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Harry LANE, Congress, OR (1855-1917)

Senate Years of Service: 1913-1917 Party: Democrat LANE Harry , a Senator from Oregon; born in Corvallis, Benton County, Oreg., August 28, 1855; attended the public schools and graduated from…

Edith Starrett GREEN, Congress, OR (1910-1987)

GREEN Edith Starrett , a Representative from Oregon; born Edith Louise Starrett, January 17, 1910, in Trent, Moody County, S.Dak.; moved with her parents to Oregon in 1916; attended schools in…

Kentville

(Encyclopedia) Kentville, town (1991 pop. 5,506), W N.S., Canada, on the Cornwallis River, NW of Halifax. It is a tourist and trade center in the Annapolis valley, a fruit-growing region.

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.

Achor

(Encyclopedia) AchorAchorāˈkôr [key], in the Bible, valley where Achan was stoned.

Keziz

(Encyclopedia) KezizKezizkēˈzĭz [key], in the Bible, valley, in the vicinity of Jericho.

Cumberland, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Cumberland, river, 687 mi (1,106 km) long, rising in E Ky., and winding generally SW through Ky. and Tenn., then NW to the Ohio River near Paducah, Ky.; drains c.18,500 sq mi (47,910…