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Cotswold Hills

(Encyclopedia) Cotswold HillsCotswold Hillskŏtˈswōld [key], range, mainly in Gloucestershire, W England, extending c.50 mi (80 km) NE from Bath; Cleeve Cloud (c.1,080 ft/330 m) is the highest point.…

Chin Hills

(Encyclopedia) Chin Hills mountain range, W Myanmar, along the boundary between Myanmar and Assam, India, part of the Arakan (or Rakhine) Mts. It rises to 10,016 ft (3,053 m) in Mt. Victoria. The…

Beverly Hills

(Encyclopedia) Beverly Hills, city (2020 pop. 32,701), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The…

Selected Essays in Black History: Po' Sandy

The Goophered Grapevine Dave's Neckliss Po' Sandy by Charles W. Chesnutt On the northeast corner of my vineyard in central North Carolina, and fronting on the Lumberton plank-road…

Ponca

(Encyclopedia) Ponca, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). According to tradition the group lived…

Robert Frost: The Hill Wife

The Hill WifeRobert FrostLoneliness(Her Word)One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the birds come round the house To seem to say good-bye;Or care so much when…

Men of Niagara

by W. E. B. DuBois The men of the Niagara Movement coming from the toil of the year's hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread…

Hill, Arthur

actorBirthplace: Melfort, CanadaBorn: 1922Died: 2006

Brewer's: Hill

(Sir John), M. D., botanist (1716-1775). He wrote some farces, which called forth from Garrick the following couplet: For physic and farces his equal there scarce is. His farces are physic…