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Glenallen Hill (born March 22, 1965) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.Hill played with the Toronto Blue Jays (1989–91), Cleveland Indians (1991–93), Chicago Cubs (1993–94, 1998–2000), San Francisco Giants (1995–97), Seattle Mariners (1998), New York Yankees (2000), and Anaheim Angels (2001) during his thirteen-year career.
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long and bounded by gently sloped concave sides, unlike a ravine, which is deep and bounded by steep slopes. The word is Goidelic in origin: gleann in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, glion in Manx. The designation "glen" also occurs often in place names.
Ragnar Garrett (12 February 1900 – 4 November 1977) was Chief of the General Staff in the Australian Army from 1958 to 1960. He completed staff training in England just as the Second World War broke out, joined the Second Australian Imperial Force, and commanded the 2/31st Battalion in England before seeing action with Australian brigades during the German invasion of Greece and the Battle ...
The glen is followed by a single-track road which links the A82 road alongside Loch Lomond with the A814 road beside Loch Long. The glen is overlooked to the north by Beinn Bhreac (681 m or 2,234 ft) and Tullich Hill (632 m or 2,073 ft) and to the south by Doune Hill (734 m or 2,408 ft) and a 655 m (2,149 ft) hill known as Coire na h-Eanachan.
cf. Ger. -langen as in Erlangen; still in use in English dialect and Scots. law, low OE from hlaw, a rounded hill Charlaw, Tow Law, Lewes, Ludlow, [58] North Berwick Law: often standalone often a hill with a barrow or hillocks on its summit; still in use in Scotland. le NF from archaic French lès, [59] in the vicinity of, near to
The Glen, Queensland, Australia, a locality in the Southern Downs Region; The Glen, Ontario, Canada, a community; The Glen, Cork Munster Province, Ireland, a residential area of Cork; The Glen, New Zealand, a suburb of Dunedin, South Island; The Glen, Scottish Borders, an estate and country house in Scotland; The Glen, Western Isles, a location ...
Overlooking the glen near Sarah's Trough is a large and flat faced vertical rock that is covered in graffiti left by the prisoners and other visitors. [10] Much of it is now hard to read, although the words 'Luogo di Delizia' [ 13 ] are still discernable, [ 9 ] being in the Italian language and meaning 'delightful place'. [ 14 ]
Glen Mount, West Kilbride. Green Hill, Largs. Known at one time as Moot Hill because it may have been used as a court or law area moot by local lairds during the Medieval times. [69] A likely semi-natural moot hill in the Giffordland Glen. Green hill, Barony of Giffen, Barrmill. The moot hill stood near to Greenhill farm. [70]