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Mars' Hill

(Encyclopedia)Mars' Hill, name given in the Bible for the Areopagus at Athens. ...

Hill, Geoffrey

(Encyclopedia)Hill, Geoffrey (Sir Geoffrey William Hill), 1932–2016, English poet, b. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, grad. Oxford. Widely hailed as one of the finest poets of his generation, he wrote complex, densel...

Hill, Joe

(Encyclopedia)Hill, Joe, 1879–1915, Swedish-American union organizer; b. Sweden, as Joel Hägglund, also called Joseph Hillström. He came to the United States in 1902 and worked as a miner and a longshoreman, wh...

Forest Hill

(Encyclopedia)Forest Hill, part of metropolitan Toronto, S. Ont., Canada. ...

Cherry Hill

(Encyclopedia)Cherry Hill, township (2020 pop. 74,553), Camden co., W central N.J.; name was changed from Delaware township to Cherry Hill in 1961. Largely residentia...

Chapel Hill

(Encyclopedia)Chapel Hill, town (2020 pop. 61,960), Orange co., central N.C., at the edge of the Piedmont; founded 1792, inc. 1851. Primarily residential, the town's ...

Fishers Hill

(Encyclopedia)Fishers Hill, bluff, near Strasburg, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley; site of Union Gen. Philip Sheridan's defeat of Gen. Jubal Early on Sept. 22, 1864, during the Civil War. ...

Rock Hill

(Encyclopedia)Rock Hill, city (1990 pop. 41,643), York co., N S.C.; inc. 1870. An important textile center, it also has industries producing paper, glass, metal products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, textiles, and f...

Rocky Hill

(Encyclopedia)Rocky Hill, town (1990 pop. 16,554), Hartford co., central Conn., a suburb of Hartford, on the Connecticut River; settled c.1650, inc. 1843. Chemical coatings and synthetic textiles are made there. Ro...

Pleasant Hill

(Encyclopedia)Pleasant Hill, residential city (1990 pop. 31,585), Contra Costa co., W Calif.; inc. 1961. First settled in 1844, the area remained rural until the housing boom of World War II. Electronic equipment i...