Manchester

Town (township), which includes Manchester Village, Manchester Center, and Manchester Depot in southwestern Vermont, U.S. It lies near the Batten Kill River between the Taconic Range and the Green Mountains. Manchester Village is one of the seats (the other is Bennington) of Bennington county. The site was settled about 1764 and laid out in 1784. The Vermont Council of Safety (where

Hunt, William Morris

After attending Harvard University, Hunt studied with Thomas Couture in Paris and then in Barbizon with Jean-Fran�ois Millet, one of the leaders of the Barbizon

Tigrinya Language

Also spelled �Tigrigna, �also called �Tigray, or Tigrai, � Semitic language of the Tigray people of northern Ethiopia and central Eritrea. Written records include religious texts prepared by mission societies and an increasing number of more recently printed textbooks and literary works. The language is closely related to Ge'ez, the ancient language of Ethiopia, and to the Tigr� language. There were nearly 6,000,000 speakers