Howe may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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Howe (surname) Howe is an English surname. Howe, when derived from the non, haugr, means hill, knoll, or mound and may refer to a tumulus, or barrow. However, when derived from ang, hol, it can refer to a hollow or dell.Eric Partridge (1977), ''Origins: A Shor ...
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Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788–1845), Irish peer and colonial governor
Titles
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Earl Howe
Earl Howe is a title that has been created twice in British history, for members of the Howe and Curzon-Howe family respectively.
The first creation, in the Peerage of Great Britain, was in 1788 for Richard Howe, but became extinct on his ...
, two titles, an extinct one in the Peerage of Great Britain and an extant one in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Howe, both in the Baronetage of England and both extinct.
* Howe baronets of Cold Barwick (1660)
* Howe baronets of Compton (1660)
The Howe ...
, two extinct titles in the Baronetage of England
Places
Antarctica
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Mount Howe, Marie Byrd Land
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Howe Glacier, Queen Maud Mountains
Australia
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Cape Howe
Cape Howe is a coastal headland in eastern Australia, forming the south-eastern end of the Black-Allan Line, a portion of the border between New South Wales and Victoria.
History
Cape Howe was named by Captain Cook when he passed it on 20 A ...
, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria, Australia
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Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland P ...
, Australia
Canada
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Howe Sound
Howe Sound (french: Baie (de /d')Howe, squ, Átl'ka7tsem, Nexwnéwu7ts, Txwnéwu7ts) is a roughly triangular sound, that joins a network of fjords situated immediately northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was designated as a UNESCO Biosp ...
, British Columbia
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Howe Island
Howe Island is an island located in Lake Ontario east of Kingston in Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Thousand Islands chain. Together with Wolfe Island and Simcoe Island, Howe Island is part of the township of Fronten ...
, Ontario
United Kingdom
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Howe, North Yorkshire
Howe is a small village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near Ainderby Quernhow and the A61 and west of Thirsk. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 20 in 2015. In the 2011 ...
, a small village and civil parish
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Howe, Norfolk, a village and civil parish
United States
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Howe, Idaho, an unincorporated community
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Howe, Indiana
Howe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census its population was 807.
History
Howe was settled in 1834. At that time, it was named "Mongoquinong", a name that t ...
, an unincorporated census-designated place
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Howe, Minneapolis
Howe is a neighborhood within the larger Longfellow community in Minneapolis. It is bordered by the Cooper and Longfellow neighborhoods to the north, Corcoran and Standish to the west, Hiawatha to the south, and the Mississippi River to the e ...
, a neighborhood in the city of Minneapolis
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Howe, Nebraska
Howe is an unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States. Howe is part of Zip code 68305, Auburn, Nebraska, with the nearest postal facility at Auburn.
Google Maps did not bother to videograph Howe.
History
A post office ...
, an unincorporated community
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Howe, Oklahoma
Howe is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 802 at the 2010 census, a gain of 15.1 percent over the figure of 697 recorded in 2000. ...
, a town
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Howe, Pennsylvania Howe is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalac ...
, an unincorporated community
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Howe, Texas
Howe is a town in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,451 in the 2020 U.S. Census. It is part of the Sherman– Denison metropolitan statistical area.
History
The first settlers in the area arrived around the time o ...
, a town
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Howe Township (disambiguation) Howe Township may refer to:
* Howe Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania
* Howe Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
*Howe Township, Grant County, North Dakota, in Grant County, North Dakota
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Howe Caverns, New York
Elsewhere
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Île Howe
Île Howe is one of the islands of the Kerguelen archipelago, situated to the north of Île Foch, just after Île MacMurdo. It is about 8 km in length. Apart from rabbits, it is free of introduced animals.
Important Bird Area
The island ...
, one of the Kerguelen Islands
Historic buildings
United States
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Howe House (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
The Howe House is an historic house at 6 Appleton Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1887 for Lois Lillie (White) Howe, the mother of Lois Lilley Howe. Howe had the house built following the death of he ...
, on the National Register of Historic Places
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Howe Building
The Howe Building is a historic commercial building at 208 Middlesex Street in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was built in 1883, and is one of the city's finest Queen Anne commercial buildings. Its architecturally ...
, Lowell, Massachusetts, on the National Register of Historic Places
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Howe Barn
The Howe Barn is a historic barn, that has been converted into a house, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. It is important as one of a small number of surviving First Period barn frames in Essex County. Family tradition places the con ...
, Ipswich, Massachusetts, on the National Register of Historic Places
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Howe Tavern (College Corner, Ohio)
The Howe Tavern is a historic former hotel in the Butler County portion of College Corner, Ohio, United States. Constructed before the village was founded, it remained a hotel into the late 20th century, and it has been named a historic site.
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, on the National Register of Historic Places
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Wayside Inn (Sudbury)
The Wayside Inn is a historic inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States. The inn is included on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the listed Wayside Inn Historic District. It became an inn, called Howe's Tavern, in 1716, ...
, originally called the Howe Tavern, part of the
Wayside Inn Historic District
The Wayside Inn Historic District is a historic district on Old Boston Post Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The district contains the Wayside Inn, a historic landmark that is one of the oldest inns in the country, operating as Howe's Taver ...
in Sudbury, Massachusetts
England
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Castle Howe, Kendal, Cumbria
Schools in the United States
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Howe High School (disambiguation) Howe High School may refer to:
* Howe High School (Howe, Oklahoma)
*Howe High School (Texas)
Howe High School is a public high school located in Howe, Texas ( USA) and classified as a 3A school by the UIL. It is part of the Howe Independent S ...
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Howe Military Academy
Howe Military Academy was a private, co-educational and college preparatory boarding school located on a campus in Howe, Indiana
Howe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. As ...
, Howe, Indiana
Other uses
* , several British warships
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Howe & Co, a firm of solicitors in London, England
* A synonym for
Tumulus
A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones bu ...
See also
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How (disambiguation)
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Hau (disambiguation)
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Hao (disambiguation)
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