Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American reformer who was dedicated to the abolition movement before the American Civil War. Ordained after graduating from Harvard Divinity School (1847), Higginson became pastor of the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he preached a

double dactyls, a light-verse form consisting of eight lines of two dactyls each, arranged in two stanzas. The first line of the poem must be a jingle, often “Higgledy-piggledy,” “Jiggery-pokery,” or “Pocketa-pocketa”; the second line must be a name; and the last lines of each stanza are truncated

Higgs boson, particle that is the carrier particle, or boson, of the Higgs field, a field that permeates space and endows all elementary subatomic particles with mass through its interactions with them. The field and the particle—named after Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, one of the

electroweak theory: …otherwise unseen field, called the Higgs field, that pervades all space.

Higgs boson: The Higgs mechanism has a key role in the electroweak theory, which unifies interactions via the weak force and the electromagnetic force. It explains why the carriers of the weak force, the W particles and the Z particles, are heavy while the carrier of the electromagnetic…

Higgs boson, particle that is the carrier particle, or boson, of the Higgs field, a field that permeates space and endows all elementary subatomic particles with mass through its interactions with them. The field and the particle—named after Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, one of the

Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a field that endows all elementary particles with mass through its interactions with them. He shared the prize

Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a field that endows all elementary particles with mass through its interactions with them. He shared the prize

anticyclone, any large wind system that rotates about a centre of high atmospheric pressure clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern. Its flow is the reverse of that of a cyclone

Michel Mayor: …the principal investigator of the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) project, which used a spectrometer at La Silla to observe radial velocity changes of 30 cm per second. HARPS began observations in 2003 and has found more than 100 extrasolar planet candidates, including several “super-Earths,” rocky planets that…

Edmund Hillary: …Hillary described his exploits in High Adventure (1955). He made other expeditions to the Everest region during the early 1960s but never again tried to climb to the top.

Germany: Languages of Germany: …in Baden-Württemberg and Alsace, and High Alemannic is the dialect of German-speaking Switzerland. The Bavarian dialect, with its many local variations, is spoken in the areas south of the Danube River and east of the Lech River and throughout all of Austria, except in the state of Vorarlberg, which is…

Venus: Spacecraft exploration: …studied a mission concept called High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC), designed to lead to a program for the long-term exploration of Venus. The mission would use crewed airships to explore Venus’s atmosphere at an altitude of 50 km, where the pressure and temperature are like those of Earth.

cement: High-alumina cement: High-alumina cement is a rapid-hardening cement made by fusing at 1,500 to 1,600 °C (2,730 to 2,910 °F) a mixture of bauxite and limestone in a reverberatory or electric furnace or in a rotary kiln. It also can be made by sintering at…

cement: High-alumina cement: High-alumina cement is a rapid-hardening cement made by fusing at 1,500 to 1,600 °C (2,730 to 2,910 °F) a mixture of bauxite and limestone in a reverberatory or electric furnace or in a rotary kiln. It also can be made by sintering at…

Thomas Tooke: His works High and Low Prices (1823) and Considerations on the State of the Currency (1826) traced the causes of low prices to underlying cyclic conditions. He continued work along these lines in his monumental History of Prices, 6 vol. (1838–57), in the last two volumes of…

William Wellman: Films of the 1950s: …for Wellman’s next big hit, The High and the Mighty (1954). That prototypical airplane disaster movie featured a cast that included Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, and Jan Sterling. Academy Award nominations went to Sterling and Trevor (both for best supporting actress) as well as to Wellman (best director).

Altiplano, region of southeastern Peru and western Bolivia. The Altiplano originates northwest of Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and extends about 600 miles (965 km) southeast to the southwestern corner of Bolivia. It is a series of intermontane basins lying at about 12,000 feet (3,650 metres)

Viet-Muong languages: Central Vietnamese, centred in Hue, and Southern Vietnamese, centred in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), differ from the Northern norm in having fewer tones and in modifying certain consonants. All three use the same writing system, which is called Quoc-ngu. The dialects spoken in the…

Mel Brooks: Films of the 1970s: High Anxiety (1977) was a more centred parody, with the films of Alfred Hitchcock as its target. Brooks again starred, this time as a psychiatrist whose life is put in jeopardy when he goes to work at the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous…

polar ecosystem: …into the Low Arctic and High Arctic, according to various environmental and biological characteristics. Tundras are most common in the Low Arctic, and polar barrens are dominant in the High Arctic.

Rubem Fonseca: …mystery A grande arte (1983; High Art), in which he gets involved in a perilous investigation of a prostitute’s murder. Fonseca also wrote the screenplay of the book for a feature film released in North America in 1991 bearing the title Exposure. His detective novel Bufo & Spallanzani (1985) was…

Florence Welch: …later their success continued with High As Hope, which included the hit single “Hunger.” Also in 2018 Welch published the book Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry.

Asia: Central Asia and South Siberia: Alpine Asia—sometimes known as High Asia—includes the Pamirs and the eastern Hindu Kush, the Kunlun Mountains, the Tien Shan, the Gissar and Alay ranges, the Plateau of Tibet, the Karakoram Range, and the Himalayas. The Pamirs and the eastern Hindu Kush are

High Atlas, mountain range in central Morocco. It extends northeastward for 460 miles (740 km), from the Atlantic Coast to the Algerian border. Many peaks exceed an elevation of 12,000 feet (3,660 meters), including Mount Ayachi (12,260 feet [3,737 meters]), Mount M’Goun (13,356 feet [4,071

European Coal and Steel Community: The central institution, the High Authority, fixed prices and set production limits or quotas and was authorized to impose fines on business firms that infringed treaty rules.

horizontal bar, gymnastics apparatus introduced in the early 19th century by the German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, usually considered the “father of gymnastics.” It is a polished steel bar 2.8 cm (1.1 inches) in diameter, 2.4 meters (7.8 feet) long, and raised about 2.8 meters (9.1 feet) from the

Jack Conway: The 1940s: High Barbaree paired Van Johnson and June Allyson in a standard wartime romance, but The Hucksters (both 1947) was a satirical drama in which Gable starred as a no-nonsense advertising executive, with Deborah Kerr as his object of desire and Sydney Greenstreet as a loathsome…

hypertension, condition that arises when the blood pressure is abnormally high. Hypertension occurs when the body’s smaller blood vessels (the arterioles) narrow, causing the blood to exert excessive pressure against the vessel walls and forcing the heart to work harder to maintain the pressure.

Anglicanism: Comprehensiveness in doctrine and practice: …of thought and practice, including High Church, Anglo-Catholic, Low Church or Evangelical, and others. The various churches of the Anglican Communion, though autonomous, are bound together by a common heritage and common doctrinal and liturgical concerns, and there has always been a considerable amount of interchange of ecclesiastical personnel.

Charles I: Conflict with Parliament: …to be known as the High Church Party, which stressed the value of the prayer book and the maintenance of ritual. Thus antagonism soon arose between the new king and the Commons, and Parliament refused to vote him the right to levy tonnage and poundage (customs duties) except on conditions…

Western architecture: High Classical (c. 450–400 bce): …of Greek architecture of the high Classical period were the buildings constructed under Pericles for the Athenian Acropolis. The Acropolis architecture, which is in several ways a clear display of civic pride, also exhibits considerable subtlety of design in its use of the Doric and Ionic orders. The ensemble of…

Lesotho: …British protectorate, one of three British High Commission Territories (the others being Bechuanaland [now Botswana] and Swaziland [now Eswatini]).

Court of High Commission, English ecclesiastical court instituted by the crown in the 16th century as a means to enforce the laws of the Reformation settlement and exercise control over the church. In its time it became a controversial instrument of repression, used against those who refused to

Canada: Commonwealth relations: …Kingdom and Canada, officers called high commissioners played much the same role after 1928, although the office was to some degree political and not just diplomatic.)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), organization established as the successor to the International Refugee Organization (IRO; 1946–52) by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1951 to provide legal and political protection for refugees until they could acquire

constable: A chief or high constable in every local area (hundred or franchise) was responsible for suppressing riots and violent crimes and for arming the militia to enable him to do so. Under him were petty constables in each tithing, or village. The high and petty, or parish, constables…

Gena Rowlands: …role was in the comedy The High Cost of Loving (1958). She had a bit part in Cassavetes’s Shadows (1959; a film that she later suppressed) before appearing in the western Lonely Are the Brave (1962). Although she worked with various directors over the next two decades, most of her…

France: The development of central government: …council in Richelieu’s days, a High Council (Conseil d’en Haut) consisting of only three or four members and excluding the king’s own relatives. Members of this council were known as ministers, but they held no formal right to the title and ceased to be a minister if the king chose…

France: The judiciary: The High Council of the Judiciary is made up of 20 members originally appointed by the head of state from among the judiciary. Since 1993, however, its members have been elected, following reforms designed to free the judiciary from political control. The Council makes proposals and…

South Africa: Justice: …except in constitutional matters), the High Courts, and Magistrate’s Courts. Parliament may create additional courts but only with status equal to that of the High and Magistrate’s Courts. The Supreme Court is headed by a chief justice, who is appointed by the state president, as are the deputy chief justice…

Malawi: Justice: …Supreme Court of Appeal, a High Court, and subordinate courts. The Supreme Court of Appeal, made up of a chief justice and a minimum of three justices of appeal, is the highest court in the land and hears appeals from the High Court. The High Court has judicial authority over…

American Samoa: Justice: …highest legal authority is the High Court, which is headed by a chief justice and associate justices, all appointed by the U.S. secretary of the interior. The High Court has appellate, trial, and land and titles divisions. Each village has a village court with authority to adjudicate matters pertaining to…

Hong Kong: Constitutional framework: This is followed by the High Court (headed by a chief judge) and by district, magistrate, and special courts. The chief executive appoints all judges, although judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the chief judge of the High Court also must be confirmed by the Legislative Council and…

Kenya: Justice: Other courts include the High Court, which has full civil and criminal jurisdiction and rules on constitutional matters, the Kenya Court of Appeal, which hears appeals from lower courts, and magistrates’ courts at local levels. Kenya’s judicial system acknowledges the validity of Islamic law and indigenous African customs in…

Malaysia: Justice: …in Peninsular Malaysia, called the High Court in Malaya, and the other in East Malaysia, called the High Court in Sarawak and Sabah—and also in subordinate courts. Appeals from the High Courts are heard first by the Court of Appeal; they may then be appealed to the highest court in…

Malaysia: Justice: …in East Malaysia, called the High Court in Sarawak and Sabah—and also in subordinate courts. Appeals from the High Courts are heard first by the Court of Appeal; they may then be appealed to the highest court in Malaysia, the Federal Court (formerly called the Supreme Court), which is headed…

High Court of Admiralty, in England, formerly the court presided over by the deputy of the admiral of the fleet. The Black Book of the Admiralty says it was founded in the reign of Edward I, but it actually appears to have been established by Edward III about 1360. At this time the court seems to

Australia: Justice: The High Court of Australia, the federal supreme court, consists of a chief justice and six other justices, each of whom is formally appointed by the governor-general. It exercises general appellate jurisdiction over all other federal and state courts and is given the special duty to…

High Court of Justice, in England and Wales, court system centred in London and comprising three divisions of both original and appellate jurisdiction, mostly in civil matters and only occasionally in criminal cases. The divisions are the Chancery Division, presided over by the chancellor of the

Scotland: Justice: …jury are reserved for the High Court of Justiciary, the supreme court for criminal cases. The judges are the same as those of the Court of Session, the supreme court for civil cases. An appeal may be directed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from the Court of…

cristobalite: …but is not stable; and high-cristobalite, which occurs above 268° C but is only stable above 1,470° C. Natural low-cristobalite usually occurs in sub-microcrystalline masses (see opal) or fibrous to columnar spherulites (see lussatite) in igneous rocks. Cristobalite has the same chemical composition as coesite, stishovite, quartz, and tridymite but…

Cubism: …is often referred to as Analytical Cubism. During this period, the work of Picasso and Braque became so similar that their paintings are almost indistinguishable. Analytical Cubist paintings by both artists show the breaking down, or analysis, of form. Picasso and Braque favored right-angle and straight-line construction, though occasionally some…

Oregon: Relief and drainage: The area of the High Lava Plains, or High Desert, is located south of the Blue Mountains and eastward from the Cascade Range. It is the youngest and least eroded of the landform regions of Oregon, but the smoothness of the surface is broken by cinder cones, buttes, and…

lymph node: …through specialized blood vessels called high endothelial venules (HEVs). HEVs contain a single layer of large endothelial cells that possess surface receptors specific for B and T lymphocytes. As these cells pass through the HEVs, they bind to the receptors and are carried into the paracortex of the lymph node.

X-ray telescope: …the late 1970s by two High-Energy Astronomy Observatories (HEAOs), which explored cosmic X-ray sources. HEAO-1 mapped the X-ray sources with high sensitivity and high resolution. Some of the more interesting of these objects were studied in detail by HEAO-2 (named the Einstein Observatory).

Riccardo Giacconi: Called the Einstein Observatory (launched 1978), it examined stellar atmospheres and supernova remnants, identified many X-ray double stars (some containing suspected black holes), and detected X-ray sources in other galaxies. In 1976 Giacconi proposed a still more powerful instrument, which was finally launched in 1999 as the…

High Energy Transient Explorer-2 (HETE-2), international satellite designed to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), intense flashes of gamma rays from very distant objects. HETE-2 was launched on October 9, 2000, near Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean by a Pegasus launch vehicle dropped from the

explosive: Types of chemical explosives: …two types: (1) detonating, or high, explosives and (2) deflagrating, or low, explosives. Detonating explosives, such as TNT and dynamite, are characterized by extremely rapid decomposition and development of high pressure, whereas deflagrating explosives, such as black and smokeless powders, involve merely fast burning and produce relatively low pressures. Under…

Nick Hornby: High Fidelity: His first work of fiction, High Fidelity, released in 1995, follows the romantic collisions and reluctant maturation of 30-something Rob Fleming, owner of a London record store—another obsessive fan, this time of snobbishly rare LPs. High Fidelity garnered critical acclaim and became a bestseller in England. The book solidified Hornby’s…

Zoë Kravitz: Later hits: Big Little Lies and The Batman: …but highly praised Hulu series High Fidelity, which was based on the film of the same name that her mother had a role in 20 years earlier.

Stephen Frears: Frears received positive notices for High Fidelity (2000), based on Nick Hornby’s comic novel of the same name, and Dirty Pretty Things (2002), about London’s immigrant underworld. For The Queen (2006), which examines the British royal family’s reaction to the death of Princess Diana, Frears was again nominated for an…

Who Invented the High Five?: The high five is one of the most popular and recognizable gestures in the world—second, perhaps, only to the traditional handshake. It is the essence of simplicity—a raised hand, traditionally the right, slapped palm to palm by another—and is often used to celebrate accomplishments or to…

Steven Soderbergh: Later credits: …then directed the basketball drama High Flying Bird (2019) and The Laundromat (2019), a farce about the Panama Papers scandal that featured Meryl Streep. He reunited with the actress for Let Them All Talk (2020), about an award-winning author who goes on a cruise with several old friends. Soderbergh’s next…

lighthouse: Structure and operation: Known as “high focal plane” buoys, for stability they require a cylindrical tail tube extending downward some 10 feet from the bottom of the hull.

radar: Over-the-horizon radar: …the shortwave, or high-frequency (HF), portion of the radio band (from 3 to 30 MHz). The advantage of the HF band is that radio waves of these frequencies are refracted (bent) by the ionosphere so that the waves return to the Earth’s surface at long distances beyond the horizon,…

Gerard K. O’Neill: In his book The High Frontier (1978) he suggested that space colonies might be the ultimate solution to such terrestrial problems as pollution, overpopulation, and the energy shortage. At the time of his death he was working on a high-speed vehicle powered by magnetic forces and traveling through a…

West Germanic languages: History: …a change customarily called the High German consonant shift. At the beginning of words and when doubled, p, t, and k came to be pronounced as affricates; after a vowel they came to be pronounced as long fricatives. See table for a comparison of modern results with related English words.

West Germanic languages: History: …been the increasing standardization of High German and its increasing acceptance as the supradialectal form of the language. In writing, it is almost the only form used (except for limited printings of dialect literature); in speech, it is the first or second language of virtually the entire population.

High God, in anthropology and the history of religion, a type of supreme deity found among many nonliterate peoples of North and South America, Africa, northern Asia, and Australia. The adjective high is primarily a locative term: a High God is conceived as being utterly transcendent, removed from

Gothic art: High Gothic: The second phase of Gothic architecture began with a subdivision of the style known as Rayonnant (1200–80) on the Continent and as the Decorated Gothic (1300–75) style in England. This style was characterized by the application of increasingly elaborate geometrical decoration to the…

yamim noraʾim, in Judaism, the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana (on Tishri 1 and 2) and Yom Kippur (on Tishri 10), in September or October. Though the Bible does not link these two major festivals, the Talmud does. Consequently, yamim noraʾim is sometimes used to designate the first 10 days of the

yamim noraʾim, in Judaism, the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana (on Tishri 1 and 2) and Yom Kippur (on Tishri 10), in September or October. Though the Bible does not link these two major festivals, the Talmud does. Consequently, yamim noraʾim is sometimes used to designate the first 10 days of the

Mike Leigh: …returned to the cinema with High Hopes, which sheds light on social distinctions among ordinary modern Britons. He explored similar slice-of-life themes in the poignant comedy Life Is Sweet (1990), about the ordeals of a suburban London family. It was followed by Naked (1993), a stark portrait of a disaffected…

Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen’s political messaging: …2014, Springsteen’s 18th studio album, High Hopes, was partly a retrospective of material that had been targeted for but unreleased on albums from the previous decade or so and partly a collection of cover versions. It also includes reenergized interpretations of a pair of powerful familiar Springsteen compositions, “The Ghost…

Bulgaria: Justice: The High Judicial Council, consisting of 25 members, appoints judges, prosecutors, and investigators. The members of this council are appointed by the National Assembly and judicial authorities. The Constitutional Court, composed of 12 justices (each of whom serves a nine-year term), is charged with interpreting the…

high jump, sport in athletics (track and field) in which the athlete takes a running jump to attain height. The sport’s venue (see illustration) includes a level, semicircular runway allowing an approach run of at least 15 metres (49.21 feet) from any angle within its 180° arc. Two rigid vertical

Antarctica: Technological advancements in exploration: Byrd’s fourth expedition, called “Operation Highjump,” in the summer of 1946–47, was the most massive sea and air operation theretofore attempted in Antarctica. It involved 13 ships, including two seaplane tenders and an aircraft carrier, and a total of 25 airplanes. Ship-based aircraft returned with 49,000 photographs that, together…

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Relief: …south and southwest is the Karst, a region of arid limestone plateaus that contain caves, potholes, and underground drainage. The uplands there are often bare and denuded (the result of deforestation and thin soils), but, between the ridges, depressions known as poljes are covered with alluvial soil that is suitable…

Edinburgh: The Old Town: At its heart is the cathedral of St. Giles (the High Kirk of Edinburgh) of the Church of Scotland. It has a fine late-Gothic nave and a magnificent 15th-century crown tower: an open spire with eight flying buttresses supporting a sculptured turret, aping the imperial crown that Scottish kings claimed…

Oregon: Relief and drainage: The area of the High Lava Plains, or High Desert, is located south of the Blue Mountains and eastward from the Cascade Range. It is the youngest and least eroded of the landform regions of Oregon, but the smoothness of the surface is broken by cinder cones, buttes, and…

Robert Pattinson: Good Time, The Lighthouse, and The Batman: …Leader (2015), and Claire Denis’s High Life (2018). Pattinson received particular acclaim for his visceral, charismatic portrayals of an out-of-control petty thief in the Safdie brothers’ thriller Good Time (2017) and an unhinged apprentice lighthouse keeper in Roger Eggers’s The Lighthouse (2019), both of which earned him Independent Spirit Award…

the High Line, elevated park and promenade built on an abandoned freight rail line on the West Side of Manhattan, New York, U.S. Its first section opened in 2009. With the completion of its final section in 2014, the High Line extended about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Gansevoort Street in the

biblical literature: Non-European versions: …later the first Bible in High Malay came out.

mallow: …white flowers in summer, and high mallow (M. sylvestris), the leaves and flowers of which have been used medicinally. Another musk mallow, Abelmoschus moschatus (H. abelmoschus), is widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its musky-smelling seeds.

Australian rules football: Play of the game: …game’s finest spectacle is the high mark, in which three or four competing players leap, sometimes riding on the back or shoulder of an opponent, in order to catch the ball and receive the resultant mark.

Atlanta: The contemporary city: …opened in 1968, includes the High Museum of Art and hosts the Alliance Theatre company and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Centennial Olympic Park was built for use during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

High Noon, American western film, released in 1952, that is widely considered a classic of the “adult” western genre, noted for its complex exploration of morality, integrity, and duty. As the reluctant hero, Gary Cooper earned an Academy Award. Marshal Will Kane (played by Cooper) has just married

Melanie Griffith: Later work: …she had a cameo in The High Note, a music drama that starred her daughter Dakota Johnson, a noted actress.

High Peak, borough (district), northwestern part of the administrative county of Derbyshire, north-central England. Most of the borough is part of the historic county of Derbyshire, but its northern edge includes Tintwhistle and the north side of Langdendale, which belong to the historic county of

Leonard Kleinrock: …report, and in 1991 the High Performance Computing Act (also known as the Gore bill) was passed. Federal funding was made available for high-speed networks, dramatically upgrading the country’s computing infrastructure.

high place, Israelite or Canaanite open-air shrine usually erected on an elevated site. Prior to the conquest of Canaan (Palestine) by the Israelites in the 12th–11th century bc, the high places served as shrines of the Canaanite fertility deities, the Baals (Lords) and the Asherot (Semitic

Orinoco River: Physiography of the Orinoco Llanos: The High Plains (Llanos Altos) are most conspicuous near the Andes, where they form extensive platforms between rivers and are some 100 to 200 feet above the valley floors. Away from the mountains they are increasingly fragmented, as in the dissected tableland of the central and eastern Llanos…

High Plains, region in the United States, comprising the southern portion of the Great Plains, or, in its most specific sense, the northern portion of the Llano Estacado (“Staked Plain”). In the latter sense, the High Plains may be said to cover the northernmost Panhandle of Texas, northeastern New

Algeria: Relief: …and are separated by the High Plateau (Hauts Plateaux). The south, consisting of the Sahara, is a solid and ancient platform of basement rock, horizontal and uniform. This region is uninhabited desert with the exception of several oases, but it conceals rich mineral resources, most significantly petroleum and natural gas.

Altiplano, region of southeastern Peru and western Bolivia. The Altiplano originates northwest of Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and extends about 600 miles (965 km) southeast to the southwestern corner of Bolivia. It is a series of intermontane basins lying at about 12,000 feet (3,650 metres)

Colorado Plateau: …highest of these is the High Plateaus of Utah, featuring great rock cliffs and terraces ascending to 11,000 feet (3,353 meters) in central Utah. The northernmost section is the Uinta Basin, a dissected plateau abutting the Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. South of it is the Canyon…

High Point, highest peak (1,803 feet [550 metres]) in New Jersey, U.S. It is located near the border with New York state on Kittatinny Mountain, a long ridge along the northwestern edge of the state that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. The peak is the focus of High Point State Park, where it

Lookout Mountain: …(600 metres); the loftiest is High Point (2,392 feet [730 metres]), near La Fayette, Georgia. At the northeastern end, a steep-incline railway ascends to the top of a peak, site of the town of Lookout Mountain, with excellent scenic views. In the interior of the peak are caves with a…

High Point, city, Guilford county, north-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Winston-Salem and 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Greensboro and with them forms a tri-city metropolitan area, the Piedmont Triad. Settled by Quakers about 1750, it was laid out in 1853