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16 unusual facts about Mount Carmel


1989 in Israel

The fire extended over 6,000 dunam (1,500 acres), devastates 3,200 dunam (790 acres) of natural forest areas of Aleppo pine on Mount Carmel in northern Israel, close to the city of Haifa.

Francis Turville-Petre

Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre (4 March 1901 – 16 August 1941) was a British archaeologist, famous for the discovery of the Homo heidelbergensis fossil Galilee Man in 1926, and for his work at Mount Carmel, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel.

George Genereux

Genereux was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the son of Catherine Mary (née Devine), a nurse who was originally from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Arthur George Genereux.

Harry Carroll

Harry Carroll (November 28, 1892, in Atlantic City, New Jersey – December 26, 1962, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania) was an American songwriter, pianist and composer.

Hugh of Saint-Cher

In 1247, upon instructions of Pope Innocent, Hugh revised the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert, which the Saint Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, had given the first Carmelite friars on Mount Carmel.

Joe Gladwin

He was baptised on 28 January 1906 at Mount Carmel RC Church, Ordsall and educated at the parish school.

Joseph Calhoun

He died in Calhoun Mills, Abbeville District (now Mount Carmel, South Carolina), and was buried there in the family cemetery.

Louis Campagna

Campagna was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Hillside, Illinois, in what observers described as the most lavish mob funeral since Capone's death.

Mount Carmel – Blytheswood Public School

It is part of the Greater Essex County District School Board and serves students from JK to Grade 8 from the communities of Blytheswood and Mount Carmel and surrounding areas.

Mount Carmel Wolverines

The Mount Carmel Wolverines were an Eastern League of Professional Football team based in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA that played during the league's only year of existence, 1926.

Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania

The Lower Anthracite Transportation System offers a two-route transit system weekdays and Saturdays from Mount Carmel with buses meeting in Coal Township to Mount Carmel and surrounding communities.

Thomas Edison placed one of his first generators plants here in 1883.

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus

One was given to Pope John Paul, the second to the convent where she had lived, and the other to her relations, Albert Visintainer and his family of Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States.

Vaughn Nark

Originally from Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, Nark began playing the trumpet at the age of six.

Whitefriars, London

The roots of the Carmelite order go back to its founding on Mount Carmel, which was situated in what is today Israel, in 1150.

WVMC

WVMC (AM), a defunct radio station (1360 AM) formerly licensed to Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States


Carmel, Maine

The first settlers were Abel Ruggles and the Rev. Paul Ruggles, who named the place to honor the prophet Elijah's experience on Mount Carmel.

Majdi Halabi

Searches were conducted in the village, on nearby beaches, in Haifa and in the Krayot and in the forests of Mount Carmel.