<p>Nutscale Reservoir is a reservoir located in Exmoor in north west Somerset, England. It supplies the town of Minehead and nearby Porlock and Porlock Weir. The reservoir is part of the River Horner catchment area, and is dammed. Nutscale Reservoir is fed by Nutscale Water and water is piped to the Porlock Treatment Works, supplying around 3,000 m&sup3; per day, and to six other farms and camp sites.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was built in 1942, to hold 36,000,000 impgal. This was intended to relieve summer droughts in Minehead. It typically provides good quality water, although high levels of geosmin were recorded in 2008. To manage the effects of this on tap water systems were developed to remove this reservoir from the drinking water supply when necessary and flush the pipe carrying the water.</p><br>
<p>The fishing rights to the reservoir are owned by the National Trust, as part of its Holnicote Estate, and leased out privately.</p><br>
<p>Humphrey&#39;s Dairy Farm is a historic farm property at 1675 Shady Grove Road in Garland County, Arkansas, several miles southeast of Hot Springs. The farm is now a 12 acre remnant of a property that was once more than 400 acre. The farm complex is set on the north side of the road, and includes a large Craftsman house, built about 1920, a derelict gambrel-roofed barn of similar vintage, and a dairy processing plant built about 1930. The farm was started by Harris Humphrey in 1911, and was for many years an important local supplier to the Hot Springs market.</p><br>
<p>The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Humphrey&#39;s Dairy Farm, 4 of 4.JPGDerelict building side view</p><br>
<p>Humphrey&#39;s Dairy Farm, 3 of 4.JPGDerelict gambrel-roofed barn</p><br>
<p>Humphrey&#39;s Dairy Farm, 1 of 4.JPGFarm building</p><br>
<p>Glencoe Museum is located in a Victorian house in west downtown Radford, Virginia. The house was built in 1870 in the 19th century Victorian style, specifically Second Empire, and was the postbellum home of Confederate Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton. It is a large, two-story, five bay, brick dwelling, and originally had quite extensive grounds. The original house had a barn, chicken coop, smoke house, and an ice house.</p><br>
<p>The name Glencoe is thought to be inspired by Anne Wharton’s ancestry. Her family was originally from Scotland. The house didn’t appear on Radford’s tax records until 1876; it took a very long time to build a house of its size and grandeur in the 1800s. The house was kept in the family till 1996 when, after being deserted for 30 years, the house was given to the city of Radford. The house and grounds were donated by the Kollmorgen Motion Technology Group.</p><br>
<p>The house features some Victorian period rooms and displays about Radford&#39;s history, including Native American artifacts, early settlers, Mary Draper Ingles, local industries, railroads, river transportation, educational institutions and local sports. There is also an art gallery with changing exhibits of the art and works of contemporary Appalachian artists.</p><br>
<p>Glencoe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Francisco Plaza, also known as Francisco Fort Museum, built in 1862, was the first significant dwelling in the Cuchara Valley at what became La Veta, Colorado. The plaza is now a part of the museum complex. Only the courtyard and the fort building were added to the National Historic Register in 1986. The other structures are new, or were moved to this location during the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plaza was originally a U-shaped structure, much modified over the years. It was built by John M. Francisco of Georgia, and his business partner, Henry Daigre, a Frenchman from Quebec, and served as the headquarters for their cattle ranch. The ranch sold beef to the USA military forts in the area. The area around the plaza was home to Hispanic workers for the ranch. The plaza served as a supply center to the growing community, occasionally proving protection from Ute Indian attacks.</p><br>
<p>The plaza served as a temporary depot for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad when it arrived in 1876. The town of La Veta, incorporated at the same time, never grew to more than 800 residents. The plaza because a residence and farm again for John M. Francisco by the 1890s, the partnership with Daigre having ended possibly 20 years prior. Francisco owned the plaza until his death in 1902. It then passed through various family members, and was acquired by the Huerfano County Historical Society in 1958.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The remaining historic structures were adobe of typical early Hispanic style, built of 18 to 24 inch thick adobe bricks. The building had three sides, each 100 feet long, with the fourth side closed by a fence. Significant changes were made to portions of the building, other buildings were built and rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside Iron Works Office Building is a historic commercial building at 1507&ndash;09 Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia. It is a four story masonry structure, triangular in shape, and built out of light-colored brick with stone trim elements. The first three floors, built in 1896, are Richardsonian Romanesque in style, with rusticated stone elements on the ground floor at the rounded corner, and round-arch settings for doors and windows. The fourth floor, simpler in style, was added about 1907. It was built for the Riverside Iron Works, Wheeling&#39;s leading steel manufacturers at the time, and served as its headquarters until 1898, when the company was acquired by National Tube Company.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Ohio County in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Crane Mountain is in the Warner Mountain range and is the tallest peak in Lake County, Oregon, USA. It is located southeast of Lakeview in south-central Oregon, near the northwest corner of the Basin and Range Province of the western United States. The mountain is in the Fremont section of the Fremont–Winema National Forest. There was a United States Forest Service fire lookout located near the summit which was removed in 1972. The Crane Mountain National Recreation Trail runs north and south along the crest of the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>Crane Mountain is a peak near the northern end of the Warner Mountains in south-central Oregon. It is in the northwest corner of the basin and range country of the western United States. The mountain is located in the Fremont–Winema National Forest, approximately 5 mi southeast of Lakeview. The summit of Crane Mountain is at 8,451 ft. The summit, which has a topographic prominence of 2,336 ft, is the highest point in Lake County, Oregon.</p><br>
<p>Crane Mountain is a fault-block geologic structure typical of southeast Oregons basin and range country. The primary rock that makes up the mountain is basalt. The mountain has a west-facing fault scarp with a steep cliff face overlooking the Goose Lake Valley. The mountains fault-block displacement tilts layers of basalt upward to expose the underlying John Day rhyolite tuff formation on the western flank of the mountain. Agates and thunder eggs are found in the rhyolite layers. Small amounts of gold bearing quartz are also found on the southern slope of the mountain. This is very unusual for an area dominated by basalt.</p><br>
<p>Crane Mountain is near the northern end of the Warner Mountains. The pine and fir forests of the Warner range extend north and south from Crane Mountain. To the west of the mountain is the Goose Lake Valley and to the east is the Warner Valley; both are developed agricultural areas.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is drained by five permanent creeks. Crane Creek drains the northern slopes of the mountain. The western flank of the mountain is drained by Cogswell Creek and the southwest slope by Kelley Creek. All three of these creeks flow into Goose Lake. The northeast slope is drained by Willow Creek while the east and southeast slopes are drained by Deep Creek. Both of these creeks flow into the Warner Valley, supplying the Warner Lakes system with water.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>During the summer, most days are sunny in the high-desert country around Crane Mountain. Daytime temperatures on the mountain are generally mild, but nights can be quite cool. Crane Mountain is very cold in winter, with snows beginning in November. The mountain&#39;s snowpack usually lasts through May. Annual precipitation averages 40 to 65 in, mostly from snowfall. This is the highest average precipitation in the Klamath Ecological Province, which includes western Lake County and southern Klamath County in south-central Oregon extending south into Siskiyou and Modoc counties in California.</p><br>
<h2>Environment and ecology</h2><br>
<p>The lower and middle slopes of Crane Mountain are covered by a mixed forest. The lower elevations are dominated with ponderosa pine and some western juniper. At middle elevations, the forest is primarily ponderosa pine and western white pine with Mountain mahogany on the drier slopes. whitebark pine and subalpine fir are dominant at the higher elevations. The understory in most areas is dominated by low sagebrush. The mountain meadows have quaking aspen with wild flowers in the late spring and early summer. Among the most common wild flowers are Indian paintbrush, yellow balsamroots, phacelia, Penstemon, Clarkia, common yarrow, and spreading phlox.</p><br>
<p>Crane Mountain and the surrounding area host a wide variety of wildlife. Larger mammals found in the area include mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk, coyotes, bobcats, and cougars. Smaller mammals include American badgers, porcupines, striped skunks, black-tailed jackrabbits, white-tailed jackrabbits, pygmy rabbits, golden-mantled ground squirrels, and least chipmunks.</p><br>
<p>Forest birds common to the Crane Mountain area include pygmy nuthatch, juniper titmouse, mountain chickadee, blue-gray gnatcatcher, Cassins vireo, plumbeous vireo, American dusky flycatcher, Hammonds flycatcher, olive-sided flycatcher, Vauxs swift, hermit thrush, Bullocks oriole, Woodhouses scrub jay, Stellers jay, Clarks nutcracker, and black-billed magpie. There are also at least five woodpecker species that live on or near Crane Mountain, including the red-breasted sapsuckers, Williamsons sapsucker, black-backed woodpecker, white-headed woodpecker, and Lewis&#39;s woodpecker. Birds of prey found in the area include northern pygmy-owl, northern saw-whet owl, long-eared owl, barn owls, great gray owls, great horned owls, prairie falcon, northern harrier, northern goshawk, red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, golden eagles, and bald eagles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the summer of 1867, Archie McIntosh, chief Army scout for Colonel George Crook, led a group 18 of Warm Springs or Shoshone scouts on a reconnaissance patrol from Old Camp Warner south toward the Surprise Valley looking for a Paiute raiding party led by Chief Ocheho. As the patrol moved south, they picked up a fresh trail heading west into the Warner Mountains. As the patrol followed the trail up the east slope of Crane Mountain, the Paiutes ambushed McIntosh and his scouts. One scout was killed early in the fight. After some skirmishing, the Paiutes charged the scouts&#39; position, but were repelled with a loss of three dead and several more wounded. The Paiutes then began to circle around behind the scouts, trying to cut off their escape route. To avoid being trapped, McIntosh ordered the scouts to retreat. As the scouts withdrew, the Paiutes continued to pursue them. One more Paiute warrior was killed during the retreat; however, they continued to harass the scouts all afternoon and throughout the night until the scouts reached Honey Creek, near where New Camp Warner was being built. A few days later, Colonel Crook led 360 soldiers and scouts through the Goose Lake Valley looking for the Paiutes that McIntosh had encountered. Two scouting patrols were sent to reconnoiter Crane Mountain from the west. One of the patrols found a well-built Indian fortification, but it had been abandoned.</p><br>
<p>After the army drove the native people out of the area, settlers began to populate the Goose Lake Valley west of Crane Mountain. The mountain was named for Samuel Crane, an early pioneer who settled near Goose Lake at the foot of the mountain in 1869. Cogswell Creek was also named for an early pioneer who settled near Goose Lake, just west Crane Mountain.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the Forest Service built a fire lookout tower on Crane Mountain along with a small cabin to serve as the lookouts residence. This Crane Mountain lookout was sited a short distance north of the mountains summit at an elevation of 8,347 ft. It replaced an older lookout located at Willow Point, approximately 1.3 mi northeast of Crane Mountain summit. The tower was a standard treated timber CT-6 lookout with a 10 ft elevation. The cabin was a one-room L-4 hip-roof structure with a 14 by footprint. The Willow Point garage was moved to the Crane Mountain site for the lookout&#39;s use. The total cost of building the lookout was $2,828. The cabin was renovated in 1963. After two decades of use by the Forest Service, the tower and support structures were demolished in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>In the summer, recreation opportunities in the Crane Mountain area include hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, bird watching, wildlife viewing, camping, and photography. Some trails on the south side of Crane Mountain are also open to off-road vehicles. In the fall, the area around Crane Mountain is known for its excellent deer and elk hunting. In the winter, the western slope from Kelly Creek to Cogswell Creek is available for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, but it is a very challenging route. Also, weather conditions on the mountain can change rapidly, especially in the winter. As a result, visitors enjoying winter activities need to check weather forecasts before setting out on any of the Crane Mountain trails.</p><br>
<p>There are three day-hike trails that lead to the summit of Crane Mountain. The Crane Mountain National Recreation Trail reaches the summit from the north and the south while the Crane Mountain Summit Trail comes up the east slope of the mountain. Crane Mountain National Recreation Trail is 31 mi long, running from the California border in the south to the point where it links up with the Fremont National Recreation Trail northeast of Lakeview. The trial is rated moderate to difficult, covering terrain that is both steep and rugged. In addition, the higher elevations near the summit of Crane Mountain normally have snow until July. As a result, the trail is lightly used. The Summit Trail begins at a parking area near the junction of forest roads 4011 and 012, 2.2 mi east of the summit.</p><br>
<p>From the old lookout site near the summit of Crane Mountain, visitors have an excellent view of the Goose Lake Valley to the west as well as a number of Warner range peaks to the north and south. From the lookout station view point, visitors can see as far south as Mount Shasta and as far west as Mount McLoughlin as well as Drake Peak and Hart Mountain to the north and northeast.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>While Crane Mountain is only 10 mi southeast of Lakeview, access to the mountain&#39;s trail system requires a 37 mi drive to reach the trailhead for the summit hike. Much of that trip is on gravel roads. From Lakeview, head north on USA Route 395 for 5 mi, then take the exit onto Oregon Route 140. Follow Route 140 for 8 mi, past Warner Canyon Ski Area. Turn right onto Forest Road 3615, heading south. After 1/2 mi, turn west on Old Highway 140. Continue along the old highway for 1.5 mi, then turn south on Forest Road 3915 when the old highway ends. Follow Road 3915 for approximately 9 mi and then turn right on Forest Road 4011. After 2.5 mi turn onto Forest Road 012, where there is a parking area 1/4 mi from the turnoff. The Crane Mountain Summit Trail begins there. If one continues on Road 4011 past the Road 012 junction, the road leads to the top of Crane Mountain. However, the road is extremely steep and rough.</p><br>
<p>The Art Gallery of the University of Southern Maine, Gorham campus, is located at 5 University Way, at the main campus entrance. The building in which it is located was built in 1822 as a non-denominational church building, and has also served as Gorham&#39;s town hall. It has been part of the campus since the early 1960s, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Art Gallery is located at the southern edge of the USM Gorham campus, at the northeast corner of University Way and College Avenue, west of the Gorham town center. It is a rectangular wood-frame structure, about 42 x, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. The front, facing south, is distinguished by a temple facade, with four fluted Doric columns supporting an entablature and fully pedimented gable. The gable has a small rectangular opening at its center, that originally housed a window but is now boarded over. The facade behind the temple front has two sash windows flanking a central entrance. The side walls have six evenly spaced windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1822, primarily to provide a performance venue for the local Handel Society, a singing group that provided music to religious groups that met in the space. It was used in this capacity until 1844, when it was auctioned off. Toppan Robie, a prominent local businessman, won the auction, and promptly gave the building to the town. In return he was given the towns old town hall, and a stipulation that the building would return to his (or his heirs) ownership if it ceased to be used for town functions. The town used it for town meetings until 1960, at which time it reverted to the Robie heirs. They promptly donated the building to the state. It has since been adapted by the university for use as an art gallery.</p><br>
<p>The Iron Springs Recreation Area is a roadside picnic area on Arkansas Highway 7, north of Jessieville in the Ouachita National Forest. The area has three shelters for picnicking, vault toilets, and an accessible trail for viewing the springs in the area. The facilities were largely built by the Civilian Conservation Corps  in the 1930s, with two shelters and the nearby dam listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Setting and history</h2><br>
<p>The Iron Springs picnic area is set on the west side of Arkansas Highway 7, about 4.5 mi north of Jessieville, between the road and the Middle Fork Saline River. The river is impounded by a low fieldstone dam, built by the CCC in 1933, which features alternating chutes and steps, and impounds enough water to form a modest swimming hole.</p><br>
<p>The picnic area includes three covered shelters, two of which were built by the CCC in 1933. The first is about 24 x, built with open log construction and topped by a gable roof. The north and south sides of the shelter have log balustrades, while the other two sides are open; a picnic table is set under the shelter. The second is more square in shape, with a pyramidal roof, but also has balustrades on the north and south sides.</p><br>
<p>Green Castle is a naturally defended rocky outcrop in the village of Portknockie in Moray, Scotland, that was occupied successively by small promontory forts of the Iron Age and Pictish periods.</p><br>
<p>The site forms a rocky headland 70 m long and 15 m wide, surrounded by steep cliffs rising 20 m high above the sea. The site was extensively excavated between 1976 and 1982.</p><br>
<p>During the Iron Age a single palisade was built to protect the headland at its landward side. Traces of the slot created by these timbers, together with an Iron Age sherd and pits have been excavated. This occupation period produced evidence of metalworking, including fragments of moulds, furnaces, hammerstones and whetstones. Ard marks over the upper surfaces of Iron Age archaeological layers suggest that the site was then used for agriculture before being reused for defensive purposes during the Pictish period.</p><br>
<p>A new timber palisade backfilled by beach cobbles marked a first phase of Pictish activity on the site. The fort was then extensively rebuilt in the 7th and 8th centuries – possibly in response to the start of Norse raids on the northern Pictish Kingdom of Fortriu – with a more sophisticated structure of timber-laced stone ramparts protecting a central stone hall. These defences were later destroyed by fire, possibly the result of a Viking siege.</p><br>
<p>During the 19th century the site was used for fish drying and most of the area was covered by low stone platforms.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Horatio Belo House is a historic mansion in Dallas, Texas, USA. It was built for Colonel Alfred Horatio Belo, a veteran of the Confederate States Army and founder of The Dallas Morning News, circa 1900. It remained in the Belo family until 1977, when it was acquired by the Dallas Bar Association.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at 2115 Ross Avenue in Dallas, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built on land formerly owned by Captain William Henry Gaston, a Confederate veteran and banker in Dallas. It was completed circa 1900. It was designed by Herbert M. Greene in the Neoclassical architectural style.</p><br>
<p>It was built for Colonel Alfred Horatio Belo, a Confederate veteran and the founder of The Dallas Morning News. Belo resided here with his wife, Nettie Ennis Belo, his son, Alfred Horatio Belo, Jr. and his daughter-in-law Helen Ponder, as well as his daughter, Jeannette Belo, who married Dr. Charles Peabody. After Colonel Belo died in 1901 and his son died in 1906, his widow lived here with her son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters. After she died in 1913, Helen Ponder Belo and her daughters lived here until 1922, when the Belo family moved to North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was leased to house the Loudermilk-Sparkman Funeral Home from 1926 to 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>The mansion has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 29, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railroad Depot is a historic railroad station located at 1408 Broadway Street in Pekin, Illinois. The station was built in 1898 when the St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railway built a line into Pekin; the railroad had formed only two years earlier as an amalgamation of ten other railroad companies. The new railroad provided direct passenger routes to Springfield, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri and opened up better options for shipping freight north through Peoria. The depot became part of the Chicago & Alton Railroad in 1900 when it purchased the St. L. P. & N. line from Peoria to Springfield. The station served both passenger and freight traffic until passenger service ended in the 1930s; the railroad also served as an important part of Pekin&#39;s economy, both by employing residents and stimulating local industry. The station is one of the only historic rail-related buildings remaining in Pekin.</p><br>
<p>The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 2004.</p><br>
<p>Laknavaram Lake is a lake located in Govindaraopet mandal, about 80km from Warangal, Telangana.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist spot</h2><br>
<p>The lake is spread over an area of 10,000 acres and holds about 2.135 tmcft of water. It irrigates over 3,500 acres of land. It was built by Kakatiya kings. It has about 13 islands in it and has a 160 metres long hanging bridge, which connects three islands. It is surrounded by a thick deciduous forest and it is a very popular tourist spot.</p><br>
<p>The new facilities including cottages, a viewing tower, a pantry, and a ferry from the main banks to the island amidst the serene waters has been opened for the nature loving tourists.</p><br>
<h2>Awards</h2><br>
<p>The wooden air-conditioned cottages at the resorts of lake has bagged the most innovative product at the travel and tourism fair held at Kolkata.</p><br>
<p>Tumisa  is a Pleistocene stratovolcano in the Andes. Located east of the Salar de Atacama, it is part of the Central Volcanic Zone, which since the Miocene has been subject to extensive andesitic/dacitic effusive activity and ignimbrite eruptions. The basement on which Tumisa is built includes Paleozoic rocks and more recent volcanic products of the Lejia volcano and the Atana and Patao ignimbrites.</p><br>
<p>Block flows, lava flows, lava domes and some ignimbrites of pumiceous composition form this composite volcano. More than six lava domes and two major cones are part of this system and surrounded by a pyroclastic apron, which covers a surface area of 300 km&sup2; and is formed from many pyroclastic flows with a total volume of 21 km3. The pyroclastic flows contain pumice and large blocks, some of which show signs of deformation when they were still hot. The lava domes and lavas are grouped in three units. Presumably, the activity of Tumisa started with explosive eruptions that generated the ignimbrite apron, later degassed magma formed the lava domes and lava flows.</p><br>
<p>Dating of the volcano indicates that it becomes younger with higher altitude, a pattern that may be explained either by a shift in the magmatic system or a progressive downslope sliding of the volcano during its history at a speed of 0.5 -. This interpretation is supported by the drainage patterns of the volcano, with channels bending outwards and curving towards the west. These channels possibly formed over faults of the slipping volcano. Valleys (quebradas) were excavated less than one million years ago during the glacial stages in Tumisa&#39;s northern flank. Moraines are also found.</p><br>
<p>The volcano has erupted dacitic lavas containing andesitic mafic inclusions. These inclusions resemble those from the Soncor flow of neighbouring Lascar to the northeast. Some rocks may have been influenced by the interaction with calcium carbonate in the magma chambers. Hornblende crystals with dimensions of 5 - and megacrysts of feldspar with dimensions of up to 1.5 cm are also present. The textures of the products suggest that magma mixing occurred during activity. The dacites have a white porphyritic appearance. The dome complex is dated 2.5-0.5 mya and the associated pyroclastics 1.5-0.5 mya and constructed on Tertiary ignimbrites. One date of 1.2±0.6 million years was obtained from the Las Mulas dome. The complex is of Pleistocene age. Later, hydrothermal alteration occurred.</p><br>
<p>A fault with probably postglacial activity crosses the Laguna Lejia and is associated with Tumisa, connecting Tumisa with a basaltic maar and an isolated lava dome. It runs in northwest-southeast direction and crosses Lejia on its southern margin.</p><br>
<p>Tumisa and its neighbouring mountains Lausa, Chiliques, Ipira and Miniques are identified by the inhabitants of Socaire to be part of a giant human left hand with dimensions of 40 x on the eastern horizon.</p><br>
<p>Tosham hill , located at Tosham, with an average elevation of 207 meters , and the rocks exposed in and around Tosham hills are part of subsurface north western spur of Alwar group of Delhi supergroup of Aravalli Mountain Range, belong to the Precambrian Malani igneous suite of rocks and have been dated at 732 Ma BP .</p><br>
<h2>Geology of Tosham hill</h2><br>
<p>The main Tosham hill is an extinct volcano which erupted sometime 732 Ma BP (million years before present). Geologic province of is an narrow oval shaped ring dike of eroded extinct volcanoes on the periphery of a collapsed caldera (magmatic chamber) of roughly 16 km diameter on its longest Khanak to Nigana Khurd NW-SE axis and 8 km on its narrower Dadam to Tosham E-W axis. This sub-surface ring dyke is now buried under the later era soils. Much of the area to the west of ring dyke is covered with Aeolian sand flown from the fringes of Thar Desert. The remaining area is covered under sedimentary alluvium soil of Harka river of Ghaggar-Hakra River system (paleo Sarasvati River) to the north and east, and paleo channel of Yamuna through Bhiwani in the south and east. Among these hills, Khanak hill is the largest and tallest, and Tosham hill is the second largest smaller hill. The other neighbouring hills, in the order of decreasing size, such as Nigana Khurd, Riwasa, Dulehri, Dharan, Dadam etc. are composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<h3>Tosham Igneous Complex</h3><br>
<p>Tosham Igneous Complex has 3 main hills (Khanak, Tosham and Riwasa) and several other smaller rocky outcrops, mainly around the ring dyke:</p><br>
<p>Tosham Hill: The main Tusham hill is the second largest hill in the range. It has ancient rock inscriptions and rock paintings, paelo eroded rocky glacial channels and water cascades, and small hilltop lakes. It consists of a quartz porphyry ring dyke, felsite, welded tuff and muscovite biotite granite. The country rocks (Archean Bhilwara basement rocks) native to the area are quartzite with chiastolite belonging to the Delhi Supergroup. The Tosham Sn-W-Cu rocks are the source of primary tin as well as Tungsten and copper, but found to be not viable commercially. The granites and granite porphyries are high heat producing type. Spectroscopy studies indicate that they have high abundance of potassium (K), uranium (U), and thorium (Th), a sign of radioactivity. Highest heat flow in India is recorded from this area.</p><br>
<p>Khanak hill at Khanak: Khanak hill is the largest and tallest in the range, followed by neighbouring Tosham hill, Nigana Khurd, Riwasa, Dulehri, Dharan, Dadam etc in the order of decreasing size. These hills are mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<p>Riwasa hill near Riwasa village: Mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<p>The rocky outcrops include the following:</p><br>
<p>Nigana hill near twin Nigana villages, Nigana Khurd and Nigana Kalan: Hilly outcrop in the vicinity of, are mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<p>Dulehri hill near Dulehri village: Mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<p>Dharan hill near Dharan village: Mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<p>Dadam hill near Dadam village: Mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<p>Kharkari Makhwan hill near Kharkari Makhwan village: Mainly composed of granite porphyries.</p><br>
<h3>Mining</h3><br>
<p>Based on the scientific study of artifacts from Rakhigarhi and other sites, the people of Indus Valley Civilization sourced the raw materials for making beads and figurines from the Steatite mines of Tosham Hill range. Commercial scale mining for stones used for construction is done in the government auctioned mines at Tosham, Khanak and Dadam hills, with several stone crushers in the zone.</p><br>
<h3>Sacred Sulphur Ponds of Tosham Hill</h3><br>
<p>There are several holy ponds on Tosham Hill inside the caves, namely Pandu Teerth Kund, Surya Kund, Kukkar Kund, Gyarasia/Vyas Kund and a reservoir or a small tank on the summit of the hill to store rain water. Water in these kunds (ponds) in various caverns contain sulfur which is considered sacred by the devotees and pilgrimages as it heals skin diseases.</p><br>
<h4>Pandu Tirath, Tosham</h4><br>
<p>There are several sacred kunds or reservoirs on the hill; one of them, the Pandu Tirath, is considered so sacred that some of the neighbouring villages deposit the ashes of their dead in it instead of taking them to the Ganges.</p><br>
<h4>Surya Kund, Tosham</h4><br>
<p>The Surya Kund is one of many kunds (pond) found in caverns of Tosham hill. It is considered sacred.</p><br>
<h4>Kukkar Kund, Tosham</h4><br>
<p>The Kukkar Kund is one of many kunds (pond) found in caverns of Tosham hill. It is considered sacred.</p><br>
<h4>Gyarasia Kund, Tosham</h4><br>
<p>The Gyarasia Kund (Vyas Kund) is one of many kunds (pond) found in caverns of Tosham hill. It is considered sacred.</p><br>
<h3>Scientific studies</h3><br>
<p>From 1894-96, Lt-General C.A. Mcmahon (1830-1904), who was also the president of British Geologists&#39; Association, was the first modern geologist to study these rocks. He described the petrography of the rocks in 1884 and 1886 and published his work in the Records of Geological Survey of India. During 2014-2016, Ravindra Singh and Dheerendra Singh of Banaras Hindu University undertook first ever Indus Valley Civilization archaeological excavations of the area to confirm the connection of ores mined from these hills with the smelting metallurgical work of IVS.</p><br>
<h2>Tosham Hill range Indus Valley Civilization mines & smelters</h2><br>
<p>There several Indus Valley Civilization sites in and around Tosham Hill range as the area falls under copper-bearing zone of Southwest Haryana & Northeast Rajasthan of Aravalli hill range. Investigation of IVC network of mineral ore needs for the metallurgical work and trade shows that most common type of grinding stone at Harappa is of Delhi quartzite type found only in the westernmost outliers of the Aravalli range in southern Haryana near Kaliana and Makanwas villages of Bhiwani district has bears red-pink to pinkish gray color, crisscrossed with thin haematite and quartz filled fractures in sugary size grain texture.</p><br>
<p>Ravindra Singh and Dheerendra Singh of Banaras Hindu University, in association with Cambridge University, carried out ASI-financed excavations of Indus Valley Civilization site at the ground of Government School in Khanak, during September 2014 and Feb-May 2016. They found early to mature Harappan phase IVC materials, pottery, semiprecious beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian and others. They also found evidence of matallurgical activities, such as crucible (used for pouring molten metal), furnace lining, burnt floor, ash and ore slugs. Ceramic petrography, Metallography, Scanning electron microscope (SEM, non-destructive, surface images of nanoscale resolution), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXA and EDXMA, trade name EDAX, non-destructive, qualitative and quantitative elemental composition) and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM, destructive method) scientific studies of the material found prove that the Khanak site was inhabited by the IVC metal-workers who used the locally mined polymetalic tin, and they were also familiar with metallurgical work with copper and bronze. Since excavation did not reach natural soil, it is believed that finds at Khanak site might go as far back as pre-Harappan era to Sothi-Siswal culture (4600 BCE or 6600 BP).</p><br>
<p>Ravindra N Singh and Dheerendra P Singh, 2016, "A Note on Metallurgy at KhanaK: An Indus Site in Tosham Mining Area, Haryana", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Environmental, Chemical, Ecological, Geological and Geophysical Engineering. Vol:10, No:9.</p><br>
<h2>Concerns</h2><br>
<p>Due to the ongoing mining activities there are environmental, pollution and noise related concerns, as well as soil erosion, aridification, reduced groundwater recharge and loss of wildlife habitat related to the encroachment and loss of forest cover in the mined area. The archaeological heritage in the hills, that includes the indus valley civilization habitation, smelter and mine sites, ancient rock inscription and ancient rock paintings, etc, are at risk due to the mining, lack of awareness and efforts for the natural resources conservation and archaeological and historic heritage preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Melvin Price Federal Building and United States Courthouse, historically known as the United States Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic federal building located at 750 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois. The building served as the citys main post office and still serves as the courthouse of the Southern District of Illinois; it is named for USA Representative Charles Melvin Price. Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor designed the Beaux-Arts building in 1907; construction began the following year and was completed in 1909. The buildings design features a projecting pavilion above the front entrance with four pairs of columns supporting a pediment; the columns frame a three-bay arcade which once housed the courtroom windows. Quoins at the corners and on projecting elements, alternating arched and pedimented windows on the second floor, and a cornice with a balustrade also decorate the building. Two wings in a matching design were added to the building in 1918, and a modern annex was placed on the rear in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Jack Tar Hotel and Bathhouse is a historic former tourist resort property at 145 Oriole Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a five story steel and masonry structure, finished in buff brick, with International style. Its prominent features are a central rectangular stairhouse, which projects from the main facade and rises two stories above the main block. The front is lined with balconies which are cantilevered out on steel beams. An elevated pedestrian bridge joins the main hotel to the bathhouse, across Oriole Street. The hotel was built in the 1950s to a design by local architect Irven McDaniel, and is a rare surviving example of a 1950s hotel in Hot Springs. The building now houses a senior living facility known as the Garland Towers.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Dierks Joers House is a historic house at 2111 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Built in 1955, this single story wood and limestone structure is one of the finest local examples of Mid-Century Modern Ranch architecture. The house is basically U-shaped, with a central public living area, a bedroom wing, and a service wing. Windows are typically full length in height, and most of the exterior is clad in irregularly-laid limestone, with some weatherboard siding. The house was built for Peter Dierks Joers, heir to the locally prominent Dierks Lumber Company, whose sale to Weyerhaeuser he oversaw. The house interior is a showcase of Arkansas wood types and woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown East St. Louis Historic District is a historic commercial district in downtown East St. Louis, Illinois. The district includes 35 buildings, 25 of which are contributing buildings, along Collinsville Avenue, Missouri Avenue, and St. Louis Avenue; all but one of the buildings was historically used for commercial purposes. While development in the area dates back to the late 19th century, the first of the extant buildings in the district were built around 1900 after a tornado devastated the area in 1896. By 1910, the area had become a prosperous commercial district with stores, offices, and entertainment venues; surviving buildings from this period include the Murphy Building and the Cahokia Building. Another large building boom took place in the 1920s, adding buildings such as the Spivey Building, the city&#39;s only skyscraper; the Union Trust Bank Company Building, the largest bank in the city; the Grossman Building; and the Majestic Theatre. The new buildings both coincided with a population and economic expansion in the city and allowed it to forge an architectural identity distinct from neighboring St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1960s, East St. Louis and its downtown entered a period of dramatic decline. Several major businesses left the city for other suburbs, urban decay and blight struck the city, resulting in the abandonment or demolition of several major commercial buildings. In addition, the rise of the automobile and the construction of new expressways took foot traffic away from the downtown area, furthering the decline of its businesses. The citys population is now one-third of its peak in 1950, and many of the districts buildings are abandoned and at risk of demolition or major decay.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Blair Historic District is a historic district located in downtown Belleville, Illinois. The district encompasses a mainly commercial area on the west side of the downtown area; it includes 78 buildings, 57 of which are contributing buildings. The entire district is located within the original plat of the city, which was established following a land donation from George Blair in 1813. The oldest buildings in the district date to circa 1850; development continued from then on into the early twentieth century. Most buildings in the district are two-part brick commercial blocks designed in popular contemporary styles such as the Italianate, Second Empire, Classical Revival, and Romanesque Revival. The Reichert Business Block, a three-story structure at 200 West Main Street, has a particularly significant Second Empire design; the building features a mansard roof with dormers and a decorative cornice and has been described as the district&#39;s most elaborate building. Two Classical Revival buildings, the 1911 United States Post Office Building and the 1924 Turner Hall, also have a commanding presence in the district; the post office was designed by Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 2014.</p><br>
<p>Jam is a river in central India originating in the Betul District of Madhya Pradesh.It flows through several villages and towns during its short run, ultimately draining itself off in Kanhan River. This confluence is located at the border with Maharashtra. An ambitious water project in the form of a dam has been proposed by Maharashtra in anticipation of the growing water needs of metro Nagpur. However the project has been shelved for now due to lack of co-operation from the state government in Madhya Pradesh.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>The river originates through a convergence of several rivulets and streams flowing down the hill slopes situated around Chilhati village in the Betul District in Madhya Pradesh at an altitude of 762m.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>Snaking along south east the river enters the Chhindwara District and hits flatter terrain where it collects two rivers, each of them being spill offs from dams.The first one is the overflow stream from an earthen dam located near Mandvi. The other, longer of the two streams, flows out from the Borgaon Dam, runs parallel to NH69, and merges with Jam river at Teegaon. Here the river widens out and continues its run southeast of the town receiving another tributary on its left bank near the village Chichkheda. It travels through the outskirts of the town Pandhura changing course to run in an eastward fashion. Just before reaching the village Jam, it receives its largest tributary River Sarpini. From here the river again flows southeast-ward passing the town Lodhikhede and ends its course by draining off in Kanhan River at the border of the two states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.</p><br>
<p>The French Colonial Historic District is a historic district that encompasses a major region of 18th-century French colonization in southwestern Illinois. The district is anchored by Fort de Chartres and Fort Kaskaskia, two important French settlements and military posts in what was then the Illinois Country. The Kaskaskia village site is also included within the district; it includes the Pierre Menard House, the only surviving building from Illinois&#39; first state capital. Over a dozen French houses in Prairie du Rocher are also part of the district, including the poteaux-sur-sol Creole House and the 1735 Meilliere House. In addition to the French sites, the district also includes several Native American archaeological sites, such as the Modoc Rock Shelter, the Kolmer Site, the Waterman Site, and the Henke Site.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Taliperu is a river in the Godavari system originating in the Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. It is a left-bank tributary of Godavari River, draining into it through a confluence located near Cherla in the Khammam District in Telangana.</p><br>
<p>The river has been harnessed for agricultural purposes through extensive canal systems developed in that region. A dam known as the Taliperu Project has been built on the river for this purpose. The water impounded by it is known as the Taliperu Reservoir, which is a medium irrigation project located at Cherla Village and Mandal, Khammam District, Telangana. This project utilizes about 5.0 TMC of water and creates 24500 Acres of Ayacut in both Cherla and Dummugudem Mandals, Khammam District.</p><br>
<p>The Read House Hotel is a historic hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The current building dates from 1926, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Hamilton County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first hotel on the site was the Old Crutchfield House, named for the Crutchfield family who built it. It was located directly across from the railway. During this time in Chattanooga, the railways were the main source of business and imports. This constant flow of business is what allowed the Old Crutchfield House to prosper. The house doubled as an inn as well and a hospital for Union soldiers traveling through the city during the Civil War. The inn caught fire and burned to the ground in the year 1867. After the fire, the Crutchfield family chose not to rebuild. This left room for John T. Read to step in and build a new hotel in place of the old inn. The new Read House Hotel opened on New Year&#39;s Day 1872. In 1926, the hotel was torn down and a new hotel constructed based on the design from the two architects Holabird and Roche to have a Georgian style with 10 stories. One more renovation occurred in 2004. The hotel dropped its affiliation with Sheraton in November 2015, and the official name is now The Read House Historic Inn & Suites. On August 30, 2016 the hotel was purchased by Avocet Hospitality Group of Charleston, SC. An 18-20 million dollar renovation is scheduled to begin in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Famous visitors</h2><br>
<p>Being in the heart of Chattanooga, the Read House has come onto contact with many familiar faces. Among those are Oprah Winfrey, Gary Cooper, Winston Churchill, and one of the more well known, Al Capone. Capone stayed in the Read House a short time during his federal trial in the early 20th century. Custom iron bars were added to the window in the room Capone resided in, and remained there until the latest renovation in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Room 311</h2><br>
<p>Perhaps the thing the Read House is most known for is the haunting of room 311. Many believe the room harbors the spirit of a woman named Annalisa Netherly. There are many legends as to who this woman was and how she became the famous spirit to haunt the hotel, but it is most well known that Ms. Netherly was a prostitute in Chattanooga during 1920s and 1930&#39;s. She supposedly resided in room 311 for an extended time. While details are hazy, Ms. Netherly in fact died in that very room. Some legends have it that she was found soaking in the tub with her head almost completely decapitated- more than likely done by a jealous lover or husband. Other legends say that as she took a gentleman suitor to her room and he later directed his time and attention elsewhere to another woman. This supposedly left her broken hearted and suicidal, and it was then that Ms. Netherly took her own life. People who have stayed in room 311 say that Ms. Netherly hates men, especially those who smoke. Many guests that have stayed in the room, including Al Capone, have made it through the night without any paranormal activity, while others report it being heavy during their stay.</p><br>
<p>The Old Hampden Academy Building is a historic school building on United States Route 1A in Hampden, Maine. Built in 1842-43, it was the home of Hampden Academy, now the town&#39;s public high school, for many years. It is now located on the campus of the McGraw School, a local elementary school. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 for its educational and architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Hampden Academy building stands on the east side of US Route 1A in Hampden village, just south of its junction with Cottage Street. It stands at the back of a semicircular drive that is now almost completely surrounded by parking for the McGraw School, whose modern section is attached to the rear of this building. The academy building is a -story brick building, with a front-facing gable roof and granite foundation. A square tower rises above the roof ridge, with a short first stage, and a taller belfry stage with louvered round-arch openings. The front (west-facing) facade is symmetrical, three bays wide, with a projecting entry vestibule in the center bay, and a fully pedimented gable with a half-round louver at its center. The entry pilastered at all four corners (as is the building) and the entrance is recessed in a paneled opening, with a balustraded balcony above.</p><br>
<p>Hampden Academy was established in 1803 and constructed its first building on this site in 1806. That building was destroyed by fire in February 1842, and the present building was built soon thereafter. It is one of a handful of brick Greek Revival academy buildings, resembling the Bloomfield Academy in Skowhegan (1840) and the Somerset Academy in Athens.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn–Harpswell Association Historic District encompasses a well-preserved enclave of summer residences built in the early 20th century in southern Harpswell, Maine. The district includes ten Shingle style houses, a Colonial Revival dining hall, and a Greek Revival meeting hall. The Auburn Colony, an exclusive company of businessmen from Auburn, Maine, was responsible for their development. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Harpswell consists of several fingers of land, some of which are islands joined to the mainland by bridges, on the east side of Casco Bay on the southern coast of Maine. The principal western finger extends from Brunswick in the north to Potts Point at its very southern tip. Several miles north of Potts Point, in South Harpswell, the peninsula narrows sharply. On the west side of Harpswell Neck Road (Maine State Route 123) near this point is where the Auburn Colony is located. The main access road to the colony is located just south of a tennis court on the colony property. Lining a small network of roads in a roughly east-west orientation are the ten houses of the colony, with the two common buildings just to their north.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Colony was founded in 1877 by a group of businessmen from Auburn, "for the purpose of securing the material advantage of society, health, and recreation." Twenty small Gothic Victorian cottages were built on the property they acquired, which were tragically destroyed by fire in 1899, although the two community buildings survived. The colony was rebuilt, with a reduced membership, resulting in construction ten 2-1/2 story Shingle style houses. Only three have known architects, all credited to the Lewiston firm of Coombs & Gibbs. In addition to the already-mentioned facilities, the association has a salt-water swimming pool and a small beach.</p><br>
<p>The Evans Court Apartment Building is a historic eight-unit apartment building at 22-24 Winthrop Street in the South End of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is a four story brick structure, shaped like an L, with a section projecting to the left at its rear. The front facade has three-story projecting polygonal bays flanking the center entrance, which are topped by decorative cartouches. The main entrance is framed by concrete quoining at the sides, with scrolled brackets supporting an arched pediment. A similarly-decorated entrance provides access to the residential units of the rear portion of the building. The building has sixteen units, and was built in 1910, when nearby Main Street was heavily developed with such apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Hancock Apartment Building. also known as the Schaffer Apartments, is a historic mixed-used retail and residential apartment building at 116-118 Hancock Street and 130 Tyler Street on the east side of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is a four story brick structure, with an exterior of orange brick, a pressed metal cornice, and a flat roof. Decorative brick banding joins the tops of the windows, and runs just below the sills of the upper-level windows. Some of the upper-level windows are set in decorative metal panels in groups of three. The building was constructed in 1911-12, and originally housed a dry goods store in the corner retail space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The David Hyatt Van Dolah House  is a historic house located at 10 North Spencer Street in Lexington, Illinois. The house was built in 1898 for David Hyatt Van Dolah, a prominent local landowner best known as an importer and broker of French horses. Architect George H. Miller, one of the most well-regarded architects in the Bloomington area, and his partner James E. Fisher designed the house in the Queen Anne style. The front of the house features a large round turret on one corner, a wraparound porch, and a large stepped gable opposite the turret. The house&#39;s exterior is decorated with brickwork patterns, a slight departure from the ornamental woodwork usually used to side Queen Anne homes. The hipped roof of the house features cross gables, a cone atop the turret, and several pinnacles and spires.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Delavan Commercial Historic District is a historic district in downtown Delavan, Illinois. The district includes 26 buildings along two blocks of Locust Street, 20 of which are contributing buildings. The oldest buildings in the district, two simple brick commercial structures, were built around 1860. The remaining buildings were mainly built later in the 19th century, with a few built during the early 20th century. The buildings mostly have either Italianate or vernacular commercial designs, as was typical for commercial buildings of the period. Several of the buildings feature decorative metal elements such as storefronts, cornices, and window treatments. One notable exception to this design trend is the Masonic Hall at 401 Locust Street, which has a Queen Anne design featuring a large turret.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Hoag House is a historic house in Judsonia, Arkansas. It is located on a wooded lot northeast of the junction of Arkansas Highways 157 and 367 in the northeastern part of the town. It is a rambling two-story wood frame structure, with central section oriented north-south, and projecting gabled sections on the east and west sides. A two-story turret stands at the northeast junction of the main and eastern sections, topped by a pyramidal roof with gable dormers. A single-story porch with Victorian decoration wraps around the outside of the turret, joining the northern and eastern sections. Built about 1900, the house is locally distinctive for its central two-story box structure, and its Folk Victorian styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Mount Hureish is a mountain in the northern West Bank, part of the broader Jabal Nablus  range. It abuts the Marj Sanur valley to the south and its peak is 764 meters above sea level, making it the tallest mountain in the Jenin area, and the sixth highest peak in the Palestine. Mount Hureish is a part of the Musheirif Range, which includes other mountains such as Mount Abu Yazid  and Mount &#39;Ilan .</p><br>
<p>From Mount Hureish, Mount Ebal could be seen to the south and the Wadi Ara plain could be seen to the northwest. At its western foot is the Palestinian village of Jaba&#39;, and Meithalun and Siris are the closest villages to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Tomb of Sheikh Hureish</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is named after the tomb of Sheikh Hureish, a waly (Muslim holy person), which is situated at the mountains summit. The tomb is built of quality stone and consists of three rooms and a courtyard attached to the structures eastern side. Arches support the tombs ceiling. Large Roman or Byzantine-era dressed, stone blocks make up the base of the tombs southern wall.</p><br>
<p>The ruins surrounding the tomb cover an area of one dunam. Other ruined structures include a cistern about 50 meters south of the tomb and a cistern about 100 meters to the southeast.</p><br>
<p>The French geographer Victor Guerin, who visited the area in 1878, referred to the tomb of Sheikh Hureish, writing that on "a high hill with steep slopes we saw a Sheikh&#39;s tomb called Waly Kheish, to where local people comes as pilgrims". At that time, Guerin noted, the tomb was topped by a white dome and could be "seen from afar".</p><br>
<p>Deomali, is a mountain peak in the Chandragiri-Pottangi subrange of the Eastern Ghats. It is located near Koraput town in the Koraput district of southern Odisha, India.</p><br>
<h2>Highest point in Odisha</h2><br>
<p>Deomali Peak, with an elevation of about 1,672 m, is the highest peak in Orissa and the tallest in the whole of the Eastern Ghats. It is situated near Doodhari village, Pottangi Panchayat division which is 35 km from Koraput via semiliguda,in Southern Orissa.</p><br>
<p>It Surrounded by deep green forest, the peak is rich in flora and fauna. This hill range is rich in mineral resources such as bauxite, limestone and gemstones. Deomali is dotted with brooks and deep valleys, and inhabited by tribes such Kandhas, Parajas, Bhumia, Malis and Bhotias. It is not only a marvel for the tourists but also to the adventurous sports lovers for hang gliding, mountaineering and trekking. On this recent days Odisha tourism Department, is taking many development steps to popularize this peak amongst the travellers as a hot tourist spot by connecting the Tar roads, Hill top amenities centre, drinking water points on the hill top, Watching towers for perfect view of the</p><br>
<p>arena. Many waterfalls also found while heading for the top of hill.</p><br>
<p>Hardscrabble Farm is a historic farm property in rural Searsmont, Maine. Located south of its village center at 122 Maine State Route 131, the 70 acre property features a typical New England connected farmstead with a c. 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse. The property is notable as the longtime summer residence of author Ben Ames Williams, who fictionalized Searsmont as the town of "Fraternity" in his works. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hardscrabble Farm is located south of the village center of Searsmont, on the east side of Maine SR 131 near its junction with Appleton Ridge Road. The main farm complex has as its main house a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, oriented facing west toward the road, with a side gable roof and central chimney. The main facade is symmetrical, with a recessed center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and wide pilasters, with an entablature above. A series of ells, telescoping in size, join the house to a 19th-century barn. Although the interior has had some modernization done in the 20th century, it has retained some Greek Revival features, including fireplace mantels, and the staircase to the upper level, which, in an unusual configuration, extends as a single run from the entry vestibule between two fireplace flues.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse is estimated to have been either built or extensively modified in the 1840s. A house was standing on the property when it was purchased by David Lincoln in 1841, but it is not known if this house is a restyling of an earlier 19th-century house, or a new construction. In 1852 the property came into the Weed family, whose descendants would own it until the death of Bert McCorisson in 1931. During that period, the farm became known as "Hardscrabble Farm", honoring the same-named property of American Civil War General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Bert McCorisson was a close friend of author Ben Ames Williams, and willed the property to his friend upon his death. Williams made the property his summer home until his own death in 1953. Williams was known for his prodigious short story output and a number of novels. Some of his writing was set in the fictional rural Maine community of "Fraternity", based loosely on Searsmont. Bert McCorrison appeared in some of his works as "Bert McAusland".</p><br>
<p>The Baxter Summer Home is a historic house on Mackworth Island, in Casco Bay off the coast of Falmouth, Maine. Now a centerpiece of the campus of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, the house was built in 1917-18 by James Phinney Baxter, and was given  to the state by his son Percival, a two-term Governor of Maine best known for establishing Baxter State Park. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Baxter Summer Home is located near the center of Mackworth Island, a roughly round island located just of the coast of Maine, and joined to it by a causeway. Most of the island is a state park, and is open to the public. The house is located in a campus-like setting, surrounded by the dormitories and school facilities of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, an area not generally accessible to the public except by prior arrangement.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of dark red brick, with a green terra cotta tile roof and a fieldstone foundation. An enclosed porch extends along the south side of the building, and there is a circular solarium on the north side. The main entrance faces east, and is flanked by sidelights, with a transom window above which has stained glass highlights in a sailing motif. The entry is sheltered by a portico supported by Ionic columns and Doric pilasters.</p><br>
<p>Mackworth Island was purchased in 1885 by James Phinney Baxter, a six-time mayor of Portland and a leading historian and businessman of the period. He retained Portland architect Frederick Thompson to design this house, which was built in 1917-18, replacing an earlier wood-frame structure (since demolished). The property was inherited by his son Percival, who served two terms as Governor of Maine in the 1920s, and most notably gave the state most of the lands that make up Baxter State Park. In 1943 he donated the island to the state, to provide a permanent home for the state School for the Deaf, which was renamed in his honor. The school moved onto the island in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>St. John in the Wilderness or St. John-in-the-Wilderness in Flat Rock, North Carolina was the first Episcopal Church in Western North Carolina. It was consecrated by Bishop Levi Silliman Ives on August 28, 1836. Charles and Susan Baring, who considered Charleston, South Carolina too hot in the summer, were among the first settlers of Flat Rock in the 1820s. Other people moved from Charleston to Flat Rock, which Bishop Ives called a "new but interesting settlement" in 1837. The church started as a private chapel for the Barings, who later transferred the title to Bishop Ives and the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. 20 members "formed themselves into a congregation". A building from the 1850s is a contributing structure to Flat Rock Historic District, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>St. John, named for John the Baptist, was unusual in that white people and slaves sat together in church. The first wedding performed in St. Johns was between two slaves. Later, slaves and free blacks were buried in the churchs cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Before 1958, St. John&#39;s did not have enough members to stay open year-round, but the number of members has increased to 400. The church building was renovated in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument, also known as the Roosevelt Friendship Monument or Friendship Tower, located in the Black Hills National Forest on the outskirts of Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota, is a 31-foot stone tower, including the six-foot-high platform, honoring Theodore Roosevelt. It was the first tribute to the president&#39;s memory and was dedicated July 4, 1919.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Theodore Roosevelt was a deputy sheriff in Medora, North Dakota in 1884. While looking for a group of horse thieves he met up with Seth Bullock who was the Sheriff of Deadwood. The two became lifelong friends and when Roosevelt died Bullock wanted to erect a monument for his friend. The Society of the Black Hills Pioneers provided financial support to build a tower and it was dedicated on July 4, 1919. In 1966, the Society donated the Tower to the United States Forest Service.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 2010 a restoration project was completed that included foundation stabilization and stone repair. Stairs were added leading up to the platform and handrails on the stairs and the platform. The project was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, the Black Hills Parks and Forest Association, and the Black Hills National Forest were all involved.</p><br>
<p>The Denhart Bank Building is a historic bank building located at 101 Washington Square in Washington, Illinois. Charles Anthony and Henry Denhart built the building for their bank, which began business in 1866, around 1872. The building has an Italianate design, a popular choice for the era, featuring tall windows with sandstone crowns, stone quoins, and an ornate framed entrance. The bank grew to not only be a prominent local bank but also to issue farm loans throughout the state and acquire holdings throughout the country. The partners dissolved their bank in 1885, though Denhart opened a new bank in the same building in 1886. Denhart&#39;s bank continued to use the building until it closed in 1930 following the 1929 stock market crash.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The North Eighth Street Plaza is a historic strip mall located at 1500-1532 North Eighth Street in Pekin, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Orfeo Gianessi built the mall in 1950; at the time, its location was just outside the built-up area of Pekin. The mall was the first of its kind in the Pekin area and signified the onset of post-World War II car culture, as it was designed to draw in automobile traffic from Eighth Street rather than neighborhood foot traffic. It also predates any strip mall in the nearby larger city of Peoria and is one of the oldest strip malls in Illinois; the building type soon became quite common, and over 60,000 strip malls exist in the United States today. The buildings design, a single-story straight row of joined storefronts, was typical of early strip malls and is still representative of the International Council of Shopping Centers official classification of the strip mall.</p><br>
<p>The mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Shish Gumbad , also spelt Shish Gumbad, is a tomb from the last lineage of the Lodhi Dynasty and is thought to have possibly been constructed between 1489 and 1517 CE. The Shish Gumbad  houses tombs of an unknown family that may have been a part of the Lodhi family and a part of Sikandar Lodis court. It is however believed by some historians that the tomb is of Bahlul Lodi , who was chief of the Afghan Lodi tribe and founder & Sultan of the Lodi dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, though Ibrahim Lodhis Tomb exists 100 km away at Panipat city in Haryana state.</p><br>
<p>Shish Gumbad is situated in the Lodhi Gardens in Delhi and the area where the tomb is situated was formally called village Khairpur.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Exact date of construction of Shish Gumbad is not known. There are four monuments (tombs) in the Lodhi Gardens including the Shish Gumbad. The oldest of the four tombs is the tomb of Muhammad Shah (who belonged to the Sayyid dynasty). Shahs tomb was constructed in 1444 CE by Ala-ud-din Alam Shah. During the rule of Sikander Lodhi, the Bara Gumbad and adjacent mosque were constructed. Sikander Lodhis tomb was built by Ibrahim Lodhi in 1517. The Shish Gumbad is said to have been constructed between 1489-1517 CE by Ibrahim Lodhi.</p><br>
<p>Although some historians believe that the Gumbad is a tomb of Bahlul Lodi, who was the Sultan of the Lodi dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, the Shish Gumbad houses tombs of an unknown family that may have been a part of the Lodhi family and a part of Sikandar Lodi&#39;s court.</p><br>
<p>Initially, all the monuments were built independently and were not in one confine. In early 20th century, a park was developed which was inaugurated by Lady Willingdon on 9 Apr 1936 bringing the four monuments in one confine.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Constructed between 1489-1517 CE, the Shish Gumbad is constructed in square shape. Combination of bracket and lintel beams, the architecture is a blend of Islamic and Hindu architectures. Although the Gumbad has an external semblance of spanning in two floors, the structure made only in one floor. The western wall of the Gumbad consists of mihrab which also served as a mosque. The main chamber of the monument measures 10 m&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The ceiling is decorated with plaster work that contains Quranic inscriptions and floral designs. The monument was originally decorated with blue enamelled tiles that shined like glass. The Gumbad hence got its name "Shish Gumbad". The blue tile embellishment presently only remains on top of the main frontage in traces.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Shish Gumbad is located in and is a part of the Lodhi Gardens in Delhi, India. The village, where the monument stands was earlier called Khairpur. The garden is bounded by Amrita Shergill Marg in the West, North-West and North, Max MuellerMarg on the East and Lodhi Road on the South Side. Safdarjang Tomb is situated on South-West corner of the Lodhi Garden.</p><br>
<h2>Picture gallery</h2><br>
<p>Becketts Castle is a historic summer house on Singles Road in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. A picturesque two-story stone building with a three-story tower, it was built in 1871-74 by Sylvester Beckett, a Portland lawyer and a major figure in the citys literary scene. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, for its association with Beckett, and for its distinctive Gothic architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Beckett&#39;s Castle is set facing Casco Bay on the east side of Cape Elizabeth, at the end of Singles Road, a private lane off Shore Road. It is a two story masonry structure, built of local gray fieldstone laid in irregular courses, and with a three-story square tower projecting south from its southeast corner. The roof is gabled, with steeply pitched gables at the ends and on the south (front) facade. The main entrance is on the south side of the tower, with a three-part window on the main facade to its left. The tower has three stages, each slightly smaller than the one below, with a projecting beltcourse at the top of each stage. At the top is a modillioned cornice with a short observation area above, topped by a hip roof. The building interior has restrained period woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The castle was constructed by the labor of Sylvester Beckett, a Portland-born son of English immigrants who trained and worked as a lawyer, but also worked as a journalist and writer, and had an amateur interest in ornithology. Beckett was a major social force in Portland&#39;s literary community, hosting social gatherings here that included expansive dinners cooked in a rustic fireplace.</p><br>
<p>Chandrabhoga Gadhi  is a historical ruins fort near East West Highway of Rupani- Shambhunath Chure hill section in Saptari District, Dharampur, Nepal. The Fort is locally known as Chanarbhoga Gadhi and is believed to be the remnants of the Ekagarh, the palace of Sen Kings during winter season. In the first month of the Nepali Calendar, Baishakh the local people visit the place and sacrifice a goat to the deity Chanarbhoga.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The historical gadhi was believed to be made by King Chandrasen. Sen Dynasty was established in Makwanpur on 13th century in Nepal. At that time Makwanpur State is divided in 5 district (Taaluk) Saptari, Mahottari, Rautahat, Bara and Parsa. Sen kings ruled Saptari from Bijaypur earlier, after the establishment of Chaudandi they ruled it from Udaypur.</p><br>
<p>The Dochula Pass is a mountain pass in the snow covered Himalayas within Bhutan on the road from Thimpu to Punakha where 108 memorial chortens or stupas known as "Druk Wangyal Chortens" have been built by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk, the eldest Queen Mother. Apart from the chortens there is a monastery called the Druk Wangyal Lhakhang , built in honour of the fourth Druk Gyalpo , Jigme Singye Wangchuck; The pass with 108 memorial chortens is adjacent to the countrys first Royal Botanical Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The pass is located at an elevation of 3,100 m (3,140 m To the east of the pass, the snow clad mountain peaks of the Himalayas are seen prominently and among them is the Mt. Masanggang at 7,158 m which is the highest peak in Bhutan, known in local language as the Mt. Gangkar Puensum. The road east of the pass runs steep for some distance and then takes a left turn towards Punakha Valley to the Punakha Dzong, in Punakha (the old capital of Bhutan), which is located at the confluence of two rivers. Further east the road reaches Wangdi Phodrong where there a 7th-century monastery on the ridge, and the valley is drained by the Punatsangchu River. The pass was part of ancient trails or tracks between Thimphu and Punakha, such as the Dochu La Nature Trail (1.2 km) which begins at the Dochu La cafe and meets the present road at Lamperi, and the Lumitsawa Ancient Trail (4.7 km) that joins the main road at Lumitsawa. Both trails are sections of the original route.</p><br>
<p>The weather at the pass generally remains foggy and chilly. However, between October and February, panoramic views of the Bhutan Himalayas can be seen.</p><br>
<p>The forest cover on the slopes of the pass consists of cypress trees. The hill slopes around the pass are festooned with a profusion of colourful religious flags fixed by the Buddhist people as a mark of veneration. The flags, made in five colours representing the natural forces, — "blue (sky), white (clouds), red (fire), green (water) and yellow (earth)" – are inscribed with Buddhist scriptural prayers to usher prosperity and peace around the country. After the Losar festival in February, which marks the Bhutanese New Year, and as the snow melts, the pass provides a spectacle of many species of flowers such as the Primal Denticulata, Primula Garcilipes and in the subsequent month rhododendrons bloom in profusion. Magnolia campbellii also bloom on the pass during this period. Another fragrant plant, which people come to enjoy, is the Daphne which is a small shrub which blooms with white flowers amidst an array of prayer flags that are fixed on the slopes. The bark of this plant is used to make paper which is a traditional paper used for writing religious scriptures as it is termite free.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>The landmarks around the pass include 108 Druk Wangyal Khang Zhang Chortens or stupas, the Druk Wangyal Lhakhang (temple), and the rhododendron garden which is part of the 47 km Royal Botanical Park.</p><br>
<h3>Druk Wangyal Khang Zhang Chortens</h3><br>
<p>The Druk Wangyal Khang Zhang Chortens are red-band or khangzang chortens, 108 in numbers, built in a central hillock at the pass, under the patronage of the Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk. In local language they are called gYul Las rNampar Gyal wai&#39; chortens or chortens of victory. These were built as a memorial in honour of the Bhutanese soldiers who were killed in the December 2003 battle against Assamese insurgents from India. It particularly marks the victory of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck who dislodged the rebels from their camps (there were 30 camps) in Bhutanese territory from where they raiding Indian territory of Assam.</p><br>
<p>The chortens are built in three layers, the first lowest level layer has forty five chortens, the second has thirty six and the top layer has twenty seven built around the main chorten. The construction of these chortens was done as per religiously ordained ritualistic procedures. As the height of the chortens attained 1 m a pit was excavated in ground in the centre, and symbolically offerings of grains and bronze utensil filled with butter were placed in the pit. At the next stage as the height of chortens increased, images of Buddhist gods made of clay stuffed with papers inscribed with prayers were interred. In the next stage, which is considered the "vital stage", in erecting a chorten was the fixing of the sokshing meaning "the life tree of the chorten". The sokshing, which is believed to provide a link between heaven and earth within a chorten, is in the form of a long square wooden pole made from a juniper tree made by an individual who has appropriate qualities from an astrological point of view. The pole was painted in red colour and inscribed with sacred hymns and banded with religious paraphernalia such as gilded images of gods, prayer bells, small clay stupas, and also precious stones and jewellery. The sokshing was then wrapped around by silk cloth and then fixed in the partly built chorten on an auspicious day.</p><br>
<h3>Druk Wangyal Lhakhang</h3><br>
<p>After completion of the chortens, building of a temple known as the Druk Wangyel Lhakhng, with the backdrop of "pristine" forest of the snow covered Himalayan mountains, was initiated and completed in June 2008. This was built as a memorial to celebrate 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan. Paintings on themes of Bhutanese history decorate the walls of the temple. Some of the murals are cartoonish. A few of the paintings relate to the fourth king fighting Indian rebels in the forest, monks with laptop, and a Druk Air plane. It appears like a "Bhutanese fusion of the 21st and 15th centuries".</p><br>
<h3>Dochu La Wangyal Festival</h3><br>
<p>The Dochula Druk Wangyel Tsechu (Festival or Tscehu) is held annually on December 13, at Druk Wangyel Festival ground located at Dochula pass. This festival was established in 2011 to commemorate victory of the Fourth Druk Gyalpo and the Armed Forces in 2003. A special Tsechu was composed for the occasion by Dasho Karma Ura which involved costumed mask dances.</p><br>
<p>The Hodges House is a historic house on the east side of Arkansas Highway 7 south of the rural community of Bismarck, Arkansas. It is a distinctive single-story wood-frame house, with a projecting polygonal bay at one corner, and a porch that wraps around three sides of the house. The porch is supported by turned posts and has an elaborate Folk Victorian balustrade. The house was built in 1907 by Lee and Clara DeBray, and was sold to Thomas and Charlotte Hodges in 1925. Both of the Hodgeses were leading figures in the early development of archaeology in the state of Arkansas, amassing a collection of more than 50,000 artifacts, and occupying leadership positions in the Arkansas Archaeological Society. The Menard-Hodges Site, now a National Historic Landmark, was purchased by Hodges in order to control research and preservation activities.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Baurene Island  is an ice-covered island extending 1.24 km in southeast-northwest direction and 350 m wide, the middle of the three islands of the Correo group in Bigo Bay on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, off the southwest coast of Magnier Peninsula. It emerged as a distinct geographical entity following the retreat of Magnier Peninsula&#39;s ice cap in the second half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The island is named after the settlement of Baurene in Northwestern Bulgaria.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Baurene Island is located at 65&deg;42&prime;38&Prime;S latitude, 64&deg;25&prime;00&Prime;W longitude, which is 500 m northwest of Komuniga Island and 450 m southeast of Lizard Island. British mapping in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>The Union Banking Company Building  is a historic three-story brick building in Douglas, Georgia. The building was built in 1910-11 and has two facades facing streets, which include ten distinctive terracotta gargoyles. It is located at the intersection of Peterson Avenue  and Ward Street .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built by the Union Banking Company, but it closed in 1930, along with many other banks. The Coffee County Bank was started in 1931 and used the building, which it later bought. It is now a BB&T but they will vacate the property moving down the street to their other location in February 2016. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on December 10, 1982. It is also a contributing building to the 1993 NRHP Downtown Douglas Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>Lerner Theatre, also known as the Elco Theatre, is a historic theatre located at Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1924, and is a two-story, reinforced concrete and steel, Beaux-Arts style building. The front facade features four Corinthian order columns, three freestanding urns, enriched cornice, parapet and frieze. The building is faced with terra cotta and has a lighted canopy projecting over the sidewalk. The auditorium features a large central dome measuring 30 to 40 feet in diameter. Built as a vaudeville theatre, by the late 1920s it had evolved into a motion picture palace.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Elkhart Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Bara Gumbad  is an ancient monument located in Lodhi Gardens in Delhi, India. It is part of a group of monuments that include a Friday mosque  and the "mehman khana"  of Sikandar Lodhi, the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. The Bara Gumbad was constructed in 1490 CE, during the reign of the Lodhi dynasty. Its construction is generally attributed to Sikandar Lodhi, and it is believed to have the earliest constructed full dome of any building in Delhi.</p><br>
<p>The monument is situated near the Tomb of Sikandar Lodhi and Shisha Gumbad. Although the three structures, which share a common raised platform, were all built during the Lodhi reign, they were not constructed at the same time. The intended purpose of the builders of Bara Gumbad is unclear: it may have been intended as a free-standing tomb, but no tombstone has been identified. The area in which Bara Gumbad is situated was formally called Khairpur village.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bada Gumbad was constructed in 1490 CE, and is believed to have the earliest constructed full dome of any building in Delhi. A mihrab (prayer niche) in the Friday mosque (Jama Masjid) of the Bara Gumbad gives the date of construction as 900 AH (Anno Hegirae) of the Islamic lunar calendar.</p><br>
<p>Including the Bada Gumbad, there are four monuments in the Lodhi Gardens; the other three being Tomb of Sikandar Lodhi, Shisha Gumbad and the tomb of Muhammad Shah (who belonged to the Sayyid dynasty). The Bada Gumbad is situated approximately 400 m southwest of the tomb and 75 m south of Shisha Gumbad.</p><br>
<p>Some historians suggest that the Bara Gumbad was built by an unidentified noble in 1490 CE, before being appropriated by Sikander Lodhi in 1494 CE, to provide an entryway to his mosque. Initially, all the monuments were built independently, and were not in one confine. In the early twentieth century, a park was developed, bringing the four monuments in one confine. The park was inaugurated on 9 April 1936 by Lady Willingdon, the wife of Viceroy Lord Willingdon. The park was originally called the Lady Willingdon Park after her, but was renamed to Lodhi Gardens after independence of India in 1947.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and architecture</h2><br>
<p>It is speculated that the Bara Gumbad was constructed to provide a gateway to the nearby mosque. Although the structure does not house any tomb, there is a platform in the central courtyard that suggests the structure to be a burial place. The purpose Bara Gumbad is unknown. Bara Gumbad is grouped together with a mosque and "mehman khana" which is a smaller structure with five bays. All the structures are constructed on a 4 m high platform, with a total area of 1,050 m&sup2;. The platform measures 30 m (east-west) and 25 m (north-south).</p><br>
<p>Three out of five bays in the mosque have domes whereas the remaining two have vaulted roofs (on mosque and "mehman khana"). The central bays feature low domes, while the end-bays feature flat roofs. There are oriel windows to the north and south. Both the oriel windows and the tapering minarets appear to anticipate later architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>The Bara Gumbad is square type construction which sits on a plinth. The mosque measures 20 m on each side. At the rear, the corners and sides of the mosque feature tall tapering semi-circular minars. The east, south, and west are decorated, and feature ogee arch openings, which are set into rectangular frames. The architecture combines bracket and lintel beams, blending Islamic and Hindu architectures.</p><br>
<p>Bara Gumbad is 29 m high, 20 m long and 20 m wide. The walls are 12 m tall. Like the Shisha Gumbad, the Bara Gumbad is also a single story structure but has an external semblance of spanning in two floors when viewed from outside. Total floor area of Bara Gumbad (excluding the mosque and the guest house) is 361 m&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The dome, the mosque and the "mehman khana" are constructed of red, grey and black stone, including grey quartzite and red sandstone. The interior is elaborately ornamented with painted stucco. Colored tiles, incised carvings, and painted plaster on the mosque are decorated with foliage, flowers, geometric patterns, and Quranic inscriptions.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Bara Gumbad is located in and is a part of the Lodhi Gardens in Delhi, India. The village where the monument stands was earlier called Khairpur. The garden is bounded by Amrita Shergill Marg in the west, northwest and north, Max MuellerMarg on the east and Lodhi Road on the south side. Safdarjang Tomb is situated on southwest corner of the Lodhi Garden.</p><br>
<p>The Hayford Block is a historic commercial building at 47 Church Street in downtown Belfast, Maine. Built in 1866 and enlarged in 1869, it was the first significant construction after a major fire devastated central Belfast in 1865. It is also home to Hayford Hall, an opera house that was for many years the city&#39;s major performance venue.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The commercial heart of Belfast is a five-way intersection including Main Street, Church Street, and Beaver Street. The Hayford Block is located on the east side of this intersection bounded on the north by Beaver Street and the south by Church Street. The block has two distinct sections: the one facing the intersection, which is three stories in height, and one further along Church Street, which is four stories. The three-story section has a "flatiron" triangular form, with an exposed basement level along Beaver Street. The first floor and basement are finished in granite, with retail storefronts. The second and third floors are identical, with sash windows set between stone sills and lintels, with projecting brick piers at the corners and ends of the section. A broad bracketed cornice tops the structure. The four-story section continues the same styling, the only notable difference being a second-floor loading bay facing Church Street, set under a projecting cornice. This section also houses the former opera house, a 1300-seat performance space with relatively restrained decoration.</p><br>
<p>The Hayford Block was built by Belfast Mayor Axel Hayford after a devastating fire swept through downtown Belfast in 1865, and was the first major construction to take place. The three-story section was completed in 1866, and the four-story section was added in 1869. The opera house was one of the city&#39;s leading performance venues, playing host to traveling theater companies, vaudeville shows, and local entertainment.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Captain S.C. Blanchard House is a historic house at 317 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1855, it is one of Yarmouths finest examples of Italianate architecture. It was built for Sylvanus Blanchard, a ships captain. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The building is now home to the 317 Main Community Music Center.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Blanchard House is located on the north side of Main Street (Maine State Route 115), at its northwest corner with Mill Street. It is a two-story wood frame structure, its main block capped by a hip roof with cupola, and a series of ells extending to a carriage house at the rear of the property. The roof has deep eaves studded with pairs of ornately carved brackets, and the eight-sided cupola has round-arch windows, and single brackets under its eight-sided roof. The main facade faces east, with an ornately decorated single-story hip-roofed porch across its width. The street-facing southern facade is two bays wide, with projecting bay windows on the first floor, topped by bracketed cornices. The second-floor sash windows are topped by half-round transom windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Portland architect Charles A. Alexander, and was built in 1855 for Captain Sylvanus Blanchard (1778–1858), a ships captain and boatbuilder who was one of Yarmouths leading citizens of the day. Blanchard lived in the house just three years, dying in 1858, and the house passed to his son, Sylvanus Cushing Blanchard (1811–1888). Since 2004 it has housed the community music education facility known as 317 Main.</p><br>
<p>The Doune of Relugas is a hill fort located 9.25 km south south west of Forres in Moray, Scotland. It is situated on a rocky knoll rising to approximately 400 ft above ordnance datum and forming the south east part of the promontory at the confluence of the River Findhorn and the River Divie. The site commands an uninterrupted view of the valley of the Findhorn as far as Culbin Sands, 9 miles to the north on the shore of the Moray Firth.</p><br>
<p>The hill fort was occupied from the 1st millennium BC through to the late 1st millennium AD. Although there was no need for further defences to the east and south, there is an outer earthen rampart and ditch across the neck of the promontory to the north and west. This takes the form of a curved ditch 5.5 m wide and 2.0 m deep, behind which the rampart rises 5.5 m wide and 1.5 m high.</p><br>
<p>Stones from the rampart show evidence of vitrification, suggesting that the fort was burned at some point in its history. Other similarly-sized vitrified forts within the area include Dun Evan, Dun Finlay and Dun Davie.</p><br>
<p>During the 19th century the remains of the Doune were incorporated as features into the designed picturesque landscape of the Relugas estate by the antiquarian and author Thomas Dick Lauder.</p><br>
