…(1925–92), English comedian; born Alfred Hawthorne. His risqué humour, as seen in the series The Benny Hill Show, had an international appeal…
…(b.1960), English motor-racing driver. Son of Graham Hill, he won the Formula One world championship in 1996…
…(1929–75), English motor-racing driver; full name Norman Graham Hill. He became Formula One world champion in 1962 and 1975…
…(1838–1912), English housing reformer and co-founder of the National Trust (1895)…
…(1795–1879), English educationist, administrator, and inventor. He is chiefly remembered for his introduction of the penny postage-stamp system in 1840…
…a fort built on a hill, in particular an area on a hilltop enclosed by a system of defensive banks and ditches, as used by Iron Age peoples in NW Europe…
…a commercial district of northern San Francisco in California, long noted for the homes of the wealthy (“nobs”)…
…an industrial city in northern South Carolina; population 67,339 (est. 2008)…
…a historic neighborhood in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, on high ground north of the Boston Common…
…a town in New South Wales, Australia; population 20,001 (2008). It is a centre of lead, silver, and zinc mining…
…the first pitched battle (1775) of the War of American Independence (actually fought on Breed’s Hill near Boston, Massachusetts). Although the British won, the good performance of the untrained Americans gave considerable impetus to the Revolution…
…a town in north central North Carolina, home to the University of North Carolina as well as many research facilities; population 52,542 (est. 2008)…
…a township in southwestern New Jersey, southeast of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; population 70,846 (est. 2008)…
…an outline of a horse, human, or other design cut into the turf of a hill, especially in the chalk downs of southern England. The oldest of these (the White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire) is prehistoric…
…a sheep of a breed having a thick fleece and black markings near the muzzle and feet…
…the region around the Capitol in Washington DC (often as an allusive reference to the US Congress itself)…
…an affluent suburban area west of Boston in Massachusetts, partly in Brookline and partly in Newton…
…a town in the low mountains of the Indian subcontinent, popular as a holiday resort during the hot season…
…a district of NW central London, the scene of an annual street carnival…
…a Neolithic monument near Avebury in Wiltshire, a flat-topped conical mound more than 40 m (130 ft) high, which is the largest man-made prehistoric mound in Europe…
…a name given to a mountain in central Vietnam, near the border with Laos, where hundreds of US soldiers were killed in a 1969 assault during the Vietnam War…
…a hill neighborhood in San Francisco in California, named for the signal stations that surmounted it in the 19th century…
…a hill near Santiago de Cuba, in eastern Cuba, the scene of a July 1898 battle during the Spanish-American War…
…a children’s game in which the object is to beat one’s rivals to the top of a mound or other high place, and to keep possession of the place…
…a river that flows for 540 miles (870 km) from Colorado across Kansas…
…an ancient British battle in which, according to one theory, the forces of King Arthur successfully defended themselves against the Saxons in ad 516. Another source implies that the battle was fought circa 500 but does not connect it with King Arthur…
…a heap of dung or refuse, especially in a farmyard…
…a small mound of earth thrown up by a mole burrowing near the surface…
…an Asian and Australasian starling that typically has dark plumage, gregarious behaviour, and a loud call…
…an Asian and Australasian starling that typically has dark plumage, gregarious behaviour, and a loud call…
…(1929–75), English motor-racing driver; full name Norman Graham Hill. He became Formula One world champion in 1962 and 1975…
…(1912–2005), English physician; full name William Richard Shaboe Doll. With Sir A. Bradford Hill (1897–1991) he was the first to show a statistical link between smoking and lung cancer…
…(1924–2005), US politician, social activist, and educator; full name Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm. The first African-American woman elected to Congress, she was a member of the House of Representatives from New York 1969–83…
…(1924–2005), US politician, social activist, and educator; full name Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm. The first African-American woman elected to Congress, she was a member of the House of Representatives from New York 1969–83…
