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Parnassus

(Encyclopedia)Parnassus, mountain, Greece: see Parnassós. ...

Savalan

(Encyclopedia)Savalan, mountain, Iran: see Sabalan. ...

sewellel beaver

(Encyclopedia)sewellel beaver: see mountain beaver. ...

sheep laurel

(Encyclopedia)sheep laurel: see mountain laurel. ...

Plinlimon

(Encyclopedia)Plinlimon: see Plynlimon, mountain, Wales. ...

rowan tree

(Encyclopedia)rowan tree: see mountain ash.

Kyffhäuser

(Encyclopedia)Kyffhäuser kĭfˈhoizər [key], forested mountain, c.1,550 ft (470 m), Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is crowned by the two ruined castles of Rothenburg (7th cent.) and Kyffhausen (12th cent.) an...

Scruggs, Earl Eugene

(Encyclopedia)Scruggs, Earl Eugene, 1924–2012, American banjo player, b. Flint Hill, N.C. He developed a distinctive syncopated, three-finger style on the five-string banjo that changed the way it is played. From...

Ouachita

(Encyclopedia)Ouachita wôˈshĭtôˌ [key], river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising in the Ouachita Mts., W Ark. It flows east, southeast, and south through a cotton-producing region of S Arkansas and NE Louisiana a...

Cotswold Hills

(Encyclopedia)Cotswold Hills kŏtˈswōld [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. Its crest line forms the T...