Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranting President Eamon de Valera in the (Southern) Irish Free State, prudent Mother Britain is lavish with gifts. Last winter Belfast went wild when Edward of Wales arrived to open a $5,000,000 present, the massive Northern Ireland Parliament Building, located inconveniently far out of town on Stormont Hill (TIME, Nov. 28). Lest Republicans in the Free State become too irate, His Royal Highness' speech was not broadcast...
...pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner would never have wished that-the Pantheon is a mechanistic museum to Thomas Bat'a. Exhibits begin with the crude hand tools he used...
...Drill ground of the Continental Army during the Revolution. On the night of June 16, 1775, twelve hundred armed citizens assembled on the Common, where they were led in prayer by President Langdon, of Harvard College, at the start of their march to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill. The original Common extended a mile northward towards Lexington...
Proceeding to Charlestown the party will go through the Charlestown Navy Yard and after a short ride will arrive at Breeds Hill where the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Tablets mark the important points of the battle and an opportunity is given to those who wish to climb Bunker Hill Monument which affords an excellent view of Boston...
...Plymouth all points of historic interest will be visited, including Plymouth Rock; Cole's Hill; Burial Hill; Forefather's Monument; the Harlow House, erected in 1677 from timbers of the old fort on Burial Hill; and Pilgrim Hall, which contains the best collection of relics of Pilgrim life in the country. The tickets for this excursion include a 75 mile trip in special buses, and admission to all houses included in the itinerary...