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7 unusual facts about Ararat


280hp Walker railmotor

The railcars soon saw use on the Bendigo-Deniliquin and Ararat-Portland services, and by the time the 91RM was delivered, Mansfield, Wonthaggi, Woomelang and Wangaratta were also being served by the units.

Ararat, Victoria

It is the largest settlement in the Rural City of Ararat local government area and is the administrative centre.

Ararat Harness Racing Club conducts regular meetings at its racetrack in the town.

Ararat, Virginia

Early white settlers thought what they were saying sounded like "Ararat," the mountain which, according to the Bible, was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

The Saura Indian name for nearby Pilot Mountain in Surry County, North Carolina is "The Pilot" and the mountain reverted to that.

Aratta

Alternatively, the name is compared with the toponym Ararat or Urartu.

Hayk

As soon as his son Aramaneak was born, Hayk rose up and led his people northward into the land of Ararad.


Absolution Gap

On Ararat, 23 years after the events of Redemption Ark, Scorpio, a hyperpig, seeks out Nevil Clavain, who has left mainstream society, leaving Scorpio in charge.

Ararat anomaly

The Ararat anomaly is an object appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey and advanced by some Christian believers as the remains of Noah's Ark.

Armen Shahgeldyan

As part of Ararat, thr club won the Armenian Premier League twice in 1993 and 1995 and the Armenian Cup thrice in 1993, 1994, 1995, as well as Shahgeldyan was voted the Armenian Footballer of the Year in 1993.

Bagawanean

The Bagawanean are a noble family of nakharars in Armenia and are of hereditary right to Bagrevand with Armenia in the province of Ararat.

Bagdasarian

The Bagdasarian are a noble family of Nakharars in Armenia and are of hereditary right to Bagrevand with Armenia in the province of Ararat.

Ballarat V/Line rail service

Named Wendouree station, it is west of Ballarat station on the Ararat line.

Beaufort railway station, Victoria

Prior to Sunday 14 June 2009 when Wendouree station opened, Beaufort was the only station between Ballarat and Ararat which has an intermediate passenger stop.

Crowlands railway station, Victoria

Crowlands is a township located approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) northeast of the town of Ararat.

Dublin, Maryland

In old records reference is made of the Mt. Ararat Lodge of Masons, Maryland, which moved its meeting place in 1809 from a tavern in Delta, Pennsylvania to George McCausland's tavern in Dublin.

FC Ararat Yerevan

In 1974-75, after their title in the Soviet league, Ararat played in the European Cup, reaching the quarterfinals, losing to defending and future champion Bayern Munich with a 2-1 aggregate (0-2 in Munich and 1-0 in Yerevan).

Ghazaros Aghayan

Since 1867 Aghayan managed the Ararat monthly of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

Josh Pahigian

Pahigian has also written short stories that have been published in American literary journals such as Passages North, the Hawaii Review, and Ararat, and has been translated in several Armenian language periodicals and anthologies.

Kotayk Province

In the southwest, between its borders with Ararat and Aragatsotn, Kotayk also shares a border with Yerevan.

Michael J. Arlen

For Passages to Ararat, Arlen won the U.S. National Book Award in the category Contemporary Affairs.

Pan-Armenian Games

During the founding meeting on April 30, 1997 in Yerevan, World Committee of Pan-Armenian Games (WCPAG) was created, with the help of traditional Armenian unions of the Diaspora and the Iranian-Armenian cultural-sport organization "Ararat".

Ten thousand martyrs

Despite its questionable veracity, the event was extremely popular in Renaissance art, as seen for example in the painting 10,000 martyrs of Mount Ararat by the Venetian artist Vittore Carpaccio, or in the Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand by the German artist Albrecht Dürer.

Territorialism

In 1825 the playwright, diplomat and journalist, Mordecai Manuel Noah - the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence - tried to found a Jewish "refuge" at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called "Ararat," after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.


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