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Darjeeling

(Encyclopedia)Darjeeling or Darjiling both: därjēlˈĭng [key], town, West Bengal state, NE India, ne...

Fiesole

(Encyclopedia)Fiesole fyāˈzōlā [key], town, Tuscany, central Italy. The villas and gardens of this tour...

Kerch

(Encyclopedia)Kerch kyĕrch [key], city (1989 pop. 174,000), E Crimea. It lies on the Kerch Strait of the Black Sea and at the eastern end of the Kerch Peninsula, a strip of land between the Sea of Azov and the Bla...

Charles Mound

(Encyclopedia)Charles Mound, hill, an ancient burial mound 1,241 ft (378 m) high, NW Ill., near the Wis. line; highest point in the state.

Tirumala

(Encyclopedia)Tirumala, sacred hill, India: see Tirupati. ...

World's View

(Encyclopedia)World's View, Zimbabwe: see Malindidzimu Hill. ...

Beatty, Warren

(Encyclopedia)Beatty, Warren (Henry Warren Beaty) bāˈtē, bēˈ– [key], 1937–, motion picture act...

Ammah

(Encyclopedia)Ammah āmˈə [key], in the Bible, hill near Gibeon. ...

Aventine

(Encyclopedia)Aventine, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...

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