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Exmoor Exmoor
Exmoor high moorland of the Cornwall peninsula, SW England, comprising much of Exmoor National Park (265 sq mi/686 sq km; est. 1954). Underlaid by slate and sandstone, the rugged region with wooded glens rises to 1,707 ft (520 m) in Dunkery Beacon; the Exe River is nearby. The region is sparsely... Read more
semi-natural woodland semi-natural woodland
semi-natural woodland On an ancient woodland site, stands of mainly native trees that have not been obviously planted, whose presence appears to be natural, and that have been managed over a period, resulting in some change in woodland structure and species composition. On a recent woodland site,... Read more
Exe Exe
Exe , river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. Salmon and shellfish are taken from the river; many waterfowl are found along its narrow estuary.... Read more
Woodland Woodland
Woodland city (1990 pop. 39,802), seat of Yolo co., N central Calif., in a fertile farm area yielding tomatoes, wheat, rice, beans, vegetables, walnuts, almonds, melons, safflower, and sugar beets; inc. 1871. It is a growing manufacturing center with numerous plants for vegetables canning, rice... Read more
Richard Doddridge Blackmore Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Richard Doddridge Blackmore 1825-1900, English novelist. Although trained as a lawyer and called to the bar, he abandoned his legal career because of ill health. His reputation rests chiefly on his romantic novel about the 17th-century outlaws of Exmoor, Lorna Doone (1869), but he wrote also 13... Read more
Ohio Valley Ohio Valley
OHIO VALLEY OHIO VALLEY. Since prehistoric times the Ohio River and its tributaries have served as a major conduit for human migration, linking the Atlantic seaboard and Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi valley. Human occupation in the Ohio valley began over sixteen thousand years ago, and... Read more
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Cybele Cybele
Cybele , in ancient Asian religion, the Great Mother Goddess . The chief centers of her early worship were Phrygia and Lydia. In the 5th cent. BC her cult was introduced into Greece, where she was associated with Demeter and Rhea. The spread of her cult to Rome late in the 3d cent. BC was marked... Read more
breckland breckland
breckland A distinctive locality in south-western Norfolk and north-western Suffolk, England, with a mosaic of grass heath and Pteridium aquilinum (bracken) and Calluna vulgaris (heather, ling) communities. Pollen analysis has demonstrated that the breckland was one of the first areas in Britain to... Read more

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