<p>The Col. Samuel Campbell House is a historic house on United States Route 1 in the village center of Cherryfield, Maine. Built in 1883, it is one of the finest examples of Queen Anne Victorian architecture in eastern Maine. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Campbell House is located on the north side of US 1, on the eastern side of Cherryfield village, just west of the Gen. Alexander Campbell House and northeast of the Frank Campbell House. It is a large and rambling 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a richly decorated and varied exterior typical of the Queen Anne period. The front facade faces south, and has a single-story porch extending across its full width, supported by grouped turned columns, with brackets and a turned balustrade. The entry stairs are set under a projecting gable section. A broad polygonal bay rises two stories to the left of the entrance, topped by a projecting pedimented gable. An ell extends the house to the north, joining it to a period carriage house with ventilated cupola.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1883 for Col. Samuel Campbell, the grandson of General Alexander Campbell whose house stands adjacent. Campbell continued his ancestors history of economic and civic leadership in the community, operating lumber businesses in the Narraguagus River valley, and serving on the Governors Council 1880-82. The house was designed by local architect Charles A. Allen, who designed a number of Cherryfield&#39;s high-style houses.</p><br>
<p>The Dennis Johnson Lumber Company Mill is a historic industrial facility on Maine State Route 5 in Waterboro, Maine. For nearly a century beginning in 1869, a lumber mill, powered first by water and then steam, was operated at this location. The property, much of whose equipment is still in situ following its closure in 1963, is a rare surviving 19th-century industrial facility in the rural community. Now owned by the local historical society , it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Johnson Mill is located on the north side of Maine State Route 5, just south of North Waterboro village. The mill pond is located on the south side of the highway, which crosses over Johnson Stream on a concrete bridge built by mill owner Dennis Johnson in 1920. The mill dam, now breached, lies nearly underneath the bridge. The main mill building, dating to 1902, is a three-part structure, whose largest section is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, with a shed-roofed extension along its western side. Attached to the southeastern corner, and extending over the streambed, is a single-story wing with a gable roof oriented parallel to the highway. The main building is set on a concrete foundation, as is most of the wing; the part over the stream is supported by concrete pylons.</p><br>
<p>The building has no obvious main entrance. Its south (street-facing) facade has a pedestrian door and a cargo bay with loading ramp, while the west side has a large sliding door at the southern end, and hinged sections to the north that provide additional illumination and ventilation to the interior. The north side also has two utility entrances. The buildings interior has exposed wall framing and wood plank flooring. A large bandsaw, built by the Berlin Machine Works, is located in the eastern part of the building, and there is also a crosscut saw for trimming ends, an edger/jointer, and planer. A winch provides additional power for moving large pieces of lumber around. The southeast wing houses the "file room", where saw blades were stored and sharpened. The basement of the building houses the remains of a large steam boiler.</p><br>
<p>The mill was established in 1869 by Dennis Johnson, then 23, and was documented to produce 40,000 pine shingles in 1870, operating for four months. The mill was one of six mills operating in Waterboro, typically processing locally-harvested lumber. Its output increased around the turn of the 20th century with the introduction of steam power, and employed as many as twelve workers. Johnson built the present structure to replace the earlier mill, which was depicted in 1890 as being somewhat dilapidated. The mill was the only one in town to survive a devastating fire in 1947, which swept through the community and its forests. Dennis Johnson&#39;s grandson Donald closed the mill in 1963. It was acquired by the Waterboro Historic Society in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Richmond Hill Law School is a historic home and law school building located near Richmond Hill, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three bay, "T"-plan, brick building. It has a low hipped roof and deep overhang. It was built as the home and law school of jurist Richmond Mumford Pearson.</p><br>
<p>Among those who studied at the school were Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson, State Chief Justices William A. Hoke and David Furches, USA District Judge Thomas Settle, Congressman William H.H. Cowles, Governors John W. Ellis, Daniel Gould Fowle and Robert B. Glenn, and two-term Mayor of Charlotte, NC, William Johnston. The property is owned by the Yadkin County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Wilson District No. 7 School, also known as the O&#39;Meara Schoolhouse, is an historic structure located in rural Clinton County, Iowa, United States near the town of Delmar. The one-room school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The listing includes three structures: the former school building and two outhouses.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first known school in Clinton County dates to around 1847 in the town of Lyons, which is now the north side of the city of Clinton. Bloomfield Township was established in 1855. The townships first school was a log structure built in 1859 in the town of Bloomfield, which became Delmar in 1871. The town established its own school district in 1874 and built its first school the following year. The township outside of Delmar was served by the Wilson District. It had nine country schools, and each was built to serve the educational needs of four sections of the township. Wilson #7 was built in the early 1880s on land owned by James and Ellen OMeara, and is the only school building that remains of the original nine. It also has its original outhouses, eight of its original school desks, the original teachers&#39; desk and chair, and some of the school books that date from the late 1800s. Electricity and an oil stove were installed in the building in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Consolidation of rural schools began during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt who established the National Commission on Country Life in 1908 to find solutions to rural problems, including education. The process of rural school consolidation continued into the 1960s. Wilson #7 closed in 1956 and ended its nearly 75 years of service as a school. The Wilson District itself merged with the Elwood and Delmar school districts in 1962. The building now sits in a dilapidated state, although there are plans to rehabilitate it.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The vernacular-style building is a 18 by frame structure with a vestabule. The side elevations feature three windows each. A brick chimney rises from the center of the west elevation. The school room itself has hardwood wooden floors and plaster walls. On both sides of the vestibule door are eight cupboards with metal latches. A raised platform of 10 in on the west side extends about 9 ft into the room. The oil-burning stove is still extant. The vestibule extends from the main facade on the east. Its interior also has wooden floors and plaster walls. A window is located on the east wall, and hooks with a shelf above them are located on the north wall. The door on the south wall opened unto a porch that is no longer extant.</p><br>
<p>The two outhouses, no longer extant, were built at the same time as the school building. The frame structures were located on the west side of the property, approximately 20 ft from the school. The outhouse to the north was a three-hole privy, with one hole built for an adult. The one to the south was a two-hole privy built for children. The gender of the teacher determined which outhouse was used by which gender.</p><br>
<p>Yancey Collegiate Institute Historic District is a historic school complex and national historic district located at Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and one contributing object built between 1914 and 1955. Contributing resources include the Brown Dormitory for Boys ,  Burnsville High School Gymnasium , an outdoor amphitheater , the Classical Revival style  Administration Building for Yancey Collegiate Institute , Gymnasium , former Burnsville High School built by the Works Progress Administration  and a stone retaining wall . The Yancey Collegiate Institute  was established in 1901 and sponsored by the Baptist church. The YCI educated students until 1926, when the facilities were sold to the Yancey County Board of Education.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Marion House and Marion Brothers Store also known as Jubal E. Marion—Richard Nathaniel Marion House and Oakcrest, is a historic home and general store located at Siloam, Surry County, North Carolina. The house was built over three periods in 1861, 1895, and 1913. It is a two-story, three bay, double pile, Classical Revival, Southern Colonial style frame dwelling. The 1913 remodeling was by prominent Winston-Salem architect Willard C. Northup. It features a two-story, Ionic order central portico and a one-story porch with Tuscan order columns that nearly encircles the house. The Marion Brothers Store was built about 1894, and is a two-story, brick commercial building. The property also includes the contributing wash house/smokehouse, a garage with a tool room/shop and a pump room, a fish pool, a carbide house, two chicken houses, a barn, a corn crib / granary, and two tobacco barns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Dierks House, also known as the Preston Creveling House, is an historic residence located in rural Clinton County, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peter Dierks, Sr. immigrated from Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) to the United States in 1848. He made the ocean voyage with other members of his family and landed in New York City. He went to stay with his brother John in Lyons, Iowa, now the north side of the city of Clinton. He rented a farm until he could afford to buy 800 acre of his own land. He lived in a frame dwelling until he built this house in 1865 where he raised his family. He was engaged in general farming until he cleared more land and started a livestock operation. Dierks&#39; became prosperous as he sold off some of his property to other settlers. He died in 1897 and his son, Peter Dierks, Jr., took over the farm and raised his ten children in the house. He added the wood-frame kitchen, with a Queen Anne style porch and pantry wing in 1899. Peter Jr. lost the house during the Great Depression in 1931 to Preston Creveling and his family. A bathroom was added into the house only in 1970. The Creveling family owned the house for almost 60 years when they sold it to Leif and Barbara Solheim in 1990. They sold it to Arlene Rose Considine in March 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Dierks-Creveling House is a two-story dwelling of native yellow limestone that was built on a 21 in stone foundation. The main house measures 27 by. The stone walls taper to 18 in on the second floor. The frame kitchen measures 17 by, and the room off the kitchen is 17 by. The entrance porch on the addition features five turned posts and two one/half posts as its supports. Between the posts are Queen Anne-style turnings located under the roof line. A two-story porch with square columns, corbels and turned spindles extended the length of the main house. Its possible it was added at the same time as the porch on the addition as the turnings appear to be similar. However, the exact date of its construction is unknown and it has subsequently been removed.</p><br>
<p>John Paul Jones Memorial Park is a municipal park in the town of Kittery, Maine. The trapezoidal park, flanked by the lanes of United States Route 1 approaching the Memorial Bridge across the Piscataqua River, was established in 1926 and named for American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones. Its centerpiece is a memorial commemorating the soldiers and sailors of the state of Maine, designed by Bashka Paeff. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>John Paul Jones Memorial Park is located between Hunter and Newmarch Streets in southern Kittery, just north of the Piscataqua River. The two roadways carry one-way traffic in opposite directions, to and from the Memorial Bridge to Badger&#39;s Island and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The park is roughly 2 acre, in size, and trapezoidal in shape. It is mostly a flat grassy area, with trees fringing the border and a few specimen trees dotting the park. The southern end of the park is dominated by the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial sculpture of Bashka Paeff, a gold bronze relief sculpture set in a granite frame mounted on a stone plaza.</p><br>
<p>The park is home to three other memorial, all placed in the park after its establishment. The Sloop Ranger monument, originally placed on Badgers Island in 1905, was moved to the park in 1963; it is a bronze tablet mounted in granite, commemorating USS Ranger, Jones first command. The Province of Maine Monument is a bronze tablet mounted in a circular granite pedestal, placed in 1931; it memorializes the chartering of the English Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges in 1635. The third memorial is to the United States Marine Corps, and was placed in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The parks construction is intimately bound to the construction of the original Memorial Bridge, which is a war memorial to the military of both Maine and New Hampshire who served in World War I. The bridge was completed in 1923, and Governor Percival Baxter held a design competition for a suitable memorial. Paeffs initial design was acceptable to Baxter, but not his successor, Ralph Owen Brewster, and the memorial was consequently not placed until 1926, after Paeff made alterations to its design. The park was officially named for John Paul Jones by an act of the state legislature in 1927, somewhat obscuring the intent that it be a memorial to World War I soldiers.</p><br>
<p>Doha Bay is the bay bordering Qatar&#39;s capital city of Doha. Doha was established on the south bank of the bay. Landfill has been used to extend and expand the city to the north around the edge of the bay. Doha Port, Corniche Street and the Doha Corniche, Al Rumaila Park and Sheraton Park border the bay. Palm Tree Island is located in the center of the bay.</p><br>
<h2>Sharq Crossing</h2><br>
<p>In 2011, the Sharq Crossing project (formerly known as Doha Bay Crossing) was announced by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning. Overseen by Ashghal (Public Works Authority), the project plans to construct three interconnected bridges, designed by Santiago Calatrava, over a 10 km crossing connecting West Bay with Hamad International Airport. There will also be two tunnels below the bay. The purpose behind launching the Sharq Crossing programme was to accommodate the rising traffic in Doha and as a preparatory project for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.</p><br>
<p>In January 2015, a delay in the $12 billion project was reported. The financial strain of low oil prices may be part of reason for the delay; meanwhile $140 billion is being allocated for other infrastructure ahead of the World Cup event.</p><br>
<p>The S. H. Kress Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built in 1925 by the S. H. Kress & Co. department store chain, it is notable as a well-preserved early 20th century retail building. It was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>S. H. Kress & Co. purchased land for an Albuquerque store around 1909 but did not build until 1925, when market conditions were judged to be more favorable. The building design was completed in 1924 by architect T. J. T. Hoffman, and construction began in January the following year. The Kress store operated until 1981, when the parent company went out of business. Only minor changes to the building exterior have taken place. It is vacant as of 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is similar to many of the other Kress stores built in smaller cities during the 1910s and 1920s. It is a two-story, flat-roofed building occupying a double lot between the old J. C. Penney store and the McCanna-Hubbell Building. The ground floor storefront is cast iron, with large, plate glass display windows under a prism glass clerestory. The display windows curve inward toward the two recessed entrances, which each have aluminum-framed double doors under a glass transom painted with the name of the company.</p><br>
<p>The second floor facade is brown brick highlighted by horizontal bands of white stone molding between the first and second floors, near the top of the building, and along the parapet. There are four pairs of wood-framed sash windows set off by decorative brickwork over a flat horizontal panel which was originally a sign. The building is crowned with a white, blue, and gold terra cotta tile "Kress" logo. The interior of the building is mostly original with large, open retail areas on the first and second floors.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur and Edith Lee House is a historic home located in the Field neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The home itself was built in 1923 and has similarities to kit houses common to the era.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In June 1931 the home was purchased by Arthur and Edith Lee, an African-American couple. At the time the surrounding area was considered to be a "white neighborhood." Several years prior in 1927 hundreds of property owners in the area had signed a contract with the neighborhood association pledging to not sell or rent their property to non-whites. When the Lees moved in July 1931 they were approached by the neighborhood association and offered more than they paid to sell the home back. After the Lees declined neighbors began to harass them by shouting threats and insults, posting offensive signs in their yard and throwing garbage and excrement on their lawn.</p><br>
<p>The unrest escalated over the next several days as crowds growing into the hundreds and later thousands continued their campaign of harassment by shouting slurs and throwing rocks at the home. Local police were sent to maintain the peace but offered little additional support to the Lees. On July 16 the Minneapolis Tribune broke a media blackout on the situation with a front-page story entitled "Home Stoned in Race Row." The publicity from the article generated even larger crowds as well as onlookers. All available police in the city were called to form a cordon around the house and ensure nearby streets were not blocked by the mob.</p><br>
<p>Discussions with the neighborhood and community leaders during this unrest had been unproductive with the Lees attorney advising them to say they were planning to leave to quell the unrest. The Lees were members of the local NAACP chapter and reached out to them for assistance. Lena O. Smith, the chapters president, offered legal assistance and argued the Lees should remain as a statement that they would not be intimidated. The Lees accepted Smith&#39;s counsel and she drafted a statement published in all of the local newspapers noting that " has no intention</p><br>
<p>of moving now or later, even after we are assured the feeling in the district has subsided." Smith&#39;s assertive public statement combined with the strong police presence quelled the rioting.</p><br>
<p>The police presence remained at the Lees house for more than a year thereafter; the Lees daughter was escorted to and from school by police.</p><br>
<p>Interest in the homes history was renewed in 2001 when a law professor published an article on the Lees second attorney, Lena O. Smith, including her role in the event. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 on the basis of its significance to the social history of African Americans and housing discrimination in Minneapolis.</p><br>
<p>Knockanore Mountain is a large hill North Kerry, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The 267 m high hill stands around 5 km NE from Ballybunion. Its top hosts some broadcasting mats and a triangulation station. The hill is visible in the distance and the summit offers a good view on Shannon Estuary and a large part of Kerry&#39;s Atlantic coastline.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The English meaning of Cnoc an Fhómhair is hill of the autumn.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>Knockanore summit can be accessed by a very short walk from the nearest road.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<p>The bogs surrounding the Knockanore are cited on The Irish naturalist, and are considered very interesting from the entomologist&#39;s point of view.</p><br>
<p>The Old City Hall is a five-story building in Tacoma, Washington that served as the city hall in the early 20th century. The building features a ten-story clocktower on the southeast corner, facing the intersection of Pacific Avenue and S 7th Street.</p><br>
<p>The building uses masonry bearing walls combined with numerous windows. The windows on the second and third floors are of equal size. The fourth story windows are arched at the top. The fifth story windows are smaller and narrower.</p><br>
<p>The foundation is a local Wilkeson stone, which is light gray. The walls are eight feet thick at the base and taper to six feet at street level. They have are covered with a façade of red brick faced with yellow Roman brick. These bricks are believed to have been ballast from China or Belgium or to have been imported from Italy. The tower is a freestanding masonry with a clock on each face.</p><br>
<p>The building is a trapezoid in plan and reflects the Italian Villa style. Small round windows appear below the corner line; three large round windows occur below the corner on the tower.</p><br>
<p>The tower’s base has heavy brackets above the corner of the main structure and narrow rectangular windows on the tower body. A group of three arched windows are at the top on each side. A row of small round windows circles the tower between the arched windows and the eave line. Terra cotta decorations embellish the tower and areas of the entablature. The tower has a clock and a set of four bells. The clock and the bells were cast by the McShane Bell Foundry in Baltimore, the same company that cast the Liberty Bell. The bells is 8,000 lb of silver bell metal. Hugh Wallace of Tacoma, ambassador to France during World War I, gave the bells and chimes in memory of his daughter on Christmas Day, 1904. The pendulum of the clock, 12 ft in length, is suspended on a single wire, 40 ft in length. The mechanism is gravity run and the motors are wound electrically.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tacoma was a railroad town, acting as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Attracted by the potential of financial success, businessmen from the Midwest came to the city. They brought with them a culture and the Old City Hall is an example of those tastes. The old Tacoma City Hall was completed April 23, 1893 at a cost of $257,965 and was used by the city until 1957. The structure is representative of the ebullience of spirit that characterized the city of Tacoma in the late 19th century; it ‘’"...seems to combine a romantic feeling for the spirit of fifteenth century Florence with the mercantile spirit of nineteenth century America’’."</p><br>
<h2>Edward Hatherton</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by the San Francisco firm, Hatherton and Mclntosh. Edward Hatherton (b. 1836 d. 1896) had established a private architecture practice in San Francisco in the 1870s, and was hired in 1877 as a draftsman and assistant to prominent architect August Laver in 1877. Laver, an English architect who moved San Francisco from Canada 1871 when he won a design competition for San Franciscos new City Hall, resigned soon thereafter due to health complications and problems with the City Hall construction project, and Hatherton assumed Lavers role on the project. Hatherton established his own practice with John Cotter Pelton in 1879, before assuming the position of City Architect of San Francisco in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Hatherton resigned his position in 1891 to relocate to Tacoma, WA. That same year, Hatherton formed a new firm in Tacoma with Australian-born architect Colin McIntosh, and together they designed numerous commercial and residential buildings in Tacoma, including the new City Hall Building and the Chamber of Commerce Building (1892).</p><br>
<p>On March 1, 1896, Hatherton was reported missing from his home in San Francisco. He had last been seen at his office the day before, on February 29. On March 20, newspapers reported that it was suspected that Hatherton, despondent over the financial losses incurred in Tacoma during the recent financial panic, had committed suicide. A week later those suspicions were confirmed.</p><br>
<p>The Doerr-Brown House is a "Missouri German house" in Perryville, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Doerr-Brown House is a two-storied, single-dwelling, L-shaped, brick home located in the central part of Perryville, Missouri. The structure represents the Missouri German style house of 1870 vintage. The structure is a 6-room, L-shaped residential building with two and one half stories in front and one story on the side. It measures 38’ 10’’ on the north façade, 42’ 2’’ west, 18’ east, and 22’ 3’’ south. The foundation is made of quarry hewn limestone which appears 18’’ from the ground.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded dwelling at this location was built by pioneer doctor Richard S. Dorsey. Records show that Arsan Gallier purchased the lot in 1875. The brick house was built sometime between 1875 and 1870. In 1896 the house was purchased by Louis Doerr. Doerr’s daughter married the County Court Judge Robert Brown and the house remained in the family until 1976. Thomas B. and Helen Ward Sanders purchased the residence in 1976 as a museum for Perry County history.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Keli  Highland  is a volcanic field in Georgia on the western side of the Jvari Pass south to the Greater Caucasus range. More than thirty volcanic edifices on an area of 20x30km make up this volcanic field, which consists mostly of monogenetic volcanic structures. The lavas are rhyolites, trachyandesites and andesites.</p><br>
<p>The rivers Tetri Aragvi, Patara Liakhvi, Ksani and Didi Liakhvi originate from the Keli volcanic area, and some peaks drain into the Terek river. Several mountain ranges separate the area into distinct high plains. Quaternary Dacite lava flows overlie thich Mesozoic sedimentary sequences.</p><br>
<p>Western Khorisar (elevation 3736 m) and Didi-Nepiskalo (3694 m) are the highest summits close to the crest of the Greater Caucasus. In the northeastern part of the system are the Nepiskalo volcanoes and several smaller structures. The Patara-Nepiskalo volcano is strongly degraded by glacial action and may have had a caldera. Other volcanoes are Sharkhokh, Northern Shadilkhokh, and Southern Shadilkhokh in the western Kaidon range and the lava flows created by the latter two volcanoes between the Arkhi Range, Keli Lake and the Aragvistavi river, the Ermani–Akhubata lava plateau, Eastern Sharkhokh volcano and several lava domes (Ermani, Fidarkokh and others).</p><br>
<p>N.I. Skhirtladze first studied the volcanoes and divided the volcanism into glacial and postglacial stages. Later research indicated three phases of volcanism: A first phase 245–170ka involved lava dome formation including Kordieritovyi dome, Patara-Nepiskalo volcano and Kabardzhin–Sakokhe centre and its associated a laval flow in the Aragvi valley. A second phase 137–70ka with large scale effusive activity included the "Pyramidal Peak" Volcano which dammed local rivers with lava flows. From 90ka on activity formed Didi-Nepiskalo and the Ekisom and Khorisar domes. The third phase less than 30ka with evidence that it continued into the Holocene formed Eastern Khorisa and Ploskaya Vershina. Activity of East Khorisar Volcano spans both stages and created lava flows in the Terek river valley, at the end involving the collapse of the northern flank of its crater.</p><br>
<p>Longstone Rath  is a ringfort  and National Monument located in County Tipperary, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Longstone Rath is located on a height overlooking the Barna–Emly road, 1.6 km (1 mile) west-southwest of Cullen.</p><br>
<h2>History and archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The longstone, a lump of limestone about 2.3 m (7&#39; 7") in height, is located on a mound within a bivallate ringfort. The site was excavated in 1973–76, where 4,000 potsherds, 6 complete vessels, over 400 flint scrapers, cremated bones and grooved ware pottery were found. The mound is thought to date from c. AD 1 (mid-Iron Age, with the rath being added about AD 600.</p><br>
<p>According to Prof. Peter Danaher, Carrowkeel-style bowls from the complex site at Longstone seem to indicate a transitory camp of passage-tomb folk, and the hilltop was also used by Beaker, Food Vessel and Urn peoples, indicating that the site was a "halting site" for many thousands of years before the longstone and rath were made.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Church Hall is a heritage-listed church hall at Mangerton Street, Toogoolawah, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1906 by A D Menzies. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This small weatherboard hall was erected in 1906 for the Anglican congregation in Toogoolawah, on land in Mangerton Street owned by Mary Elizabeth McConnel of Cressbrook. This site is now the vacant block to the south of the rectory, the hall having been moved to its present location beside the church.</p><br>
<p>The town of Cressbrook Creek (later Toogoolawah) was founded when Mary McConnel&#39;s husband, JH McConnel, subdivided a large section of the Cressbrook estate in the late 1890s, and established a condensed milk factory on Cressbrook Creek in 1898. The town expanded when the Brisbane Valley railway line was completed in 1904 providing a connection to Ipswich.</p><br>
<p>It is believed Mary McConnel paid for the construction of the hall. Probably the builder was AD Menzies, who erected most of the buildings in Toogoolawah until the mid-1920s.</p><br>
<p>The hall was opened by the Archbishop in September 1906, and Anglican services were held there until St Andrew&#39;s Church was erected in 1911-1912. Subsequently the building became the Sunday School hall, and in 1920 the church purchased from Mrs McConnel both the hall and the site, for the sum of £100.</p><br>
<p>The building has been moved since to its present location beside the church, and has undergone a number of alterations.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>This single-storeyed timber building is set amongst mature trees on a corner site forming the northwestern boundary to McConnel Park. St Andrews Church is located on the northern side of the building and St Andrews rectory and its grounds are to the south.</p><br>
<p>The building has a corrugated iron gabled roof with a skillion roof to the rear kitchenette and a gabled roof to the front porch. The exterior is dark painted weatherboard, matching St Andrew&#39;s Church, and sits on timber stumps.</p><br>
<p>The front porch has a solid weatherboard balustrade and a decorative timber front gable with a metal finial. The windows now have glass louvres and the timber trim is painted white.</p><br>
<p>Internal walls and ceiling are lined with fibrous cement sheeting.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Church Hall was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Church Hall, erected in 1906, is significant historically in illustrating the establishment of the Anglican Church in Toogoolawah.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>It exhibits aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, in particular the aesthetic contribution of building and grounds to the Toogoolawah townscape.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong association with the Toogoolawah community, being an integral part of an historic, visually cohesive and picturesque precinct comprising St Andrew&#39;s church, church hall, and rectory and adjacent McConnel Park (containing the Toogoolawah War Memorial).</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Church Hall has a special association with the McConnel family and their contribution to the development of social and religious life in Toogoolawah.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Rectory is a heritage-listed detached house at Mangerton Street, Toogoolawah, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1925. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This single-storeyed weatherboard house was constructed in 1925 as the rectory for St Andrew&#39;s Anglican Church in Toogoolawah.</p><br>
<p>The Parish of Toogoolawah had been created in 1917, following division of the Esk parish into two, and reflected the population expansion which accompanied the success of Nestle&#39;s Toogoolawah condensed milk factory during the First World War.</p><br>
<p>In 1920 Mary McConnel of Cressbrook Station, who in 1911 had donated the land on which St Andrews Church was subsequently erected, gave the parish a further two allotments in Mangerton Street, between the Church and the St Andrew&#39;s Church Hall, on which to build a rectory.</p><br>
<p>In 1924 the parish asked for plans and specifications for a rectory to be prepared by the local builders, probably contractor AD Menzies, who erected many of the buildings in Toogoolawah until the mid-1920s. Work began in January 1925, and the house was completed in late May that year, at a cost of £1,008.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican parishes of Esk and Toogoolawah were amalgamated as the Brisbane Valley parish in 1928, and the rector has resided since at Toogoolawah rather than at Esk.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>This single-storeyed timber building is set amongst mature trees, including some large palms, and the grounds form the southern part of the St Andrew&#39;s Church precinct and the northwestern boundary to McConnel Park.</p><br>
<p>The building has verandahs on the north and west elevations and sits on concrete stumps with a semi-enclosed space beneath. The exterior is clad in weatherboard with timber battens between the exterior stumps.</p><br>
<p>The wide verandahs have decorative timber valance and balustrades, with a deep and low railing which forms a seat. Entry is from the west via a quarter-turn stair with landing. The front door has decorative glass sidelights, fanlight and upper panel and opens into a foyer. A narrow study opens off the west verandah and has a gabled street elevation. This gable is repeated on the eastern elevation over the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Internally, walls are single skin VJ boards, and French doors with fanlights open onto the verandahs. Ceilings are boarded and a decorative lancet shaped, timber arch valance is located between the foyer and lounge. Window hoods are corrugated iron with timber brackets.</p><br>
<p>A driveway from the north runs behind the church and church hall to the rectory.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Rectory was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Rectory, erected in 1925, is significant historically in illustrating the consolidation of the Anglican Church in Toogoolawah.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>It is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of an intact 1920s weatherboard Queensland house, and is a good example of its type.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>It exhibits aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, including the aesthetic contribution of building and grounds to the Toogoolawah townscape, and the aesthetic quality of the timber verandahs.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>St Andrews Rectory has a strong association with the Toogoolawah community, being an integral part of an historic, visually cohesive and picturesque precinct comprising St Andrews church, church hall, and rectory and adjacent McConnel Park (featuring the Toogoolawah War Memorial).</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s Rectory has a special association with the McConnel family and their contribution to the development of social and community life in Toogoolawah.</p><br>
<p>Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library and Teacher&#39;s Home, also known as the Mauney Memorial Library and Dr. Jacob George Van Buren Hord House, is a historic home and library located at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923 as a private dwelling and donated to the city of Kings Mountain in 1947. From 1947 to about 1962-1963, the building also functioned as a teacherage for the Kings Mountain school system. It is a two-story, five bay, yellow-brick Southern Colonial Revival-style house. The front facade features a two-story, pedimented tetrastyle portico with stucco-finished masonry columns. It has a one-story rear block added in 1987-1988 and the Harris Children’s Wing, a two-level addition of 1999-2000.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Campo de Calatrava volcanic field is a volcanic field in Spain. The volcanic field is in the centre of the province of Ciudad Real, in a region known as Campo de Calatrava.</p><br>
<p>The volcanic field has an area of more than 5000 km and more than 300 individual structures and contains pyroclastic cones, lava domes and maars. The field erupted basaltic to foiditic lavas from the Pliocene to the Holocene in Columba volcano with phreatomagmatic activity, and fumaroles were observed in the 16-18 centuries in the Sierra de Valenzuela territory. Earlier activity has been subdivided in several phases. The first affecting mostly the centre of the field is K-Ar dated between 8.7 and 6.4 Ma. A second phase occurred in the Pleistocene 1.3 Ma and 0.7 Ma. The maars involve both hard-substrate maars formed in metasediments of the basement and soft-substrate maars in Pliocene unconsolidated sediments. Both types of maars are distributed in NE-SW and NW-SE directions following faults established during the Miocene. During the lower Pliocene, the system underwent uplift and erosion. Some maars contain sediments including travertine possibly related to carbon dioxide emissions. Gas emissions, sometimes increased following earthquake activity, are common in the field and include hydrogen sulfide, CO2 and water.</p><br>
<p>Nigeen Lake  is a mildly eutrophic lake located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is sometimes considered a part of the Dal lake and is connected to it via a narrow strait. It is also connected to the Khushal Sar and Gil Sar lakes via a channel known as Nallah Amir Khan.</p><br>
<p>The land at the Famous Nigeen lake belonged to Hakim Family of Hakim Mohallah Baghwanpora. Out of which the major portion belonged to the great social worker and well-known personality of Baghwanpora Haji Hakim Ghulam Mohammad,his wife and his elder brother Hakim ali. Haji Hakim Ghulam Mohammad had five sons, Hakim Masood, Hakim sajad, Hakim Nisar, Hakim Zahoor and Hakim Showket.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The Nigeen lake is surrounded by a large number of willow and poplar trees. Hence, it has come to be referred as a "nageena", which means "the jewel in the ring". The word "nigeen" is a local variant of the same word.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The lake is located adjacent to the Hari Parbat hillock, to the west of the Dal lake.</p><br>
<p>To its north and west, lie the localities of Baghwanpora and Lal Bazar while to its north east lies the locality of Hazratbal, which is known for the famous shrine.</p><br>
<h2>Present status</h2><br>
<p>The lake is a major tourist attraction in Srinagar, known for its relatively pristine waters as compared to the Dal lake. Houseboats and shikaras are a usual sight. Its also ideal for swimming, being deeper and less crowded than the Dal lake.</p><br>
<p>However, as is the problem with other water bodies in the Kashmir Valley, the lake also suffers from encroachments which are deteriorating its water quality and also increasing the risk of floods. As such, the government of Jammu and Kashmir is engaged in taking steps to help improve the condition of the lake and restore it to its original glory.</p><br>
<p>The Drouillard House is a historic house at Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. Built in 1868-1870, the three-story house was a summer residence for Nashville socialite Florence Kirkman and her husband Captain James Pierre Drouillard. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 27, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Florence Kirkman and her brother inherited land and the Cumberland Furnace iron works after their grandfather&#39;s death in 1863. She married Union Army Captain James Pierre Drouillard in 1864, a scandalous act in the southern state of Tennessee during the Civil War. None of her friends or family attended the wedding. Captain Drouillard reopened the furnace after the war, and operated it until it was sold in 1889. The Drouillards were eventually welcomed back into Nashville society.</p><br>
<p>The Drouillards built a church for the community as well as a parish school, the St. James Episcopal Church, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1870, the Italianate style house is clapboard siding over frame, with a 10 foot deep veranda porch over 100 feet in length skirting the north facade. The house has two wings, the kitchen is in the east wing. A three-story spiral staircase reaching up to an observation deck is a notable interior feature.</p><br>
<p>The Pennington County Courthouse, located at 301 St. Joseph Street in Rapid City, is the county courthouse serving Pennington County, South Dakota. The courthouse has functioned as the seat of Pennington County government since it was built in 1922. Architecture firm W.E. Halse and Company designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The three-story building is built from Indiana limestone and has terra cotta trim. The two-story front entrance is divided into sections by four pairs of Ionic columns; three large arched windows decorated with muntin and topped by keystones decorate the three main sections. The entrance, located at what would be the bottom of the middle window, features iron grilles on its windows and transom and is topped by a cartouche. A frieze with ornamental medallions and a dentillated cornice surround the building above its second story.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Burnside Island lies off the coast of Western Australia and is around 59 hectares in size depending on the height of the tide. The southern tip of Burnside Island is located 1 km due east of the northern end of Simpson Island. The low, straight, narrow 2 km long island faces west-northwest into the gulf. It consists of the narrow high tide beach  backed by low scarped calcarenite bluffs, and a low grassy ridge widening to 200 m towards the northern end of the island. A 2 km wide mangrove-lined tidal creek backs the island. One kilometre to the north is Wilderness Island which is a more irregular, low 200 ha island consisting of a more exposed west-facing side.</p><br>
<p>Burnside Island is a popular bird watching and fishing location.</p><br>
<p>Burnside Island was named by Commodore Ian Burnside while surveying the area with the Royal Australian Navy.</p><br>
<p>The Alpha Delta Pi Sorority House is a historic sorority house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The house was built in 1926 for the university&#39;s Sigma chapter of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, which was chartered in 1912. The Berwyn architecture firm of William H. Clare and Alban E. Coen designed the house in the French Eclectic style. The style became popular in the 1920s thanks to returning soldiers from World War I and several studies of French cottages. Key features of the style present in the sorority house include its asymmetrical massing, steep slate hip roof with multiple dormers, limestone quoins and string course, bay windows, and arched corner entryway.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Robyville Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Corinth, Maine. Built in 1876, this Howe truss bridge is one of the state&#39;s few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It carries Covered Bridge Road across Kenduskeag Stream in the southern part of the rural community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Kenduskeag Stream flows southeast across the rural town of Corinth en route to the Penobscot River at Bangor. The Robyville area of the town was for many years the site of sawmills, possibly dating to the community&#39;s early settlement in the late 18th century. It is unknown how many bridges may have stood at or near this location prior to the construction of this bridge in 1876.</p><br>
<p>The Robyville Bridge is oriented roughly north-south across the stream. It is a single-span structure 76 ft long, with a portal clearance of 14 ft and a total structure height of 16 ft. It is set on abutments fashioned out of large rough-cut granite blocks; the southern abutment has been reinforced in the 20th century with concrete. The bridges trusses are a modified Howe truss, in which the king posts near the center of the span have been doubled, and some of the cross braces have also been doubled. Crossbeams join the trusses below the roadbed, with is built out of stringers that parallel the bed, planking running side to side, and a pair of spaced wheel runways. The bridges walls are clad in wooden shingles, and its roof is covered in asphalt shingles. The bridge is open to traffic, and received major rehabilitation in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, , known as the Limberlost Cabin was designed and built by noted Indiana author Gene Stratton Porter in the Limberlost Swamp outside Geneva in Adams County, Indiana in 1895. It is a two-story Queen Anne-style rustic home built in Wisconsin white cedar, and featuring redwood shingles on the second story. The home contains 14 rooms, including a library and music room, with the front façade featuring a single-story wraparound porch featuring log pillars. It is Stratton-Porter, her husband Charles Dorwin Porter, and daughter Jeannette named their new home Limberlost Cabin in acknowledgment of its location near the Limberlost Swamp, although Stratton-Porter referred to their home as "the cabin." The home was designed to be very elegant, but blending in with the natural setting.</p><br>
<p>In 1912 work was begun to drain Limberlost Swamp, and that land was cultivated after drainage was complete. Stratton-Porter and her family moved from the Limberlost Cabin to the Gene Stratton Porter Cabin at Wildflower Woods in Rome City, Indiana in 1914. Limberlost Cabin is now operated as a historic house museum and known as Limberlost State Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Stratton-Porter&#39;s Writings</p><br>
<p>Stratton-Porter spent much time exploring, observing nature, sketching, and making photographs at the Limberlost Swamp. She alsThe as the setting for her most popular novels, Freckles (1904), A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) and Laddie (1913). She used swamp for research for her natural history "Moths of the Limberlost," (1912) as well. Stratton-Porter became known as "The Bird Lady" and "The Lady of the Limberlost" to friends and readers.</p><br>
<p>Stratton-Porter used her fictional writings to educate readers about birding and nature while interlacing her stories with romance and moral lessons. Her popularity was so high during World War I that "reprints of the novel were said to have littered the trenches."</p><br>
<p>The Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House is a historic sorority house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The house was built in 1928 for the universitys Beta Lambda chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, which was established in 1921. The chapter was historically known for its members academic achievements and their roles in campus social groups. Ralph E. Milman, an associate of prominent Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw and husband to a member of the sorority, designed the English Revival building. Key features of the design include a steep gable roof with projecting dormers, a rough ashlar limestone exterior, a projecting bay window with leaded glass windows, and a recessed arched entryway.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Archbishop’s Palace in Armagh, Northern Ireland, is a landmark Neo-Classical building located on 300 acres of parkland just south of the centre of the city. The building served as primary residence of the Church of Ireland Archbishops of Armagh for over two hundred years, from 1770 to 1975, and thereafter as headquarters of Armagh City and District Council from then until 2015 when that local authority was replaced following the reform of local government in Northern Ireland in that year.</p><br>
<p>The Palace was built when then Archbishop Richard Robinson sought to relocate the principal residence of the archbishops from Drogheda to the titular city of his office. Armagh native Francis Johnston, who also designed Dublin’s General Post Office and the archway at the King&#39;s Inns, and Thomas Cooley, also a noted architect of the time and designer of Dublin’s Royal Exchange both had an important role in designing the building. The palace currently sits at the centre of the Palace Demesne Public Park, and serves as the office of the Lord Mayor of Armagh, Banbridge, and Craigavon Borough.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Church of Ireland Archbishops of Armagh had not lived principally at Armagh since the reformation, and instead kept residence in the far-south of their diocese near Drogheda, and often actually resided in Dublin, from where they could easily attend the House of Lords.</p><br>
<p>Richard Robinson was elected Archbishop of Armagh in 1765, which brought with it the Primacy of the Church of Ireland, and was at once dissatisfied with the modest residence provided on English Street, as well as the lack of improvement in the ancient Irish ecclesiastical capital generally. The Archbishop’s Palace was constructed as part of Robinson’s project to revistalise the old city generally upon his succeeding to the See of Armagh.</p><br>
<p>Using the services of Cooley and Johnson, two of the leading architects active in Ireland in the day, Robinson had the large two-storey house, 7 bays wide by 4 bays deep constructed close to the centre of the city on extensive lands owned by the Church, and near what had been a Franciscan Friary prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Other buildings constructed as part of this effort included the Armagh Observatory and Armagh Public Library. Cooley designed the exterior of the house, while Johnson modelled the interior.</p><br>
<p>Largely unchanged, the building continued to serve as residence for the Church of Ireland Archbishops throughout the 19th century. An additional floor was added in the 1820s, however, for Archbishop John George de la Poer Beresford, whilst the impressive enclosed porch with Iconic columns was also a later addition.</p><br>
<p>The house and its walled demesne were referred to by Inglis in 1834 as</p><br>
<p>Following the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1871, Archbishop Knox started a fund to ensure that the Palace and its grounds could continue to be used by his successors, as they were no longer being able to rely on tithe income for such purposes.</p><br>
<p>Archbishop Simms, primate from 1969 to 1980 was the last archbishop to live at the Palace, but ceased to reside there during his tenure. Having been vacated by the Church of Ireland Archbishops, the building was protected by being designated a “Grade A” listed building in 1975, i.e. the status reserved for "buildings of greatest importance to Northern Ireland including both outstanding architectural set-pieces and the least altered examples of each representative style, period and type."</p><br>
<p>From 1975 to 2015, the building served as the headquarters for Armagh City and District Council until that authority was merged into the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District on April 1, 2015. During that time, the Palace served as the principal civic and administrative centre of the city council, and effectively as Armagh’s city hall.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Palace sits at the centre of the Palace Demesne Public Park, with a free visitors centre situated next to it. Public tours of the Palace and its grounds are available during the Summer Season and provide an account of the story of the Demesne through Living History Interpretation with costumed interpreters seeking to recreate both the grandeur and the squalor of the Georgian period for visitors. The Palace has also been selected as the primary office of the Lord Mayor of the newly formed Armagh, Banbridge, and Craigavon Borough, following that local authoritys creation in April 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The Palace sits at the centre of an estate with a number of buildings which have been awarded listed status in their own right. The Palace itself sits on high ground within its own parkland and affords fine views of the city and the Church of Ireland cathedral.</p><br>
<p>It is surrounded by grassland to the North, and mixed woodland (largely mature sycamore trees) to the south. There are some 19th century exotic trees near the Palace while a golf course and belt of protective woodland make up the north eastern and north sections of the park. Notable man-made features of the estate include the following:</p><br>
<p>A walled garden is at the north end, with a garden house (HB 15/18/14), not cultivated at present</p><br>
<p>A 19th century glasshouse (HB 15/18/20) and ice house to the west of the Palace and there is another ice house near the main entrance (HB 15/18/15 & 19).</p><br>
<p>The stables and coach yard (HB 15/18/18), which now serve as a visitor’s centre</p><br>
<p>One of three entrance gates remain, whilst the 18th century gate lodge has been demolished; and</p><br>
<p>Ruins of a Franciscan Friary, (SMR ARM 12:16); and</p><br>
<p>A Holy Well dedicated to Saint Brigid (SMR ARM 12:17).</p><br>
<h3>Rokeby Obelisk</h3><br>
<p>Atop the high-point of the Palace grounds, Knox’s hill, stands the Rokeby Obelisk erected in 1782-83, at the southern end of the park. This feature was constructed at the instigation of Archbishop Robinson at a time of severe distress in Armagh City, with employment afforded to those who could not find it elsewhere. The Obelisk’s name comes from Rokeby Hall, country seat of Robinson’s father, Sir Thomas Robinson, in the North Riding of Yorkshire and subject of Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem Rokeby (Robinson was to become Baron Rokeby in 1770).</p><br>
<p>It is dedicated by Robinson to Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1763–1765 as Northumberland had been instrumental in securing the Archbishopric of Armagh for Robinson, who prior to that had been Bishop of Kildare. Both the Northumberland family’s and the Royal coat of arms adorn the pedestal, whilst armorial bearings associated with Robinson are detailed on the shaft, as well as his motto, Non Nobis solum sed toti mundo nati.</p><br>
<p>Standing 113 feet tall, the Rokeby Obelisk has been awarded “Grade B” listed status with designation HB15/18/021.</p><br>
<h3>Primatial Chapel</h3><br>
<p>Also on the grounds, immediately adjacent to the Palace, is the Primatial Chapel, also built for Robinson. In the style of a classic Iconic Temple, its interior is described as one of the most beautiful Irish ecclesiastical interiors, boasting a coffered, barrel-vaulted ceiling; a delicate frieze; Corinthian pilasters; a gallery; magnificent panelling; and pews.</p><br>
<p>The Primatial Chapel is a Grade A listed building in its own right with designation HB15/18/017.</p><br>
<p>The Phi Delta Theta Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. The house was built in 1922 for the universitys Eta chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which was chartered in 1893. The fraternity was noted for its involvement in student life activities, particularly the universitys sports teams. Prominent Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw designed the house in the English Revival style. The house&#39;s design includes a steep gable roof with intersecting gables on either side, an ashlar limestone exterior, and a recessed loggia supported by columns at the front entrance.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Doncaster Round Barn, also called "Bayers&#39; Barn" and "the Round Barn at Twin Bridges" is a three-story, wood framed round barn located about 1.5 mi north of Twin Bridges, Montana. Built about 1882 by mining entrepreneur Noah Armstrong to house his race horses, and featuring a 20 ft-wide indoor training track around the circumference, it is a National Register of Historic Places property notable for its unique architecture and as the birthplace of the Thoroughbred racehorse, Spokane, winner of the 1889 Kentucky Derby.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Armstrong had made his fortune in mining, and at one time operated the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company near Glendale, Montana. During that time, he organized horse races in the mining camp, and after leaving the business he obtained property in the Jefferson River valley, near Twin Bridges, and began to raise race horses. He bought the original property from his son, and purchased additional surrounding land until he owned 4,000 acre, which he originally named the Doncaster Farm, in honor of the famed English Thoroughbred race horse Doncaster, whom Armstrong admired.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The barn was built in 1882 in accordance with a design by Armstrong and is believed to have been built by local craftsmen from area materials. The first floor is about 100 ft in diameter, the second floor 75 ft, and the third floor 30 ft. The barn stands 48 ft high from ground level to the top of the ceiling in the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The foundation was set on stone abutments quarried from rock in a canyon located about 5 mi away. Armstrong stated they were driven twelve feet below the water table and set on bedrock. The walls were of wooden planks, made of three thicknesses of lumber deep, said to be insulated with "double sheets of building paper" between each layer of lumber. The entrance to the barn originally featured an engraved 4 by horse scene placed over the door.</p><br>
<p>The barn featured a 20 ft wide, indoor training track with dirt footing, claimed to be nearly a quarter-mile in circumference, on the ground floor, where Armstrongs horses were exercised. Horses normally kept outside could be sheltered there in bad weather. There were 26 box stalls on the first floor, around the outside of the track, with dividing walls only four feet high between the stalls so the horses could see one another, as Armstrong believed that “this promotion of neighborly companionship greatly the monotony of indoor horse life.” Each stall included a doorway to the outside and a window. The doorways led to 26 2+1/2 acre paddocks, one for each horse. A circular structure in the center contained the tack room, two hospital stalls, and a spiral stairway. There was also an elevator for moving hay and grain, and a well shaft was sunk in the center of the barn, which, with the aid of a windmill on a 12 ft tower at the top of the barn, drew water that was stored in an 11,000 USgal tank on the third floor. The first floors also included office space and sleeping quarters for staff. The second floor could hold up to 50 tons of hay and 12,000 bushels of grain. The floor sloped and chutes were cut into the floor so that feed could be easily deposited into the mangers of the horse stalls below. Water from the third floor tank went through a gravity-based plumbing system to each horses stall.</p><br>
<p>Charles Armstrong, Noah&#39;s son, said the barn “may truly be called a model of architectural beauty and convenience. This structure is so novel in its conception, so convenient in its economy, and withal so admirably adapted to the purposes of its creation, that a description of it cannot but be of interest to the readers of this sketch.”</p><br>
<h2>Operation and ownership</h2><br>
<p>Armstrong believed that Montanas high altitude and the nutrient-rich farmland along the Jefferson River made the location ideal for raising superior racehorses. Her foal, Armstrongs chestnut race horse, Spokane, was foaled in the barn in 1886, and the horses early training was on the barns indoor track. After being shipped east at age 2 for race training, Spokane won the Kentucky Derby in 1889, defeating the favorite, then went on to win other major eastern races. Although popular legend states he returned to Montana, there is not evidence that he did so. He was advertised as standing at stud in Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>The Panic of 1893 caused financial hardship for the Doncaster operation. Armstrong sold the ranch to Max Lauterbach and left Montana in 1900. From there, the barn was owned by a number of different people, and fell into disrepair until purchased by the Bayers family, who owned the Doncaster Farm property from 1933 until 1997. Arthur and Elizabeth Bayers raised Hereford cattle and were major breeders who sold their stock all over North America and held a cattle sale every year in the barn. Their son, Byron Bayers, estimated that their cattle sales over the years topped $5 million. The barn&#39;s upkeep was very expensive, particularly the cost of red paint.</p><br>
<p>The Bayers sold the parcel of land where the barn sat in 1985, and it again fall into disrepair. In 1997, it was purchased by real estate developer and local rancher named Allan Hamilton, who began to renovate the building. He had a new roof put on the building and re-leveled the foundation. In 2010, the property was purchased by Tony and Amie James. They formed Swift River investments, a Massachusetts-based business, and began to renovate the structure into a community center. Though "everyone" thought it had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, no one had done so. In January 2015, the Montana Historic Preservation Board met and unanimously agreed to nominate it. The structure was placed on the NRHP on April 14, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The building was a Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame Legacy Award Inductee in 2008. The Jameses had been willing to donate the building to house the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame itself, but a location in Big Timber, Montana was ultimately selected.</p><br>
<p>The Alpha Phi Fraternity House-Beta Alpha Chapter is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. The universitys Beta Alpha chapter of the Alpha Phi womens fraternity purchased the house, which was built in 1909 as a private residence, in 1923. The chapter was formed in 1919 and officially charted in 1922; its members were active in many campus groups and organized social functions and charitable activities. In 1937-38, architect Charles Harris of Decatur remodeled the house in the Georgian Revival style. The two-story brick building has a five-bay exterior with a central entrance; key Georgian details include raised brick quoins, pedimented dormers projecting from the gable roof, and large brick chimneys on either side.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The house was built in 1927-28 for the Sigma chapter of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, which was established in 1917 and chartered the following year. By the 1930s, the chapter was known for its academic success, and six of its members had been invited to Phi Beta Kappa; its members were also active in campus groups and university athletics. Architect George Ramey designed the sorority&#39;s house in the French Eclectic style, which became popular in the United States after World War I. Significant elements of the design include its gray brick exterior, its steep slate hipped roof, its central staircase tower with a conical roof, and its stone quoins.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Wrightsville Reservoir is a reservoir located in Washington County, Vermont. It is located at the intersection of the municipal borders of three towns, Montpelier, Middlesex, and East Montpelier. It is a popular recreational spot in the summer, for swimming, boating, and fishing in the Montpelier area. While it most of the area of the lake is owned by the town of Middlesex, it is closer to Montpelier and is usually accessed from Vermont Route 12. It has a popular swimming beach with a disk golf course and a boat launch, both near Route 12.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In response to the damage suffered by Montpelier and surrounding communities in the Great Flood of 1927, the Civilian Conservation Corps built the Wrightsville Dam during a period from 1933 to 1935. The resulting reservoir required the disbandment and flooding of the village of Wrightsville, which contained at least 30 built structures at the time. The North Branch Cemetery was also forced to move in 1934, with the excavation and relocation of 651 graves dating back to the 1800s. The original construction, completed in 1935, was an earthfill retention dam 1,525 feet long and 115 feet high, faced with stone on one side for protection. It had a 645-foot concrete conduit divided into three pipes. One was plugged, one went to the Wrightsville Hydroelectric Power Plant, and the third emptied through to the North Branch. It also had a spillway cut through the rock 30 feet below the top of the dam.</p><br>
<p>The Wrightsville Dam was one of only 4 dam projects built concurrently from 1933 to 1935. The other three were the East Barre Dam, Waterbury Reservoir, and the Winooski River Local Protection Project. The costs from all four of these projects were conglomerated and calculated as one expenditure, totalling $13.7 million.</p><br>
<p>From October 1956 to September 1958, a modification was constructed to the dam which raised its top height 20 feet and lengthened the dam a further 275 feet. The cost of this modification was $1.35 million.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Wrightsville Reservoir was originally constructed without any recreational facilities. In November 1964, the Corps began work on providing the lake with three recreational areas and completed the project in June 1967 at a cost of $204,600 (the state provided fireplaces, picnic tables, drinking water, and sanitary facilities). In November 1967, the Corps turned over these recreational areas to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. One area, the Shady Rill Recreation Area, is approximately 1.25 miles north of the dam (the.25-mile-long access road to Shady Rill is directly off Route 12). The Shady Rill Recreation Area offers picnicking on 10 tables and five fireplaces, a picnic shelter, an open field for ball playing, horseshoe pits, and sanitary facilities. Martins Brook, also known as Shady Rill Brook, offers picnickers a streamside environment.</p><br>
<p>The second recreation area is the Wrightsville Reservoir Boat Launch Area, located on Route 12, about.75 mile north of the dam. This area offers a boat ramp and sanitary facilities. Cross-country skiing and snowmobiling on unmarked trails, as well as ice fishing, can be enjoyed during the winter.</p><br>
<p>The third recreational area built by the Corps at Wrightsville Reservoir has since been closed. However, in 1985, the Washington Electric Cooperative constructed a recreational facility in conjunction with the Wrightsville Hydroelectric Power Project it was concurrently building at Wrightsville Reservoir. This area, the Wrightsville Beach Recreation Area, is located on Route 12, about 1.25 miles north of the dam (opposite the access road leading to the Shady Rill Recreation Area). The Wrightsville Beach Recreation Area offers picnicking on 36 tables, 11 fireplace grills, a picnic shelter, swimming on 350 feet of beach, hiking on a one-half-mile long marked trail, an open field for ball playing, a small playground area, cold showers, drinking water, and sanitary facilities. Also offered are disk golf, horseshoe pits, and a volleyball net, with both the horseshoes and volleyball available in the office. When the Wrightsville Beach Recreation Area was completed, the Washington Electric Cooperative turned it over to the Wrightsville Beach Recreation District for operation and maintenance. The Wrightsville Beach Recreation District comprises the communities of Middlesex, Worcester, Montpelier, and East Montpelier.</p><br>
<p>Whistling Cay is a 19 acre islet, situated 300 yd west of Mary Point on Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands. It is covered with trees and high cliffs in the north, where it reaches a 130 ft elevation. A gravel beach is located on the southeast side of the island. It is separated from Saint John by the Fungi Passage, which has a depth of 21 ft.</p><br>
<p>Whistling Cay can be reached by boat or kayak from Cinnamon Bay, Maho Bay, or Francis Bay and it is a popular destination for scuba diving and snorkeling. During the 19th century, customs officials stationed on the islet would stop and inspect boats plying the passage between the British Virgin Islands and the then Danish Virgin Islands. It is located within the Virgin Islands National Park.</p><br>
<p>The George and Elsie Mattis House is a historic house located at 900 West Park Avenue in Champaign. The house was built in 1926; while it was constructed around the frame of a Queen Anne house from 1893, its redesign was so extensive that the 1926 house is effectively a new building. Locally prominent architect George Ramey designed the house in the Georgian Revival style; the English Brothers, a firm known for its commercial and public works throughout the state, built the house. The two-story brick house features quoins at the corners and a limestone belt course between the two floors. The front entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a full entablature with an architrave, frieze, and egg-and-dart cornice. Pedimented dormers project from the slate hip roof on all four sides.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Presque Isle Main Post Office is located at 23 Second Street in Presque Isle, Maine. It is located in a Classical Revival brick building, constructed in 1932. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Presque Isle Main Post Office is located on the east side of Second Street, at the southwest corner with Church Street, one block east of the citys central business district. It is a single story brick and masonry structure, whose central structure has a hip roof. Small flat-roof wings flank the main block, and a more utilitarian rectangular section extends behind the main block. The facade is oriented west toward Second Street. The central block is five bays wide, with a centered entrance framed by a Classical surround with a broken gabled pediment above. The buildings corners are quoined, and there are bands of stone trim at the water table and the eave. The interior is divided into a front lobby, which extends across most of the front, a postmaster&#39;s office (occupying the rest of the front), with a large work area and loading dock behind. The lobby area has terrazzo marble flooring and marble wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed under the supervision of Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore, and was built in 1934, with a renovation and addition made in 1965. It continues to be a visible symbol of the federal government&#39;s presence in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Pacific Office Building is a three-story historic office building in Tacoma, Washington that served as the headquarters of the Northern Pacific Railways Tacoma division. Built in 1888, the brick, stucco, stone and cast iron structure stands on a high bluff overlooking the Commencement Bay harbor and extensive railroad switching yards that fan out across the tide flats below at the mouth of the Puyallup River where it flows into Puget Sound. The flats are densely developed with heavy industry that has grown up around the railroad facilities and the Port of Tacoma. The site was originally a choice location across from the Tacoma City Hall  and at the north end of Pacific Avenue, the main street through the citys central business district.</p><br>
<p>The building is unusual for an Italian Renaissance design. Triangular in plan to fit the street plan and the bluff. There is a four-story circular tower on the north, which widens in a series of curves and re-entrant angles to become a conventional four-story rectangular plan. The rectangular section was demolished in 1975. The remaining structure is three stories in height. A bracketed entablature continued around the tower, separating the three lower stories from the top floor and the lantern above.</p><br>
<p>The foundation is ashlar stone to the first floor. There is a substantial water table with brick walls, covered by stucco. A narrow belt course divides the second and third floors from the one below. The belt rests on the capitals of pilasters that divide the wall into a series of panels.</p><br>
<p>The frieze atop the third floor continues from the tower section to the four-story rectangular section. The rectangular section was demolished in 1974. The cornice, an elaborate belt course did not carry over from the tower section. The strip pilasters have a broad pediment on the second floor level. A cornice at the top of the tower conceals a gable roof. The four-story, rectangular section had a flat roof. The tower is topped with a low conical roof and lantern. There are two street level entrances. A formal entrance has a suspended canopy with double doors and a transom arch on pilasters. A second entrance is further down the street.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1920s, the four-story section at the south end of the building was demolished and rebuilt for security reasons. It was demolished in 1974 to widen Pacific Avenue. A blank brick and concrete wall remains with some of the roof structure exposed.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The building contained 53 offices and storerooms and 19 fireproof vaults. General management of the Northern Pacific had offices on the first and second floor. These included; the Assistant General Manager, Assistant Superintendent of Transportation, Northern Pacific Coal Company, Tacoma Land Company, the Legal Department, Road Master, Superintendent of Bridges, Northern Pacific Express Company and the city ticket and freight offices. The third floor was used by the engineering department and a telegraph room. An employees cafeteria occupied the fourth floor in the tower.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Mason, Alien C. Tacoma and Vicinity, Nuhn and Wheeler Publishers, Tacoma, 1889,</p><br>
<p>Smalley, Eugene V. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad, New York, 1883.</p><br>
<p>Villard, Henry. The Early History of Transportation in Oregon, edited by 0. G. Villard, 1944. Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, Tacoma Illustrated, Chicago, 1889.</p><br>
<p>Jay Cooke and Company, The Northern Pacific Railroad Its Route, Resources, Progress and Business. Publishing date uncertain, 1863-1873.</p><br>
<p>Tacoma Daily Ledger, September 5–8, 1889.</p><br>
<p>Leduck Island is an island in the United States Virgin Islands, also spelled LeDuck Island, which is located 0.5 miles east of Sabbat Point in Johns Folly, separated from Saint John by the Sabbat Channel. LeDuck Island lies by the entrance to Coral Bay and is 85 feet high. Leduck Island is located within the Virgin Islands National Park and is one of the largest offshore islands to Saint John, along with Grass Cay and Congo Cay. Being home to numerous spur and groove reefs, it is a popular scuba diving destinations and its reefs are habitat for an abundance for endemic tropical fish species. Some of the fish species found here include the Fairy basslet, Sergeant major, French angelfish, Gray angelfish, Queen triggerfish, Jackknife-fish, Blue chromis, Schoolmaster snapper, Mangrove snapper, Red hind, Blacktip shark, Hawksbill sea turtle, Glassy sweeper, Squirrelfish, and numerous species of damsels and jacks.</p><br>
<p>Henley Cay, previously known as Women&#39;s Cay, is an 11-acre tropical islet in the United States Virgin Islands. The cay is 300 yards in diameter and the largest and southernmost of the Durloe Cays in the Virgin Islands National Park. Henley Cay is situated 2,200 feet northwest of Turtle Bay on the island of Saint John, separated from the island by the Durloe Channel. The cay is 70 feet high and has a pier on its southern side, although it is uninhabited. The only person said to be born here is Elsa Andersen, the wife of Rudy De Windt. The island is known as a snorkeling and kayaking destination, but is also visited for its white sandy beaches. Arawak Expeditions is one of several companies that offer guided kayak tours from Cruz Bay and Caneel Bay to Henley- and Lovango Cays.</p><br>
<p>The Hopkins County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Sulphur Springs, Texas, the seat of Hopkins County. It was designed by San Antonio-based architect James Riely Gordon and constructed in 1894 and 1895. The courthouse was built in the Romanesque Revival architectural style with red sandstone and pink granite, and its design includes a number of unusual features, such as a double-helix staircase, a clockless tower, and entrances that are located on its northwest and southwest corners, instead of on its sides.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored in 2001 and 2002 at a cost of $3.66 million to the State of Texas and $1.3 million to Hopkins County, and it continues to serve as an operating courthouse that is open to the public on a daily basis. The courthouse has also received numerous awards and accolades, including its designation as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1975 and its addition to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>After Hopkins County was created by the Texas Legislature in 1846, Tarrant was initially designated as the county seat, and a courthouse was constructed there in 1853. In 1868, during the Reconstruction Era, the United States military moved the county seat to Sulphur Springs, which was at the time known as Bright Star. In 1882, Hopkins County constructed its first brick courthouse there; in 1894, this building burned along with the jail and a number of Sulphur Springs&#39; commercial buildings, which necessitated the creation of a replacement courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Design and construction</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse, which was designed by San Antonio-based architect James Riely Gordon, was constructed in 1894 and 1895. It was one of approximately 18 Texas county courthouses designed by Gordon, whose architectural designs could also be found in Texas cities such as Decatur, La Grange, New Braunfels, San Antonio, Stephenville, Waco, Waxahachie, and Victoria.</p><br>
<p>The Hopkins County Courthouse was built in the Romanesque Revival architectural style with red sandstone and pink granite. It also features an unusual double-helix staircase with cast-iron stairs as well as marble wainscoting, masonry interiors, oak woodwork, and stone and tile flooring. The building was constructed with a clockless tower because, as one of the towns early leaders declared, "f you get up when the sun rises and go to bed when it sets, you dont need a clock."</p><br>
<p>Due to its alignment on Courthouse Square, the building&#39;s entrances are somewhat unusually located on its northwest and southwest corners, instead of on its sides. Its entrances feature Roman arches with second-story porticos and third-story open porches above them.</p><br>
<p>Dallas-based Sonnerfield & Ammins received the contract to build the courthouse at a price of $52,410, although the cost ultimately climbed to $75,000, due largely to the added expense of installing steel bracing rods for enhancing the safety of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Hopkins County Courthouse was restored in 2001 and 2002. Prior to its full restoration, the building had only been repaired three times: in 1945, 1971, and 1979–80, the latter of which restored the appearance of the third-floor jury room. By the turn of the 21st century, years of wear and exposure to the elements had caused deterioration of the building&#39;s sandstone and windows as well as a persistent problem with groundwater infiltration. Other major problems afflicting the building included rotting window casings, a roof turret in danger of collapse, overloaded wiring, lack of an elevator, and the general sense that the entire courthouse was a fire hazard.</p><br>
<p>Completed in December 2002, the restoration refurbished both the interior and the exterior of the building, upgraded its systems, and brought it into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In total, the State of Texas spent $3.66 million on the restoration while Hopkins County contributed $1.3 million; the remainder of the funding was raised by private donors, $100,000 of which was contributed by Mary Bonham. After nearly two years of restoration, the courthouse was publicly rededicated on December 7, 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Operation</h2><br>
<p>The Hopkins County Courthouse is an operating courthouse that is open to the public on a daily basis., it is still home to the 8th and 62nd Judicial Districts; it contains courtrooms, jury rooms, and the offices of the auditor, commissioners, county judge, district clerk, and treasurer. In 2005 the building was also available for use as a concert and wedding venue.</p><br>
<h2>Awards and accolades</h2><br>
<p>The Hopkins County Courthouse was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1975, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It also received Round One of a Texas Historical Commission Courthouse Preservation Grant in 2000, shortly before its restoration began; this grant program was an initiative of then-Governor George W. Bush, who personally toured the Hopkins County Courthouse in October 1998 while the program was still a proposal.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse also won the East Texas Historical Association&#39;s Lucille Terry Historical Preservation Award in 2005. In December 2013, County Line Magazine awarded the building the honor of "Best County Courthouse" in its annual "Best of the Upper East Side of Texas" survey, the third time it had received this designation.</p><br>
<p>Pulo Island, commonly known as Isla Pulo, is a long, narrow island surrounded by mudflats in the Manila Bay coast of Navotas, about 13 km north of Manila in the Philippines. It is a sitio in the northern village of Tanza connected to the mainland of Navotas by a 500-meter long bamboo bridge. The island is known for its mangroves for which it was declared a "marine tree park" and as one of four ecotourism sites in Metro Manila established under the National Ecotourism Strategy in 1999. It is also home to a resettlement site of about 137 indigent families mostly occupying the island&#39;s southern tip.</p><br>
<p>The island&#39;s name is redundant, for "pulo" already means "island" in the Filipino language.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Isla Pulo runs along the coast of Manila Bay from the mouth of the Tangos River in Navotas to the village of Salambao at the city&#39;s border with Obando, Bulacan near the mouth of the Meycauayan River. It is about 2.1 km long and 0.16 km wide at its widest point, with an area of 29.47 hectare. It is joined at low tide to the mainland of Navotas by intertidal mudflats.</p><br>
<p>The island is known to host the remaining old growth mangrove forest found in Metro Manila. Its mangroves and surrounding mudflats provide sanctuary for 11 species of migratory birds, including the Chinese egret, tern, kingfisher, gull and plover. The most common type of mangrove found on the island is the Avicennia rumphiana (bungalon). It is also inhabited by 3 species of crabs and 14 species of shellfish.</p><br>
<p>Until the 1980s, Isla Pulo contained long stretches of white sand beaches and thick mangrove vegetation. Its ecology changed with the arrival of informal settlers in the 1990s. The island has become heavily polluted, with trash from a nearby dumpsite washing up on its shores. Several mangrove trees were cut down for charcoal and many of the islands fauna were hunted for food. A campaign was launched in 2014 to declare the island a critical habitat and eco-tourism area in order to protect the remaining mangroves and restore the islands ecosystem.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson House is a historic house at 400 Alstead Center Road in Alstead, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1805-09, it is one of a small number of Georgian houses in soutnwestern New Hampshire. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is one of the few full Georgian-plan houses in western New Hampshire, and is similar to the Pierce Mansion in Hillsborough and the Faxon House in Washington, New Hampshire. It was built over the period 1805-1809, with construction probably delayed by the economic hardships during the second Jefferson administration. The interior of the house displays the changes in taste that were occurring during the early nineteenth century, and may have been occasioned by the extended period of construction. The interior of the south side of the house is in the Georgian mode with paneled fireplace walls and doors with the typical Georgian panel arrangement. On the north side the Federal style predominates with Federal-style door panel arrangement (small panels at the top of the door rather than in the middle). The Federal style is further reflected in the stenciled walls in both northern chambers. These stencils are attributed to Moses Eaton, Jr. Another unusual feature is the presence of two kitchens, each with cooking fireplaces and intact bake ovens.</p><br>
<p>In 1813 the house was purchased by merchant Major Samuel Hutchinson, the adopted son of General Amos Shepard, a prominent figure in the commercial, political and military affairs of the period. The house remained in the Hutchinson family until the 1850s, then passed through several owners until 1892 when it was purchased by the family of Henry F. Hitch of South Orange, New Jersey, as a retirement home and summer escape from the uncomfortable conditions of the New York City area. Mrs. Hitch was a Delano descendant, and second cousin to Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The house remained in the Hitch family until the 1960s. During the first half of the twentieth century the Hutchinson house was one of a number of early homes in Alstead Center that were used a summer places for affluent families from New York and New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The Joe Brown House and Farmstead is a historic property in rural White County, Arkansas. It is located about one mile south of the end of County Road 529, and about 2 mi north of the hamlet of Little Red as the crow flies. It is a single-story dogtrot house, with a corrugated metal roof and board-and-batten siding. The front facade has a shed-roof porch extending across part of the front, sheltering two entrances giving access to the two pens and the breezeway. The property includes a well and the remains of a log smokehouse. The house was built about 1890, and is one of White County&#39;s few surviving 19th-century dogtrots.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, at which time it was reported to be in deteriorated condition.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Ahrens House is a historic house located at 212 East University Avenue in Champaign, Illinois. The house was built in 1893 for local businessman Henry Ahrens; it still remains in his family. Architect Seely Brown, who ran a well-regarded practice in Champaign, designed the Queen Anne house. The -story house has an asymmetrical plan with a multi-component roof that includes both hipped and gabled sections. The gable ends are decorated with patterned wooden shingles, which are also used on a porch gable and the hood of a three-sided bay window. The wraparound front porch is supported by turned columns; brackets with scalloped and half-circle decorations adorn the tops of the columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Kennebunk Historic District encompasses a large portion of the historic town center of Kennebunk, Maine. Established in 1736, the district includes a significant number of fairly high-style houses from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when Kennebunk was at its height as a shipbuilding and maritime shipping center. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Kennebunk, Maine is located on the coast of southern Maine, between the Kennebunk River (the boundary with Kennebunkport) to the north, and the Little River, which forms the boundary with Wells. This area was part of Wells in the 17th and 18th centuries, and was set off in 1820. Its village center is located inland on the Mousam River, which roughly bisects the town. This area was first permanently settled in 1736, and a corridor between the Mousam and Kennebunk Rivers soon developed, along what is now Summer Street (Maine State Route 35). The village center is focused on the former Post Road, now United States Route 1, on the east side of the Mousam River. The town&#39;s historic shipyards, which have not survived, were located on the west bank of the Kennebunk River.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes a significant portion of the Kennebunk village center, and stretches along SR 35 roughly to the Kennebunk Landing area at Durrells Landing Road. The oldest houses in the district date to the 1750s and 1760s, including most notably the Lord Mansion at 20 Summer Street, whose older portion is an ell attached to a fine Federal period built in 1804. The northern portion of Summer Street is lined with houses built primarily in the first half of the 19th century for ships captains. The most elaborate and eye-catching of these is the so-called "Wedding Cake House", built in 1826 for a shipyard owner, and given an elaborate Gothic Revival treatment in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The Pantages Theatre or Jones Building in Tacoma, Washington was designed by the architect B. Marcus Priteca. The unusual structure opened in January 1918. It was designed to be an office building and a vaudeville theatre. The theaters Second Renaissance Revival style is juxtaposed with the Commercial style. The exterior above the ground floor is largely unaltered. The building still houses entertainment and commercial activities. For more information visit the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>It stands at the end of a block formed by Commerce Street, Ninth Street, and Broadway Plaza. The setting is characterized of downtown commercial activities and remains faithful to late 19th and early 20th century streetscapes. The theatre-office building measures 100 ft on the north (Ninth Street) by 115 ft along the west (Broadway). The building uses a steel framed with reinforced concrete walls. The Ninth Street and Broadway facades are white, glazed terra cotta in a matt finish. The Commerce Street façade is yellowish-toned brick.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth Street facade of the Theater is divided horizontally into three major sections, and vertically into five bays. The lower level of the facade, which conforms to the steep Ninth Street grade, has received a minimum of elaboration - typical of a Renaissance, palazzo base. The central level of this elevation, equivalent to three stories in height, features a triple-arched blind arcade set within the three central bays. Each individual archway: is punctuated by a pedimented, structural opening with a large ornamental cartouche above. These central bays are each framed by imposing, pseudo-Corinthian pilasters and half pilasters, full three stories, in height. The blind arcade is solidly flanked by sparsely-decorated outermost bays. Structural openings on the same level as those of the central bays are capped with segmental-arched pediments. Five bracketed balconettes underline these openings, creating a strong horizontal course, which firmly ties the variant bays together. A heavily proportioned entablature repeats the-horizontal movement across the full five bays on this facade. The entablature has a simple architrave, festooned frieze, and cornice with a boldly projecting dentil course. A substantial parapet above the cornice is simply ornamented with raised terra cotta rosettes, and rectangles.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The auditorium is elliptical the proscenium arch and stage located on the south wall. The small orchestra pit can be entered through the greenroom below the stage. Dressing rooms flank the greenroom at that level. Because of the very steep grade on Ninth Street, large spaces below the auditorium level were available for rehearsals and storage. At the lowest level on Commerce Street, the heating and electrical systems were installed.</p><br>
<p>Decorative features of the auditorium rely upon the lavish use of. The proscenium arch is covered with classical motifs executed in plaster by European craftsmen. At the center is an elaborate floral cartouche. Projecting from the cartouche is a torch. Fluted, engaged columns flank the proscenium. The auditorium&#39;s entablature has a dentil led cornice with shell finials. Above the entablature is the coved ceiling with gutter lighting. At the center of the ceiling is an art glass sunburst, instead of a traditional crystal chandelier. Boxes are located on either side in the ante-proscenium area. Each is an arch-shaped niche ornamented on its interior by rosettes and a large shell motif. The box entrance is enframed by a complex arrangement of pilasters, entablature, and broken pediment.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Richard F. McCann, A.I.A. - Adaptation of Tacoma Pantages Theatre - to serve the Existing Need for a City Center Performance Facility. M.H. Co. P.S. - Seattle and Hollywood, March, 1976, unpublished. (File Copy - City Clerk&#39;s Office)</p><br>
<p>Bonney, W.P. A History of Pierce County. 3 vols. Chicago. Pioneer Historical Publishing Company. 1927</p><br>
<p>Harvey, Paul W. Tacoma Headlines. Tacoma, Washington; The News Tribune, 1962</p><br>
<p>Hunt, Herbert Tacoma Its History and Its Builders, A Half Century of Activity. 3 Vols. Chicago, Illinois; The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1916</p><br>
<p>Scully, Jr., Vincent Modern Architecture, George Braziller, N.Y. 1961 Library of Congress No. 61-13689</p><br>
<p>McCann, Richard F., A.I.A.: a series of conversations, personal interviews during January and February and March 1976</p><br>
<p>Priteca, B. Marcus A.R.C.A., F.A.I.A. Specifications for the Pantages/Jones Building, Tacoma, Washington dated September 1, 1916</p><br>
<p>Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 3, 1975, page A 7</p><br>
<p>Deaths Head Hole is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. Its entrance is a 64 m deep shaft. It leads into Lost Johns Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 km cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The fenced entrance shaft descends some 64 m onto a loose boulder slope which leads to a second pitch of 6 m into the Main Chamber, a large chamber with a waterfall entering at the east end. An excavated 10 m deep scaffolded shaft in the bottom corner of the chamber soon leads into a stream passage some 100 m long which ends at a 4 m waterfall into the main Lost Johns&#39; Master Cave about 200 m from its terminal sump.</p><br>
<p>A 23 m climb up the waterfall in the Main Chamber enters East Passage, a well decorated phreatic passage with a misfit stream. It passes under an aven, and eventually lowers to a silted crawl after 150 m. The aven has been climbed for 43 m to a choked inlet. The stream enters East Passage from a low crawl after 50 m, called Dolphin Passage. This gets larger, and passes a small passage heading towards Eyeholes, a choked pothole located some 50 metres north-east of the entrance to Death&#39;s Head Hole, before reaching a very wet section. This has been forced through to the bottom of Long Drop Cave, which is the source of the water.</p><br>
<p>Big Meanie (also called Hawthorn Pot and Nostril Pot) is another entrance into the system situated about 100 m due west of Deaths Head Hole, in a shakehole by a kink in the wall. A tight rift leads directly onto a 49 m pitch which lands in a tall fissure passage. To the west, the passage terminates in a large chamber and a mud choke. To the east the passage divides, with one branch heading towards Eyeholes before becoming too tight, and the other passing through a dug-out constriction into a muddy crawl that finishes on a ledge 21 m above the floor of the Deaths Head Main Chamber, opposite East Passage.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>The cave is a solutional cave formed in Visean Great Scar limestone from the Mississippian Series of the Carboniferous period. Its development has been largely determined by the same vertical fault encountered in Rumbling Hole and Big Meanie. The stream which flows through the cave originates from Long Drop Cave, and flows through to Lost Johns Cave as a tributary, to eventually emerge from the Leck Beck Head spring in Ease Gill. It is thought that what is now the main cave is relatively recent, and that some 350,000 years ago water sinking at Rumbling Hole followed a phreatic trunk route along the fault, entering Deaths Head Hole at the end of East Passage, flowed across what is now the Main Chamber, into the passages below Big Meanie. From here the water flowed through a continuation of the now-blocked passage to Glasfurds Chamber in Gavel Pot, and hence to a resurgence in the Leck Beck Valley some 100 m above the current resurgence, which is now covered with glacial till.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Balderstone described the entrance shaft to Death&#39;s Head Hole in detail in 1881 in Ingleton - Bygone and Present, and plumbed it at 200 ft:</p><br>
<p>Here is another chasm like the Fairies&#39; Workshop, not so richly adorned, but still radiant in its embellishments, yet possessing a most remarkable configuration, indeed, that of the head and jaws of a human skeleton. The main shaft of the hole represents the mouth; a bridgelike bar of rock passes across the eastern verge, but is hollow below, so as to connect the chasm with a more shallow cavity beyond. The most peculiar feature, however, consists in a second bar-like bridge of limestone somewhat more slender than the first, spanning the secondary rift in exactly the opposite direction to that assumed by the former, so as to meet the greater bar in the middle of its course and form part of the same trellice bridgework. In this manner two cavities, like those of the orbits in a skull are produced; and the result is wonderfully curious and fine.</p><br>
<p>The first descent was by the Yorkshire Ramblers Club in 1889, when they reached the bottom of the Main Chamber, and noted the stream entering from the east. In 1892 the cave was referred to as "Hell Hole" by the local historian and writer Harry Speight, who mistakenly reported that "the true bottom has never been reached". The inlet passage in Lost Johns Cave was noted by the Yorkshire Ramblers on their original exploration in 1928, but the water was assumed to originate from Gavel Pot. The connection with Lost Johns&#39; Cave was opened up, by a team from a variety of clubs, in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The waterfall in the Main Chamber was climbed in 1949 by members of the Gritstone Club, who explored East Passage and Dolphin Passage, the inlet from Long Drop Cave. The connection with Long Drop Cave was made after bailing the short section of waterlogged passage, by the Gritstone Club in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The entrance to Big Meanie was dug open by Manchester University Speleological Society (MUSS) in 1971. The connection with Death&#39;s Head Hole was opened up in the same year by a joint team from MUSS, Happy Wanderers Cave and Pothole Club, and Northern Cave Club digging through a boulder obstacle.</p><br>
<p>Mount Hereford  is a mountain located in Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Estrie, Quebec, Canada. It rises to 864 m.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Hereford is a reference to a city and a county of the same name in England. A dictionary from 1832 refers to it as "Hereford Mountain." However, some locals refer to it as Montagne à Goyette or Montagne chez Goyette.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>It is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Hereford via the Neil Tillotson Hiking Trail, which is a 12 km long linear trail. It is accessible from either Clowery Road in Saint-Herménégilde or Coaticook Road in East Hereford. Other activities permitted include snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and wildlife observation.</p><br>
<p>The Old Kennebunk High School, also known as the Park Street School, is an historic former school building at 14 Park Street in Kennebunk, Maine. Built in 1922-23 to a design by Hutchins & French of Boston, Massachusetts, it is historically significant for its role the city&#39;s education, and architecturally as a fine example of a "modern" high school building of the period with Colonial Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Kennebunk High School is located on the southeast side of Park Street, roughly opposite its junction with Dane Street, on the south side of the village center of Kennebunk. It is a two-story brick building, with limestone trim. The main facade, facing the street, is seven bays wide, the outer two blind (windowless) facades of slightly projecting end wings. These end wings have a round-arch recess, filled with bricks at their centers on the first level, with a round limestone panel above on the second level. The central five bays are demarcated by pilasters, and have large sash windows on the second level. The outermost bays have small 2-over-2 windows at their center, and the next inner ones have sash windows with panels below. The original main entrance stands in the center bay, with a transom window and console hood above. Modern additions dating to 1954 and 1962 extend the original building to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1921-22, serving as the town&#39;s third high school, replacing a former private academy building (built 1833, purchased by the town in 1850), and an Italianate combined grammar and high school built after that building was destroyed by fire in 1870. This school was built to adhere to new state standards for schools, and to attract tuition-paying students from surrounding communities. The school design, by Hutchins and French of Boston, was awarded after a design competition. The school served the town has a high school until 1939, when a new high school was opened to address overcrowding. This school was then renamed the Park Street School, and housed elementary grades until its closure in 2006.</p><br>
