HAMILTON, MOUNT

peak 4,372 ft (1,333 m) high, W Calif., in the Coast Ranges, E of San Jose. It is the site of Lick Observatory (built 1876–88), directed by the Univ. of California. In 1959 a 120-in. (305-cm) telescope was installed by the California Institute of Technology.

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books on: Hamilton Mount  - 15820 results

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The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton: Based Chiefly upon Original Family Letters and Other Documents, Many of Which Have Never Been Published
Book by Allan McLane Hamilton; Charles Scribners Sons, 1911
Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander--1757-1804
THE INTIMATE LIFE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON THE INTIMATE LIFE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON BASED CHIEFLY UPON ORIGINAL FAMILY LETTERS...HAVE NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED BY ALLAN McLANE HAMILTON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND FAC-SIMILES NEW YORK...
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Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox
Book by John C. Miller; Harper & Brothers, 1959
Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander--1757-1804
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Portrait in Paradox -i- Elizabeth Schuyleer Hamilton Culver Service Alexander Hamilton Culver Service ALEXANDER HAMILTON Portrait in Paradox BY JOHN C. MILLER HB Harper Brothers, Publishers, New York ALEXANDER...
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Alexander Hamilton: the Revolutionary Years
Book by North Callahan, Broadus Mitchell; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1970
Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander--1757-1804
...of the Colonies cause against Great Britain. Urged to mount the platform in "the Fields" City Hall Park in support of patriot delegates to the First Continental Congress, Hamilton followed his oral out burst with anonymous pamphlets, in...
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George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
Book by Robert F. Dalzell Jr., Lee Baldwin Dalzell; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate), Washington, George--1732-1799--Homes And Haunts--Virginia--Fairfax County
...Lexington, Virginia . GEORGE WASHINGTONS MOUNT VERNON At Home in Revolutionary America...Dalzell, Robert F. George Washingtons Mount Vernon: at home in Revolutionary America...references and index. ISBN 0-19-512114-7 1. Mount Vernon Va: Estate 2. Washington, George...
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Alexander Hamilton: Portrait of a Prodigy
Book by David Loth; Carrick & Evans, 1939
Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander--1757-1804
...qualified for command than the consistent loser from Mount Vernon. To compel such a popular hero to part with a couple of brigades against his will might precipitate a crisis. Hamilton was to avoid that but get the men, and his instructions...
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journal articles on: Hamilton Mount  - 599 results

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Giving the Indigenous a Voice-Further Thoughts on the Poetry of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
Journal article by John O'Leary; Journal of Australian Studies, 2004
Subjects: Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, The Aboriginal Mother (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...R G Brewer, Henry Schoolcraft: Indian Agent and Wilderness Scholar, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, 1987. (39) See Goddard, op. cit., p 244. (40) The Irish Mother (Songs of an Exile No. 5), Australian, 12 January...
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Sacred and Secular Landscape Symbolism at Mount Taylor, New Mexico
Journal article by Kevin Blake; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Emotions--Evaluation, Landscape--New Mexico, Mountains--Psychological aspects, New Mexico--Description and travel
...Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Parent, Laurence. 1992. Mount Taylor: Peak Fires Imagination. New Mexico Magazine, March...1945. Names on the Land. New York: Random House. Tyler, Hamilton A. 1975. Pueblo Animals and Myths. Norman: University of Oklahoma...
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Critical Incidents in the Evolutionary History of Personal Freedom
Journal article by Russell N. Cassel; College Student Journal, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hamilton, Alexander--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jefferson, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Liberty--Social aspects, Locke, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Madison, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Roosevelt, Eleanor--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...request President John Adams made Hamilton a Major General in the U.S...5. In 1785 he wrote the Mount Vernon Compact; as provided...Edmund Randolph caused the Mount Vernon Convention with the...George Washington. Alexander Hamilton was key in the Annapolis Convention...
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Wordsworth and the Ordnance Survey in Ireland: "Dreaming O'er the Map of Things"
Journal article by Rachel Hewitt; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 37, 2006
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Hamilton, William Rowan--Portrayals, Wordsworth, William--Works
...Castleknock, southwest of Dublin, Hamiltons residence, where he stayed...the Glen of the Downs, Newton Mount Kennedy, the seven churches...Shavers edition of the Rydal Mount Library catalogue, Wordsworth...maps and abstract space that Hamilton awakened while in Ireland...
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"I Double Never Ever Never Lie to My Chil'ren": Inside People in Virginia Hamilton's Narratives
Journal article by Roberta Seelinger Trites; African American Review, Vol. 32, 1998
Subjects: African Americans--Literature, Children's literature--Social aspects, Hamilton, Virginia--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Pretty Pearl (1983) extends Hamiltons exploration of inclusion and...life outside of her home on Mount Kenya will be hard, she journeys...of Mother Pearl complicates Hamiltons tendency to use adult characters...and Mother Pearl to return to Mount Kenya. Looked at one way, Pretty...
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Hamilton's Ups and Downs: Scholars Revive Interest in a Misunderstood Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, Whose Pragmatic Ideas Could Help the United States through Its Current Confusion
Magazine article by Michael Rust; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, May 17, 1999
Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander--Foreign relations, Historical revisionism--Analysis, International relations--History, United States--Foreign relations
...January 1795 is adaptable to today, as the costs of NATOs intervention continue to mount, suggests McDonald, a history professor at the University of Alabama: "Hamilton said, Look, the public debt is a good thing if its managed properly; its a bad...
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Journey to the Lost World: Retracing the Steps of the Most Eagerly Anticipated of All the Victorian Expeditions, Dominic Hamilton Travels to Venezuela to Visit One of the World's Most Unusual, Alluring and Elusive Mountains
Magazine article by Dominic Hamilton; Geographical, Vol. 76, January 2004
Subjects: Guyana--Description and travel, Mountaineering--Personal narratives, Roraima, Brazil, Travel--Personal narratives, Venezuela--Description and travel
...by Dominic Hamilton Ever since...made the trek up Mount Roraima. So when...which protects Mount Roraima, is the...org. Dominic Hamilton Freelance journalist Dominic Hamilton first fell in...mountains, including Mount Roraima, the inspiration...
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Spreading the Gospel in the Middle Ages: Bernard Hamilton Unravels the Complex Tale of the Spread of the Christian Faith and Its Competing Hierarchies
Magazine article by Bernard Hamilton; History Today, Vol. 53, January 2003
Subjects: Christianity--History, Christianity--International aspects, Church history--International aspects, Civilization, Christian--History, Civilization, Christian--International aspects
...competing hierarchies. by Bernard Hamilton ALTHOUGH WESTERNERS did not set...Athanasius founded the Grand Laura on Mount Athos near Thessalonica in 963 and the...Church to 1448 (Longman, 1995). Bernard Hamilton is Emeritus Professor of Crusading History...
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Spiritual Behaviour: The Philippines Is a Catholic Country but It Is Bound by Superstitious Beliefs, Writes James Hamilton-Paterson
Magazine article by James Hamilton-Paterson; New Statesman, Vol. 135, November 13, 2006
Subjects: Filipinos--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Filipinos--Religious aspects, Philippines--Description and travel, Philippines--Religious aspects, Superstitious behavior--Analysis
...James Hamilton-Paterson. by James Hamilton-Paterson Twenty years ago, I was...someone who had had a vision on the sacred Mount Banahaw of Ferdinand walking and talking...mumu far away in a coconut grove. James Hamilton-Patersons new novel "Amazing Disgrace...
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Songs of Defiance: The Turbulence of Tibet's Last Half-Century Has Had Important Implications for Its Rich Musical Culture. Leading an Oxford University and Royal Geographical Society Expedition, Tom Hamilton Set out to Record and Document the Traditional Folk Music of One Remote Himalayan Community
Magazine article by Tom Hamilton; Geographical, Vol. 79, February 2007
Subjects: Folk music, Tibet--Description and travel
...Folk Music of One Remote Himalayan Community. by Tom Hamilton Every musician knows the feeling of being told to keep...planet. Throughout our fieldwork, the intimidating bulk of Mount Shishapangma shadowed us. At 8,014 metres, its the highest...
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HAMILTON HATERS; I Cant Hear You: Hamilton Is Not Listening to His Detractors, Including His Old Friend Kubica (Right), Preferring to Focus on Practice in the Shadow of Mount Fuji (Above)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 11, 2008
Subjects: Automobile racing drivers, Hamilton, Lewis, Race car drivers
HAMILTON HATERS; I Cant Hear You: Hamilton Is Not Listening to His Detractors...on Practice in the Shadow of Mount Fuji (Above). Byline: JONATHAN...TH E clouds rolled around Mount Fuji, occasionally allowing...summit in whose shadow Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa will renew...
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HAMILTON HATERS; I Can't Hear You: Hamilton Is Not Listening to His Detractors, Including His Old Friend Kubica (Right), Preferring to Focus on Practice in the Shadow of Mount Fuji (above) Pictures: GETTY IMAGES, ACTION IMAGES and EPA
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 11, 2008
Subjects: Automobile racing drivers, Hamilton, Lewis, Race car drivers
HAMILTON HATERS; I Cant Hear You: Hamilton Is Not Listening to His Detractors...on Practice in the Shadow of Mount Fuji (above) Pictures: GETTY...McEVOY THE clouds rolled around Mount Fuji, occasionally allowing...summit in whose shadow Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa will renew...
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Ecclestone Dreams of Title Race Eruption; on Track: Hamilton Takes a Drinks Break after He Was Fastest in Practice in the Shadow of Mount Fuji Yesterday
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 29, 2007
...Race Eruption; on Track: Hamilton Takes a Drinks Break...Practice in the Shadow of Mount Fuji Yesterday. Byline...ECCLESTONE would try to stir Mount Fujis volcano out ofsemi-retirement...Formula Onetheatre: Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso settling...separate British leader Hamilton from Spains double world...
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Fears Mount of New Heart Disease Toll
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), February 14, 2004
Subjects: Atkins, Robert (American physician), Hamilton, Andrew
Fears Mount of New Heart Disease Toll...Fitness consultant Andrew Hamilton says the high-fat, low-carb...linked to high-fat diets. Mr Hamilton, 45, based in Hexham, said...and heart disease." Mr Hamilton said he had seen several...
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RICH MAN V POOR MAN; HIGH LIFE: While Lewis Hamilton (Far Left) Enjoys the Trappings of Success on the Grand Prix Circuit, Fellow Briton Anthony Davidson Is Struggling
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 9, 2008
Subjects: Hamilton, Lewis, Rich, Rich people
...haven in Switzerland. When Davidson awakes this morning, he will be in mid-air, flying economy toMelbourne not, like Hamilton, to mount a challenge for the world title, but forthe more desperate business of trying to preserve his future on the grand...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hamilton Mount  - 4 results

 
 
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Hamilton, Mount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HAMILTON, MOUNT peak 4,372 ft (1,333 m) high, W Calif., in the Coast Ranges, E of San Jose. It is the site of Lick Observatory (built 1876...
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Hamilton, Sir William , British Diplomat and Archaeologist
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...publications include Antiquites etrusques, greques et romaines (1766 67) and Mount Vesuvius (1772). See biography by B. Fothergill (1969); J. Russell, Nelson and the Hamiltons (1969). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Prehistoric cliff dwellings. Mount Rainier NP SW Wash. 1899...Grant and his wife, Julia. Hamilton Grange MM SE N.Y. 1962 .11 (.04) Home of Alexander Hamilton . Jefferson National Expansion...River vista of the capital. Mount Rushmore MM SW S.Dak. 1925...
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Canada
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Governor-General Jeans suspension of the session until late January in order to avoid the December confidence vote and buy time to mount a publicity campaign against the opposition plans. Harper subsequently proposed a significant government stimulus package, and...


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