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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. ...

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. ...

Majuba Hill

(Encyclopedia)Majuba Hill məjo͞oˈbə [key], E KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the Drakensberg Range. On Feb. 27, 1881, a British force of 500 was routed there by Boer (Afrikaner) troops under the command of P. J...

Malindidzimu Hill

(Encyclopedia)Malindidzimu Hill mälĭnˌdēdzēˈmo͞o [key] or World's View, granite hill, SW Zimbabwe, 25 mi (40 km) S of Bulawayo. It was designated by Cecil Rhodes as the resting place for those who served Gre...

Malvern Hill

(Encyclopedia)Malvern Hill: see Seven Days battles. ...

Mars' Hill

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

Leith Hill

(Encyclopedia)Leith Hill lēth [key], 965 ft (294 m) high, Surrey, SE England; highest point of the North Downs. On the summit is a tower, from where there is a view on clear days of London and the English Channel....