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Birches Birches
Birches, blank‐verse lyric by Robert Frost, published in Mountain Interval (1916). The poet describes his boyhood pleasure in climbing birch trees, swinging from the tops until the supple trunks bent in a curve to the ground. He dreams of being again “a swinger of birches,” and... Read more
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butte butte
butte an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top, resulting from the more rapid erosion of the surrounding areas. Buttes are characteristic of the plains of the W United States. See mesa .... Read more
Uttaranchal Uttaranchal
Uttaranchal state (2001 provisional pop. 8,479,562), 20,650 sq mi (53,483 sq km), N India; created from the northern portion of Uttar Pradesh state in 2000. Situated in the Himalayas where many peaks top 20,000 ft (6,096 m), it is bordered by Tibet, China (NE), Nepal (SE), and the Indian states... Read more
Gangtok Gangtok
Gangtok, Sikkim/India Situated at a height of 5 600 ft (1 700m), the name means ‘Top of the Hill’ from the Tibetan gang ‘hill’ and tok ‘top’ or ‘peak’. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Sikkim until the monarchy was... Read more
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Bahariya Bahariya
Bahariya or Baharia , oasis (1996 est. pop. 25,000), in the Libyan Desert, central Egypt, c.200 mi (322 km) south-southwest of Alexandria. Connected by numerous caravan routes with the Mediterranean coast, the Nile valley, and Farafra oasis, it lies in a basin c.60 mi (97 km) long and 25 mi (40... Read more
rattan rattan
rattan , name for a number of plants of the genera Calamus, Daemonorops, and Korthalsia climbing palms of tropical Asia, belonging to the family Palmae ( palm family). Rattan leaves, unlike those of most palms, are not clustered into a crown; they have long, whiplike barbed tips by which the... Read more
Blackheath Blackheath
Blackheath common, 267 acres (108 hectares) in Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs, London, England. It was the gathering place of highwaymen and of several martial groups, including the followers of Wat Tyler in 1381 and of Jack Cade in 1450, who made Blackheath the headquarters for their attacks on... Read more

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