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Volcano House is the name of a series of historic hotels built at the edge of Kīlauea, within the grounds of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the Island of Hawai'i. The original 1877 building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now houses the Volcano Art Center. The hotel in use today was built in 1941 and expanded in 1961.
A landmark pub in Argyll is to be bought by the community after campaigners received a grant of £147,411 from the Scottish Land Fund. The 150-year-old Oakbank Inn - which has been shut for two ...
The pub is said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write of the Admiral Benbow Inn in Treasure Island and Daniel Defoe supposedly met William Dampier and Alexander Selkirk there, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. The pub is also supposedly haunted, with up to 15 ghosts and one little green ghoul, the best known being a small child ...
The St. George Hotel in Volcano, Amador County, California. It was built in 1867, after the two previous hotels (the Empire Hotel and the George Hotel, originally built as a boarding house in 1852) burned. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
The nightclub was previously known as Cinders Disco, [1] then Raffles [4] before being purchased by Colin Barr in 1989, who turned it into The Volcano. [5] The name was chosen in honour of Glaswegian disc-jockey Gordon Lyle who was murdered in a Florida carpark after working in La Volcanic nightclub owned by Frank Lynch around the same time ...
Garbage plates, combining macaroni salad, meat sauce and other intriguing toppings, are a popular menu item in Rochester, New York. The owner of local restaurant Dogtown says they're in high demand.
The Tan Hill Inn is a public house at Tan Hill, North Yorkshire. It is the highest inn in the British Isles at 1,732 feet (528 m) above sea level. [ 1 ] According to the Guinness Book of World Records , it is slightly higher than the Cat and Fiddle Inn in the Peak District, which is at 1,690 feet (520 m).
The end of the holiday weekend added two fresh examples of a historic shift on Wall Street: More CEOs than ever are heading for the exits. Over the past 24 hours, the leaders of chipmaker Intel ...