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Kenilworth

(Encyclopedia) KenilworthKenilworthkĕnˈəlwûrthˌ [key], town (1991 pop. 16,782), Warwickshire, central England. A market town and bedroom community, it is famous for the ruins of Kenilworth Castle,…

Hooker, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Hooker, Richard, 1554?–1600, English theologian and clergyman of the Church of England. He studied and lectured at Oxford and preached at Drayton-Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire; at the…

Suitland

(Encyclopedia) Suitland, uninc. city (1990 pop. 35,400 including Silver Hill), Prince Georges co., central Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The Suitland Federal Center houses offices of the U.S.…

Taiping

(Encyclopedia) TaipingTaipingtīpĭngˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 186,791), Perak, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula. Once the leading tin-mining center of Malaya, it has been supplanted by the Kinta…

Smoky Hill River

(Encyclopedia) Smoky Hill River, c.560 mi (900 km) long, rising on the Great Plains, E Colo., and flowing E across Kansas to join the Republican River and form the Kansas River at Junction City. The…

Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks began playing Joan, the red-haired siren of the secretarial pool, on the TV show Mad Men in 2007. Her Kennedy-era curves and hot red lipstick made Hendricks an instant favorite…

Notting Hill Carnival

Caribbean food, steel bands, calypso, and parades make the Notting Hill Carnival an international draw every August by Liz Olson Related Links Queen's Birthday United…

Anita Hill Biography

Anita Hill lawyer, educator, author, activistBorn: 7/30/1956Birthplace: Lone Tree, Okla.   Hill received her law degree from Yale University, and after a stint at the Equal Employment Opportunity…

Brewer's: Brent-hill

means the eyebrows. Looking or gazing from under brent-hill. In Devonshire means “frowning at one;” and in West Cornwall to brend means to wrinkle the brows. It is very remarkable that…

Brewer's: Crystal Hills

On the coast of the Caspian, near Badku, is a mountain which sparkles like diamonds, from the sea-glass and crystals with which it abounds. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…