Hato Rey station

Hato Rey station is a train station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Located in the Hato Rey Norte financial district, it serves the Tren Urbano rapid transit system. The station was designed by Segundo Cardona FAIA of SCF Architects. It opened on December 17, 2004. The station is located adjacent to the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum and is the most used public transit used to and from concerts held at the venue.
Extended operating hours.
The Hato Rey station is the only station to extend operating hours after nighttime events end at the "Choliseo" until all passengers in line have entered the station. Late night-scheduled one-way trains run in both directions of the line only from the Hato Rey station. The Bayamón route train will stop at every station only to drop off passengers, instead of picking up, and will continue the route until it reaches the end of the line. There is no service to and from other stations after-hours.


Ramla Redoubt

Ramla Redoubt (), also known as Vendôme Redoubt (), was a redoubt in Ramla Bay, limits of Xagħra on the island of Gozo, Malta. It was built by the Order of Saint John in 1715–1716 as one of a series of coastal fortifications around the Maltese Islands. The redoubt no longer exists, but a small part of its foundations are still visible.
History.
Ramla Redoubt was built in 1715–1716 as part of the first building programme of coastal batteries and redoubts in Malta. It was located in the centre of Ramla Bay. The bay included other fortifications, namely Ramla Left Battery and Ramla Right Battery on the either side of the bay, and an entrenchment wall linking both batteries with the redoubt. Ramla Bay was further defended by Marsalforn Tower on the plateau above the bay, and an underwater barrier to prevent enemy ships from landing within the bay.
The redoubt originally consisted of a pentagonal platform with a low parapet. A rectangular blockhouse was located at the centre of its gorge.
In 1881, a statue of the Madonna was built on the site of the redoubt.
Present day.
Today, all that remains of the redoubt is a small section of its pentagonal platform near the base of the 19th century statue. These remains, along with the rest of Ramla Bay, are managed by the Gaia Foundation.


Victoria Lock (River Shannon)

Victoria Lock, also known as Meelick Lock, is the first lock on the River Shannon upstream of Lough Derg, it is situated between Meelick, County Galway and Clonahenoge, County Offaly where the Little Brosna River enters the Shannon. It is very near the tripoint where the provinces of Munster, Leinster and Connacht meet. The lock is of architectural and technical interest and is listed on the Nation Inventory of Architectural Heritage, the dimensions are 142 ft x 40 ft.
Thomas Rhodes on the instructions of the Shannon Commissioners constructed the lock in the 1840s as part of a widescale upgrade of the Shannon Navigation. The lock is still in use today by pleasure craft, both private and fleets of rental cruisers who use the River Shannon and the connecting canals.
A second lock, Hamilton Lock is also located nearby but is now disused.
Protected status.
Offaly County Council lists both the lock and the lock keepers cottage on its Record of Protected Structures (ref 38-05 & 38-04).
The lock is recorded by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as being of special interest in the architectural and technical interest categories in addition to being significant for its size. The lock leepers house is similarly described as being of special interest in the architectural and technical interest categories.


Varna Archaeological Museum

The Varna Archaeological Museum (, "Varnenski arheologicheski muzey") is an archaeological museum in the city of Varna on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.
Founded on 3 June 1888, when a museum, part of the City Library was established, the Varna Archaeological Museum is situated in a historic building designed in the Neo-Renaissance style by the noted architect Petko Momchilov and built in 1892–1898 for the Varna Girls' School. It became state property in 1945 and since 1993 the museum occupies all of the building, parts of which it has used since 1895.
One of the largest museums in Bulgaria, it features 2,150 m² of exhibition area and displays objects from the prehistoric, Thracian, Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman periods of the region's history, as well as from the times of the medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires, the Ottoman rule and the Bulgarian National Revival (including about 900 medieval and Revival icons).
The Museum's arguably most celebrated exhibit is the Gold of Varna, the oldest gold treasure in the world, excavated in 1972 and dating to 4600-4200 BCE, which occupies three separate exhibition halls.
The museum also manages two open-air archaeological sites, the large Roman baths in the city centre and the medieval grotto of Aladzha Monastery at Golden Sands Nature Park.
Four other sites are undergoing conservation and will be added to the museum roster: the 4th-5th-century episcopal basilica on Khan Krum Street; the basilica and monastery of the same period at Dzhanavara; the 9th-10th-century Theotokos monastery and scriptorium of the Preslav Literary School at Pchelina; and the Mediaeval fortified settlement of Kastritsi at Euxinograd.
The museum has also a library, a children's study museum, a gift shop, and a cafeteria. Its courtyard lapidarium hosts the annual "Varna Summer" International Jazz Festival.


The Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel in Riebeek Kasteel is the oldest licensed hotel of the Western Cape and was built in 1862. This now fully restored heritage building is one of the few hotels left of that particular colonial era of South Africa. Famous visitors in history were Jan Smuts and Daniel Malan, both from the Riebeek Valley and both prime ministers of South Africa during troubled times. In 2006 southafrica.org placed The Royal as only hotel on the list of "the 50 most fabulous places to visit in SA". According to them it has the longest stoep (veranda) south of the Limpopo.


Consulate-General of Finland in Saint Petersburg

The Consulate-General of Finland in Saint Petersburg is the consulate-general of the Republic of Finland in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. It is located at four Preobrazhenskaya Square () in the Tsentralny district of Saint Petersburg.


Provenierskerk

The Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, also known as the Provenierskerk or Proveniershuis Singelkerk was a Roman Catholic church on the Proveniershuis canal in Rotterdam.
The church was built between 1898 and 1899 by the architectural firm of Albert Margry and Joseph Snickers. Margry designed a three-aisled church in neo-Gothic style, with a tower next to the facade. Provenierskerk was consecrated on May 8, 1899 by the Bishop of Haarlem. The first year it had no church bells, which were only installed in 1910. In 1916 the church received an organ. On the side walls of the church was a special Stations of the Cross, which was created by the Delft Factory The Royal Delft. A marble communion rail was placed in the church in 1914. The church was served by the Fathers Dominicans .
The first year the church was in the parish of the Allerheiligst Hart van Jezuskerk on the Van Oldenbarneveltstraat, but in 1923 the Provenierskerk became an independent parish. In the years before World War II, the district had an influx of Catholics and the church was crowded.
The Provenierskerk remained intact from the bombing of Rotterdam, after which it was also used by believers of other parishes whose churches were destroyed. During the war the Father organized the local opposition from the church. In 1942 the church bells were looted by the Germans, but were replaced in 1947. In 1960, the number of believers fell strongly and it was not profitable for the church to open. After the last Mass on Aug. 31, 1975, the church was sold to the city of Rotterdam, which then demolished the building. Unlike many other churches that were threatened with demolition, Provenierskerk never conducted operations in order to preserve the church, as it was felt that the building had no historical value. Subsequently, a nursing home was built on the site of the church. The Stations of the Cross and the statue of Maria were transferred to the Albertus de Grotekerk in Blijdorp.


Embassy of Indonesia, Windhoek

The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Windhoek () is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the Republic of Namibia and concurrently accredited to the Republic of Angola. The embassy is located at 103 Nelson Mandela Avenue, Klein Windhoek, Windhoek. The first Indonesian ambassador to Namibia was Theofilus Waimuri (1999–2003). The current ambassador is Eddy Basuki, who was appointed by President Joko Widodo on 25 February 2016.
The chancery has been renovated twice. The first renovation in 1992 built a new room for the head of mission, a communications room, and a reception area. The new rooms were inaugurated by then Chargé d'affaires Soegioso Sosrosoemarso. A second renovation took place in 1999 where a new multi-function room named the "Asia-Africa Room" was built. The room was inaugurated by then Chargé d'affaires Theo Waimuri who would later become Indonesia's first ambassador to Namibia.


Golden Prague Hotel

The Golden Prague Hotel managed by Fairmont is a 9-story, 372-room hotel on the bank of the Vltava River, near the Old Town, in Prague, Czech Republic. It is managed by the Fairmont Hotels.
The hotel opened in 1974 as the Inter-Continental Praha, and was later slightly renamed as the InterContinental Prague. It was designed by noted Czech architect Karel Filsak in the Brutalist style, and was constructed by the Czech national travel firm ČEDOK from 1968–1974. The hotel was owned by bank funds from 1990–1999, during the privatization process. It was renovated in 1992–1995, overseen by architect Roman Koucký. Strategic Hotels & Resorts purchased the property in 1999. The interior was renovated in 2002, though certain original elements by designer Miloslav Hejný were preserved.
Westmont Hospitality Group purchased the hotel in 2010. They sold it in 2013 to the Slovak-based Best Hotel Properties, owned by investment firm J&T. It was sold again, in December 2018, to R2G, the investment group of Czech billionaire Oldřich Šlemr. The hotel was renamed the Golden Prague Hotel managed by Fairmont in May 2020, before closing for a major renovation. It will reopen in 2023 as the Fairmont Golden Prague.


Cosendai Adventist University

Cosendai Adventist University () is a private Christian university belonging to the Seventh-day Adventist education system.
History.
Cosendai Adventist University was founded in 1996 after the dislocation of Adventist University of Central Africa


National Theatre of Cuba

The Teatro Nacional de Cuba is a theatre building and associated theatre company in Havana, Cuba, on Plaza de la Revolución.
History.
The company "Teatro Nacional de Cuba" was created for propaganda and arts purposes in the early years of the revolution, 1953, six years before the overthrow of the Battista regime in 1959. The revolutionary "National Theatre" also had a department of folklore with ajournal "Actas del folklore." Prior to the new building the old Gran Teatro de La Habana, renamed the Teatro García Lorca after the completion of the Cuban revolution, 1959, was regarded as the National Theatre of Cuba.
Building.
Work on the current building started in 1951 but was not opened until 1979. The 3 September 1979 opening hosted a gala for the delegations to the 6th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement celebrated in Havana in that year. The theatre is housed in a large modern building, decorated with works by . There are two main theatre stages, the Avellaneda Hall (with seating for 2254, named after Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda), and the Covarrubias Hall (with seating for 805, named after the actor Francisco Covarrubias), as well as a smaller theatre workshop space on the ninth floor.


Schwerinsburg

Schwerinsburg ("Schwerin's castle") is the biggest of three castles in Windhoek, Namibia. Today it is the private residence of the Italian ambassador in Namibia.
History.
During the time of the construction of Alte Feste in 1890 the tower of Schwerinsburg was built by Curt von François, commissioner of German South-West Africa. In 1904 Schutztruppe (the German colonial forces) sold it to architect Wilhelm Sander who converted it into a beer garden and named it "Sperlingslust" (lit. "Sparrows' delight").
In 1913 Hans Bogislav Graf von Schwerin, governor of the Gobabis District of German South-West Africa, bought Sperlingslust from Sander and engaged him to convert it into a castle. It was later named "Schwerinsburg" after the new owner.


Tobera Airfield

Tobera Airfield was an aerodrome located near Tobera, near Keravat, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The airfield was constructed by the Imperial Japanese in World War II during August 1943. Tobera was later neutralized by Allied air bombing from 1944. The airfield was abandoned after the cessation of hostilities.


Rust en Vreugd

Rust en Vreugd (meaning "Rest and Joy"), is an historic house and garden, located on Buitekant Street at the edge of the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of the few remaining 18th-century buildings in the city. The Rust en Vreudg is home to the William Fehr Collection of pictorial Africana. It is a part of the Iziko Museums.
History.
The Rust en Vreudg house was built as a residence for Williem Cornelis Boers of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1778. A rococo fanlight at the entrance of the house has been ascribed to sculptor Anton Anreith.
The house.
Until the end of the 19th century, the house was part of a spacious estate. Boers owned the property from 1777 to 1782. The two-story, flat-roof blueprint was typical of 18th-century village houses. The facade is marked by a porch, balcony, and four Corinthian columns. Louis Thibault designed the main facade, Anreith was responsible for most of the porch itself, and the front door was built by Hermann Schutte. The pillars, front door, balcony door, and the kiaat fanlight were all the work of Anreith, as were the wood carvings. Two lounges, a dining room, a pantry, a kitchen, and bedrooms lie on the first floor, along with a courtyard out back. On the second lay another lounge, more bedrooms, a bathroom, storerooms, and a balcony.
The gates.
The original gates date to 1778. The current wrought iron gates were purchased from a congregation in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, in 1878.
he owners.
The attorney W.C. Boers was the Fiscal of the Cape, but he was guilty of so much corruption and abuse of power that he was recalled to the Netherlands at the request of the local population. In 1782, Olof de Wet, also an official with the VOC, purchased it, only to sell it in 1785 to Jean Martin, a French doctor. In 1798, the widow of Johannes Blösser bought the property, later taken over by R.J. van der Riet, a member of the Political Council. Between 1814 and 1826, it was the residence of Governor of the Cape Colony, Lord Charles Somerset. Later, it would be owned by William Hopper and his son. The Hoppers renamed the house The Grove. In 1860, the home and garden were opened to the public as the Rustenburg Gardens. Starting in July 1885, a teachers' college (Normal School of Cape Town, a forerunner of the South African College and therefore of the University of Cape Town), a state guesthouse, a grade school, and a nursing school were among the uses of the area. Over time, urban sprawl shrunk the gardens, and the building deteriorated until the Cape Provincial Administration restored it and the William Fehr Collection was opened there.


Hotel MyContinental Sibiu

Hotel MyContinental Sibiu, formerly known as Hotel Ibis Sibiu Centre, and before that Hotel Continental, is a hotel building located in Sibiu. It has 13 floors and a surface of 16,000 m2.


Petros Adamian Tbilisi State Armenian Drama Theatre

Petros Adamian Tbilisi State Armenian Drama Theatre ( ) was established in 1858 by the Armenian theater activist Gevorg Chmshkyan. Armenian writer Gabriel Sundukyan was among the supporters of theater.
History.
The first staging was "Haji Suleyman". From 1922 to 1936 the theatre's name was "Artistic theatre". In 1936 a new theatre building was finished which was named after Bolshevik Stepan Shahumian. The first performance was Mkrtich (Nikita) Djanan's performance "Shahname". Petros Adamian, Siranoush, Vahram Papazian, Hovhannes Abelian, Olga Maysourian, Isaac Alikhanian, Mariam Mojorian, Artem and Maria Beroians, Babken Nersesian, directors: Arshak Bourdjalian, Leon Kalantar, Roman Matiashvili, Robert Yegian worked at the theatre. Aram Khachaturian, Armen Tigranian, Alexander Spendiarian, and others wrote music for the theatre.
Nowadays Peter Adamian Tbilisi State Armenian Drama Theatre is the main cultural and public center of Georgian-Armenian community.


Tiffany Club

Tiffany Club was a jazz club located at 3260 West 8th Street in what is known as East Hollywood, Los Angeles. It was one of the top jazz venues in the city in the 1950s. Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman and Chet Baker performed at the club.


Embassy of Colombia, Caracas

The Embassy of Colombia in Caracas is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Colombia to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; it is headed by the Ambassador of Colombia to Venezuela. It is located in the Campo Alegre neighbourhood of Caracas.
Duties.
The Embassy is also accredited to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and the Republic of Suriname. The Embassy is charged with representing the interests of the President and Government of Colombia, improving diplomatic relations between Colombia and the accredited countries, promoting and improving the image and standing of Colombia in the accredited nations, promoting the Culture of Colombia, encouraging and facilitating tourism to and from Colombia, and ensuring the safety of Colombians abroad.


Shoreline Shopping Centre

Shoreline Plaza is a suburban shopping centre located on the corner of Clarence St and South Arm Highway in the suburb of Howrah on Hobart's Eastern Shore.
Shoreline Plaza was acquired by the SCA Property Group in 2013 and is the sister property to a number of other high-profile shopping centres in Tasmania. The centre contains 17 stores including the major tenant Woolworths and the 24 hour gym chain ZAP Fitness.
Security.
On 11 July 2016 a man from the nearby suburb of Clarendon Vale was arrested after leaving suspicious packages under a car in the shopping centre's car park. The packages were later found to contain parts of circuit boards and mobile phones but not considered a threat.


Grani (shopping centre)

Grani is a shopping center located in the town center of Kauniainen in Uusimaa, Finland. It has expanded in three phases, the first being commissioned in 2001 and the third in 2018. Grani was originally owned by NCC, until in 2003 the Finnish company Oy Querenchia Ltd became the new owner and in 2006 the German company Aareal. Of the three parts, two newer are owned by VVT Kiinteistösijoitus Oy. Grani's stores include the grocery stores S-market and K-Supermarket.
The shopping center was previously occupied by the office buildings of HOK-Elanto and Helsingin Osuuspankki, which were demolished in 1993 and 2006. Grani's architecture has been criticized, and Kai Wartiainen, the chief designer, does not consider it completely successful. The biggest problem, however, he sees around the building, where too much space is reserved for cars and road areas without reaching a comfortable small scale.


Quezon City Jail

Quezon City Jail is located in Quezon City northeast from Manila, Philippines, in the National Capital Region (NCR). It reports to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP). It was built for 800 inmates but with 3800 prisoners it is filled five times more than planned. In 2014, there was a riot with 42 people taken as hostages. In 2020, during COVID-19 pandemic, 9 inmates and 9 personnel were infected with COVID-19.


Huguang Huiguan, Chongqing

Huguang Huiguan (aka Huguang Guild Hall, Lianghu Guild Hall, and Yu King Palace, in Chinese: ) is a guild hall (or assembly hall) in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing, China, on the Yangtze River.
The Huguang Guild Hall was established in 1759, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing Dynasty. It consists of a complex of courtyards, gardens, halls, meeting rooms, and theaters that acted as a regional center for business, entertainment, religious, and social activities.
Huguang Huiguan is now a museum. Yuwang Temple, Guangdong House (aka Nanhua Palace), Qi’an House, and the Jiangxi Guild Hall are located within the complex.


St Aloysius Convent girls dormitory, Toodyay

St Aloysius Convent of Mercy classrooms and girls dormitory (fmr) is located on Stirling Terrace in Toodyay, Western Australia. This building is a part of the complex the Sisters of Mercy built to provide accommodation and a school.
William Thomas Clark built the single storey building, tendering £4,444 for the job in 1928. Mr. Edgar Le B. Henderson of Perth was the architect. It accommodated 35 girls and was strong enough to carry another storey if required. Patrick Clune, Lord Archbishop of Perth, opened the building on 12 May 1929. As well as providing accommodation for the girl boarders along with a night study area and rooms for the sisters in charge, the premises were used annually for the Convent Ball.
The building is constructed of red brick and red corrugated iron, and has decorative cement render and timber framed windows.


Sunyani Airport

Sunyani Airport is an airport serving Sunyani, a town and capital of Bono Region mid-western Ghana.


Altes Schloss (Dillingen)

Altes Schloss (Dillingen) is a castle and museum in Dillingen, Saarland, Germany.


Chipinge Airport

Chipinge Airport is an airport serving Chipinge, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe.


Les Saintes Airport

Les Saintes Airport is an airport serving the archipelago of Îles des Saintes, French West Indies. It is on an isthmus in the middle of Terre-de-Haut Island, a dependency of Guadeloupe.
A special pilot license endorsement is required to land here.
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Bundibugyo Airport

Bundibugyo Airport is an airport serving the town of Bundibugyo in the Western Region of Uganda. It is south-west of the town on the Fort Portal–Bundibugyo–Lamia Road.


Muslim University of Morogoro

The Muslim University of Morogoro (MUM) is a private Islamic university in Morogoro, Tanzania. It was founded in 2004. The university has five departments: arts and humanity; Islamic studies; law and sharia; science; and business studies. MUM offers eight undergraduate degree programs.


Blue Sky Tower

The Blue Sky Tower is an ultra-modern 25 story, 105 meters (344 ft) tall steel and glass skyscraper that stands just to the south of Sükhbaatar Square in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar. It houses a 200-room hotel, luxury apartments, restaurants as well as office and conference spaces.
The skyscraper consists of a curtain wall made of blue tinted glass in reference to Mongolia's moniker as "the land of the eternal blue sky", but also as a signal to foreign corporations of Mongolia's transparency and openness to business. Blue Sky Tower serves as a landmark that dominates the central Ulaanbaatar skyline thanks to its location and distinctive shape. Designed in the style of a sail or fin, it appears to be modeled after the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. Mongolians often refer to it derisively as "the meat cleaver" or "the sail boat" and the purpose of a sea themed edifice in the capital of a landlocked country is unclear.
Construction on the skyscraper, designed in cooperation with a South Korean company, began in 2007 but was temporarily suspended during the political tensions that followed Mongolia's legislative election in June 2008. Upon its completion in 2009, Blue Sky Tower was the tallest building in Ulaanbaatar but has since been overtaken by other buildings erected as part of the city's construction boom.


Oyster Bay Range Front Lighthouse

The Oyster Bay Range Front Lighthouse is located on the coast of Dar es salaam, Tanzania in Oyster Bay. The lighthouse works in conjunction with the Oyster Bay Rear Range Lighthouse to warn ships away from the cliffs at the Msasani peninsula.
The tower is a white cylindrical tower with one red white strip facing the ocean. The lighthouse has a small 1 story equipment room adjacent to the tower.


Upper East Regional Museum

The Upper East Regional Museum is a museum located in Bolgatanga, Ghana. The Upper East Regional Museum was established in 1972 and installed in its current location in 1991, by the Ghana National Commission on Culture. The museum is situated behind the Regional Library and adjacent to the craft village.


Mikstat Transmitter

Mikstat Transmitter (RTCN Mikstat) is a 273 metre tall guyed mast for FM and TV situated at Mikstat, Ostrzeszów County in Poland.


Jieznas Manor

Jieznas Manor was an historic manor house in Jieznas, Lithuania Only the workshop with a former kitchen, laundry room and servants room remains now.


Phillip Street Terraces

The Phillip Street Terraces are heritage-listed terrace houses and now mixed commercial buildings, offices and restaurant located at 39-47 Phillip Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The property is owned by the trustees of the New South Wales Government-owned superannuation fund. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History.
The Heritage Council Restoration Steering (HC RS) Committee considered the prospect of letting the buildings on the basis of a combined residential/commercial use for a suitable lease period, with the cost of restoration work to be borne by the tenants.
In response to a press advertisement the HC RS Committee received 67 expressions of interest in restoring and leasing the terraces, covering a wide variety of uses. Legal action was taken to evict squatters in the buildings. A security fence was erected at the rear of the buildings but a detailed estimate of minor repairs needed could not be made due to difficulties in gaining access due to the squatters.
Heritage listing.
The Phillip Street Terraces was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.


LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park

LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park was an amusement park located in Monroe, Ohio. Opening in 1922 as a family picnic and campground, LeSourdsville Lake transformed in the 1940s to an amusement park with rides, attractions, and an arcade. In 1977, the name was changed to Americana Amusement Park. Following an electrical fire in 1990 that caused over $5 million in damages, the park fell into decline and was eventually closed in 1999. Under new ownership, the park briefly opened again in 2002, returning to the name LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park, but after failed attempts to turn a profit, it closed permanently. The park's remaining rides and attractions were either demolished or sold. As of 2017 The City of Monroe, Ohio is developing the former park into a city park and regional bicycle trail.
1920s.
Middletown, Ohio, resident Edgar Streifthau opened LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park on May 8, 1922. Edgar's dream was to transform the former ice manufacturing facility in the tiny village of LeSourdsville into an area for residents to enjoy a decent and clean place to picnic and swim with friends and family. Construction began on the park in 1921. Edgar and his business partner, Bill Rothfuss, built a bathhouse, a restaurant, dance hall and a bridge crossing the abandoned Miami-Erie Canal that passed through the property linking the parking lot and the park. They also constructed a concrete bottom in the man-made lake for swimming.
Admission was 10 cents per person, 25 cents for swimming and 10 cents for a jitney dance per couple. LeSourdsville Lake was open for business and attracting thousands of area residents.
Edgar constructed the first of several "vacation" cabins surrounding the lake and platforms for camping tents. Edgar's brother, Ernest, joined his brother as a partner as Bill Rothfuss advanced his career at nearby ARMCO Steel (now known as AK Steel).
Within two years, Edgar stopped hosting dances at the park due to numerous fights that occurred on a regular basis.
1930s.
Despite the onset of The Great Depression, Edgar continued to expand the park's offerings. He expanded the bathhouse, installed a new parking lot, built the park's first office building, and imported over 1,000 tons of white sand for the beach. Admission prices, food prices and employee wages were cut. Just before the park was to open for the 1934 season, an accidental fire destroyed the bathhouse. Edgar was desperate to rebuild a new bathhouse before the park opened in May. He went to the Middletown Lumber Company and solicited the assistance of a personable and talented draftsman, Don Dazey. On May 30, the park opened with a new bathhouse.
Dazey convinced Edgar that dances could be successful without the fighting and melee that plagued the park in earlier years. Don constructed "Stardust Gardens" next door to the bathhouse. Bands such as Ray McKinley, Glenn Miller, the Dorsey Brothers and Stan Kenton graced the rich, maple wood floor to the delight of thousands of customers.
Don also solicited area companies to hold their picnics at the park and began an important tradition that continued until the park closed. Edgar also added two toboggan water slides, a waterwheel, seven diving boards, and a high platform for diving. In 1939, Edgar purchased a 1927 John Miller wooden coaster from Moxahalia Amusement Park in Zanesville, Ohio for $35,000. The coaster was rebuilt and named "The Cyclone."
1940s.
The 1940s represented an important decade for LeSourdsville Lake. The park became the "Miami Valley's Chosen Playground" and became the hottest entertainment spot during the summer months.
In 1941, the park added "The Whip" and a Ferris wheel to its thrill ride line-up. Bands appearing in the Stardust Gardens Ballroom included Eddie Kadle, Earl Holderman, Gene Roberts, Mary Marshall, Little Joe Hart, Eugene Jelesnick, Billy Snyder, Tommy Flynn, Billy Yates, Jimmy Scriber and Emerson Gill. The following summer, Carl Taylor, Lloyd Labrie and Michael Mehas joined the Stardust Gardens headliners. Edgar also built a new front entrance and added a section of new midway near the entrance to The Cyclone.
After World War II, LeSourdsville Lake continued to grow and prosper. In 1947, two stream-lined trains were added to The Cyclone and a kiddie racing car ride was installed. On July 4, the park celebrated its largest one-day turnout in its history when 30,168 came through the front gate. Big bands popular in 1947 included, Barney Rapp, Jimmy Miller, Ches Walker, Les Shepard, Harold Greenanyer, Del Mason, Whitey Howard, Karl Taylor and Johnny Doom.
Major improvements were visible as LeSourdsville Lake opened its 1949 season. A state-of-the-art masonry building was constructed next to The Cyclone entrance. New rides and attractions included the Fun Parade, and a penny arcade. Big bands making appearances included Sammy Leeds, Whitey Howard, Tommy Robbins, Al Cassidy, Karl Taylor, Leo Pieper, Skitch Henderson, Jimmy James and Earl Holderman.
1950s.
The 1950s ushered in some changes for LeSourdsville Lake as the park's image began to decline from its peak the previous decade. Big bands that once graced the Stardust Gardens Ballroom throughout the week were now featured on weekends only. Edgar renovated the bathhouse to accommodate the large number of swimmers the park serviced each year. The brick addition to the bathhouse also "provided a fire resistive baring at an amusement park.
New rides for 1951 included a Rock-O-Plane and Tilt-A-Whirl. By 1954, Edgar was manufacturing his own line of turnpike cars in a partnership with Oxford, Ohio resident Frank Dodd. "Kiddieland", located where the picnic shelters stand today, saw five new rides added, including a new steel coaster called the Jack Rabbit. In 1956, the Turnpike ride was built next to the Screechin' Eagle (formerly The Cyclone) roller coaster.
Edgar and Don realized that more had to be done to modernize LeSourdsville Lake. Disneyland opened in 1955 to such rave reviews from the public that they expected other parks to become just as modern and clean. At Cedar Point, a multimillion-dollar renovation was under way by 1957 in an attempt to become the "Disneyland of the Midwest." Edgar and Don decided to take out a loan and initiate a multi-year improvement plan.
In 1957, a stone tower and fountain were constructed at the main entrance. Edgar and Don were ready to enter 1959 with a new vision. However, Don Dazey died in June 1959. Edgar was lost without Don's ability to work with the staff and customers alike. Edgar's role had been mainly behind the scenes developing new revenue sources for the park and developing a plan for the park's future.
A local bank required Edgar to immediately pay off the outstanding loan. Edgar decided he did not want to chance taking on a partner he couldn't get along with so the expansion plans were dropped and the park was put up for sale.
1960s.
The 1960s ushered in a prosperity for the 40-year-old park. Former Cedar Point concessionaires Howard Berni and Frank Murru were successful in their purchase of the park for $550,000. They took over in 1961 and quickly continued the renovation effort that stopped prematurely when Don Dazey died.
The WING radio "Lesourdsville Lake WING FLING" featured on air personalities, Lou Swanson, Rod Williams, Jim Smith and a famous sign off by Gene By Golly Barry.
A Heinrich Wild Mouse roller coaster was the newest ride to greet visitors for the 1961 season. In addition, an 18-hole miniature golf course and a new Arcade building were built at the end of the midway next to the Screechin' Eagle roller coaster. The park also featured a native Hawaiian ornamental garden with hand carved Tiki and live palm trees. Unfortunately, the year was plagued by abnormal amount of rain which affected attendance. At the end of the season, the area's first "pay one price plan" was established. For $1.65 for adults and 75 cents for children customers could ride all day.
In 1964, Middletown resident William "Bill" Barr became a partner in the park and contributed his creative ideas and endless energy to help make LeSourdsville Lake the favorite park for hundreds of thousands of patrons. Between 1962 and 1969, a number of attractions were added to the LeSourdsville Lake line-up, including a NAD train (called the Iron Horse), a remodeled Haunted House, and a new theme area called "Tombstone Territory". The big band names of Jack Huntlemen, Sammy Kaye, Buddy Rogers and Bobby Grayson were slowly replaced by regular appearances by WLW's Bob Braun, The Cool Ghoul from WXIX, WKRC's Glenn "Skipper" Ryle and a host of television stars, movie celebrities and music acts.
1970s.
By the mid-1970s, LeSourdsville Lake was drawing about 600,000 patrons annually. The opening of Kings Island amusement park just a few miles away in nearby Mason, Ohio in 1972 didn't dampen the spirits of Howard Berni. "We wish them luck," said Howard in an interview in the Cincinnati Enquirer. "The first year we may feel a pinch because the local people will be curious, but we don't anticipate it will be to the point where it will bother our business. On the other hand, if Kings Island brings in the tourist, we will benefit from the overflow. We aren't going to fade away. They have the worries, not us."
In 1972 a new "Calypso" ride was installed, and named simply "The Calypso". In 1975, Bill Barr retired to Italy, and park veteran William "Bill" Robinson took over some of duties left by Barr. Bill's knack for producing interesting promotions enabled the park to enjoy large crowds. Some of the more novel promotions developed by Bill included the 1976 designation as the country's only "Official" Bicentennial Amusement Park, the Coca-Cola/WSAI Radio Rock, Roll n' Remember concerts, and the Jell-O Jump, where contestants jumped into a huge barrel of gelatin to find the winning key to a new car.
During the late 1970s, the park presented brief (15 minute) musical shows every day on the midway stage that advertised various park attractions. The shows featured the "Krazy Kritters" (people in whimsical animal costumes) and consisted of a pre-recorded narration that a “master of ceremonies” critter pretended to speak into a microphone. At particular points in the presentation, the tape machine was programmed to pause after the M.C. critter suggested that the band play a song. The band (also in costumes), whose characters were called Do, Rey, Me, and Fa would play a song. During the summers of 1977 and 1978, the band was a local Rock band called "Septer".
In 1978, the name of the park was changed to "Americana Amusement Park - the Great American Amusement Park". Along with a name change came a $3.5 million, three-year renovation plan to help keep the park a viable alternative to Kings Island. New attractions included a 1200-seat tent featuring performances of the Hanneford Family Circus, a Trabant, a seven character animated band called the "Bear Country Jubilee", and the Coca-Cola Great American Thrill Show theater.
1980s.
The recession in the early 1980s began affecting attendance at the park. As a result, gate admission was reduced from $6.95 to $5.50 in 1982. New attractions that year included a transformation of the Hanneford Circus tent into a platform for Bumper Buggys, a soft-core version of bumper cars.
At the end of the 1982 Bill Robinson left the park and was replaced by industry veteran Lenny Gottstein. In May 1983, Food Services Director Frank Silvani died after a lengthy battle with cancer.
The highlight of the decade was the addition of the Raging Thunder Log Flume in 1984. The attraction represented the largest investment in the park's 77-year history and helped boost the annual attendance over 500,000. The flume, designed by Ron Berni and built by Barr Engineering of Minnesota, was located in a former bird sanctuary in the old Tombstone Territory section of the park. The area was renamed Logger's Run after the flume was added.
In 1985, the park auctioned off the horses from its 1924 PTC #71 carousel. Although some fans were disappointed about the sale, the carousel burned to the ground in an accidental fire in 1988. Over $500,000 in damages were reported, including the loss of the park's 1925 Dodgem ride.
In 1987, the Galleon swinging ship was installed in Logger's Run. At the end of the season, park vice president Guy Sutton left to take a position with an industry consulting firm.
After the carousel fire, the park purchased a used Galaxi roller coaster from Nobles Funland Amusement Park in Paducah, Kentucky, called "The Serpent". Attendance at the park was maintained at 500,000.
1990s.
On January 8, 1990, an electrical fire broke out in the Bathhouse and Stardust Gardens Ballroom. The result was over $5 million in losses, including a first aid office, arcade, games building, locker rooms and food concessions. Ride parts and cars from the Rock-O-Plane, Flying Scooters, Bumper Buggy and two kiddie rides were destroyed. The park quickly enlisted the assistance of local labor unions to rebuild the area in time for the April opening with payment to come later in the summer. By May, a new 300-seat indoor/outdoor food court, an arcade, a Dodgem' ride and a refurbished Flying Scooter ride reopened on the site of the fire. Meanwhile, the park began experiencing problems with its insurance company regarding its multimillion-dollar claim. To make matters worse, Ron Berni, a longtime fixture at the park and son of owner Howard Berni, had been offered a position at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. He reluctantly accepted the offer with the backing of his father.
The hiring of local students and senior citizens was always a challenge because of the keen competition of other attractions in the area. To help alleviate that problem, the park entered into an agreement with a Mexican college to hire Mexican students for the summer. The plan quickly fell apart and the park experienced a lot of negative media coverage regarding claims by the students of poor living conditions in their dorms and illegal working conditions. The local unions, who normally booked their picnics at the park, suddenly canceled their lucrative picnic outings due to the allegations and the park began a deep decline in attendance and revenue. By the end of season, attendance reached an all-time low of just under 200,000. The park then learned that its insurance company would only pay $3 million in claims, leaving the park to pick up the remaining $2 million in expenses. In December, the park was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
By Spring 1991, the park was purchased and reopened by Leisure International, a group of former park management. Joe Faggionato, Guy Sutton, Lenny Gottstein and Don Robison took over the park and began the long, hard effort of erasing the previous year's nightmare from customers, including the local unions. In July, Guy Sutton left the park to become the Operations Director at Clemonton Lake in New Jersey.
The trio built a petting zoo and opened a new restaurant for the 1992. Their efforts enabled the park to build the attendance back up to just over 330,000. In 1993, the animated "Bear Country Jubilee" show was sold to the Jungle Jim's International Market in Fairfield, Ohio. No new attractions were added during the year, however, attendance increased to 412,500. During the 1994 and 1995 seasons, Leisure International spent an additional $6 million to upgrade landscaping and infrastructure throughout the park. By 1995, Faggionato, Gottstein and Robison realized that a bigger company with more capital would be needed to continue upgrading the park so Americana was put up for sale.
In 1996, Park River Corporation, owners of Coney Island of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, purchased Americana for an estimated $3 million. Between 1996 and 1998, over $1 million was spent on upgrading the Screechin' Eagle roller coaster, developing a new paint scheme of magenta and teal, introducing a new merchandising line in the gift shop consisting of unique Americana emblazoned clothing, and adding a variety of rides, including a carousel, Ferris wheel, and the Tempest. In 1997, Park River owner Ronald Walker died unexpectedly and family members expressed concern about the future of the park. The park was quietly listed for sale in 1998.
In December 1999, informational letters regarding the 2000 Family Funpacks (similar to season passes) were distributed across the area. In a shocking announcement on January 6, 2000, Park River announced the closing of the park for the 2000 season.
2000s.
On May 24, 2000 Hamilton businessman Jerry Couch purchased the park from Park River Corporation. He said he would change the park's name to "Couch's Americana Amusement Park at LeSourdsville Lake" out of respect for the park's 77-year-old history. "The job market is tight and I've missed the window of opportunity to hire kids who are getting out of school," he said in a Cincinnati Enquirer interview. "But, we'll be ready, possibly in July."
Initial plans called for a year-round facility with Halloween and Christmas activities, construction of a campground, the opening of "Couch's Campers Superstore" on the property and new food services.
In April 2002, former carnival owners, the Pugh Family, established the LeSourdsville Group and was hired to manage the park for the 2002 season. The name of the park was changed to "The Great American Amusement Park at LeSourdsville Lake."
Over $3 million in improvements were made including the addition of 10 new rides leased by the Pugh group. They included a fun house, a swinging pirate ship, a kids bumper car ride, the Zipper, the Music Express and the Tip-Top Teacups Ride. The adult bumper car ride was removed due to mechanical problems. In addition, a $150,000 ride safety inspection system was installed to improve preventive maintenance.
When the park opened to the public on June 5, the name of the park was changed once again to "LeSourdsville Lake." A park spokesperson stated that the name change was done because "that's how people remember it."
The park operated Thursdays through Sundays. "Saturdays and Sundays have been packed to the point that our parking lot was just about full, which we would estimate to be 8,000 to 10,000 people," said park Marketing Director Mike Mefford.
After experiencing a successful summer, the park unexpectedly closed a week prior than planned and announced that it was looking for a new management company to operate the park for 2003. Plans for the upcoming "LeScaresville Lake - a Halloween fright event" was cancelled. The Pugh management team filed for bankruptcy and failed to pay some of the park employees wages due to them.
Rides brought in earlier in the year were repossessed after the season ended due to non-payment by the Pugh management group. Rides included the Music Express, the Zipper, the Western Express Train, the Tip Top, the Mini Indy and a fun house. All of the rides were portable and not installed as permanent rides.
On January 24, 2003, Couch's LeSourdsville Lake RV Super Center held its grand opening at the park. The park's old dormitory used during the 1990 season, was remodeled and made a part of the new store and showroom. "With the opening of the ...Super Center, we are one step closer to fulfilling our ultimate goal of establishing an RV and amusement park combination." said Couch in a Middletown Journal interview.
In April, local media began questioning the status of the park for 2003. After several days passed, the Middletown Journal reported that the park may open for the 2003 season. "There's definitely a possibility that we could open this year. I'm not saying that will happen," said a publicist with Expo Management & Ad Agency in Cincinnati, which was hired to handle marketing for Couch's camper company.
A press release stated that several options are being considered for the park, including 1) updating the rides and creating a "more competitive" atmosphere, 2) running the park as is with a new management team and 3) selling the park.
Couch filed a lawsuit against the Pugh management group for non-payment of bills and rental fees totaling more than $100,000. The courts dismissed the lawsuit because the management group had filed for bankruptcy.
In February 2004, former Peony Park owner, Carl Jennings announced that he was seeking to purchase the park. A deal could not be reached with Couch.
On May 17, 2006, it was announced that most of the rides would be sold and that the park would not open as a traditional amusement park in the future.
In 2009, the park's steel roller coaster, The Serpent, received a second life, as it opened in May 2009 under the same name at Kokomo's Family Fun Center in Saginaw, Michigan.
The park was featured on the History Channel's "". The show explored how weathering was eating away at the park and how it will be unrecognizable in 20 years without human maintenance. One of the closed rides, the Screechin' Eagle, was featured in "Life After People: The Series" and collapsed after 20 years after disappearance of humans.
2010s.
In late August 2011, The Screechin' Eagle roller coaster, which stood for over 60 years, was demolished without any public announcement. Couch expressed fear that something "terrible" would happen with the trespassers that regularly visited the park. Parts of the track and trains were sent to the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives in Plainview, Texas.
In early 2015, Jerry Couch retired and closed his Middletown RV Showroom. Buildings and parts of rides in the Americana portion of the park as well as the Fantasy Farm park were left abandoned.
In 2017, Butler Tech announced it purchased the Americana parking lot and the adjoining former Fantasy Farm amusement park land to develop a campus. The Fantasy Farm Motel and the former Fantasy Farm restaurant building were not included in the sale. Jerry Couch donated the former LeSourdsville/Americana park land to the City of Monroe who is currently developing the former park into a city park and regional bicycle trail.
In mid 2018, all of the parks remaining structures, except for the sky rides station, the former park administrative building, the arches at the main entrance and entrance to the former food court, a large cinder block storage building, and 7 of the former picnic pavilions, were demolished.
2020s.
On August 27th, 2020 the park's entrance arch ways, which were added after the 1990 fire, were removed, later in April of 2021 the arches from the front of the food court were removed as well
In late April of 2021 construction of Monroe Bicentennial Commons, the public park replacing LeSourdsville Lake, began.


Pulau Muara Besar Bridge

Pulau Muara Besar Bridge is a dual-carriageway bridge which connects Pulau Muara Besar, an island on Brunei Bay, with the mainland of Brunei via Serasa in Brunei-Muara District. The bridge is long and wide. The construction began in 2015 and completed in May 2018; it was undertaken by China Harbour Engineering Company at a cost of B$260 million or US$204 million. The bridge is part of the road infrastructure that will serve the petrochemical refinery plant on the island, which is currently under construction, and is a Chinese foreign direct investment. At present, access to the bridge is restricted to authorised personnels of the project.


Banya Palace

Banya Palace (, "dvorets v Banya") is a royal summer villa or small palace on the northern outskirts of the town of Banya in Karlovo municipality, Plovdiv Province, southern Bulgaria. It was commissioned to University of Karlsruhe-educated architect Ivan Vasilyov after Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria visited the town in 1925 and liked the climatic conditions and the curative mineral springs in the area, and finished in 1929.
The white-painted palace's architecture draws heavily from 19th-century Bulgarian National Revival architecture. It features a large veranda covered with Italian terracotta and with five oak columns supporting it, windows with shutters and a high stone wall with two oak gates. Besides the villa, there are two additional buildings for guests and servants.
The villa also has a small park of 7,000 m² and the surrounding lots were also improved. Among the plants that can be seen are the Ginkgo, red oak, sweetgum and others.
Today the palace is a private property of the deposed Tsar Simeon II and his official place of residence.


Stettiner General-Anzeiger Building, Szczecin

The Stettiner General-Anzeiger Building in Szczecin () was an office building, which was located at the corner of today's Opłotki Street and New Market, in the Old Town, in the Centre district. It was destroyed in a bombardment in the 1940s.
History.
The house was built in the late 19th century. It was designed by the architect C. Kelm. The building replaced two older buildings: tenement house no. 3 inhabited by a shoemaker Brünnlein and tenement house no. 4, which was owned by an innkeeper Müller. The new building became the seat of the editorial office of the newspaper Stettiner General-Anzeiger, founded by Ewald Gentzensohn in 1848.
During the bombing of Szczecin between 1943 and 1944, the New Market area was destroyed. The surrounding buildings were demolished in the 1940s, but for unknown reasons the ruins of the Stettiner General-Anzeiger building survived until around 1954. After 1995, construction work began on the site of the building in connection with the revitalisation of the lower Old Town. However, no decision was made to restore the original appearance of the Stettiner General-Anzeiger building. The original division of the plot into two parts was reinstated and a new, post-modern building was erected on plot no. 3. In 2005 the editorial office of Głos Szczeciński was moved to the new building.


Beijing Yintai Centre Tower 2

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Porto Amboim Airport

Porto Amboim Airport is an airport serving Porto Amboim, a coastal city in Cuanza Sul Province, Angola.
The Porto Amboim non-directional beacon (Ident: PA) is on the field.


Sports University of Tirana


Moshi Co-operative University

The Moshi Co-operative University (MoCU) is a public university in Moshi, Tanzania.
History.
The history of this university dates to 5 January 1963 when the Co-operative College Moshi was established. The college's primary responsibility was training of human resources in the co-operative sector under the Ministry of Co-operatives and Community Development. The college was subsequently established through the Co-operative College Act No. 32 (Repealed) of 1964 as an autonomous institution with its own Governing Board.
In 2004, the Co-operative College Moshi was transformed into Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies (MUCCoBS) as the Constituent University College of Sokoine University of Agriculture through the Government Declaration Order No. 22 of 2004.
In 2014, MUCCoBS was upgraded into full-fledged university. Former Minister Al Noor Kassum served as the chancellor.
Notable Alumni


Ponghwa Art Theatre

The Ponghwa Art Theatre is a theatre located in Pyongyang, North Korea.


Church of the Ascension of the Lord, Cetina

Church of the Ascension of the Lord () is a Serbian Orthodox church in the small village of Cetina in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia.
Built in 1940 by Marko and Jelena Četnik, the church was destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt in 1974 when new bells were purchased and a stone fence was erected around the church gate. During the Croatian War of Independence, the church and its inventory was burned down and destroyed by Croatian Armed Forces.
This church was built modeled on the Temple St. Joachim and Anne at the Studenica Monastery.


Island Tower Sky Club

The is a skyscraper located in Island City, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Construction of the 145-metre, 42-storey skyscraper was finished in 2008.


House of Subsovich

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History.
The House of Subsovich was originally built by a merchant of the II guild named Todros Markovic Sabsovich. The house began around a branch line which conducted to the port, and its termination was on the even side of Petrovskaya Street, near the modern Vokzalny Lane. In the 1860s, the corner house with a semi-basement was constructed.
In the description of those years, it appears that on the site such objects are placed: the one-story barn constructed of brick, and a one-story wing. The wing was remade into two houses, located at the addresses Dzerzhinsky Lane 7 and 9. The present house at Petrovsky, 134 was built in the 1870s by the merchant Woolf Dorofeevich Sabsovich in 1873.
From 1874 to 1879 merchants Woolf, Iosif and the son of the merchant Yakov Sabsovich were the owners. From 1890 to 1898 the structure carried over the merchant Dmitry Egorovich Manusi and the wife of the petty bourgeois Hang Sabsovich.
In 1906 the merchant, an ambarshchik and the landowner Veniamin Iosifovich Sabsovich and the petty bourgeois Hang Sabcuovich's wife appeared as owners of the house. Veniamin Sabsovich was Iosif Dorofeevich's son and held a position of the member of the exchange committee. In 1915 Veniamin Sabsovich continued to own the house together with other owners — the petty bourgeois Isaak Berkovich Ipkov, to Moznaim and Alexey Andreevicham Garshfeldam.


Owen G. Glenn Building

The Owen G. Glenn Building is the home of the Business School of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, completed in late 2007. It is named after Owen G. Glenn ONZM, an expatriate New Zealand businessman who has donated to a number of philanthropic causes, as well as giving NZ$7.5 million to the business school.
The building has 11 levels to serve the teaching and research activities of the school, and has been described as being "a series of layered sinuous blades anchored by a central atrium."
The lowest levels feature teaching, learning and administrative spaces, while the higher floors contain offices for 287 staff, 80% of whom have individual offices. The basement of the building contains 1000 parking spaces.


King Tower

King Tower () is a skyscraper in Shanghai, China. It is 212 m tall, has 38 stories and was completed in 1996.
The tower was the tallest in China until Shun Hing Square in Shenzhen was built later in the same year. It was the tallest building in Shanghai until the Jin Mao Tower's completion in 1998.


Puerto Lempira

Puerto Lempira is the capital of the Gracias a Dios department in northeastern Honduras, located on the shores of the Caratasca Lagoon. Though it does not have paved roads, it is the largest town in the La Mosquitia region.
The town is named for the 16th century leader of the indigenous Lenca peoples, Lempira, who directed an ultimately unsuccessful resistance against the Spanish "conquistador" forces in the 1530s.
Puerto Lempira became the departmental capital in 1975, prior to which it was Brus Laguna. In the 1980s, the town became a centre for CIA operations against the Sandinistas.
Its population is 20,190 (2020 calculation).
Puerto Lempira is sister city to Plattsburgh, New York, US, and has been since 2011.
Transportation.
The city is served by Puerto Lempira Airport, which operates several flights a week on a regular schedule.
Climate.
Like most of the Caribbean side of Central America, Puerto Lempira has a very hot, humid and rainy tropical rainforest climate (Köppen "Af"). Its driest month of March, when the relentlessly wet trade winds are weakest, is only marginally rainy enough to avoid a tropical monsoon classification; however, between June and December monthly rainfall consistently averages above or near .


Nikon Ohi Factory

Nikon's Ohi plant in the Ōi district of Shinagawa, Tokyo was first built in 1918 after the formation of Nippon Kogaku K.K. in 1917. Nikon's first camera, the Nikon (1946) was made in this plant. Early cameras like the Nikon I (1948), Nikon M (1949), Nikon S rangefinders and Nikon F,F2 were also made in this plant. The development of specialized cameras for NASA's space program was also carried out at the Ohi plant.


Uaxactun Airport

Uaxactun Airport is an airstrip in the village of Uaxactun, Guatemala.
The airstrip may be closed. Aerial imagery (Google Earth 3/27/2014) shows less than of grass landing area remaining unobstructed by trees and structures.
The Tikal VOR-DME (Ident: TIK) is located south-southwest of Uaxactun.


City Centre Bahrain

City Centre Bahrain is a shopping mall located in the Seef District of Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It is owned and run by Majid Al Futtaim Properties, which owns several shopping malls across the Middle East.
History.
The shopping centre opened in September 2008 to be the largest in Bahrain. It claims 340 retail outlets, including the first Carrefour Hypermarket in Bahrain acting as the mall's anchor store, and 60 dining outlets.
The mall is designed to accommodate weekend visitors from Saudi Arabia across the King Fahd Causeway by featuring two Kempinski hotels and an indoor water park.
Entertainment.
Entertainment facilities include:


Reformed Church in Sub-Carpathia/ Reformed Church in Transcarpathia

The Reformed Church in Transcarpathia is a historic Reformed church in Ukraine. It is the oldest Protestant church in the country, founded in the 16th century, and a significant part of the Hungarian-speaking ethnicity belong to this denomination.
History.
The church was founded in 1921 when this region become part of Czechoslovakia. The church members were Hungarian ethnic people; in the time of formation their church counted approximately 65,000 members in 77 congregations. During World War II the Soviet troops deported 40,000 people from Sub-Carpathia. Transcarpathia as Zakarpattia Oblast became part of the Soviet Union. Pastors from different religions were persecuted and sometimes killed. Church schools, church buildings were taken away. It was restricted to evangelize to worship and the Sunday school too. Public church activities were not permitted, except for funerals. The Soviet Union propagated a totally atheist lifestyle.
In the 1970s the situation changed a bit. The church was allowed to train pastors. After the collapse of the Soviet Union things changed.
From that time the church sponsors Reformed Primary, secondary schools. Churches were open again.
Demographics.
The church has 120,000-140,000 members in almost 100 parishes. A significant part of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia belong to this church. The Reformed Church in Transcarpathia has 3 Presbyteries, namely the Beregi, the Ugocsai and the Ungi Presbyteries.
Interchurch relations.
The Transcarpathian Reformed Church is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Hungarian Reformed Federation.


Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (building)

The Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (formerly "Banco de Bilbao") is a building located at Calle de Alcalá, 16, in Madrid, Spain. Projected in 1919 by architect Ricardo Bastida (1879–1953) and built from 1920 to 1923 for Banco de Bilbao, a constituent financial institution of BBVA.
It was declared "Bien de Interés Cultural" in 1999. The rotunda features murals painted by Aurelio Arteta in 1922 and restored in 2003.
In popular culture.
The final fight in the 2000 Spanish film "La comunidad" was shot among the quadrigas atop of the building.


University of Trnava

The University of Trnava (in Trnava) () is one of the oldest universities in Slovakia. It is based in Trnava, in the west of Slovakia.
Historical university.
The original Jesuit university was founded in 1635 by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Péter Pázmány. It had a faculty of arts, faculty of theology, faculty of law (since 1667) and faculty of medicine (since 1769). It lasted 142 years in Trnava (; ) when it was moved to Buda in 1777 and finally to Pest in 1784. Its legal successor is the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.
Present-day university.
The present-day university was established in 1992 and although bears the same name, it isn't a legal successor. It currently has five faculties, 4 of them seated in Trnava:
and 1 in Bratislava:


Refuge Diavolezza

Refuge Diavolezza is a refuge in the Alps.


Keskisuomalainen Osakunta

Keskisuomalainen Osakunta (KSO) is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finnish-speaking and established in 1931.


Shelter of Our Most Holy Lady Church, Riga

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Kahili Airfield

Kahili Airfield, also known as Buin Airfield, was an airfield located near Buin, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea.
History.
The airfield was constructed by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in November 1942. The airfield was later neutralized by Allied air bombing from 1943 and was abandoned after the cessation of hostilities.
Japanese Units based at Kahili Airfield included:


Bintan Agro Beach Resort

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Castle Rushen High School


Sumbawanga Airport

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Stella Manyanga, the Rukwa Regional Commissioner has instead urged the government to construct a new airport at Kisumba village as the present facility does not have enough land for future expansion. In April 2013, the Tanzania Airports Authority allocated funds for the evaluation of the area for the proposed future airport.


Elliott House, Wellington

Elliott House is a historic building in Wellington, New Zealand.
The house was built for James Sands Elliott, a medical professional, in 1913. The north side served as the family residence, while the Kent Terrace side served as his consultancy room and surgery. The building was renovated in 1988.
The building is classified as a "Category I" ("places of special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value") historic place by Heritage New Zealand.


Dar Al Awadi Tower

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Dar Abdullah Al Awadi Complex Shopping Center and Offices Tower is one of the Real Estate Investment Company projects.
The tower is located in the center of the capital with high panoramic view of the Persian Gulf. Its external finishing is a combination of glazier, granite, marble and stainless steel ribs.
From a distance, the first part of the building that can be seen is the high rising tower with its stainless steel dome nested by a wide stainless steel circular saucer-shape roof canopy carried by a 34 story of Quintuple shape building. This is the share of commercial offices.
The center has four floors above ground level and one basement. A broad atrium stands in the center of the mall, covered by huge skylight dome. A fountain embraces the two panoramic elevators.
There is an adjacent car park with a capacity of more than 650 cars.


Karel de Grote-Hogeschool

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Kosmonavtlar (Tashkent Metro)

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The architectural decoration of the station is on the theme of space. The interior is decorated with blue ceramic medallions with images of Ulugbek, Icarus, Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin, Vyacheslav Volkov and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. The ceiling resembles the Milky Way, which shows glass stars. Travel wall platform, where floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the length of the platform is gradually moving from azure to dark blue, recalling the atmosphere of the Earth. Round tower platform covered with glass, and metal, granite and marble-trimmed lobbies stations, lobbies finishes as the station, on the theme of space exploration.


Finkenhof House

Finkenhof was a house in Kurtatsch an der Weinstraße, South Tyrol, Italy. The majority of the house was destroyed in the first half of the 16th century, but a house wall and parlor still stands. The coat of arms of the Indermaur family is displayed on the wall above the balcony. The Indermaur owned Finkenhof around 1646. Prior to the Indermaur, Finkenhof was owned by Im Holz (1566). It later passed to Delmann von Angerburg in 1780, Josef Schweiggl from 1834, the Pomella in 1838, and the Maier in 1914.


Technical Museum of East Iceland

The Technical Museum of East Iceland (), located in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, was established in 1984 as one of four specialized museums in the so-called Eastfjords area of Iceland. The museum later accepted the responsibility of also being a local heritage museum for the Seyðisfjörður area.


Negros Occidental Multi-Purpose Activity Center

The Negros Occidental Multi-Purpose Activity Center (NOMPAC) is a provincial-owned multi-use gym located in Bacolod, adjacent to the Capitol Lagoon, in Negros Occidental, Philippines. It is currently used mostly for basketball, karatedo and boxing matches.
Aside from the gym, it also serves as evacuation site of the province during calamities likewise also serves as cultural facilities in many events and other government related activities like seminars, business and political gatherings.


The Baked Potato

The Baked Potato is a prominent jazz club on Cahuenga Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, opened by Don Randi (father of bassist Leah Randi) in 1970. Randi formed his own group, Don Randi and Quest, as the house band. Over the years it has hosted many live recordings from jazz fusion artists. Larry Carlton recorded "Last Nite" there in 1986. In 2010 The Baked Potato was named the Best Jazz Club in Los Angeles by "Los Angeles" magazine. They have cited it as a "mainstay for session players since 1975". Nick Menza of Megadeth collapsed and died while playing here with his band Ohm on May 21, 2016.
The club is mentioned in the 2016 musical film "La La Land".


Hermann Beims estate

The Hermann Beims Estate () is a social housing project of the 1920s in Magdeburg, Germany. It is named after Hermann Beims (1863–1931), mayor of Magdeburg, who held office from 1919 until 1931. It was designed by Bruno Taut, Magdeburg's city architect between 1926 and 1929.


Spilje Hydro Power Plant

Spilje Hydro Power Plant is a large power plant in North Macedonia that has three turbines with a nominal capacity of 23 MW each having a total capacity of 69 MW.


Hermia (Finland)

Hermia is a science park near Tampere University of Technology (TUT). Hermia is located in Hervanta, a suburb of Tampere, Finland. Hermia is also acting as a technology centre for its region.
Hermia offers office space and facilities for both small technology startups and larger companies. It consists of 100,000 m2 of office space and is home to 150 companies and research organizations, for example to many research and development units of the cell phone manufacturer Nokia.
In the offices of Hermia was developed the first Nokia Communicator mobile phone, as well as Nokia's first camera-phone. The site is also home to one of the offices of Nokia Research Center, where among other activities the EFR and WB-AMR codecs were developed.


Ulenge Island Rear Range Lighthouse

The Ulenge Island Rear Range Lighthouse is located in Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania.


Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1964-1968 American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series (the three others being "Lost in Space", "The Time Tunnel", and "Land of the Giants"), and the longest-running. The show's theme was underwater adventure.
"Voyage" was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964, to March 31, 1968, and was the decade's longest-running American science fiction television series with continuing characters. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in black-and-white (1964–1965), and 78 filmed in color (1965–1968). The first two seasons took place in the then-future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison.
Show history.
Pilot episode.
The pilot episode "Eleven Days to Zero" was filmed in color but shown in black-and-white. It introduces the audience to the futuristic nuclear submarine S.S.R.N. "Seaview" and the lead members of her crew, including the designer and builder of the submarine Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), and Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the "Seaview"'s captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research in Santa Barbara, California, and is often moored some 500 feet beneath the facility in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The "Seaview" is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the Seven Seas, but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats in the then-future of the 1970s.
Season 1.
The first season's 31 episodes included gritty, atmospheric story lines devoted to Cold War themes and excursions into near-future speculative fiction, involving espionage and sci-fi elements. Aliens, sea monsters and dinosaurs were featured, but the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, the scripts had a recognisably contemporary setting.
The first episodes began with Admiral Nelson and the crew of the "Seaview" fighting against a foreign government to prevent a world-threatening earthquake, and continuing with a foreign government destroying American submarines with new technologies in "The Fear Makers" and "The Enemies". The season also had several ocean peril stories in which the "Seaview" crew spent the episode dealing with the normal perils of the sea. Two examples are "Submarine Sunk Here" and "The Ghost of Moby Dick". The season introduced a diving bell and a mini-submarine, and the first episodes featuring extraterrestrials (Don Brinkley's "The Sky is Falling") and sea monsters.
During the course of the first season, Nelson was promoted from a three-star to a four-star admiral. It was also established that while essentially a marine research vessel, SSRN "Seaview" was also part of the U.S. nuclear armed fleet (most notably defined in William Read Woodfield's episode, "Doomsday"). The season ended with the "Seaview" crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon.
Season 2.
The second season began with a trip inside a whale, a trip inside a volcano, and a few Cold War intrigue and nuclear war-themed episodes, and saw several brushes with world disaster. The season ended with a ghost story, one of the show's few sequels.
Due to ABC's demands for a somewhat "lighter" tone to the series, the second season saw an increase in monster-of-the-week type plots, yet there were still some episodes that harkened back to the tone of the first season. The second season also saw a change from black-and-white to color. The beginning of the second season saw the permanent replacement of Chief "Curly" Jones with Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, due to the death of Henry Kulky, who portrayed Chief Jones.
The most important change in the series occurred during this season when a notably redesigned "Seaview" interior was introduced, along with the "Flying Sub", a yellow, two-man mini-submarine with passenger capacity. The Flying Sub could leave the ocean and become airborne. The futuristic craft greatly increased the "Seaview" crew's travel options. It was launched from a bay, access to which was via a sealed hatch stairway at the bow section. The "Seaview"s private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The "Seaview" control room was expanded and a large rectangular panel screen of flickering lights was added. The "Seaview" also now had a powerful laser beam in its bow light. The small mini-sub from the first season was retained and occasionally still used in the color episodes.
The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white Keds Champion sneakers. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage.
A second-season episode, "The Sky's On Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's original film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961) utilizing considerable film color footage, though several film sequences were removed and had been featured in other first-season episodes such as "The Village of Guilt" and "Submarine Sunk Here."
A few later season two episodes were filmed without Richard Basehart, who was hospitalized for a bleeding ulcer. He filmed the scenes in the Flying Sub for "The Monster's Web" before hospitalization, requiring a stand in and other characters taking over his lines. He was missing entirely from the next two episodes. These episodes didn't feature his character at all, while in one story "The Menfish" Gary Merrill guested as Admiral Park, a colleague of Nelson's who substituted for him. Basehart returned for "Return of the Phantom," the final episode of the season.
Season 3.
The third season of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" ran simultaneously with two other series produced by Irwin Allen, "Lost in Space" (in its second season) and "The Time Tunnel".
The third season began with Dick Tufeld (voice of the Robot on "Lost in Space") playing an evil disembodied brain from outer space. The season continued with a werewolf story that is one of the few episodes to inspire a sequel. In one episode, the "Seaview"'s officers and crew encountered Nazis who believed World War II was still ongoing. The third season only had two espionage stories and one ocean peril story that were reminiscent of the first season. One of those three stories was about a hostile foreign government trying to steal a strange new mineral with the aid of a brainwashed Admiral Nelson. This espionage story was the end of the third season.
The final two seasons continued the shift towards paranormal storylines that were popular in the late 1960s. Mummies, werewolves, talking puppets, and an evil leprechaun all walked the corridors of the "Seaview". There were also fossil men, flame men, frost men, lobster men, and shadow men.
The opening credits were largely identical to the revised season two, but the initial season two yellow lettering credits that were first altered to white, (and then back to yellow on the later revised sequence) were now depicted in a golden/yellowish lettering, and closing credits were set over a green-backed painting of "Seaview" underwater.
Season 4.
The fourth and final season of "Voyage" began with Victor Jory playing a five-centuries old alchemist and the "Seaview" is threatened by the hydrodynamic effects of a major volcanic eruption. Starting with the eighth episode of the season, there were revamped opening credits depicting action sequences and the stars' pictures in color set on a sonar board design. The closing credits picture remained unchanged from season three. Near the end of the fourth season, there were three unrelated stories of extraterrestrial invasion. One episode had an unknown master of disguise infiltrating and wreaking havoc aboard the "Seaview". Another episode depicted Nelson, Morton and Sharkey gaslighting Crane. There were two time travel stories featuring the enigmatic but dangerous Mister Pem. The second had the "Seaview" going back in time to the American Revolution. The episode (and series) ended with the "Seaview" returning to the present. The final scene of the show had Nelson and Crane sitting in the seldom used easy chairs on the port side of the observation nose discussing how fast time goes by.
In March 1968 it was announced that "Voyage" would not be back for a fifth season.
Music.
The series' main theme, "The Seaview Theme", was written by Paul Sawtell. A new darker, more serious theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith was introduced at the beginning of the second-season episode "Jonah and the Whale", but this was quickly replaced by the original version. A version of the Goldsmith suite re-orchestrated by Nelson Riddle was heard as incidental music in the episode "Escape From Venice", and the original Goldsmith suite was used as incidental music throughout the rest of the series. The series' main composer, supervisor and conductor was Lionel Newman, who for the second season composed a serious sounding score for when the episode credits (episode title/guests/writer/director) were shown just after the theme song, which would be used by many episodes (starting with "The Left Handed Man") thru the second and into the early third season. Other guest composers included Lennie Hayton, Hugo Friedhofer, "" composer Alexander Courage, Morton Stevens, Leith Stevens (no relation) who wrote the music to nine episodes, and Sawtell, who worked on the show for a while in the first season.
GNP Crescendo issued a soundtrack album in 1997 as part of its series tying into the documentary "The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen", featuring Sawtell's theme from the series and his score for the pilot episode "Eleven Days To Zero" (tracks 2–6) and Goldsmith's work for "Jonah and the Whale."
Cast.
Scott McFadden, Ray Didsbury, Marco Lopez, and Ron Stein provided additional crewmen in non-speaking roles, often requiring stunt work.
Home media.
20th Century Fox has released all 4 seasons on DVD in Region 1 in two volume sets.
In Region 2, Revelation Films has released the entire series on DVD in the UK in four complete season sets. On March 26, 2012, they released "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Collection", a 31-disc set featuring all 110 episodes of the series as well as bonus features.
In Region 4, Madman Entertainment released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia on August 20, 2014.
Reboot.
On November 23, 2020, it was announced that Legendary Entertainment is developing a new version. Chris Lunt and Michael A. Walker are writing the project.


Tung Fook Church

E.F.C.C. Tung Fook Church, is a Christian church based in Hong Kong. Established in August 1991, it is part of the Evangelical Free Church of China. The main place of worship is located on 11 in the Causeway Bay area, Hong Kong Island. It had an initial congregation of a few dozens in 1991. 2005 estimate is around 2,500. In 2010, the church has grown up to 4,500.
It has 5 places of worship, located in the Causeway Bay, Chai Wan, Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong and Tung Chung respectively; In 2017, Tung Fook Church Kowloon West (), became a separate congregation, E.F.C.C. Jachin Church.
The church building of Tung Fook Church in the Causeway Bay, which next to the Victoria Park, was known for the neon sign "Jesus is Lord" in Chinese ().


Paunglin Dam

Paunglin Dam is a dam in the Yangon Division, Burma. It is located near Hlegu, northeast of Yangon. The dam and the Ngamoeyeik Reservoir supply water to over of farmland between Hlegu and Yangon, and nearly 340 million liters (90 million gallons) of water a day to the people living in Yangon.


Xorazm Stadium

Xorazm Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Urgench, Uzbekistan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Xorazm FK Urganch. The stadium holds 25,000 people.


Royal Scot Motel

Royal Scot Motel is a motel and RV park on Stony Plain Road in Edmonton, Alberta.
Description.
The 27-suite motel is owned by Alkarim and Diallah Bhanji.
Fine.
In September 2014 a $140,000 fine, one of the largest in Alberta's history, was levied against the Royal Scot Motel for ignoring 41 health code violations for 3 years including exposed wires, missing smoke detectors and raw sewage.


Castello di Polgeto

The Castello di Polgeto is a medieval castle near Mount Acuto, near the town of Umbertide, in the Province of Perugia, region of Umbria, Italy.
History.
This castle was erected in 1399 around a prior 12th century fortification, which belonged to Biagio di Buto, an exile from Perugia. A number of inhabitants gravitated to the site and the
churches of San Lorenzo and of the Madonna del Sasso were erected. During the war between the Papacy and Florence in 1643, the castle was captured by the Tuscans. In the 19th century, the castle became property of Count Francesco Guardabassi, a statesman from the region. During World War II, the castle was briefly headquarters for the German army Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Count Guardabbassi's daughter-in-law died in 1955, and the heirs sold the property. In 1989 it was used to house a number of vacation rental properties; a short vacation diary was featured in the New York Times.


Exeter Guildhall

Exeter Guildhall on the High Street of Exeter, Devon, England has been the centre of civic government for the city for at least 600 years. Much of the fabric of the building is medieval, though the elaborate frontage was added in the 1590s and the interior was extensively restored in the 19th century. It is a Grade I listed building.
History.
Early history.
It is certain that the hall has been on its present site since the 14th century, and most probably since the second half of the 12th century. It is also known that there was a guild in Exeter by 1000 AD whose hall was most likely here too. On this basis it has been claimed to be the oldest municipal building in England still in use.
The current building was constructed between 1468 and 1470. It was refaced between 1593 and 1596 at a cost of £789 in an ornate Italian style that was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as being "as picturesque as it is barbarous". The portico that juts out over the pavement is dated 1594 and its four sturdy granite columns are surmounted by highly decorated corbels of Beer stone. The upper floor, also in Beer stone, is more restrained with strapwork and 16 smaller paired pillars framing large windows that have both mullions and transoms. During renovation work it has been noted that the stonework had once been painted in cream with details in red and blue and the pillars gilded.
The city stocks were once under the portico. The elaborately carved oak door, dated 1593, was made by Nicholas Baggett, a local carpenter. It leads via an anteroom to the council chamber which apparently dates between 1468 and 1470, though it was much restored in Victorian times. The arch-braced roof with seven bays is original; its main trusses rest on carved corbels representing grotesque animals.
It was in Exeter Guildhall that, in the aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion, Judge Jeffreys held the Bloody Assizes on 14 September 1685.
A large chandelier hangs from the centre of the roof. It was made by Thomas Pyke of Bridgwater and installed in 1789. Apart from this and the roof, all the internal fittings are Victorian, including the stained glass, the gallery, the furniture and the stone floor (all 1863) and the heavily restored Tudor panelling (1887). Above the fireplace is a bust of Queen Victoria by Henry Hugh Armstead.
Under the council chamber there is an early 14th-century cellar. This was once a prison that was known as the "pytt of the Guyldhall". In the 16th century another prison, for women, was built on the ground floor at the back of the building. It remained in use until 1887. In 1858 a room was built above this to store the city's records; it was later used as a jury room.
20th century.
The front room above the portico, which was once the council chamber, was converted into the mayor's parlour in 1903. In 1911 the council chamber was the location for an election petition, following the second general election of 1910, between the Liberal candidate Harold St. Maur and the Conservative Henry Duke. The guildhall, which is also a scheduled monument, became a Grade I listed building in 1953.
For much of the 20th century the guildhall was the meeting place of the county borough of Exeter; it continued to be the local seat of government after the formation of the enlarged City of Exeter in 1974. The mayor's parlour, which had a plaster ceiling dating from about 1800, was given a replica ceiling in 1986.
The guildhall is still used for civil purposes such as official receptions, mayoral banquets, some City Council meetings, other meetings and exhibitions and occasionally as a magistrates' court.
Heraldry.
The main chamber displays on the wooden panelling many heraldic escutcheons displaying the arms of various persons who held high office within the City Corporation, covering much of the heraldry of Devonshire. The heraldry was identified in the "View of Devonshire" by Thomas Westcote (d. circa 1637) and later expanded upon by Colby, Rev. Frederick T., in his "The Heraldry of Exeter".


Grand Hotel Sunny Beach

Grand Hotel Sunny Beach is a 4 stars hotel in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria.
It is located only 20 m from the beach and all rooms include a balcony.
The 14-floor building is the 3rd tallest in Sunny Beach after the Kuban Resort and Aquapark and Hotel Burgas Beach.


Samarkand International Airport

Samarkand International Airport is an airport of entry in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 6 km (3.7 mi) from the city center. The airport is operated by Uzbekistan Airways since the creation of the airline in 1992. The airport has domestic as well as international flights.
Current.
Samarkand International Airport was renovated several years ago. It is recognized as one of the busiest airports in Uzbekistan.
Facilities.
There is one ATM delivering dollars and can change your dollars into soms. Its location is just before the arrivals exit.


Istana Melawati

Istana Melawati is the second national palace of Malaysia's Yang di-Pertuan Agong in Putrajaya after the Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur. It serves as a royal retreat for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
History.
The Melawati Palace is located in Precinct 1, Putrajaya. Construction of the palace began in 1999 and was completed in 2002. It has a resort concept and serves as a retreat for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. The name of the palace was given by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah of Selangor. Melawati literally means guard's tower.
Architecture.
Designed by Raja Kamarul Bahrin, principal of Senibahri Arkitek architectural practice, the palace comprises four main components namely:
Three tall towers form a prominent structure at the side and centre of the palace. These towers represent old guard towers to be found in medieval Malay palaces. The three tiered roofs with intricate eaves details and clay 'buah butong' (appendages at the corners) provides an authentic attempt to replicate Malay traditional roof designs of the east coast. Inside the palace at the main staircase of the Meeting Wing, is a Melawati which is made from chengal wood topped with golden roof.
Interior.
The Royal Wing consists the following components:


Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Moscow

The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Moscow was the largest of a series of cathedrals erected in Imperial Russia in commemoration of Alexander Nevsky, the patron saint of Emperors Alexander II and Alexander III. It was conceived by Alexander Pomerantsev and Viktor Vasnetsov as a 70-metre-tall memorial to Alexander II's Emancipation reform of 1861.
The foundation stone of the votive church was laid on Miusskaya Square (an industrial area in the northwest of Moscow) in 1911, on the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Manifesto, in the presence of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. Construction did not start in earnest until 1913, and the First World War impeded further progress. The first chapel was dedicated to St. Tikhon of Voronezh in 1915.
After the Russian Revolution, the huge 17-domed church capable of accommodating more than 4,000 persons stood unfinished, while the Soviets debated whether to have it reconstructed into a crematory or a radio centre. It was the largest church in Moscow after the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The dilapidated concrete shell was eventually torn down in 1952. A Pioneers Palace was raised on the old foundation in 1960.


House of Artists, Novosibirsk

House of Artists () is a building in Tsentralny City District of Novosibirsk, Russia. It is located on Romanov Street. The house was built in the 1930s. Architects: B. A. Gordeyev, S. P. Turgenev.
Location.
The building is located in a city block between Krasny Avenue and Romanov, Frunze, Michurin streets.


Rafael Cabrera Mustelier Airport

Rafael Cabrera Mustelier Airport or Rafael Cabrera Airport () is an airport serving Nueva Gerona, the capital city of the Isla de la Juventud special municipality in Cuba.
Facilities.
The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 05/23 is and 17/35 is .


Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Thessaloniki Concert Hall () is a centre for the performing arts in Thessaloniki, Greece. It opened in 2000 on land donated by the Greek state. The complex has two main buildings: M1, with an auditorium that seats 1400; and M2, in more contemporary style by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, with a number of smaller performance spaces.
Artistic director of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, whose three-year term begins on January 1, 2021, is Christos Galileas, associate professor of violin at Georgia State University.


Embassy of Colombia, Quito

The Embassy of Colombia in Quito is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Colombia to the Republic of Ecuador; it is headed by the Ambassador of Colombia to Ecuador. It is located in the parish of La Floresta in Quito, precisely at Avenida 12 de Octubre N24-528 at the intersection of Avenida Luis Cordero, on the 14th floor of Tower B of the World Trade Centre.


Petrus en Pauluskerk

The Petrus en Pauluskerk () is a church in Loppersum, Netherlands. It is a "rijksmonument" and in the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.


Pape Lighthouse

The Pape Lighthouse (Latvian: "Papes bāka") is a lighthouse located on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea.
History.
The lighthouse was built in 1910; in a place of a former lighthouse (which existed since 1887); on the southernmost tip of Latvia's coast to the Baltic Sea. During its early existence (up until the end of World War I), the lighthouse was known as a "boundary beacon" - as the lighthouse guided ships to the port of Liepāja, on the border of the Russian Empire and Prussia. The current lighthouse is a tube-like cylinder, supported by a riveting iron construction. Currently the lighthouse is closed to visitors, although Emilis Melngailis - a famous Latvian composer, stayed overtnight during his folklore expedition.


Santa Ana Airport (Solomon Islands)

Santa Ana Airport is an airport on Santa Ana, an island in the Makira-Ulawa Province in the Solomon Islands. The airport has scheduled flights provided by Solomon Airlines, using DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft.


Sanlam Centre

The Sanlam Centre is a building in downtown Windhoek, Namibia. Located on Independence Avenue, the building was built in 1990, the same year as Namibia's independence. It has 15 floors and 28,000 m2 of floor space. The German, Swedish and Venezuelan embassies are located in the building. as is the American Cultural Center, an extension of the United States embassy in Namibia. It is named after South Africa-based Sanlam Ltd.