br>
<h2>Hüttenberg Felsenmeer</h2><br>
<p>The Hüttenberg Felsenmeer is a blockfield on the Hüttenberg ridge and a feature of the geology of the Palatinate Forest. The sandstone blockfield is made up of boulders of the Middle Bunter, particularly the Karlstal Rock Zone, which were formed during the Triassic period. These range from boulders strewn over the surface of the mountainside to rock formations up to 10 metres high. The boulders were formed during the various ice ages, frost weathering of the hitherto solid layers of rock splitting it into a sea of boulders. These rocks are not only found on the summit ridge, which runs roughly from north to south and is around 700 metres long, but also on the mountainsides because, during the short periods of thawing in the summer months, the piles of rubble, soaked in meltwaters, are set in motion and slide downhill. The Felsenmeer is a popular bouldering area.</p><br>
<h2>Transport and walking</h2><br>
<p>The Landesstraße 514 (Totenkopfstraße), runs along the southern and western sides of the Hüttenberg from Sankt Martin via the Hüttenhohl and over the Totenkopf saddle to Breitenstein. The L 515 (Kalmithöhenstraße) branches off northwest from this road below the summit of the Hüttenberg near the Hüttenhohl at heading over the Kalmit heights to Maikammer.</p><br>
<p>The shortest route to the Hüttenberg is from the car park near the Kalmit which is about a 15 minute walk. Other routes are from the Sankt Martin valley from the ramblers&#39; car park by the managed refuge hut, Haus an den Fichten, through the Wolseltal valley or from the car park at the Hüttenhohl. Two trails run over the summit ridge – on directly over and through the Hüttenberg Felsenmeer; the other running alongside the blockfield to the east and just below it. The start and end point is the saddle with the Kalmit and the refuge hut at the southern end of the ridge called the Hüttenberg Hut (Hüttenberghütte, ), from where there is a view of the Sankt Martin valley. The Palatine Wine Route, opened in autumn 2010 and certified as a Prädikatsweg in 2011 by the German Alpine and Rambling Club Association, also crosses the felsenmeer as part of the 4th stage and finally reaches the long descent to the wine-growing village of Sankt Martin.</p><br>
<p>Vogelsang Peak is a peak in the Cathedral Range of Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California. At 11,498 feet the summit rises higher than most of the surrounding peaks, and offers sweeping panoramic views in every direction.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>The peak was named by Col. H.C. Benson in 1907. There is dispute over whether the peak was named for Charles A Vogelsang, an executive officer of California&#39;s State Fish and Game Commission from 1896–1901, or his brother Alexander Theodore Vogelsang, who served as president of the California State Board of Fish and Game from 1901-1910. The German word "vogelsang" can be translated as "a meadow in which birds sing".</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Vogelsang Peak&#39;s southeastern side is made up of a relatively uniform arc of steep rock. Its northwestern side is a series of cirques and sheer cliffs. Well known climbing routes include the Nightingale Arête (II 5.9) and the West Face (IV 5.10 A2). Vogelsang Pass, Vogelsang Lake and the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp are located northeast of the summit.</p><br>
<p>Linwood is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. The seventeen room brick house was built by slave labor in the early 1800s. Portions of the farm were subdivided several 3-5 acre lots in the late 1800s with strict setbacks and provisions to maintain the neighborhood including banning stores and outbuildings, keeping the neighborhood character protected is still an issue in present times with development proposals in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Linwood Center was opened in 1955 by Jeanne M. Simmons as the Linwood Center for Disturbed Children with 14 day care students and 10 residents. Children would stay for an average of three years of treatment. In 2012 the center built a $6.5 million expansion to increase autism services to 70 children. The Howard County School System reduced its autism expenses by outsourcing to Linwood with the expansion, contributing $925,000 to complete the project.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Township Auditorium, also known as Township Auditorium, is a historic auditorium located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1930, and is a three-story, brick building with a Doric order columned portico in the Georgian Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and in 2009 it underwent a complete renovation/modernization that saw the architects/facility win national awards for historic preservation/renovation. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 2,500 to 3,500 depending on the arrangements of the orchestra floor.</p><br>
<p>In the early years of the building the facility was a major tour stop in the southeast USA with everyone performing there including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Augustas James Brown, Macons Otis Redding, Loretta Lynn, and Duke Ellington just to name a few. Through the 70s and 80s the building was a major part of the success and growth of professional wrestling in the US. Although the building always had popularity since the renovation the building has had more major shows come through like Jason Isbell, Charlottes Avett Brothers, Jack White, Rise Against, John Legend, Charlottes K-Ci & JoJo and Anthony Hamilton, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, Pretty Lights, Skrillex, Zedd, Charlestons Band Of Horses, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, The Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Amos Lee, Alison Krauss, Greensboros Daughtry, Raleigh&#39;s Ryan Adams, the Atlanta rapper Future, Atlanta rap group Migos, and comedian Dave Chappelle just to name a few. Also as a special honor when the legendary jam band Widespread Panic from Athens celebrated their 25th anniversary they picked the Township Auditorium as one of their favorite places to play. Also the king of blues music BB King played one of his final shows at the building. Author Pat Conroy from Beaufort also spoke at the Township two years before he died in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The facility is owned and operated by Richland County, with currently Aundrai Holloman serving as Executive Director and Andrew Horne serving as the Assistant Executive Director.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Franklin Prescott House is a historic house on Prescott Street in Epping, New Hampshire. Built in 1875 for politician  Benjamin Franklin Prescott, it is the town&#39;s finest example of Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Franklin Prescott House stands in a rural setting west of the center of Epping, on the east side of Prescott Street south of its junction with Dearborn Street. It is sited prominently facing south at a bend in the road. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, covered by a bellcast mansard roof with flared eaves, and sheathed in wooden clapboards. It has paneled cornerboards, paired brackets in the eaves, and a richly detailed front portico. A 1-1/2 story ell extends to the rear of the main block. A period carriage barn is located across Prescott Street; although it has been converted to residential use, it retains Second Empire features similar to those of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1875 for Benjamin Franklin Prescott, who was then serving in his second term as New Hampshire&#39;s Secretary of State. In 1877 he was elected to the first of two consecutive one-year terms as Governor of New Hampshire. Prescott had risen to prominence in the state as the publisher of a leading antislavery newspaper, and he was a noted local historian, serving as vice-president of the state historical society, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of London. His house was sold out of the family in 1903.</p><br>
<p>Pulpit Rock Tower, also known as Pulpit Rock Base-End Station , is a historic military observation tower at 9 Davis Road in Rye, New Hampshire. Built in 1943 as part of a series of military defenses around Portsmouth, it is the only one of fourteen World War II-era observation posts to survive. Now owned by the state, it is periodically open to the public, and maintained by a local non-profit organization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pulpit Rock Tower is located in northern Rye, on a small state-owned parcel of land between Neptune Drive and Pulpit Rock Road. It is accessed via a foot path from Neptune Drive. It is a concrete structure of eight stories, and stands 73 ft in height. Its walls are 12 in thick, and its floors are 13.5 in thick. The interior has a six-level spiral concrete staircase, and the tower&#39;s top two levels are accessed by wooden ladders. An observation platform is located at the top level.</p><br>
<p>The tower was built in 1943 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and was the only tower of its type built on the New Hampshire seacoast. It is the only one of fourteen coastal observation posts to survive from the Second World War in the state. During the war, the tower was connected to nearby Fort Dearborn by telephone to relay observational measurements.</p><br>
<p>The tower is now owned by the state of New Hampshire. The non-profit Friends of Pulpit Rock performs limited maintenance and restoration work on the structure, and periodically organizes public access.</p><br>
<p>The Breitenberg near Sankt Martin in the Rhineland-Palatinate county of Südliche Weinstraße is a hill, and subpeak of the Kalmit, the highest mountain in the Palatinate Forest. It is part of the Haardt mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Breitenberg lies within both the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve and the Palatinate Forest Nature Park. Its summit rises 1.3 km northwest of Sankt Martin and 3 km west-northwest (both as the crow flies) of Maikammer, whose joint territorial boundary runs over the completely wooded hill. Like the Stotz, with which it is linked to the northwest over a gentle saddle (ca. ), the Wetterkreuzberg, the Taubenkopf, the Hüttenberg and the Kanzel the Breitenberg is one of the subpeaks of the Kalmit massif. It is located in an exposed location on the eastern edge of the Haardt, so that it appears as a prominent hill despite its relatively low height above places in the Upper Rhine Plain.</p><br>
<h2>Transport and walking routes</h2><br>
<p>The Kalmithöhenstraße, which runs inter alia past the Kalmit to the Hüttenhohl and is part of the Landesstraße 515 from Maikammer, crosses the highland northwest of the Breitenberg summit. Also northwest of the summit is a car park for walkers. The Breitenberg may be climbed from the Maikammer village of Alsterweiler, from Sankt Martin or from the Sankt Martin valley.</p><br>
<p>The Mock, Judson, Voehringer Company Hosiery Mill, also known as Mojud Hosiery Company and Rolane Factory Outlet Store, is a former hosiery production plant located at 2610 Oakland Avenue in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The company was founded in 1926, and operated until 1972. The plant was then shut down, except for a small portion used as an outlet store, until its final complete shutdown in 1999. The plant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Founding and growth</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1926 by Bernard Mock, Nathaniel Judson and John K. Voehringer, the Mock, Judson, Voehringer Company of NC, Inc was formed for hosiery production. Following industrialists such as the Cone Family, the MJV Company built a production facility at 2610 Oakland Avenue, formerly 1004 Howard street, in 1927. Starting with 14 original employees, by 1929 they had increased to 600 workers and were producing four million pairs of silk hosiery annually. The complex had also grown from its original 10,000 square feet to roughly 140,000.</p><br>
<h2>Worker housing and benefits</h2><br>
<p>Unlike other textile corporations, such as the Cone mills, who would not begin to pull away from providing worker housing until the Great Depression, MJV did not have mill villages. Directories from the time period have indicated that employees were taking advantage of a local booming housing economy and lived in the surrounding areas of Lindley and Highland Park. MJV also provided an on-site nurse, a cafeteria for their employees, and a recreational baseball team, the Mojuds Nighthawks.</p><br>
<h2>Labor disputes</h2><br>
<p>In 1937, two years after the passing of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers filed charges against MJV claiming that the mill had engaged in unfair labor practices including the distribution of anti-union literature, firing employees on the basis of union membership, and removal of organizers attempting to distribute union literature outside of the facility.</p><br>
<p>The Col de Palaquit  is a mountain pass situated in the Chartreuse Mountains in the Isère department of France, near the village of Sarcenas. The Tour de France cycle race will cross the col for the first time on Stage 13 of the 2014 race. The pass is located on the climb via the D512 from Grenoble to the Col de Porte which has been used regularly by the Tour de France.</p><br>
<h2>Cycle racing</h2><br>
<h3>Details of climb</h3><br>
<p>From Saint-Égrève, to the south-west, the climb travels via the D105 to the village of Quaix-en-Chartreuse before dropping down again to join the D57. Over the entire distance of 16.2 km, the climb gains 931 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 5.7%. The 2014 Tour de France climb commences on the outskirts of Saint-Egrève and is thus shorter, at 14.1 km, gaining 859 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 6.1%.</p><br>
<p>After leaving Saint-Égrève, the climb has sections in excess of 10% before a descent after Quaix-en-Chartreuse. The final section has several hairpins separated by 12% ramps. Overall, the climb has in excess of 1,000 m of climbing.</p><br>
<p>The col can also be accessed direct from Grenoble via Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse, using the D512. This climb is 14.8 km long, gaining 939 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 6.3%.</p><br>
<h3>Tour de France</h3><br>
<p>On 18 July 2014, the Tour de France cycle race crossed the col for the first time en route from Saint-Étienne to Chamrousse. The leader over the summit was the Italian, Alessandro De Marchi. On the descent, Jakob Fuglsang crashed, putting him out of contention for a podium place.</p><br>
<p>The Col de Porte  is a mountain pass situated in the Chartreuse Mountains in the Isère department of France, between Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse to the south and Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse to the north. It sits on the D512 between Grenoble and Chambéry, and prior to 1998 was often crossed in conjunction with the Col du Cucheron and the Col du Granier.</p><br>
<p>To the east is Chamechaude, the highest summit in the Chartreuse Massif. There is a small ski resort situated near the col.</p><br>
<h2>Cycle racing</h2><br>
<p>The Col de Porte is regularly used in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. In the sixth stage of the 1977 Critérium, Bernard Hinault fell on the descent from the Col de Porte leading to Grenoble when he was alone in the lead, 1&#39;40" ahead of his competitors. Despite the fall, he won the stage at Bastille in Grenoble ahead of Lucien Van Impe and Bernard Thévenet.</p><br>
<h3>Details of the climb</h3><br>
<p>From Grenoble, to the south, the climb via the D512 is 17.7 km long, gaining 1,116 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 6.3%, with the steepest section being at 10%. 2.5 km from the summit, it passes the Col de Palaquit (1,154 m).</p><br>
<h3>Tour de France</h3><br>
<p>The pass was first included in the Tour de France in 1907, after which it was used in the next three tours, and then not again until 1947.</p><br>
<h3>Appearances in Tour de France since 1947</h3><br>
<p>Since 1947, the passages which have been categorized have been:</p><br>
<p>Poplar Grove Plantation is a peanut plantation by the Topsail sound in Scotts Hill near Wilmington in Pender County, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina on July 16, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plantation was originally owned by the widow of Cornelius Harnett. Later, the property which once included Figure Eight Island became the home of the Foy family, an American family of French Huguenot descent, from 1795 until 1971. The original plantation house was destroyed in a fire. The current house, a 12 room Greek Revival-style mansion, was built in the early 1850s by Joseph Mumford Foy.</p><br>
<p>The Plantation is now under the care of Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. Poplar Grove opened as a museum to the public in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Sandown Depot is a former railroad station of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Sandown, New Hampshire. Built in 1873-74, it is the best-preserved of stations built by the Nashua and Rochester Railroad to survive, remaining relatively unaltered since its construction, and still at its original location. It is now a local history museum, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Sandown Depot is located on the north side of the village center of Sandown, just off Main Street between Depot Road and the former railroad right-of-way now occupied by the Rockingham Recreational Trail. It is a single-story wood frame structure, measuring about 20 x. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, and it is covered by a broad low-pitch hip roof, whose eaves extend well beyond the structure and are supported by large knee brackets. The track side of the building has a projecting window bay near the center, next to which a semaphore mast rises through the roof. The interior is divided into sections historically used as passenger waiting areas (one each for men and women), freight storage, and the station master&#39;s office and telegraph dispatch. Portions of the interior have been modernized.</p><br>
<p>This station was built in 1873-74 by the Nashua and Rochester Railroad, which was eventually absorbed by the Boston and Maine. The station was a major location on a heavily-traveled single track, with support services including a telegraph office, post office, freight depot, and a large siding area with capacity for 62 cars. It consequently became a major point of civic activity in the rural town. Rail traffic declined in the early 1930s, and the rails were taken up in 1935. The depot building was used by the state highway department as a storage facility between 1934 and 1977, and has since been converted to a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The old Roycemore School building is a Northwestern University building that is included on the National Register of Historical Places. The structure had formerly housed the Roycemore School from its opening until 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Roycemore School was founded in 1915 as an all-girls school. It became co-ed in 1962.</p><br>
<p>The Prairie Style building was designed by noted Prairie School architect Thomas Eddy Tallmadge. Tallmadge, who worked with the renowned Daniel H. Burnham, later taught at Armour Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology). The former Roycemore School building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, based upon its unique open Prairie Style school floor plan.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural Style</h2><br>
<p>While the building itself is prairie style, its other interiors are decidedly a departure from that style. The gymnasium, with its vaulted ceilings and heavy wooden beams, are a throwback to a more Victorian style. Small windows let in light keeping the room warm in the winter months and often stifling in the summer. A small balcony looks down upon the floor across from the heavy wooden stage.</p><br>
<p>At the entrance to what were the administrative offices, the prairie style is on full display, if sometimes obscured by the ivy vines growing up the side of the building at the corner of Orrington and Colfax. That portion of the building looks more prairie home, much like its neighbors along Orrington, rather than a business office.</p><br>
<h2>Roycemore's Relocation</h2><br>
<p>As its property lease with Northwestern University for the lot at Lincoln St. and Orrington Ave. was due to end in 2014, in early 2000 the school began looking for another Evanston location that would allow room to continue a trend of enrollment growth that had occurred over the previous 10 years, with updated technology and to accommodate a larger, regulation-sized, gymnasium.</p><br>
<p>Roycemore began classes at 1200 Davis Street in Evanston on January 6, 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Post-Roycemore Usage</h2><br>
<p>Despite zoning that allows Northwestern to utilize the property as a dormitory, neighbors have voiced objections to the possibility. Dormitories are considered to be the least favorite potential reuse of the site amongst nearby residents. Also, despite the building having hosted classes for the near-century the Roycemore School was housed there, some neighbors also objected to the idea of Northwestern utilizing the site for university classes. Many neighbors reiterated longtime objections to the housing of student housing located west of Sheridan Road, complaining of the noise produced by students late-night partying and their commuting to and from classes and the disruption it causes for the single-family homes nearby. The City of Evanston has objected to potential redevelopment of the site that would require demolition or partial demolition of the structure, as it considers most of the interconnected buildings the make up the components of the structure to be local landmarks, and Northwesterns associate vice president of facilities management Ron Nayler has stated that the University only intends to restore the landmark buildings, rather than demolish them. Nayler did however say that the school may potentially replace a home on the site that is not itself landmark. Potential uses zoning would allow encompass, amongst other things, housing for fraternities and sororities, faculty or administrative offices, student dormitories, university classrooms, and upperclass-student housing. Development on the site would directly impact the adjacent residential neighborhood, which includes a new single-family housing development across Orrington Avenue. In the meantime, Northwestern has been intending to utilize the building through interim uses.</p><br>
<p>Temporary uses have included utilization by</p><br>
<p>Northwestern&#39;s art program during renovations of Kresge Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Usage in Media</h2><br>
<p>A scene featuring Matt Damon was shot for the film Contagion on an empty lot across from Roycemore School, with the school and nearby houses providing background. The empty lot was transformed into a youth baseball park for the scene.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Sewall Garrison is a historic house at 16 Epping Road in Exeter, New Hampshire. With a construction history dating to 1676, it is one of New Hampshire&#39;s oldest buildings, and is a rare example of a formerly fortified garrison house in its original location. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Edward Sewall Garrison is located in a residential area west of downtown Exeter, on the south side of Epping Road facing the Park Street Common. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main block is four bays wide, arranged slightly asymmetrically, with the main entrance in the center-left bay and interior chimneys at the sides. There are enclosed porches on each side, and ells extending to the rear and the right.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this house, the northern portion of its main block, is a (formerly) fortified garrison house built in 1676. This section retains evidence of this early history in its walls, which contain evidence of brick infill and small windows typical of the period. The southern portion of the main block was added c. 1730–1751, and includes its original chimney. Additions were added to the rear in 1810 and 1880, the latter adding Victorian woodwork detailing. The house was modernized in 1911, obscuring some details and modernizing others, but later owners have worked to expose the historical elements of the structure. The house is one of the only garrison houses in the state that is in its original location.</p><br>
<p>The Shapley Town House, also known as the Reuben Shapley House, is a historic house at 454-456 Court Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built about 1815, it is unusual in the city as a particularly well-preserved example of a Federal period double house. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is owned by the Strawbery Banke Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Shapley House is located southeast of downtown Portsmouth, on the south side of Court Street between Atkinson and Marcy streets. It is a three-story structure, built with load-bearing brick walls. Its front facade is six bays wide, with a symmetrical arrangement that has entrances in the two center bays, topped by semi-elliptical fanlights. Windows are six-over-six sash on the lower two floors, and three-over-three on the third. The roof cornice exhibits shallow brick corbelling. The "best" rooms of the interior feature delicate Federal period wainscoting, and have mantelpieces supported by six engaged columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1815 by Captain Reuben Shapley, a ships captain and merchant. Although it was one of a number of brick buildings built in the wake of an 1813 fire that devastated Portsmouths downtown area, its construction as a double house is distinctive. From the outside it looks like a single-family residence except for its two entrances, an apparently deliberate decision. The halves of the house are separated by a brick firewall extending the full depth and height of the house. Window sills and other trim on one side are in marble, while these elements on the other side are of wood. It is one of the city&#39;s best-preserved Federal buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Jones County Courthouse, in Gray, Georgia was built in 1906 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was designed by J. W. Golucke and is noted for its arched clock tower.</p><br>
<p>The first courthouse, in Albany, Georgia (not to be confused with present-day Albany, Georgia), later renamed Clinton, Georgia, was the private residence of William Jones. A temporary structure housed the court until 1816, when a third, more permanent, building was erected. When the county seat moved to Gray, Georgia, the current courthouse was built in 1905. It is noted for its arched clock tower, which was restored in 2005-2006. The courthouse was rehabilitated in 1992. It was added tp the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It cost $35,000 to construct in 1906. Dates and costs of later additions are unknown.</p><br>
