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Signature of William Schaw on a copy of the Second Statutes, as "maister of wark" and "wairden of the maisons", Holyroodhouse, 28 December 1599 On 28 December 1598 Schaw, in his capacity of Master of Works and General Warden of the master stonemasons, issued "The Statutis and ordinananceis to be obseruit by all the maister maoissounis within ...
View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
Schaw born in Scotland about 1714, was educated at Edinburgh, and graduated M.D. there, 27 June 1735, reading a thesis on diseases due to mental emotion.He was a friend of Jonathan Swift's physician, Dr. William Cockburn, to whom he dedicated ‘A Dissertation on the Stone in the Bladder,’ which was published during the discussions in the House of Commons on granting money for the purchase ...
Along with the First Schaw Statutes from 1598, they represent an important attempt to bring mason lodges under centralized control in the late 16th century. [21] [33] William Schaw, the Master of Works and General Warden of the Masons in Scotland, issued the Second Statutes on December 28, 1599, at Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh.
Monument Valley Park Bridge over Monument Creek at Del Norte, 1920. General William Jackson Palmer donated the land for Monument Valley Park to Colorado Springs to be a "park for the people". The park was developed between 1904 and 1907 and included "elegant gardens, winding walks, bridged ponds, a tennis court, playgrounds and an arboretum ...
A historic wooden tower was inadvertently felled by a traveler who used it to winch a vehicle stuck in mud in California's Death Valley National Park, federal officials said.
A Death Valley National Park visitor has stepped forward and taken responsibility for knocking over a 113-year-old salt tram tower last month, claiming it happened during a time of desperation and ...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Robert Starr Waite, who successfully campaigned for the creation of Great Basin National Park, put together a similar proposal for designating Dinosaur National Monument a National Park. [27] In 2015, Congressman Jason Chaffetz and Rob Bishop put forward a plan to designate the monument a National Park. [28]