Only show
results for:

Topics related to "Orne River"

Manicouagan
Manicouagan , river, 310 mi (499 km) long, rising in E central Que., Canada, and flowing S to the St. Lawrence River near Baie Comeau. The river is an important source of hydroelectricity. ... Read more
Arctic Red River
Arctic Red River c.310 mi (500 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts. of W Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Mackenzie River. At its mouth are a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the village of Tsiigehtchic, formerly Arctic Red River. ... Read more
Chebar
Chebar , in the Bible, river of Mesopotamia, by which captive Jews were settled. ... Read more
Parsnip
Parsnip river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in central British Columbia, Canada, and flowing northwest to join the Finlay River at Williston Lake and form the Peace River. Explored by Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1793, it became, with the Peace River, an important fur-trade route. ... Read more
Rouge
Rouge , river, c.30 mi (50 km) long, rising in S Michigan and winding S and SE to the Detroit River at the city of River Rouge. Dearborn and part of Detroit also lie on the river, which carries much of the raw material used by Detroit's industries. ... Read more
Selenga
Selenga , river, 616 mi (992 km) long, rising in the Khangai Mts., NW Republic of Mongolia, and flowing east, then north, across the Mongolian-Russian border to Lake Baykal; the Orkhon River is its main tributary. The Selenga, navigable from May to October, is Mongolia's chief river; its role as a t... Read more
Vaal
Vaal , river, c.750 mi (1,210 km) long, rising in Mpumalanga, NE South Africa, and flowing SW to the Orange River. It forms most of the northern border of the Free State . The river's flow is almost totally regulated and provides water power for industries on the Witwatersrand . Vaal Dam, one of t... Read more
Avoca
Avoca or Ovoca , river, c.15 mi (24 km) long, formed by the union of the Avonmore and Avonbeg rivers, in Co. Wicklow, E Republic of Ireland. It flows SE to the Irish Sea at Arklow. The river is celebrated by Thomas Moore 's poem "Meeting of the Waters." ... Read more
Gallatin
Gallatin river, c.120 mi (190 km) long, rising in the Gallatin Range in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, NW Wyo., and flowing generally northwest to join the Madison and Jefferson rivers at the Three Forks of the Missouri, SW Mont. The river is used for irrigation. ... Read more
Lek
Lek , northern arm of the Rhine River, 40 mi (64 km) long, branching from the Neder Rijn (Lower Rhine), central Netherlands, and flowing W into the Nieuwe Maas (New Meuse) River. It is navigable for its entire length. Rotterdam , the chief city on the river, is connected with the North Sea by the N... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Orne River"

Caen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , city (1990 pop. 115,624), capital of Calvados dept., N France, in Normandy, on the Orne River. It is a busy port, canalized (by Napoleon I) directly to the sea. The commercial center of the rich Calvados region, it is highly industrialized, with a thermal power station and extensive steelworks along the ... Read more
SWORD
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...the start of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 (see OVERLORD ). It lay between St Aubin sur Mer and the mouth of the River Orne in the Baie de la Seine. By the end of the day 28,845 troops had been landed there. Read more
Alençon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , town (1990 pop. 31,139), capital of Orne dept., N France, in Normandy, on the Sarthe and Briante rivers. A commercial center in a fertile farm area, it is particularly... Read more
Maine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Normandy and E of Brittany. It now comprises the departments of Mayenne and Sarthe and parts of Loire-et-Cher, Eure-et-Loir, and Orne. Le Mans, the historic capital, is an important industrial and commercial center. Other towns in the region are Laval, Mayenne... Read more
Paul Revere
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...silversmithing from his father. On Aug. 17, 1757, he married Sarah Orne and eventually became the father of eight children. As early...Church (probably the present Christ Church). He crossed the river, borrowed a horse in Charlestown, and started for Concord. He... Read more
Revere, Paul
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...and he taught the trade to his son. Paul Revere married Sarah Orne in 1756 after serving for a short time in the French and Indian...mill that ground wheat and oats by using the swirling flow of river water to move grindstones. He designed and printed the first... Read more
D‐Day
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...German lines in a predawn parachute‐glider assault. The invasion targeted forty miles of coastline between the Orne River and the Cotentin peninsula, with British forces assigned the eastern sector and American troops the west. On Utah Beach... Read more
Normandy, Invasion of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...midnight on 6 June 1944, when units of the British Sixth Parachute Division landed and captured two bridges over the Orne River and Caen Canal. The other British and American airborne units were not so immediately successful. Low clouds, flak, errors... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Orne River"

Caen
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Caen a city and river port in Normandy in northern France, on the River Orne, which is the burial place of William the Conqueror. The town was the scene of fierce fighting between the Germans and the Allies in June and July 1944. Read more
Normandy Invasion
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Canadian troops landed on beaches extending from the mouth of the Orne River near Caen to the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, a distance...British airborne division that had captured bridges over the Orne and knocked out a coastal battery that might have enfiladed... Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

BRIEFLY.(General News)(REGION)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 6/24/2003; 482 words ; ...the Pointed First by Sarah Orne Jewett. Book donations may...benefit rural clinic BLUE RIVER - Tickets are on sale for the fifth annual McKenzie River Home and Garden Tour, July...to Tour, P.O. Box 353, Blue River, OR 97413. Tickets are on... Read more
Antiques.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 7/1/2008; ; 594 words ; ...its neighboring States. The coastwise steamers ... between its river ports and Boston, bring with the salt fish, lobsters, lumber...of historical house museums. A contemporary of Earle, Sarah Orne Jewett, who was born into a privileged South Berwick, Maine... Read more
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past.(importance of nostalgia in American history)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 7/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...drawing room of a parvenu, or the glittering saloon of a North River steamboat. The Centennial aroused a poignant nostalgia for the...such as Mark Twain, in Old Times on the Mississippi, and Sarah Orne Jewett, in The Country of the Pointed Firs, who voiced powerful... Read more
Rapports legislatifs: Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
Magazine article from: Revue parlementaire canadienne; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...diamant de 1,31 carat provenant des Territoires du Nord-Ouest orne la tete de la masse. Apres des seances d'orientation approfondies...egalement ete choisis par scrutin secret. Ainsi, la deputee de Hay River South, Jane Groenewegen, le depute d'Inuvik Twin Lakes, Roger... Read more
Direct addresses, narrative authority, and gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills."
Magazine article from: Style; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), the steel town on the Ohio River where she spent much of her life. Welding documentary details...foreshadowing the local color of Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Sarah Orne Jewett--critics must somehow account for the bizarre complex... Read more
Une economie, une communaute florissantes.(Chapleau, Ontario)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Northern Ontario Business; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...jours, Chapleau jalonnant son trajet entre Sudbury et White River. Ce train est d'ailleurs l'un des moyens de transport qui puisse...cette vie, elle est exultante; elle ponctue les jours, elle orne les visages, elle tapisse les murs; elle se fait presque par... Read more