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Barossa Valley
(Encyclopedia) Barossa ValleyBarossa Valleybərôˈsə [key], region of South Australia, S Australia. A major area of wine production 40 mi (64 km) NE of Adelaide, the valley was named by Colonel William…Shenandoah valley
(Encyclopedia) Shenandoah valley, part of the Great Valley of the Appalachians, c.150 mi (240 km) long, N Va., located between the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny mts. The valley is divided into two…Silicon Valley
(Encyclopedia) Silicon Valley, an industrial region, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in the Santa Clara Valley between Palo Alto and San Jose, mainly in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, W…Simi Valley
(Encyclopedia) Simi ValleySimi Valleysēˈmē, sĭmˈē [key], city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. Highly residential, the city…Spring Valley
(Encyclopedia) Spring Valley. 1 Uninc. community (1990 pop. 55,331), within the confines of San Diego, San Diego co., SW Calif., on Sweetwater Lake. It is a rapidly growing residential community,…Squaw Valley
(Encyclopedia) Squaw Valley, valley, NE Calif., in the Sierra Nevada Mts., NW of Lake Tahoe. A well-known ski and winter recreational resort, it was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Ski lifts…Napa Valley
(Encyclopedia) Napa Valley, Calif.: see under Napa.rift valley
(Encyclopedia) rift valley, elongated depression, trough, or graben in the earth's crust, bounded on both sides by normal faults and occurring on the continents or under the oceans. The central flat…Mark Odom HATFIELD, Congress, OR (1922)
Senate Years of Service: 1967-1997 Party: Republican HATFIELD Mark Odom , a Senator from Oregon; born in Dallas, Polk County, Oreg., July 12, 1922; graduated, Willamette University 1943; completed…Carl Sandburg: Valley Song
Valley SongCarl SandburgYour eyes and the valley are memories. Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl. It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline. It was here we turned the coffee cups…