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The Green Mile

Director/Writer:Frank DarabontCastle Rock/Warner Bros.; R; 180 minutesRelease:12/99Cast:Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke DuncanBased on the serial novel by Stephen King The Green Mile…

mile

(Encyclopedia) mile: see English units of measurement.

Hadrian's Wall

(Encyclopedia) Hadrian's Wall, ancient Roman wall, 73.5 mi (118.3 km) long, across the narrow part of the island of Great Britain from Wallsend on the Tyne River to Bowness at the head of Solway…

Thoroughbred horse

(Encyclopedia) Thoroughbred horse, breed of light horse more properly known as the English running horse. As its name implies, it was the first pedigreed, or “thoroughbred” horse. It originated in…

scale, in cartography

(Encyclopedia) scale, in cartography, the ratio of the distance between two points on a map to the real distance between the two corresponding points portrayed. The scale may be expressed in three…

Spokane, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Spokane, river, c.100 mi (160 km) long, rising in Coeur d'Alene Lake, N Idaho, and flowing through NE Washington to the Columbia River. Dams on the river include Nine Mile, Long Lake,…

skywriting

(Encyclopedia) skywriting, advertising medium in which aircraft spell out trade names and sales slogans in the sky by means of the controlled emission of thick smoke. The technique was first…

Edinburgh

(Encyclopedia) Edinburgh, Town (2020 pop. 4618), Bartholomew, Johnson, and Shelby cos; S central Ind; est. c. 1823. The town is a suburb of Columbus, In., near the juncture of the…