Round Hill Hotel and Villas

The historic Round Hill hotel and villa resort near Montego Bay in Hopewell, Hanover, Jamaica opened in 1952. It is located on a peninsula that was originally a sugar plantation and subsequently changed to coconuts and allspice. It has entertained many celebrities and politicians including John F. Kennedy, Ralph Lauren, Paul Newman and Bob Hope. Ian Fleming was a frequent guest at Round Hill during his time in Jamaica.
History.
Round Hill was conceived by John Pringle as a private haven for celebrities. Twenty-nine acres of the estate's land were set aside for the resort. Investors supplied money to build a hotel, and built their own cottages on the site. Shareholders have included Noël Coward, Adele Astaire, Bill Paley, Oscar Hammerstein, and Clive Brook.
Round Hill has been host to the "Sugar Cane Carnival," a fundraising event for a Jamaican charity, for over 50 years.
In popular culture.
Scenes from the American movie "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" were filmed in Cottage 11.
A collection of Jonathan Routh paintings is on display throughout the property. Jonathan stayed at Round Hill frequently and painted scenes depicting Round Hill.
Scenes from "In Like Flint" starring James Coburn were filmed at the hotel in the summer of 1966.
Round Hill was featured on the finale of "The Amazing Race 7" with the final three teams finishing the first half of the episode at Villa 16.


Camaxilo Airport

Camaxilo Airport is an airport serving Camaxilo in Lunda Norte Province, Angola. The runway is south of the village.


Lakunai Airfield

Lakunai Airfield, later known as Rabaul Airport; was an aerodrome located near Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It was located at the foot of Tavurvur volcano, near Matupit Island. The airport was destroyed by the 1994 eruption that destroyed the town of Rabaul and subsequently a new airport was built and opened at Tokua, on the opposite side of the Rabaul caldera. The former airport was located at .
World War II.
The airfield was constructed by the Royal Australian Air Force as an emergency landing strip for Vunakanau Airfield and consisted of an unpaved 4,700 foot single runway during World War II. The airfield was captured during the battle of Rabaul in 1942 by the Imperial Japanese and was extensively modified and expanded. Lakunai was later neutralized by Allied air bombing from 1944.
Post-War and Subsequent Destruction.
After World War II, it was used as a civilian airport until 1994, when a Volcanic eruption occurred at Tavurvur volcano at which the airport was located at. The airport was covered in ash and destroyed, this led to a new airport being built for Rabaul.


Hotel Club Akumal Caribe

Hotel Club Akumal Caribe is a resort located along the shore of Akumal Bay (62 miles south of Cancún), in the Caribbean tourism district referred to as the Riviera Maya in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The resort is still owned, at least in large part, by the Pablo Bush family who founded Akumal itself, a diving town established in the 1950s. Considered the first resort in Akumal, Hotel Club Akumal Caribe remains an independent, family-run hotel. The resort's symbol, a tribal depiction of a turtle, comes from the meaning of the mayan word "Akumal," which popularly translates to "place of the turtles." This choice of symbol reflects the year-round presence of green turtles and Hawksbill turtles in Akumal Bay.
External links.
Hotel Akumal Caribe website


List of tallest buildings in Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu in northern Borneo of Sabah is one of the main cities of Malaysia, being one of the important economic centre for East Malaysia. Formerly known as Jesselton under the British protectorate of North Borneo and its successor the Crown Colony of North Borneo under the Crown colony government of the United Kingdom, the city has been undergoing rapid development ever since its devastation through the World War II bombings where only three buildings were left standing. The city urbanised area today encompasses the wide area of Greater Kota Kinabalu which goes beyond the city boundary on the south side into two West Coast districts of Penampang and Putatan, and to a lesser but growing extent into the districts of Papar (38 kilometres to the south) and Tuaran (34 kilometres to the north). Based on the skyscrapers list released by Emporis, the city currently has a total of 20 skyscrapers.


Nakhchivan State University

Nakhchivan State University (NSU) (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Dövlət Universiteti) is a public university located in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. Founded in 1967 as a part of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, in 1990 it became the Nakhchivan State University. It has 703 faculty members and currently enrolls 35000 students. In 2003, NSU, in conjunction with George Soros' Open Society Institute - Assistance Foundation opened an Education-Information Center on the NSU campus to develop areas involving education, information and law.
History.
Nakhchivan branch of Azerbaijan Pedagogical University was founded in 1967. Only 102 students were permitted to tuition. Back then, only 3 people were employed in Nakhchivan branch.
In 1972 Nakhchivan's branch became independent, and in 1990 transformed into Nakhchivan state university.
According to the decree of the ex-president of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, the university received a status of self-government and independence in 2002.
Affiliations.
The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association.
NSU also affiliates with 3 international projects within the TEMPUS program. Starting from 2012 NSU affiliates with Erasmus-Mundus international program. NSU is a member of the Association of Asian Universities, the Union of Universities of the Caucasus region, Club of European Rectors, the Union of Universities of the Black Sea basin countries.
Awards and international activity.
For the active development of international relations, success in the field of science and education, Nakhchivan State University has been awarded the title of the “Millennium University” by the Club of European Rectors.
The team of the University Student Free Business Association as a champion of Azerbaijan in 2010 took part in world championships in the US in 2010 and in Malaysia in 2011.
Play which was set by the University of the Operetta's students, "Arshin Mal Alan" was successfully shown in Novosibirsk (Russia), in Erzurum, Samsun, Kars, Ardahan, the Black Sea Technical University (Turkey), in Akhaltekhinsky University (Georgia). The University football team, becoming in 2008 and 2010 the country's champion among university teams, represented our country in Ukraine and Poland.


Leopolis Hotel

Leopolis Hotel is a hotel in Lviv, Ukraine opened in 2007. It was twice selected in the World Travel Awards as the best hotel in Ukraine.
It was initially opened occupying just one building and featuring 43 rooms and suites. It was subsequently expanded by incorporating two neighbouring buildings and increasing its room count to 72.


The Administrative and Research Centre for the Kurtna Experimental Poultry Farm

The Administrative and Research Centre for the Kurtna Experimental Poultry Farm is one of the major works of Estonian architect Valve Pormeister. Located in Kurtna, Harju County, Estonia and built in 1966, it is the first example of modern architecture in a rural setting and marks the emergence of a new type of modern scientific institution building. It became a model building that was set up as an example for others.
Style.
Kurtna center started the period of "cornice architecture" with Finnish influence together with another Valve Pormeisters work Café Tuljak (1964) that lasted for about 10 years.
The main building, that is placed in the landscape with sensitivity and skill, consists of a two-storey two-way corridor system office side and a single-storey connection to the main fan-shaped auditorium hall. The walls are stacked with red bricks with a clean joint, the window blinds are black, crocheted with thin frames. The white cornices highlight the modern horizontality. A lot of elegant details are added to the overall impression, such as the transparency of the house at the entrance, and the lounge area with a fine furnishings in front of a fireplace lowered to the wall, the balancing verticality of the white chimney. Open staircase leads to the second floor. There were scientific rooms, laboratories, library and guest rooms. The main auditorium follows the free flowing space desire introduced by Alvar Aalto. Interior design was made by Vello Asi and Väino Tamm, two leading interior architects of Estonia during that period.
The building together with its surroundings received Soviet Estonia award in 1967.


Natural History Museum of Geneva

The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: "") is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum.
The museum also contains a collection of intricate glass models of invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and a two headed tortoise named Janus


M-Palace

M-Palace () is a high-rise building in Brno, Czech Republic.
The building is 60 meters high and it is one of the tallest buildings in Brno.
The building consists of a sixteen-floors tower and two-floors building.
The tower is mainly used for offices and in the two floors building is a shopping mall.
There is a restaurant on the top floor of the tower with a panoramic view of the city.
Construction of the building was started in 1994 and the building was opened in 1997.
The building is located on Heršpická street.
In the near of the building are located AZ Tower and Spielberk Towers.


Seelisberg Tunnel

The Seelisberg Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland. The tunnel links Beckenried, in the canton of Nidwalden, with Seedorf, in the canton of Uri, running under the mountains that form the south shore of Lake Lucerne. It forms part of the A2 motorway between Basel, on the border with Germany and France, and Chiasso, on the border with Italy. Completed in 1980, the twin bores of the tunnel are and in length.
After the Gotthard Road Tunnel, this is Switzerland's second-longest road tunnel but unlike the Gotthard Tunnel which crosses the Alps completely north to south, the Seelisberg Tunnel is situated only in the northern side of Alps. The Seelisberg tunnel can be considered to be the longest Swiss Road tunnel with split traffic (Southbound in one bore, and Northbound in another one).
Proponents for a second Gotthard Road Tunnel bore refer to the Seelisberg Tunnel, which they claim, due to split traffic, results in not only smoother traffic, but blocked traffic only on one side in the case of an accident inside the tunnel. However, opponents of the second Gotthard Road Tunnel have indicated that such measure would severely hinder the strategy of the transfer of marchandise from road to rail.
Furthermore, in terms of safety, it might be worth noticing, that despite the fact that the Seelisberg Tunnel, is much shorter in length (9 km) as opposed to the Saint Gotthard Tunnel (16 km) and that it carries far less traffic than the Saint Gotthard Tunnel, according to the Swiss Federal statistics, more than double of the accidents have occurred in the Seelisberg Tunnel than the Gotthard Tunnel.
Furthermore, since the death toll in both tunnels seems to be comparable by federal statistics which indicate a death toll of one death per 104 million vehicles kilometers in the Saint Gotthard Tunnel as opposed to one death per 111 million vehicles kilometers in the Seelisberg tunnel, this measure cannot be justified on the basis of safety. To this date it might be worth noticing that there is no split traffic road tunnel that crosses the European alps.


Chiswick House School

Chiswick House School forms part of a co-educational establishment in Malta, catering for children between two and eighteen years.
Chiswick is also proposing to build a new school on virgin land in Pembroke, Malta.


Hochschule Wismar

The Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design (or short: University of Wismar), is the third-biggest and third-oldest public university in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The university is situated at the Baltic coast in the very north of Germany with its campus being only away from the harbor. The university was founded in 1908 as an engineering academy and has become an important part in the city's cultural life.
Academics.
Since 2007 the university has been restructured and has now 3 faculties reflecting the three subjects in its name: technology, business and design:
The university offers more than 50 courses, including distance learning courses via its subsidiary WINGS-university. Some courses in Maritime Studies are offered in cooperation with the European Cruise Academy. Most courses lead to a bachelor's degree after 3-3.5 years or a master's degree after another 1.5–2 years. Students with a master's degree (5 years of study) qualify for pursuing a PhD.
International Cooperations.
The University of Wismar collaborates with 141 partner universities from 45 countries, including:


Rubondo Airstrip

Rubondo Airstrip (TCAA designation: TZ-0023) is an airstrip serving Rubondo Island National Park in the Geita Region of northern Tanzania. The mostly uninhabited game reserve island is in the southwestern tip of Lake Victoria.


Prisons in South Africa

Prisons in South Africa are run by the Department of Correctional Services. According to the ministry, there are approximately 34,000 employees of the department running 240 prisons. In those prisons are nearly 156,000 inmates as of August 2013. The prisons include minimum, medium and maximum security facilities. Since 2019, the Minister of Correctional Services has been Ronald Lamola
Notable former South African prisoners.
During the Apartheid era, many political activists were imprisoned for campaigning against the government. These include: ANC freedom fighters such as Nelson Mandela (1962-1990), Walter Sisulu, (1963-1989), Govan Mbeki (1963-1987), Raymond Mhlaba (1963-1989), Tokyo Sexwale (1977-1990) and many others. A notable recent inmate was Annanias Mathe, a serial killer, the only person to escape from the maximum security prison C Max in Pretoria.
Notable current and former prisons in South Africa.
Notable prisons include:


Andorra la Vella Heliport

Andorra la Vella Heliport is a heliport located in Andorra la Vella, the capital city of the Principality of Andorra.
There are two other heliports in Andorra, at La Massana and Arinsal.
There are no scheduled passenger flights to these heliports, but it is possible to book taxi flights from Barcelona airport or Toulouse airport for fixed prices. There is no airport in Andorra. The nearest one is Andorra–La Seu d'Urgell Airport in Spain around 12 km from the border, however having no or limited scheduled flights.


Royal Dokmaideng Hotel

Royal Dokmaideng Hotel is a hotel in Vientiane, Laos. It is located on Lanexang Avenue, not far south of Patuxai. Its royal restaurant is furnished classically and the Lobby Bar contains a piano. The hotel is operated by a Taiwanese firm.


Basilica Porcia

The Basilica Porcia was the first civil basilica built in ancient Rome. It was built by order of Marcus Porcius Cato in 184 BC as censor and is named after him. He built it as a space for administering laws and for merchants to meet, against some opposition. It stood to the west of the Curia, on land bought by Cato and previously occupied by shops and private houses. Many trials were held inside the basilica.
It was destroyed by fire after the body of Publius Clodius Pulcher was alit on a pyre in the adjoining senate house in 52 BC. The ruins were probably flattened later that year to build a new building on the site.


Saindak Dam

Saindak Dam is located in the desert of Saindak/Reko Diq, about 50 km away from the Iran border, in Baluchistan, Pakistan.
See also.
List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan


Otjiwarongo Airport

Otjiwarongo Airport is an airport serving Otjiwarongo, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.
The Otjiwarongo non-directional beacon (Ident: OW) is near the in-town location of the former Otjiwarongo Center Airport (closed), southwest of the current airport.


Hotel Marski

Hotel Marski (or Marski by Scandic) is a hotel opened 1962 on Mannerheimintie 10 in Helsinki, Finland.
The hotel was built by Alko-owned Arctia Oy and the nine-storey building with strip windows was designed in 1961 by architect Einari Teräsvirta. The hotel was housed in a residential building built in 1877 by Nikolai Kiseleff and designed by F. A. Sjöström. The name Marski (as well as the street name along which the hotel is located) refers to Marshal Mannerheim.
Hotel Marski was opened on February 1, 1962. At that time, the hotel had 58 rooms located on the sixth and seventh floors of the house. On the lower floors was the restaurant, the department store Otra, which was reached by escalator, and the office space of the Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP). The eighth floor was leased to the oil company Shell. The number of hotel rooms increased in the 1970s and 1990s as the hotel expanded into other buildings in the block. The furniture designers of the hotel and restaurant included Ilmari Tapiovaara.
Hotel Marski was a meeting place for Finland's political elite for a long time, and President Urho Kekkonen, among others, was a regular guest. Until the 1980s, the building housed the M-Club, which was only open to club members. In addition, the building housed the Helsinki International Press Club, founded by the Helsinki Newspaper Association in 1962 or so-called Press club.
In 2010, the property was purchased by Valio Pension Fund, with Alko Pension Fund as the seller. The hotel then had 222 rooms. The hotel was renovated between 2018 and 2019 and reopened in early summer 2019. The hotel now has a total of 363 rooms.
Kahvila 7.01, a cafeteria located on the street level of the hotel, is named after Mannerheim, known as a regular man; Mannerheim reportedly wanted to drink his morning coffee at exactly one minute over seven in the morning.


The Walper Hotel

The Walper Hotel (formerly Walper House and also known as the Walper Terrace Hotel) is a hotel in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The current hotel building was constructed in 1893 for $75,000 after a previous establishment, known as John Roat's Commercial Hotel, burned down in 1892. On 14 March 1983, it received heritage designation by the City of Kitchener under Part IV (Municipal Heritage Designation) of the "Ontario Heritage Act".
In September 2013, the hotel was bought by the Zehr Group, the Perimeter Development Corporation, David Struke and CK Atlantis Ltd. for $4.6 million. The Hotel was renovated in 2016 and reopened in May and June for weddings and in July for guests. The renovation cost $3.5 million.


Secret Sanctuary


Windsor Guildhall

The Windsor Guildhall is the town hall of the town of Windsor, in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated in the High Street, about 100 metres from Castle Hill, which leads to the main public entrance to Windsor Castle. It is a Grade I listed building.
History.
A deed of 1369, now in the possession of Eton College, refers to the "gildaule", and a charter of 1439 states that "pleas happening in the said borough...shall be pleaded and holden in the guildhall there, before the mayor and bailiffs for the time being". Norden's map of 1607 shows a market house in the location of the present guildhall: the main part of it is raised on wooden pillars to allow the space beneath to be used as a covered corn market.
The erection of the present guildhall was begun in 1687, under the direction of Sir Thomas Fitz (Fitch or Fiddes) but the story is that on his death in 1689, the task was taken over and completed by Sir Christopher Wren. The cost of construction was £2687/1s/6d. The new building was supported by stone columns, like its predecessor. This allowed for corn markets to be held in the covered area. It has been told for many years that Wren was asked to insert additional columns to support the weight of the heavy building above; Wren supposedly did not believe they were necessary and made them slightly short, so that they do not quite touch the ceiling. However, there is little evidence that Wren was ever involved with the design or construction of the Guildhall. It is now believed that the story grew out of Wren's connections with Windsor along with the actions of his son, also called Christopher Wren. The junior Wren served as a Member of Parliament for Windsor and commissioned the statue of Prince George of Denmark in 1713 on the south end of the building with his name was engraved underneath. The pillars were probably moved into the corn market from the east side when the extension was added in 1829. The gaps at the top of the pillars are now filled with tiles smaller than the capitals. A statue of Queen Anne was commissioned by the council in 1708 on the north side of the building.
The 1829 extension was a two-storey building at the back of the existing hall, designed by James Bedborough. Major restorations of the building were undertaken in 1851, and, following its use as a food office during the Second World War, again in 1950–1951. The restored building was reopened during the Festival of Britain by Princess Elizabeth. The guildhall was a facility for dispensing justice and Quarter Sessions were held there until 1971.
Since the formation of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in 1974, the guildhall has been used by the borough council for ceremonies and committee meetings. On 9 April 2005, it was the scene of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and on 21 December 2005, it hosted one of the first same sex civil partnership ceremonies to be held in England, that of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. On 12 March 2011, the new Windsor and Royal Borough Museum was officially opened in the Guildhall by Queen Elizabeth II.


Mzumbe University

Mzumbe University (MU; ) is a public university in Mzumbe, Tanzania, near Morogoro. It was established in 2001.
Academic units.
Below are the academic units and their acronyms in brackets respectively;


Pyramid of Neferefre

The Pyramid of Neferefre, also known as the Pyramid of Raneferef, (in ancient Egyptian Netjeri-bau-Nefer-ef-Ra (Divine is Neferefre's power)) is a 25th century BC unfinished pyramid complex built for the Egyptian pharaoh Neferefre of the Fifth Dynasty. Neferefre's unfinished pyramid is the third and final one built on the Abusir diagonal – a figurative line connecting the Abusir pyramids with Heliopolis – of the necropolis, sited south-west of Neferirkare's pyramid.
The pyramid was hastily converted into a square mastaba or primeval mound after Neferefre's early death. In the period between his death and mummification, an improvised, north-south oriented limestone mortuary temple was built on a strip of platform originally intended for the casing of the pyramid. It is unclear who constructed this initial phase of the temple, though clay sealings found in its vicinity suggest that it may have been the ephemeral ruler Shepseskare who commissioned it. During the reign of Nyuserre, Neferefre's younger brother, the temple was expanded twice. In the second phase, built from mudbrick, the temple was significantly extended to the east, a transverse corridor leading to five storage rooms was added, as were ten two-story storage magazines in the northern side of the temple, and, most significantly, a hypostyle hall. It contained twenty-two or twenty-four wooden columns, all lost, and many stone and wooden statues of the ruler, of which fragments have been found. A limestone Statuette of Neferefre is significant among these statues, as it presents a motif previously only known from a single statue of Khafre. The usual elements of an entrance hall, columned courtyard, and five niche statue temple were forgone, though the entrance hall and columned courtyard were added in during the third phase of construction.
South-east of the mortuary temple, a large rectangular mudbrick building was uncovered. This was revealed to be "the Sanctuary of the Knife", an abattoir which was used for the ritual slaughter of animals as offerings for the mortuary cult. The Abusir Papyri preserve an event where 130 bulls were slaughtered during a ten-day festival. By the reign of Teti in the Sixth Dynasty, the abattoir had been bricked up and decommissioned. The mortuary cult of the king ceased activities after the reign of Pepi II, but was briefly revived in the Twelfth Dynasty. From the New Kingdom to the Nineteenth century, the monument was periodically farmed of its limestone. Despite this, the complex remains one of the best preserved of the Old Kingdom. In its substructure, excavators found fragments of a red granite sarcophagus and of Neferefre's mummy, who was found to have died at around twenty to twenty-three years of age. The mastaba tomb of Khentkaus III, likely Neferefre's wife, was discovered near his unfinished pyramid in Abusir. Inside the substructure fragments of a mummy were recovered, which were determined to belong to a twenty-year-old female. Her name and titles were found recorded on "Baugraffiti", including the title "mother of the king". The identity of this king was not found recorded in the epigraphy of her tomb, but most likely refers to either Menkauhor or Shepseskare.
Location and excavation.
Location.
The unfinished pyramid is located south-west of Neferirkare's pyramid in the Abusir necropolis, between Saqqara and the Giza Plateau. It is seated on the Abusir diagonal, a figurative line touching the north-western corners of the pyramids of Sahure, Neferirkare, and Neferefre, and pointing towards Heliopolis ("Iunu"). It is similar to the Giza diagonal which converges to the same point, except that the Giza pyramids are linked at their south-east corners instead. The siting of Neferefre's pyramid gives an indication of its position on a chronological scale. As the third and final pyramid in line on the Abusir diagonal, it follows that it is the third in line of succession following Sahure and Neferirkare. Similarly, it is the furthest of the three from the Nile delta, and thus held the least advantageous position for material transport. A limestone block, discovered by Édouard Ghazouli in the village of Abusir in the 1930s, depicts Neferirkare with his consort, Khentkaus II, and eldest son, Neferefre, further substantiating the chronology.
Early surveys.
The building was noticed during the early archaeological studies of the necropolis of Abusir, but not subject to thorough investigation. John Shae Perring (18351837), Karl Richard Lepsius (18421846), who catalogued the ruins as "XXVI" in his pyramid list, Jacques de Morgan, and Ludwig Borchardt each gave limited attention to the building.
Borchardt carried out a trial excavation at the site, digging a trench into the open ditch that spanned from the north face of the monument to its center. He anticipated that if the tomb was functional, he would encounter the passage leading to the burial chamber. Substructure passages had north-south orientations pointing to the pole star, where Ancient Egyptians believed that the pharaoh would join Re in the sky and remain in the "heavenly ocean" for all eternity. By contrast the burial- and ante- chambers were oriented east-west, and the mummy itself was placed against the western wall with its head pointed north, but facing east. The experimental dig failed to find the passage, leading Borchardt to conclude that the structure was left incomplete and unused. Either by chance or error, Borchardt abandoned the dig whilst perhaps only away from discovering remnants of the passage. As a consequence of Borchardt's decision, the function of the monument and the identity of its owner remained a mystery for seventy years.
Charles University excavations and discoveries.
A definitive assignment of an owner to the pyramid stump was not possible prior to the 1970s. It was speculatively attributed to Neferefre, or the ephemeral Shepseskare, and it was believed that the structure was abandoned before its completion, excluding the possibility of a burial and, consequently, a mortuary cult. Intensive research of the remains began in 1974, by the Czech team of Charles University in Prague. The owner was identified as Neferefre from a single cursive inscription, written in black on a block taken from the corridor. The archaeological excavations of the Czech team continued throughout the 1980s, coming to a halt in 1998.
Mortuary complex.
Layout.
Old Kingdom mortuary complexes typically consist of five main components: (1) a valley temple; (2) a causeway; (3) a mortuary temple; (4) a cult pyramid; and (5) the main pyramid. Neferefre's complex consisted of an unfinished pyramid, comprising a single step that was hastily converted into a mound, and a mortuary temple built in three stages during the reigns of Nyuserre and, possibly, Shepseskare. The valley temple, causeway and cult pyramid were not built.
Main pyramid.
The pyramid's condition created the opportunity for a detailed examination of construction methodology employed by pyramid builders in the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties. In particular, the Czech team were able to test Lepsius' and Borchardt's accretion layer hypothesis – the method used in the Third Dynasty – for the construction of Fifth Dynasty pyramids.
After exploring the Abusir necropolis in 1843, Lepsius developed the hypothesis that the Abusir pyramids were built by layering stone blocks at a ~75° angle against a central limestone spindle on the pyramid's vertical axis. Lepsius justified his hypothesis with the idea that it allowed the pharaoh to expand his tomb gradually over the course of his reign, but if this was the case, then there should be a correlation between regnal duration and pyramid size, yet no such relationship exists. Borchardt, who resurveyed the pyramids between 1902–08, further promulgated the theory after discovering what he believed were accretion layers in Sahure's pyramid. His model of the internal structure of Sahure's pyramid, displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and his published plans for the Abusir pyramids garnered the hypothesis widespread support. The Egyptologists Vito Maragioglio and Celeste Rinaldi examined several Fourth and Fifth Dynasty pyramids in the 1960s, but failed to find any evidence supporting accretion layers, and instead found horizontal layers in the structures of the pyramids they visited, including Userkaf's and Sahure's. In the 1980s, the Czech Abusir Mission were able to thoroughly examine the internal structure of Neferefre's unfinished pyramid. The single completed step contained no accretion layers, and in Miroslav Verner's opinion, mostly likely none of the other Abusir pyramids did either.
At the pyramid site, builders had the ground levelled, and measures for the construction of the pyramid base taken. A large east-west oriented rectangular trench was excavated to form the basis of the pyramid's funerary apartments, and a deep north-south oriented ditch dug to form the corridor leading to those apartments. Two layers of massive limestone blocks were then set onto the prepared site, upon which the pyramid superstructure was to be built concurrently with the substructure.
The pyramid faces were framed by massive grey limestone blocks up to by by in size. The inner chambers and passageway were similarly framed, but using much smaller blocks. The frames were made by horizontally layering four or five courses of limestone, each thick, and bound using clay mortar, with particular attention paid to the mortaring of the corner stones. The pyramid core, between the two frames, was then packed with rubble fill composed of limestone chips, sand, pottery shards, and clay. Only the lowest step of Neferefre's pyramid was completed, before a hasty conversion into a square mastaba or primeval mound – as suggested by its name, "iat" (hill), found in the Abusir Papyri – was made to accommodate his funeral. The single step, about tall, was enclosed by roughly dressed fine white Tura limestone blocks sloped at ~78°. Above the chamber's ceiling, a flat roof terrace was built then covered in a thin layer of clay and gravel, completing the monument. Burial preparations, including mummification rituals, took a prescribed minimum of seventy days. Completion of the pyramid, a project that took years to finish, was therefore impossible.
The Abusir pyramids were thus constructed in a radically different manner to those of the preceding dynasties. This method of construction, albeit less time and resource consuming, was careless and unstable, and meant that only the outer casing was constructed using high quality limestone. Stripped of their valuable casing, their cores were exposed to further human destruction and natural erosion, leaving the Abusir pyramids as ruinous, formless mounds.
Substructure.
The pyramid substructure was accessed from slightly above ground level on the middle of the pyramid's north side. A descending corridor, deflected slightly to the south-east, led to the funerary apartments. The corridor was reinforced with red granite near its terminus, and guarded by a red granite portcullis. In the middle of the corridor was a further security measure in the form of a massive red granite interlocking "jaw[-like]" barrier. A barrier of this type has not been verified in any other building, but appears to have been included due to the lack of protection for the tomb from above. The corridor terminates at an antechamber, with a burial chamber lying further to the west. The rooms are oriented along the east-west axis and each apartment was originally covered by a gabled fine white limestone ceiling. These have been severely damaged by stone thieves quarrying inside the pyramid who had easy access to the chambers from the roof terrace where they dug a ditch and set up a workshop. The pyramid was likely plundered in the First Intermediate Period, and then periodically mined for stone from the New Kingdom through to the nineteenth century.
In spite of the devastation wrought by stone thieves, remnants of the burial have been preserved. Inside the substructure fragments of a red granite sarcophagus, pieces of four alabaster canopic jars, alabaster sacrificial offering containers, and a partial mummy were recovered. The sarcophagus was covered by a convex lid with rectangular end pieces, had body walls thick, and a length of no more than . The red granite build is noteworthy, as Fifth Dynasty sarcophagi were typically made of greywacke. This suggests that Neferefre's sarcophagus was most likely an emergency solution. The mummy remains have been identified as belonging to a twenty to twenty-three-year-old male, probably Neferefre. Blocks from above the gabled ceiling also regularly contain an inscription reading "Hut Neferefre" approximately "Burial area of Neferefre". At the end of the corridor, a block with a date "rnpt sp tpy, ꜣbd 4 ꜣḫt" was uncovered, corresponding to the first or second year of Neferefre's reign, or assuming a biennial census then theoretically a third year, and briefly preceding the interruption of the pyramid construction process.
Mortuary temple.
At the end of the 1970s, with written evidence supporting its existence and a working hypothesis that the tomb was functional, a search was conducted for the mortuary temple of Neferefre's unfinished pyramid by the Czech team. A magnetometric survey of the sand plain on the pyramid's east side revealed a large, articulate, T-shaped mudbrick building buried under the sand. The building was confirmed to be the mortuary temple in the subsequent excavations.
First phase.
According to Verner, the time required for burial arrangements was insufficient for anything more than a small improvised cult structure to be completed. This was built on a wide strip of limestone platform, retained originally for the pyramid's fine white limestone casing. The temple had a simple layout, with an unusual orientation along the north-south axis, and constructed from fine white limestone. Its sole entrance was a low stepped staircase on its south side, that led directly into a vestibule. Here, priests conducted purification rituals prior to entry, as evidenced by a small floor-set basin. The remaining temple comprised three chambers. The largest and most significant was the offering hall, which had a red granite false door and an offering altar. No trace of the false door and only an impression from the altar remains. Beneath the hall's pavement, the heads of a bull and a bird, miniature clay vessels with gray clay lids, and other offerings were found. Flanking either side of the hall were two long narrow rooms, which Verner posits may have hosted the funerary boats. It is unclear who finished the temple after Neferefre's death, but two clay seals bearing the Horus name of Shepseskare, Sekhemkau, were discovered in the vicinity suggesting that it may have been commissioned by him.
Second phase.
In the second phase of construction, during the reign of Neferefre's younger brother, Nyuserre, the temple was significantly extended along its entire length. Constructed predominantly from mudbrick, – a cheaper and less durable alternative to limestone – it had a unique design. The architect was clearly influenced by the predicament of building a royal temple in front of a non-standard, non-pyramid royal tomb to break with custom and improvise. He retained the north-south orientation, but moved the entrance to the centre of the eastern façade, underneath a portico adorned with two white limestone lotus stalk columns. These supported an architrave, upon which a wood floored roof terrace was built.
Typically, the temple would include an entrance hall, open courtyard, and a five niche statue chapel, but these were forgone. Instead, beyond the entrance a transverse corridor led to five storage magazines, which held equipment for the mortuary cult, and – after a minor fire damaged the northern / western temple – one was repurposed to accommodate the ritual burial of two damaged wooden cult boats, apparently adorned with two thousand carnelian beads. The northern sector of the temple contained ten two-story storage magazines, arranged in two rows of five rooms opposite each other, all accessed from a single passage. Their arrangement reflected the five "phyles" of the priesthood that maintained the mortuary cult.
Inside the storage magazines, significant collections of papyri, constituting the third Abusir temple archives, were unearthed. These provide a wealth of information regarding the daily operation of the mortuary cult and life in the Abusir pyramid complexes. Besides the papyri, frit tablets – depicting gods and the king, alongside gold leaf covered hieroglyphic inscriptions –, faience ornaments, stone vessels – variously of diorite, alabaster, gabro, limestone and basalt – flint knives and other remains were also discovered. Particularly significant to Egyptologists is the recovery of a vast quantity of clay sealings bearing the names of kings, officials, temples, palaces, gods and other details, which provide a plethora of information on administrative and economic organisation in the Old Kingdom.
The most significant architectural discovery was made in the southern temple, where, under nearly of sand, a long east-west oriented hypostyle hall with twenty-six wooden lotus columns, arranged in four rows of five columns, was uncovered. Verner states that this was the first discovery of a hypostyle hall from ancient Egypt, which he described as "absolutely unexpected". Its floor was paved with clay, which held the limestone bases of the wooden columns – none of which has been preserved beyond fragments of stucco and polychromatic paint – that supported the approximately high wooden ceiling. The ceiling has not survived, but remnants indicate that it was blue with painted gold stars. Inside the hall, numerous fragments of statues – diorite, basalt, limestone, red quartzite and wood – of Neferefre, and six complete portraits were recovered. The stone statues were between and tall. One such statue represented Neferefre seated upon his throne with a "hedj" mace grasped against his chest, a uraeus (originally) on his head, and with the outstretched wings of Horus protecting him from behind. Previously, this motif had been known to exist only from a single diorite statue of Khafre recovered from his valley temple in Giza. Fragments of life-size wooden statues of Neferefre and smaller wooden statues of bound and kneeling enemies of Egypt (Asiatics, Libyans and Nubians) were also found.
Third phase.
During Nyuserre's reign, a further reconstruction of the temple was undertaken. It was further enlarged eastward, and an open columned courtyard, an entrance hall and a new columned entrance were added. A pair of limestone papyri-form columns adorned the new entrance, while twenty-two or twenty-four round wooden columns, possibly imitating date-palm trees, adorned the columned courtyard. No trace of a stone/alabaster altar, typically found in the north-west corner of the courtyard, has been preserved. The temple acquired the usual T shaped ground plan in the restructure. During the reign of Djedkare Isesi, the columned courtyard became host to simple brick lodgings for the priests of the cult, who were active until Pepi II's reign at the end of the Sixth Dynasty, when the temple was abandoned, and also for a brief period in the Twelfth Dynasty, when the cult was revived.
Sanctuary of the Knife.
South-east of the mortuary temple, a rectangular north-south oriented mudbrick building, built in two phases, was uncovered. The building served as a ritual abattoir in service to the mortuary cult. Temple archive papyri and vessel inscriptions identify it as "the Sanctuary of the Knife", and preserve an event in which 130 bulls were slaughtered at the abattoir during a ten-day festival.
The abattoir had a single, wide entrance in its north side through which cattle, goats, gazelles, and other animals were herded inside. In the north-west of the building was an open slaughterhouse, and in the north-east a butchery where the meat was prepared. There was also a staircase up to the roof terrace, which was perhaps used for drying meats. The remaining abattoir was occupied by storage rooms, which became the only operating area of the building after the third stage of the temple's construction. The abattoir was fully decommissioned and bricked up during the reign of Teti, at the start of the Sixth Dynasty. A Middle Kingdom burial was unearthed in the abattoir, belonging to a hunchbacked – caused by severe tuberculosis of the bone – man called Khuiankh, who had served as one of the last priests of the mortuary cult.
Perimeter wall.
The unfinished pyramid and mortuary temple were surrounded by a massive brick perimeter wall, reinforced with limestone monoliths at its corners.
Conjectural wife's tomb.
The tomb of Khentkaus III, likely a wife of Neferefre, was discovered near his unfinished pyramid in Abusir. She was buried in a mastaba long by wide and with masonry preserved up to a height of . The mastaba superstructure was primarily composed of locally quarried yellow and grey limestone, with a core of mudbrick, limestone debris, and pottery. This was encased in poor quality, unpolished white limestone indicating that construction was abandoned before completion.
Built into the superstructure was an offering chapel containing a vertical shaft leading into the tomb's substructure and burial chamber. Fragments of a mummy were recovered from the shaft, which anthropological analysis revealed belonged to a twenty-year-old female. Her name and titles were found recorded on "Baugraffiti", and included the title of "mother of the king". Although the identity of her child was not found recorded among the epigraphy of the tomb, it is likely that the king being referred to is either Menkauhor or Shepseskare.
Later history.
In the New Kingdom, the mortuary temple was subject to dismantlement from stone quarrying for new projects. The white limestone built first phase of the temple was particularly affected by these attacks. In the hypostyle hall, a mudbrick ramp had been built by stone thieves who left behind vessels and chromatic glass, all dating to the New Kingdom period. Around the same time, a necropolis formed around the Abusir monuments containing the crude wooden coffins of common people, who had seemingly concluded that the shadow of the pyramids was the best final resting place. The cemetery remained active into the Roman period. The Abusir monuments were further dismantled at this time, as their limestone was sought after in lime production. Traces of this activity have been found in Neferefre's temple, particularly in the corridor and funerary apartments. Two limestone blocks from the north-east corner of the pyramid have incised Arabic inscriptions on them, most likely authored by commoner passers-by. The inscriptions were written in Kufic, and one line in Kufesque, dating to the 9th and 10th centuries AD. To the benefit of Neferefre's monument, its condition discouraged tomb robbers from looting the pyramid, allowing it to remain one of the best preserved complexes of the Old Kingdom.


Cairo English School

Cairo English School (CES) is a member of Esol Education, formerly known as Educational Services Overseas Limited (ESOL). CES opened in 2006 and provides British-based international education culminating in Cambridge International Education IGCSE exam and the A-Level and IB Diploma offered as alternatives in the Sixth Form, CES is accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA), British Schools of the Middle East (BSME), and has been an International Baccalaureate (IB) school since April 2010.
Curriculum.
• Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

• National Curriculum of England

• International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE)

• A-Levels

• International Baccalaureate (IB) - IB DP


Zwijnaarde science park

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Thermal power plant Kolubara

Thermal power plant Kolubara is a coal-fired plant in central Serbia located in a village Veliki Crljeni ca. southeast of Belgrade. Operations in it has been started in 1956. Capacity of installed generators reaches 270MW.
Thermal power plant (TPP) Kolubara is one of three TPP's operated by the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) through the company MB "Kolubara", plc (in Serbian: RB „Kolubara“d.o.o.) in the Kolubara coal basin. Next to it there are power plants Nikola Tesla A & B, as well as Morava. All three power plants are using the lignite from the local basin as their fuel. This lignite is mined in four mines. Electricity production of this location reaches 52% of Serbian yearly energy consumption.


Edificio Bel Air

The Bel Air Building is a skyscraper in the town of Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Completed in 1960, it has 26 floors and rises up to . It is the fourth tallest building on the island of Tenerife, after the twin Santa Cruz Towers and Tres de Mayo Avenue Skyscraper, both in Santa Cruz, the island's capital.
Built in 1960, it began as a hotel of American innovation. Twenty years later it became private residential apartments.


Cultural and Conference Center of Heraklion

Cultural and Conference Center of Heraklion (), also Cultural and Conference Center of Crete (Πολιτιστικό και Συνεδριακό Κέντρο Κρήτης), is a centre for the performing arts in Heraklion, Greece. It was inaugurated in 2019 after long debates and planning that exceeded four decades. The complex is built on a plot of 5,670 square meters and has a total area of 28,487 square meters. It has an auditorium that seats 750 and several smaller stages.
Its first Artistic Director is conductor Myron Michailidis.
Venues and facilities.
Additional spaces include administrative offices, guest rooms, workshops, warehouses, dressing rooms, instrument storage rooms, test rooms, VIP rooms, a restaurant, ATM, shops, car parks, etc.


Beverly Theater

The Beverly Theater is a former art-house theater in the Olive corridor commerce area of University City, MO.
History.
In the 1960s, Mid America Theaters owned the building, and showed art-house films. In 1964, it was renamed the Fine Arts.
The theater is currently occupied by a Chinese restaurant.


Kober Bridge

Kober Bridge (, Kubri Kūbir) is a bridge that links the capital Khartoum and the industrial city Khartoum North across the Blue Nile in central Sudan. It is named after the adjacent neighbourhood Kober in Khartoum North and is also called "Armed Forces Bridge".


Vunakanau Airfield

Vunakanau Airfield was an aerodrome located near Vunakanau, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The airfield was constructed as a Royal Australian Air Force aerodrome and consisted of an unpaved single runway during World War II. The airfield was captured during the battle of Rabaul in 1942 by the Imperial Japanese and was extensively modified and expanded. Vunakanau was later neutralized by Allied air bombing from 1944.
The airfield was utilised as an emergency landing strip for Rabaul (former airport) until 1983, however it was no longer needed when the new Rabaul Airport was built at Tokua. The runways are now overgrown.


Old Burnett Heads Light

The Old Burnett Heads Light is an inactive lighthouse which used to be located on the south side of the Burnett River entrance, in Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia. It was relocated to the Burnett Heads Lighthouse Holiday Park. It is one of only two lighthouse surviving to be constructed of timber frame clad with weatherboards, the other being the original Cleveland Point Light.
History.
In the early 1870s Comboyuro Point Light and Cowan Cowan Point Light, two of the lighthouses on Moreton Island were upgraded. A higher tower with a better apparatus was constructed for Comboyuro Point and an improved apparatus was constructed for Cowan Cowan Point. The old apparatus from Comboyuro Point was installed at Cleveland Point Light. The apparatus from Cowan Cowan Point was installed at the old tower from Comboyuro Point, and the tower was installed at the entrance to Burnett River. The date of this installation is given as either 1873 or 1874. Until 1932 it was occupied by a lighthouse keeper. In 1932 the light was converted to acetylene gas (carbide lamp), automated and demanned.
The lighthouse operated until 1971 when it was replaced by the New Burnett Heads Light. It was then relocated about inland into Burnett River and restored. The concrete base and the steps of the lighthouse are still present next to the new tower. The original fifth-order Fresnel lens is still mounted in the tower.
Site operation and visiting.
The site and the lighthouse are managed by the Bundaberg Regional Council. The Burnett Heads Lighthouse Holiday Park is open, but the tower is closed to the public.


The Oriental Hotel

The Oriental Hotel, also known as The Ori and formerly known as the Springwood Hotel, is a heritage-listed pub located in Springwood, a suburb of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
History.
The Springwood Hotel was built in 1878 by Frank Raymond as a long, single-storied, low-browed building with a simple verandah facing the main road.
In 1890 Raymond sold a portion of the land grant that he owned at Springwood to James Lawson who developed the site as a large two storey hotel. It is this building that is listed on the local government heritage register of the City of Blue Mountains. The Oriental Hotel is in a prominent location at the corner of Macquarie Road and Raymond Road. The Victorian origins of the hotel are best seen from Raymond Road where the hipped slate roof, rendered chimneys and vertically proportioned double hung windows are most visible. Facing Macquarie Road the hotel has a two-storey verandah on its main north wing terminated by a hipped front. This composition relates to its Victorian origins, but the verandah has lost its original timber and cast iron structure and the windows have lost their highly decorative surrounds. A two-storey wing to the east, set back from Macquarie Street, was built around the same time as the main wing. The picket fence to Macquarie Street is a reconstruction of the early fence on the site.
Current features.
The pub still operates today, and now also includes a cafe. Bands regularly perform in the pub.


Tapini Airport

Tapini Airport is an airfield serving Tapini, in the Central Province of Papua New Guinea.


Brentford Baths

Brentford Baths is a Grade II listed building at Clifden Road, Brentford, London.
It was built in 1895–96, and the architect was Nowell Parr. The Baths closed in 1990 and later became a residential building.


Giraglia

Giraglia is a French island at the northern tip of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, known for its powerful lighthouse and for the Torra di Giraglia, a Genoese tower, both of which are official historical monuments of France.
The island is part of the commune of Ersa, but there are no settlements on the island. The closest settlements are Tollare, Ersa commune, and Barcaggio, Rogliano commune, on the main island of Corsica.
The Lighthouse.
The Giraglia Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on Giraglia Island, about one mile off Barcaggio on the northernmost tip of Cape Corse. The lighthouse was first constructed in 1573 by the Genovese and has been rebuilt several times since. The current lighthouse was approved in 1838 based on a proposal by Léonce Reynaud and was inaugurated on January 1, 1848. It consists of a cylindrical tower high, with balcony and lantern, rising from the centre of the keeper's house. Initially the light was a flash every 30 seconds, but since 1904 it is a white flash every 5 seconds. The lighthouse is fully automated and controlled by the Marine nationale in Bastia.
Torra di Giraglia.
Construction of this tower began in April 1584. It was one of a series of coastal defences constructed by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to protect against attacks by Barbary pirates.
Giraglia Rolex Cup.
The Giraglia Rolex Cup, an annual keelboat regatta, was named for the island. The race starts in St. Tropez, France, passes through the Îles d'Hyères off the French coast near Toulon, then around Giraglia, and finishes off in Genoa, Italy, a total distance of .


Telefomin Airport

Telefomin Airport is an airport in Telefomin, Papua New Guinea. It was constructed during World War II and is the means of transportation in and out of Telefomin.


Wat Pa Phon Phao

Wat Pa Phon Phao, also Wat Phon Phao, Wat Phonphao, or Wat Phol Phao, meaning "Peacefulness Temple", is a Buddhist temple situated on a hill in the southeast of Luang Prabang, Laos, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang Airport. The temple, a golden stupa, is used as a forest meditation retreat, and was once headed by the abbot Ajahn Saisamut, a noted Lao Buddhist teacher. His funeral in 1992 was one of the largest funeral services Laos had ever seen. The temple has a fine collection of murals, some of them gruesome in nature.


Sennar Airport

Sennar Airport is an airport serving Sennar in Sudan.
Sennar Airport is the most important airport of Sennar, Sudan. It is modern and one of the largest airports of Africa. Sennar Airport is important for people and government of Sudan.


Teck Whye Secondary School

Teck Whye Secondary School (TWSS) is a state co-educational secondary school in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore. It was founded in 1966 at Teck Whye and moved to its current premises in 2002.
History.
In the days before English was the main medium of instruction, it used to offer Chinese-medium and Malay-medium classes as well. The school itself was situated in Jalan Teck Whye for many of years, until it had been relocated to a new building in Teck Whye Crescent, 2002. Under the leadership of former principal, Adrian Cordeiro, the school revamped its school crest, school uniform and school song.
A new principal, Ong Kong Hong, took over at the end of 2009. At the start of January 2014, Edwin Chan (a former Vice Principal of Crescent Girls' School) took over as principal when Ong Kong Hong took up the appointment of Cluster Superintendent at MOE. In 2019, N Sivarajan took over as principal. It is going to be merged with another school in the neighborhood, Choa Chu Kang Secondary in 2023


Kaliningrad Puppet Theatre

The Kaliningrad Puppet Theatre () is a puppet theatre in Kaliningrad, Russia. The building was originally the Königin-Luise-Gedächtniskirche (Queen Louise Memorial Church), popularly known as the Luisenkirche, a Protestant church in Königsberg, Germany.
History.
The Luisenkirche, the first church to be built outside the Königsberg city walls, was named in honour of Queen Louise of Prussia (1776–1810), who was beloved by Königsbergers. Land and funds were donated primarily by the leading tobacco manufacturer Louis Großkopf and his wife, with additional funding coming from the banker and philanthropist Walter Simon, the industrialist Fritz Heumann, and A. Siebert.
The Neo-Romanesque building was designed by the architects Friedrich Heitmann and Franz Krah to serve the residential suburbs of Amalienau, Mittelhufen, and Vorderhufen. Constructed in Amalienau between 1899 and 1901 and dedicated on 9 September 1901, the church was heavily damaged during World War II.
Königsberg became the Soviet city of Kaliningrad after the war, and the Soviet authorities planned to demolish the ruins in the 1960s. However, the architect Yuri Vaganov convinced officials that the building could be converted into a puppet theatre. Renovations were completed in 1976. While the exterior of the building has largely retained its pre-war appearance, the interior has been redesigned to fit the needs of a theatre.


Slangerup Church

Slangerup Church () or St Michael's Church () is an Evangelical Lutheran church located in the centre of Slangerup, Frederikssund Municipality, Denmark.
History and description.
Slangerup Church in its current form was completed in 1588 by architect Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder and master builder Jørgen van Friborg. Another church is mentioned on the site, presumed reused for the building of Slangerup Church.


Korets Castle

The Korets Castle () is a castle built in Korets ca. 1400 by either Prince Theodor Ostrogski or Prince Dymitr Korybut. Its main tower is featured in the town's emblem.
The moated castle on the bank of the Korchyk River was the seat of the princely House of Korets between the 15th and 17th centuries. After the main princely line died out in 1651, Korets passed through inheritance to a junior line of the Czartoryski family. In 1780, Józef Klemens Czartoryski rebuilt the castle to serve as his main residence.
As Józef Klemens had no male issue, the castle was neglected after his death. It burnt down in the wake of the November Uprising in 1832. Over the years the ruins have steadily deteriorated and by the late 20th century have all but disappeared.


York Guildhall

York Guildhall is a municipal building located behind York's Mansion House. It is a Grade I listed building.
History.
The building was constructed as a meeting place for the City's guilds between 1449 and 1459.
Richard III was entertained in the building in 1483 and the guildhall was the venue for the trial of Margaret Clitherow, a catholic martyr, in 1586. it was also the place where a ransom of £200,000 was counted before being given to the Scots in payment for the release of Charles I in 1647 during the English Civil War and Prince Albert, the Prince Consort to Queen Victoria was a guest of honour at a Royal banquet in the building in October 1850. At the north end of the guildhall was a stained glass window painted by Henry Gyles in about 1682.
In 1811 a building, designed by Peter Atkinson the younger as a council chamber, was erected to the south of the original hall (this is now known as "the Atkinson Room"). Then in 1891, another building, designed by Enoch Mawbey, the city surveyor, accommodating a larger council chamber, was built to the north of the original hall (this building is now known as "the Municipal Offices"). The new council chamber was decorated by Kendal, Milne and Co in the 1890s.
The interior of the original building, including the stained glass window was destroyed during a "Baedeker" raid in 1942. After the war the guildhall was rebuilt and a new stained glass window, depicting five aspects of the city's history (architecture, war, civic affairs, commercial trade and religious education), was designed and installed by Harry Harvey of York. The complex was re-opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1960.
Throughout the 20th century meetings of the City of York Council were held in the Guildhall; however, in Autumn 2017, when a programme of restoration work began at the Guildhall, temporary arrangements were put in place for the council to meet in the Citadel on Gillygate.


Black Star Gate

The Black Star Gate is part of the Independence Square now known as the Black Star Square in Accra. It is located at the center of the Square where parades are held. The Black Star Gate is a monument topped by the Black Star of Africa. The five-pointed star represents Africa in general and particularly Ghana itself. It has the inscription “AD 1957” and “Freedom and Justice”.


Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark

The Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling (IMM) is a research and educational center for embedded systems, system on chip systems, software modelling and language based security at the Technical University of Denmark in the Nordic region. It has more than 200 full-time scientists and engineers.


Clontead House

Clontead House is a dwelling in Clontead Beg townland, s east of Coachford village.
During the late eighteenth century, it was the residence of Rev. Simon Davies, Rector of Magourney. The Ordnance Survey name book (c. 1840) refers to Clontead House and demesne being in the southern part of the townland and the property is also named as 'Clontade House'. It is depicted as Clontead House, both in the 1842 and 1901 surveyed OS maps.
It remains a private residence, and is not accessible to the public.


Scuola Svizzera di Roma

Scuola Svizzera di Roma () is a Swiss international school in Rome, Italy.
It was established in 1946. It serves kindergarten until the Swiss matura (after Sekundarstufe II/Liceo/senior high school).


Minor (Tashkent Metro)

Minor is a station of the Tashkent Metro on Yunusobod Line. It was opened on 24 October 2001 as part of the inaugural section of the line, between Ming Orik and Habib Abdullayev.
The station is decorated with columns made of red granite and located at the center of the platform. The walls are decorated with marble dark colors.


Ethiopian National Theatre

The Ethiopian National Theater is a national theater in central Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Overview.
Formerly known as the Haile Selassie I Theater, the hall had begun to be built during the Italian occupation as the Cinema Marconi with some 350 seats. The building was later completed in 1955 for the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee, and expanded to seat 1260 people. The theatre group was founded by the government in the late 1940s, with the main objective of playing Ethiopian songs by soloists accompanied by a modern orchestra.
The Austrian composer Franz Zelwecker became the first director of the National Theater.
The theater is divided into two directorates, one for theater and the other for music. The music directorate includes the Izra Folk Music and Dance Group, Yared Modern Orchestra, Dawit POP Orchestra and String Orchestra.


Edderkoppen Theatre

The Edderkoppen Theatre is a theatre located at St Olavs Plass in Oslo, Norway. The theatre is known for varied entertainment, ranging from comedy to musical shows. From 1967 to 2003 it was called the ABC theatre. Since 2016, it has been known as Edderkoppen Scene.
History.
The theatre premiered on 3 September 1942 at a different venue. It turned out that the theater auditorium was too small, and in 1945 moved to St. Olav's place. Einar Schanke (1927–1992) took over as theatre director and theatrical producer in 1967, and the theater changed its name to the ABC theater. The theater, however, retained its traditions under Schanke's management. In 1992 Schanke died, and Tom Sterri, Ketil Aamodt and Anders Moland took over.
In 1999 the theatre was destroyed by a powerful explosion. A real estate company that owned a nearby hotel purchased the property. The company committed itself at the same time to rebuild the theatre. In autumn 2003, reconstruction had finished, and the theatre was returned to its original name, Edderkoppen. In December 2014, ownership transfers operations to Scandic Hotels and after extensive renovation, opened the stage in May 2016 with a new name; Edderkoppen Scene.
The new building has 600 seats and offers entertainment, dining and accommodation all in the same building. t is also a popular venue for conferences and events. I


Palace of Justice, Bucharest

The Palace of Justice (), located in Bucharest, Romania, was designed by the architects Albert Ballu and Ion Mincu and built between 1890 and 1895. The foundation stone was laid by King Carol I of Romania on October 7, 1890. The façade of the building is adorned with several statues representing allegories: Law, Justice, Justice, Truth, Force, and Prudence; the statues are the work of sculptors Carol Storck and Frederic Storck.
Located on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, the palace houses the Bucharest Court of Appeal, the Sector 5 Court,
the National Union of Romanian Bars, and the Bucharest Bar. Its last major restoration was between 2003 and 2006.
The Palace has 690 rooms with a total area of .


Aqualina Tower

The Aqualina Tower is a residential skyscraper in Punta Pacífica, Panama City.
The building is 210 meters tall and has 63 floors. Its construction was carried out by Fajardo Moreno Arquitectos and Btesh & Virzi Promoción Inmobiliaria, which began in 2005 and finished in 2007. It is one of the tallest buildings in the city, surpassing the 200 meters between the other skyscrapers.


Montheron Abbey

Montheron Abbey is an historic monastery in Montheron near Lausanne in Switzerland. It was established by the Cistercians in 1045. It was closed down in the 16th century. However, the architect William Fraisse redesigned the facade of the church in the Baroque architectural style in 1782.


Auckland Savings Bank Building

The Auckland Savings Bank Building is an historic building located at 260 Queen Street, Auckland CBD. Built in 1884, the premises was formerly owned by the Auckland Savings Bank. In 1977, the building was acquired by the newly-established McDonald's New Zealand and was converted into a fast food restaurant. It was the first McDonald's restaurant in Auckland and only the second in New Zealand (behind Porirua). Much of the facade and interior design have been renovated and preserved.
Architecture.
Designed by Edward Bartley, the facade was inspired by Italian Renaissance palazzi, a style much used by commerce and banking during some eras. It is one of the few remaining buildings on Queen Street that is over a hundred years old.


Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Castelo (Mangualde)

The Nossa Senhora do Castelo Chapel (Portuguese: Capela de Nossa Senhora do Castelo) is a chapel in Mangualde, Portugal. It is currently in the process of being a designated heritage site.


Saint Bernhard Abbey

Sankt Bernhard Abbey () is a former Cistercian nunnery in Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen in Lower Austria.
History.
In 1277, the Cistercian nunnery previously located in Neumelon was relocated onto land in "Chrueg im Pewreich am Teffenbach" (the modern Sankt Bernhard) which Stephan von Maissau had donated for this purpose. He was married to Margarete von Neuhaus, a member of the noble family of Hradec, whose sister was the abbess here in 1285.
The abbey was dissolved in 1580 during the Reformation and in 1586, the building and its grounds were granted to the Jesuit college in Vienna. After the college was in turn dissolved in 1773, the former abbey passed through a number of private hands and began to decay, until it came into the possession of Klosterneuburg Priory in 1852 following the death of the Freiherr von Ehrenfels. In 1947, the abbey church was renovated. In 1961 the chapter house along with the remains of the cloister were removed to Klosterneuburg Priory.


Tufi Airport

Tufi Airport is an airport in Tufi, Papua New Guinea. Built in the 1960s, it is not a World War II airfield.
In order to serve international flights to Cairns the airport is currently being extended.


IES Lope de Vega

The Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Lope de Vega (IES Lope de Vega) is a public high school in Madrid, Spain. It is located in the calle de San Bernardo. It is operated by the regional administration of the Community of Madrid.
History.
The institution was created during the Spanish Second Republic via a decree issued on 26 August 1933. although it was not yet housed at the corner of Calle de San Bernardo with Calle de Daoíz. It was one of the only 3 high schools that remained open in Madrid during the Civil War. The school featured a pro-rebel faculty, constituting a "Nationalist" stronghold in Republican Madrid for the extent of the conflict. It was the only secondary school of those created in the Spanish capital during the second republic which remained undisturbed after the war, as the rest were closed.
Originally housed at a palace in Calle de Manuel Silvela, the high school was briefly located in , returning to Manuel Silvela during the conflict and then moving to its current premises in Calle de San Bernardo in the early 1940s.
The building in San Bernardo (that prior to the installment of the secondary school had housed a Normal school and the Pedagogical Museum) was declared "Bien de Interés Cultural" on 26 March 1999.


Prek Pnov Bridge

The Prek Pnov Bridge is a 996 m bridge that crosses the Tonle Sap River in the Phnom Penh province at Prek Pnov.


National University of Central Buenos Aires

The National University of Central Buenos Aires ("Universidad Nacional del Centro de Buenos Aires") is a public institution of higher learning located in Tandil, a city in the central region of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It was founded in 1974 as part of University of Buenos Aires Professor Alberto Taquini's plan to geographically diversify Argentina's National University system.
Established with the unification of a private school and a campus of the National University of the South, the university includes 10 schools offering 21 undergraduate, 58 graduate, and 19 post-graduate degrees. It maintains secondary campuses in Azul, Olavarría and Quequén.


Puente Blanco

The Puente Blanco () is a historic railway bridge that spans hundred and fifty feet deep and thirty six metres wide gorge across the Quebrada Mala Canyon, near Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. The bridge is the only reinforced concrete bridge in the area and the highest of its kind in Puerto Rico. It was built in 1922 by the American Railroad Company to replace a 1907 steel bridge as part of the construction of the national railway system that connected the island during the first half of the twentieth century. It was built on a concrete platform that held the existing steel bridge without interrupting the passage of the railway. The new bridge could hold two locomotives of 84 tons each. It was designed by Etienne Totti from Yauco who was the head engineer for the company. The bridge was restored by the municipality of Quebradillas, unfortunately as part of the repair the base was widened altering the character of the structure and hindering the view of the bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.


Former Yamauchi Residence

The in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan belonged to the Yamauchi lords of the Tosa Domain. The nagaya of 1864, 33.4m x 5.7m, twin storey, with a hip-and-gable tiled roof, is an Important Cultural Property.


Eastgate Shopping Centre, Johannesburg

Eastgate Shopping Centre is a super-regional shopping centre in Bedfordview, near Bedford Gardens and the Johannesburg city centre in Gauteng.
History.
Eastgate was Johannesburg's first 'super-regional' shopping centre. When it opened in 1979, it was the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere. It remains one of the largest centres in the country, and is the third largest shopping centre in the Gauteng, after Sandton City , and Menlyn Park. The centre lies next to the R24 airport freeway, between the Johannesburg CBD and O. R. Tambo International Airport.
Stores include Woolworths, Edgars, Checkers Hyper, Ster-Kinekor cinemas and Game. A expansion was completed in 2010, which brings Eastgate to over . A few years later, the centre underwent another major redevelopment by Liberty Life to modernise both the retail and office components, which was completed in 2017. To this day, it is managed by Liberty Properties on behalf of the parent company, Liberty Holdings Limited. The centre now is over .
Eastgate Shopping Centre is frequented by over 80,000 shoppers on Saturdays and over 2 million shoppers during an average month. The shopping centre offers Bureau de change facilities. Major retailers include one of the most successful Woolworths in South Africa and a recently refurbished cinema complex. The centre has over 250 stores, which include more than 60 fashion boutiques and 13 jewellers.
Unusual for a single complex, the building straddled the municipal boundaries of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. However, in 2013, the boundary was adjusted by the Municipal Demarcation Board to move Eastgate fully into Ekurhuleni.


V Gymnasium

The Fifth Gymnasium () is a high school in Zagreb, Croatia specialising in science and mathematics. It was opened on 7 November 1938. Today it has about 900 students in 28 classes. It is considered to be the most prestigious gymnasium in Zagreb alongside the XV Gymnasium.
Students have taken part in the International Mathematical Olympiad and the International Chemistry Olympiad, where they have received various medals, and also the International Physics Olympiad.


Chitato Airport

Chitato Airport is an airport serving Dundo, Angola. The runway is northwest of the city.
The Chitato (Ident: CH) and Dundo (Ident: DU) non-directional beacons are located south of the field.
Dundo is also served by the larger Dundo Airport, which is southwest of the city.


Yevpatoria railway station

Yevpatoria-Kurort (, ) is a railway station in Yevpatoria, Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine, but "de facto" under control and administration of Russia.
History.
The line Ostrakova — Evpatoria was opened in 1915 after 4 months of construction. During the Great Patriotic war the wooden station building was burned down. The current building was built in 1953 by architect Alexey Dushkin. In the 1970s and 1980s a locomotive depot, an electric shop, underpass and cash pavilion concourse were built behind the station. In 1974 the first electric train was inaugurated.
Trains.
There are only 4 trains a day that terminate at the station:


Hotel Nutibara

El Hotel Nutibara, is a hotel located in the city of Medellín, in the city center, next to the Parque Berrío station of the Medellín Metro and tourist sites such as the Museo de Antioquia, the Palace of Culture, the Berrío parks and Bolívar, the metropolitan cathedral and the Candelaria basilica.
Its name derives from a chief who inhabited the region, and name six of the lounges are related to Amerindian culture: Bochica, Tairona, Quimbaya, Katío, Bachué, and Nutabe.
The hotel's restaurant is "La Orquídea".
History.
Hotel Nutibara was designed by American architect Paul Williams, who was not well known in Medellín prior to this building. Plans for a hotel in central Medellín were proposed in 1937, and Hotel Nutibara was established in 1945.
History book on Hotel Nutibara
The idea of its foundation began in 1936, when Medellín had only 150,000 inhabitants. By then, the Assembly of Antioquia, through Ordinance number 10, authorized the governor of the Department, Alberto Jaramillo Sánchez, to promote the construction of the work that would translate the ideals of the "Company of the Hotel Nutibara SA", on April 22, 1936 .
Four years later, in September 1940, the demolition of the buildings built on the grounds for the Hotel and another five more began. On July 18, 1945, the Nutibara Hotel was inaugurated.
"The Nutibara Hotel is an example of all the modernist architecture of the 1940s, which predates the architecture of the modern movement, in which the city developed with expressions such as the American art deco by Paul Williams, which marks its aesthetics and its form. The Europa Hotel already existed, which shows that there was an opening towards tourism, but the elites of the city believed that it was not adequate, that a more modern one was needed, that it had the capacity to offer and greater aesthetics ", Luis Fernando González Escobar, director of the School of Habitat of the National University of Colombia, Medellín, reports.
Memories and stories
As of its opening, famous guests arrived at the Hotel Nutibara: "Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Alfonso López Michelsen, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Débora Arango, Belisario Betancur, Eduardo Santos, Gabriel García Márquez", are some of the names of its current manager, Laura Sierra, who also remembers the visits of "Andrés Cepeda, Pelé, Willie Colón and Chavela Vargas".
"Currently celebrities are still visiting us. For example, Los Visconti, Tormenta y Bárbara, singers, as well as other guests who have been loyal to the Hotel for 40 years, "says Sierra.
In that perspective, the representative of artists Manuela Villada Pérez says that "when we sometimes make contracts with stars that came to Medellín in decades like the 60s, 70s and 80s, they ask us to be hosted in Nutibara, they describe it as a jewel".
The surroundings of the Hotel have memories for many, as is the case of Miguel Ángel Betancur, who in his stories tells that his father, the sculptor Jorge Horacio Betancur, "together with the teacher Rafael Sáenz, took his students to an open-air school in Plazuela Nutibara, seeking support from government entities, approached art, that place was very important ".


Tanga Island Rear Range Lighthouse

The Tanga Island Rear Range Lighthouse is located in the northeastern city of Tanga in Tanzania.


Old Tanga Secondary School

Old Tanga Secondary School is a school in Tanga, Tanzania. It was built by the German colonial authorities in the 1890s as the first formal government school in Tanganyika - the mainland part of present-day Tanzania.
The Tanga Heritage Centre restored the main building of this school with funds solicitated from the German Government.


Kikoboga Airstrip

Kikoboga Airstrip is an airstrip serving the Mikumi National Park in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania.


Buenos Aires Stock Exchange

The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (BCBA; ) is the organization responsible for the operation of Argentina's primary stock exchange located at Buenos Aires CBD. Founded in 1854, it is the successor to the "Banco Mercantil", which was created in 1822 by Bernardino Rivadavia.
Citing BCBA's self-definition: "It is a self-regulated non-profit civil association. At its Council sit representatives of all different sectors of Argentina's economy."
The most important index of the stock market is the MERVAL (from "MERcado de VALores", "stock market"), which includes the most important papers. Other indexes are "Burcap", "Bolsa General" and "M.AR.", and currency indicators "Indol" and "Wholesale Indol".
The Stock Exchange's current, Leandro Alem Avenue headquarters was designed by Norwegian-Argentine architect Alejandro Christophersen in 1913, and completed in 1916. A modernist annex was designed by local architect Mario Roberto Álvarez in 1972, and inaugurated in 1977.


National Temple

The National Temple is the worship Centre at the convention ground of The Apostolic Church Nigeria located in Olorunda-Ketu, Lagos State. It has 100,000 capacity seats.
History.
In 1969, the annual Lagos, Western and Northern Areas (LAWNA) Convention which was usually held in Ebute Metta was moved to Orishigun, a town in Ketu due to rapid rate of increasing converts. In 1970, the Convention was moved to the present location in Olorunda-Ketu and 1976 annual Conventions started holding place in what is now known as the Old Convention Hall.
In 1979, the first LAWNA Territorial Chairman, late Pastor S. G. Adegboyega laid the foundation of what was to be the National Temple. In 1994, late Pastor Samuel Jemigbon made rapid progress in the construction of the structure in his tenure as third LAWNA Territorial Chairman.
The National Temple was completed on 19 November 2011 under the pastorship of Pastor Gabriel Olutola who described it as "the House built with prayers" and "a symbol of the church's unification." It has a capacity of 10,000 seats.


Chacarita Airport

Chacarita Airport is an airport serving the town of Chacarita in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Chacarita is on the Pacific coast at the base of the Puntarenas peninsula, just east of Puntarenas city.
The runway parallels the Gulf of Nicoya shoreline, inland. The El Coco VOR-DME (Ident: TIO) is located east of the airport.


San Salvador Airport

San Salvador Airport , also known as Cockburn Town Airport, is an airport in San Salvador, Bahamas.
Overview.
San Salvador International Airport is one of the few airports in the Bahamas that has Instrument rating landing for aeroplanes, and as a result aircraft can now land at ZSA after official sunset (with local civil aviation permission). Bahamas Customs and Immigration is present at ZSA between normal working hours of 9am-5pm. The main carrier at ZSA is the national flag carrier Bahamasair, which has daily flights to and from Nassau. Club Med, a major hotel on the island, also has charter jet service flights direct from Paris, Montreal and New York. As of May 18, 2015 FBO and handling services is provided by Odyssey Aviation (San Salvador). The development include a 1,200 sq feet FBO and a 25,000 gallon Jet A-1 fuel storage facility.


Connetable (Gatchina)

Connetable () — obelisk and square in Gatchina, placed on the cross of 25 October prospect (main city's street) and Krasnoarmeysky prospect. Probably the author of the project was Vincenzo Brenna.


Teatro dos Sete

Teatro dos Sete is a theatre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Founded in 1959 by Gianni Ratto, it has featured actors such as Fernanda Montenegro, Sérgio Britto, Ítalo Rossi, and Fernando Torres.


Kaunas Lutheran Holly Trinity Church

Kaunas Lutheran Holly Trinity Church () is a Lutheran church in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. It is one of the first Lutheran churches in Kaunas, built in 1683.


Lviv Town Hall

The city of Lviv, Ukraine has had a series of town hall buildings since approximately 1357. These have for centuries been recognized landmarks of the community. The modern building located at Market Square, 1 is the residence of the Lviv City Council. It is included into a UNESCO World Heritage list.
Medieval Town Hall.
The first town hall in Lviv appeared shortly after the city government rights (Magdeburg rights in 1357). The building was made of wood and soon it burned down (1381). After the fire the construction of a stone town hall was started. By the end of the middle age the Lviv city hall was a conglomeration of buildings. The middle part of the building was its oldest part, dating from the 14th century. The western part was built in the years 1491–1504. The dominant feature of the composition was the tallest tower, topped by a mannerist shako (1619, architect A. Bemer ).
Modern building.
A new tower was laid in 1827 and built between 1830 and 1835 following a Viennese Classical style. Authors of the project were architects: Alois Wondraszka, Jerzy Glogowski, Joseph Markl and Franz Trescher. The City Hall is a four-story building with a patio, and features a town hall clock tower.
In 1848, during the revolutionary events in Lviv city center the original clock tower collapsed. In 1851, the building was repaired.
Since 1939, the building has been housing the Lviv city council.
Since 2000, the Town Hall and its tower is open for entrance.


Le Parc Tower

Le Parc Tower is a high-rise building located at the block bounded by Avenida Cerviño, Gody Cruz, Demaria and Fray Justo Santamaria de Oro in the neighborhood of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This luxury residential structure developed between 1991 and 1995 by RAGHSA SA was designed by Mario Roberto Álvarez and Associates. 51 floors and 158 meters (518 feet) tall, it was the tallest residential building in the country between its completion in 1995 and the completion of the first of two El Faro towers in 2003.


Robe Airport

Robe Airport is an airport in the town of Bale Robe, Ethiopia. It also serves the nearby town of Goba.


Gabo Island Lighthouse

The Gabo Island Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on Gabo Island, Victoria, Australia.
History.
In 1846 begun the works to erect a lighthouse on the island but the fund were sufficient only to excavate the foundations. The first island lighthouse was a wooden tower built in 1853; the current tower was completed in 1862. It is made from pink granite quarried from the island itself. The lighthouse is Australia's second tallest.
In 1917 the light was fitted with an incandescent kerosene mantle; then was upgraded in 1935 with the mains power by diesel generator and the 1,000 watt halogen lamp producing an intensity of 900,000 candela.
The focal plane of the light is situated at above sea level, the characteristic is a group of three flashes that occurs every twenty seconds. A keeper's house is occupied by a caretaker; another building may be rented for overnight stays.


Killursa

Killursa is a medieval church and National Monument in County Galway, Ireland.
Location.
Killursa is located west of Headford.
History.
A monastery was established here in the 7th century by Saint Fursey (Fursa).
The church on the current site dates from the 12th or 13th century, although the southwestern part is thought to be even older. It fell out of use around the 15th century.
Description.
The church is rectangular with mullioned Late Gothic window and trabeate doorway.


Owl (sculpture)

The Big Powerful Owl is a sculpture eight metres tall, designed by Bruce Armstrong and located in the Belconnen District of Canberra, Australia.
Built in 2011, it is one of the 150 megasculptures of Australia, with this being one of the eight in the ACT.
Criticism.
The shape of the owl has spared some criticism however, remained a great tourist attraction from all over Australia.
The statue has also been prone to graffiti and the ACT government had to spend A$3000 on cleaning it up.


Herz-Jesu-Kirche

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche () is the largest church in Graz, Austria. It was designed down to the last detail by architect Georg Hauberrisser and constructed from 1881 to 1887.
The church was designed in the Neogothic style, with a large, high nave and under-church. The tower is 109.6 meters tall, making it the third-highest church tower in Austria. Of special note are the stained glass windows, which are among the few extant examples in Austria of Neogothic stained glass.
The altar area was remodelled in 1988 by Gustav Troger, just after the centenary of the church. Apart from that, everything is still according to the architect's concept.


CentralPlaza Chiang Mai Airport

CentralPlaza Chiangmai Airport, also known as Central Airport Plaza, is a shopping mall in Mueang District, Chiang Mai. The shopping malls was established as Tantraphan Airport Plaza () in 1987. Central Pattana takeover and re-branded the shopping mall to Central Airport Plaza in March 1996.
Anchors.
CentralPlaza Chiangmai Airport The shopping mall has five floors.


Bank of New Zealand Te Aro branch building

The Bank of New Zealand Te Aro branch building is an historic building on the corner of Manners and Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
The building, designed by William Turnbull (son of Thomas Turnbull), is one of Wellington's earliest reinforced concrete and steel structures. It features Corinthian columns and ornate projecting cornice. It was refurbished in the early 1980s.
The building, classified as a "Category I" ("places of 'special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value'") historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, now houses a fast-food restaurant.


Avenue Theatre (San Francisco)

The Avenue Theatre was a movie theater in San Francisco that operated from 1927 until 1984.
History.
The theater opened on July 20, 1927, built and operated by four Levin brothers who owned other theaters in the area. It was located in the Portola neighborhood. The theater ran promotions wherein patrons could collect dinnerware, one piece at a time, on a weekly basis. Management changed in the mid-1960s, when the Lyric Photoplay Film Society, under Edward Millington Stout III, took over. In 1966 the Society installed a Wurlitzer theater organ of 3 manuals and 16 ranks, which had originally been the organ at the State Lake Theater in Chicago. The first show utilizing the "new" organ took place on October 7, 1966, screening "The Lost World" and featuring Tom Hazelton on the console. The theater then began showing an eclectic assortment of films, including foreign films, re-runs of three-dimensional films and silent films (for which the organ was utilized).
Lyn Larsen was staff organist for the next two years, 1967 through 1968. Bob Vaughn began as organist in 1968, and remained the organist at the Avenue until it closed. The American Theatre Organ Society featured this organ in its 1975 and 1983 national conventions. The theater developed a loyal following, but crime from the surrounding area eventually kept patrons away. The theater closed on December 22, 1984 amid financial difficulties. Before the organ was placed in storage, an album by Jim Riggs entitled "Top Hat" was recorded on it.


Ragged Staff Gates

Ragged Staff Gates are a set of city gates in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. They are located between South Bastion and Ragged Staff Guard, opposite the Navy Boat Sheds.
History.
It took some time for Ragged Staff Gates to reach their current size. They open access through the section of the Line Wall Curtain immediately south of South Bastion across the Southport Ditch.
A contractor to the Victualling Yard built a wharf roughly long where goods were delivered via steps and a drawbridge. This was known as the Ragged Staff Couvreport. The first gate at Ragged Staff was cut through the defensive wall in 1736. The new gates led to what was known as Ordnance Wharf which projected in front of the Dockyard's North Gate. Behind the gate there was an enclosure defended by soldiers in its guardroom. The flank position had three embrasures in its parapet but appears to have only mounted two guns in 1779.
The nearby Ragged Staff Guard house could be seen by approaching ships. In the 1840s it was said to be a full-time job for the subaltern who had to inspect all the goods that went through the gates. The gates for pedestrian passage were cut through on both sides of the main gates in 1843 and in 1921.
There is debate but no conclusion over the origin of the name "Ragged Staff". One of the possibilities is that it came from the symbol for Morvidus who was a legendary Earl of Warwick. He fought and killed a giant using an uprooted tree, hence the symbol of a ragged staff, but there is no consensus.


Zurmala Stupa

Zurmala stupa is a remnant of the largest Buddhist stupa located in Termez district in Uzbekistan. It is considred to be the oldest construction still standing in Uzbekistan. It was build in the first or second century CE.
The stupa is 13.5m tall and has a diamter of about 14 m. It is made up of square square bricks. Each of the bricks has a stamp which is similar to one used in Bactria during the Kushan Empire in 3rd century AD. The fragment of klined bricks can also be found around the stupa. It is believed that the exterior facade of the stupa was painted a bright red colour. Currently, the stupa has huge cracks around it.
History.
The early information about the stupa can be found in the diaries Xuan Jian, a Chinese buddhist priest who visited Termez in 629-
630. According to him, there were more than 10 monasteries in Termez and more than 1000 monks. He mentioned that there were many stupas in the area. The study by A.S. Strelkov in 1926–1928 in the expedition by the Oriental Museum of Moscow and the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, noted the similarity with the description of Xuan Jian. Later, M.E. Masson organized an expedition to understand the general features of these monuments.


North Mole Elbow Battery

The North Mole Elbow Battery was an artillery battery situated on Gibraltar's Old Mole (now the North Mole), at the point where the mole turns north. It is recorded as mounting three 12-pdr guns in 1903. It mounted a Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun during the Second World War along with a 6-pdr gun on a twin mounting for coastal defence purposes. At the end of the mole, another 6-pdr gun was installed on a twin mounting.


Monument to the Independence of Uzbekistan

The Monument to the Independence of Uzbekistan is a Tashkent monument made in honor of the independence of Uzbekistan. At the top of the monument is a metal sphere ornamented with an ornamental pattern, on which a map of Uzbekistan is depicted. Wreath-laying ceremonies are regularly held at the pedestal of the monument on national holidays and state visits.
History.
It was given its current name in the early 1990s, following its renaming from the monument to Vladimir Lenin, which was designed and created in 1974 by Sabir Adylov (1932–2002) and Nikolai Tomsky (1900–1984). In December 2005, during the architectural reconstruction of Mustaqillik Maydoni, the monument was given an additional sculpture, depicting a "Happy Mother" with her baby. By decree of President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on February 3, 2006, the newly renovated monument would be renamed to the Monument of Independence and Humanism.
The symbolism of the monument, nicknamed the "globe of Uzbekistan", influenced the monumental art of Uzbekistan in the 1990s–2000s. It was reproduced on posters, murals and sculptures in different Uzbek cities.
See also.
For similar monuments, see:
For similar attractions in Tashkent, see:


Leman University Geneva

Leman University Geneva (LUG) is a private university founded in Geneva, Switzerland. LUG is the only private University in Switzerland which offers degrees in Law. Besides degrees in Law, LUG offers degrees in International Relations.


Putinci railway station

Putinci railway station () is a railway station on Belgrade–Šid railway. Located in Putinci, Ruma, Serbia. Railroad continued to Ruma in one and the other direction to Golubinci. Putinci railway station consists of 5 railway track.


Xlejli Tower

Xlejli Tower (formerly spelt Shilejli Tower, or "Torri Xulliela"), also known as Bettina Tower, is a tower in Gudja, Malta. It was probably built as a watchtower since it has views over a large area of land. The age of the tower is not known, and it could date back to the Roman or medieval periods, or possibly a later reconstruction. The tower is now located in the grounds of Palazzo Dorell, and it is closed to the public.
History.
Its date of construction is not known, but it might have Roman origins. According to , the historian of the Order of St. John, an urn full of Roman copper medals was found at the tower. The tower also has a round shape, similar to other Punic-Roman towers in Malta. It is believed that the remains of an old and round building are those of a watchtower. The Xlejli Tower was built in the parametres of these remains in an architectural style to appear as a ‘ruined’ tower.
The oldest reference to the tower dates back to 1570, when it was described as a lookout tower built in the 12th or 13th century. The tower was almost definitely built as a watchtower, since it has views of the southern part of Malta, stretching from Bengħisa to the Grand Harbour.
In the 17th century, the Palazzo Dorell was built close to the tower, and the latter was included in its grounds within a large walled garden. Since then, the tower has been closed for the public. The palace was the property of Marquees Bettina Testaferrata Dorell, and she restored the tower and decorated its interior. Due to this, it also became known as "Bettina Tower" after her. She had actually named it as "Xlejli", which has a literal meaning of "tacked together" in old Maltese.
Some sources suggest that though the foundations of the old tower were retained on site, the present tower was built within the remains around 1780.
In World War II, a bomb fell close to the tower, destroying a statue. The bomb also destroyed an entire orchard. The tower is built of Maltese limestone and purposely used shiny pieces of glass, with an appearance of a ruined tower( hence the name).


Akhtsu Tunnel

Akhtsu Tunnel () is a tunnel on the road between Adler and Krasnaya Polyana (motorway A148) in the Adlersky City District of Sochi, Russia. It goes through the mountain massive on the left bank of the Mzymta River, in the Akhtsu Gorge.
The length of the tunnel is 2625.7 m. The width is 7 m.
The tunnel was built between 1999–2005. It was opened on 19 August 2005 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.


Ballinknockane

Ballinknockane is the location of a National Monument in County Kerry, Ireland.
Location.
Ballinknockane is located west of Mount Brandon and south of the Brandon Stream; it is northeast of Murreagh.
Description.
The national monument consists of a cillín (calluragh), an unconsecrated burial ground. Nearby is a cashel (stone ringfort) with souterrain (underground storage tunnel) and several hut sites.
Hut sites include: