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In her mind's eye -- her imagination responding fully, almost exhaustingly, to these shores' peculiar powers of stimulation -- she saw the city as from above, telescoped on its great bare plains that the ruins marked, aqueducts and tombs, here a cypress, there a pine, and all around the low blue hills.
That program grew into the AFI Conservatory, a fully accredited graduate film school, located in the hills above Hollywood, CA.
The canton of Aargau is one of the least mountainous Swiss cantons, forming part of a great table-land, to the north of the Alps and the east of the Jura, above which rise low hills.
* A statue of him was installed in front of one of the houses which Bartók owned in the hills above Budapest.
* disturbance rejection ( such as hills in the cruise control example above )
The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.
* 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
In the uplands and hills, the elevations rise to Driskill Mountain, the highest point in the state at only 535 feet ( 163 m ) above sea level.
Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a natural bowl which reaches from 1, 050 feet ( 320 m ) above sea level to the crest of the hills about 1, 600 feet ( 490 m ).
The eastern hills and mountains, an extension of a plateau in southern Brazil, dominate the region, whose highest point is about above sea level.
It lies at an altitude of about 1, 350 m ( 4, 500 ft ) above sea level, in a warm, sheltered, fertile valley, surrounded by the hills of the Magaliesberg range.
A view across the Strait of Gibraltar taken from the hills above Tarifa, Spain.
The city sits on an elevated plateau, 130 to 140 metres ( 425 to 460 ft ) above sea-level ( whereas the elevation of the centre of Paris is only 33 m ( 108 ft ) above sea level ), surrounded by wooded hills: in the north the forests of Marly and Fausses-Reposes, and in the south the forests of Satory and Meudon.
Zurich is situated at above sea level on the lower ( northern ) end of Lake Zurich ( Zürichsee ) about north of the Alps, nestling between the wooded hills on the west and east side.
Hathaway ( the physician / archaeologist from the Fourth Expedition ), now retired, is living on Mars with his wife and children in the hills above an old, abandoned settlement, vacated many years ago when everyone returned to Earth at the beginning of the war there.
Whittow's Dictionary of Physical Geography states " Some authorities regard eminences above 600 m ( 2, 000 ft ) as mountains, those below being referred to as hills.
Over the period of the First Intifada and Second Intifada the Jewish community was subjected to attacks by Palestinian militants, especially during the periods of the Intifadas ; which saw 3 fatal stabbings and 9 fatal shootings in between the first and second Intifada ( 0. 9 % of all fatalities in Israel and the West Bank ) and 17 fatal shootings ( 9 soldiers and 8 settlers ) and 2 fatalities from a bombing during the second Intifada, and thousands of rounds fired on it from the hills above the Abu-Sneina and Harat al-Sheikh neighbourhoods.
The site was already home to several University of California Radiation Laboratory projects that were too large for its location in the hills above the Berkeley campus, including one of the first experiments in the magnetic approach to confined thermonuclear reactions ( i. e. fusion ).
It is located in the western part of the country in the department of the same name at an elevation of roughly ( the city is built on steep hills ) above sea level, making it the world's highest de facto capital city, or administrative capital, with Quito being the highest legal capital.
The city lies among the hills, at 258 to 390 meters above sea level.
Prominent old shore lines, called strandlines by geologists, can be seen above Lee Vining and along volcanic hills northeast of the current lake.
The landscape of the Białystok Upland is diverse, with high moraine hills and kame in excess of above sea level.
* Edith Wharton ( 1862 – 1937 ), bought Castel Sainte-Claire in 1927, on the site of a former convent in the hills above Hyères, where she lived during the winters and springs until her death in 1937.
He then moved to the Hotel Regina in the hills of Cimiez, above Nice.

hills and Cannes
Renoir visited Beaulieu, Grasse, Saint Raphael and Cannes, before finally settling in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1907, where he bought a farm in the hills and built a new house and workshop on the grounds.
The technopolis of Sophia Antipolis lies in the hills beyond Cannes.

hills and European
Aleixo Garcia was the first European to cross the Chaco and even managed to penetrate the outer defenses of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes ( near Sucre ), in present-day Bolivia.
Again in May 1819 he came to the Hill of Ooty and began the construction of his bungalow at Dimbhatti ( near Kotagiri ), the first European dwelling on the hills.
Yaroslavl and its respective oblast are located in the central area of the East European Plain, which in areas to the northeast of Moscow is characterized by rolling hills and a generally uneven landscape ; however, most of these hills are no larger than in height.
The neighborhoods on the hills above the town center display beautiful homes and streets, laid out in a picturesque Romantic style similar to some central European thermal spas.
He managed to penetrate the outer defenses of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes, in present-day Bolivia, the first European to do so, eight years before Francisco Pizarro.
Prior to European contact, the Tongva-Gabrieliño Indians, who lived in settlements along the Santa Ana River basin for 8, 000 years, set up temporary camps in the hills for gathering acorns, elderberries, walnuts and other seeds.
" Early European settlers established widely scattered settlements on the surrounding hills, which grew into neighborhoods and autonomous towns.
There is little doubt the division took the most enemy-defended hills of any division in the European Theater.
The houses crowned the summit and sides of an irregular ridge, the neighbouring hills were covered during the summer with encampments of British troops, while the station itself was filled with European visitors from the plains and travellers to Kashmir.
The hills of the Gilf Kebir were first seen from a distance by European explorers in 1910-with W. J. Harding-King in 1910 and 1911, and Dr. Ball and Lieutenant Moore in 1918.
The Semnoz crew from France began hosting events at the Col du Lautaret and other European sites where the mountainous terrain lent itself to " paragliding " down the hills.

hills and elite
The city started as a planned upscale community for the elite by J. C. Nichols to be built around the Mission Hills Country Club ( Kansas ) on the hills above Brush Creek just south of the Shawnee Methodist Mission.
During the Edwardian and Victorian eras, St Kilda became a favoured suburb of Melbourne's elite, and many palatial mansions were constructed along its hills and waterfront.
Alexander personally led the more elite Greek Companion cavalry against the Persian left up against the hills, and cut up the enemy on the less encumbering terrain generating a quick rout.

hills and has
It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.
“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.
In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.
Legend has it that in 802 CE, Jayavarman II, king of the Khmers, first came to the Kuhlen hills, the future site of Angkor Wat.
Western Basse-Terre has a rough volcanic relief while eastern Grande-Terre features rolling hills and flat plains.
Basse-Terre has a rough volcanic relief whilst Grande-Terre features rolling hills and flat plains.
It has been linked with the Natufians culture, a name derived from the site of ' Wadi en-Natuf ' in the Mount Carmel hills of Israel, discovered by Dorothy Garrod in 1928.
According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.
There is ' Melody Academy ' in Darjeeling established in the early 1980s by Mr. Jiwan Pradhan who single handedly has brought the western music in the hills of Darjeeling which is very rich in its musical heritage.
The Dá Chich na Morrigna (' two breasts of the Mórrígan '), a pair of hills in County Meath, suggest to some a role as a tutelary goddess, comparable to Anu, who has her own hills, Dá Chích Anann (' the breasts of Anu ') in County Kerry.
The hills the Maremma can be divided into three areas: the area del Tufo ( tufo is a volcanic rock found in the area that has been used for thousands of years in construction ), the Colline Metallifere ( literally, " the hills that produce metals ") and the internal hills on the border with the Siena region.
In the hills, conversion of forests to agricultural land — even on steep hillsides via terracing — is historically important, but has lessened in recent decades due to a shortage of remaining suitable terrain in the hills while mosquito suppression having opened formerly malarial land for settlement in the Terai.
Exchange of the coca leaf between consumers in the highlands and growers in the low lying hills has gone on for at least the last millennium, strengthening local economic ties.
The city has some 712 sets of stairs, comprising 44, 645 treads and 24, 090 vertical feet for pedestrians to traverse its many hills.
The city has established bike and walking trails along its riverfronts and hollows, but steep hills and variable weather can make biking challenging.
Most of the country is made up of rolling hills, but there is a narrow coastal plain that has swampy terrain.
This section was influenced by maxixe dance and basically played the piano — unlike the Rio samba played in the Morros hillsand the composer has musician Sinhô, self-titled o rei do samba (" the king of Samba ") which with other pioneers such as Heitor dos Prazeres and Caninha, lay the first foundations of the musical genre.
The archipelago has an oceanic climate, a complex geology, a rugged coastline and many low, rolling hills.
Shravanabelagola has two hills, Chandragiri and Vindhyagiri.
Snowboarding has been around since the 1920s, when boys and men would tie plywood or wooden planks from barrels to their feet using clotheslines and horse reins in order to steer themselves down hills.
However, because April 21 is the only date for Rome's foundation upon which all the legends agree, it has been recently argued that Septimontium celebrated the first federations among Roman hills: a similar federation was, in fact, celebrated by the Latins at Cave, Italy, or at Monte Cavo ( in Castelli ).

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