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3 unusual facts about Mountain


Air mass

Mountains and warm bodies of water can slow the movement of fronts.

Mountain, North Dakota

Einar Jonasson (1887-1935), politician in Manitoba, was born in the area but moved with his family to Canada in 1888.

Geir Haarde, a former prime minister of Iceland, attended the Annual 2nd of August Celebration in 2007.


Aigle

In 1475, the mountain regions of Saanen and Pays-d'Enhaut, who were allied with Bern, attacked and burned the tower of Aigle Castle.

Akte

Mount Athos, a mountain in northern Greece, known as Akte in Classical times.

Anavryti, Laconia

Anavryti (alternate spellings include: Anavriti) is a small village in Laconia, Greece, located at 850m on Taygetus mountain.

Austrian Silesia

The territory west of the Oder river stretching from the town of Opava up to Bílá Voda was confined by the Jeseník mountain range of the eastern Sudetes in the south, separating it from Moravia, and the Opava river in the north.

Black Welsh Mountain sheep

The lead singer, Chad Urmston, explains the song is about a man who falls in love with a Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, only to have it taken away from him.

Burning Flipside

Due to the presence of large cliffs, scorpions, mountain lions, and other hazards, some believe that the land is more dangerous than even the Black Rock Desert.

Devil's Gate Pass

Besides the dominant Artemisia tridentata (Big Sage) and Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) noteworthy large plants include Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper), Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), Cercocarpus ledifolius (Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany), and the picturesque Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen).

Die schwarzen Brüder

Georgio grew up in the small Ticino mountain village Sonogno.

Diphasiastrum

The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, in much of the Northern Hemisphere, south in mountains to South America (reaching furthest south in Jujuy Province, northwest Argentina), New Guinea and the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, but confined to climates with high humidity for most or all of the year (or, in cool climates, protected by snow cover in winter).

East Mountain

East Mountain, part of the southern Green Mountains located in Clarksburg, Massachusetts and traversed by the Appalachian Trail

Erineos

Erineos stretches between the northeastern slopes of the Panachaiko mountain and the Gulf of Corinth.

Głogówko, Greater Poland Voivodeship

The basilica of Holy Mountain monastery in Głogówko was modelled after the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute in Venice and constructed by polonized Italians Jerzy Catenazzi, Jan Catenazzi and Pompeo Ferrari between 1675-1728 according to original design by Baldassarre Longhena.

Grande Tête de l'Obiou

Administratively the mountain is divided between the French communes of Cordéac (NE slopes) and Monestier-d'Ambel (SW slopes).

Haitian Health Foundation

HHF provides services to the rural poor within the city of Jérémie (population: 60,000) and to over 100 rural and mountain villages in the Grand'Anse Department of Haiti.

Hazen's Notch

The geology of the Hazen's Notch area in Westfield and Montgomery is primarily Hazen's Notch Formation of schist with intrusions of Belvidere Mountain Amphibolite and two areas of ultramafic rocks all of which grades into Jay Peak Formation in the lower elevations.

Helen Alexander

She is still today a "household name" in the west of Scotland; in the mountain glens and moors of Ayrshire and Galloway and the Pentlands, chapbooks still tell her marvellous story of courage and devoutness.

Hoosac Range

Notable peaks include Haystack Mountain and Mount Snow in Vermont and Spruce Mountain in Massachusetts, as well as the Berkshires high point, Crum Hill, in the town of Monroe, Massachusetts.

Imperial Service Troops

From 1914 to 1916, as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force commanded by General Maxwell, the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade with the 10th and 11th Indian Divisions, the Bikanir Camel Corps and three batteries of Indian Mountain Artillery, took part in the Defence of the Suez Canal Campaign at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

Jason the Terrible

On September 23, 1994, he teamed with Randy Rudd and defeated Sonny Corleone and Rob Austin to win the Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Championships.

John LaMountain

In September 1859, La Mountain made an ascension with the Atlantic, along with newspaperman John Haddock, from Watertown, New York across Minnesota and Michigan.

Kyrtoni

It is situated at 480 m elevation on thesouthern slope of the Chlomo mountain.

Libertador Bolivarian Municipality

The Libertador Municipality is located in the mid-north of the country surrounded by the mountain El Ávila which is part of the Venezuelan central range.

Matrona of Barcelona

She is patron saint of the Santa Madrona church in Barcelona, the Santa Madrona hermitage in the mountain of Montjuïc, as well as churches in the villages of Madrona (Pinell de Solsonès) and Móra d'Ebre.

Mecsek

The highest peak in the mountain range is Zengő (literally translates to 'resonant'), which has an elevation of 682 metres (2238 feet).

Military history of the North-West Frontier

Converted to a mountain battery the following year, the company was accordingly redesignated No.

Monte Civetta

Monte Civetta (3,220 m) is a mountain in the Dolomites, in the Province of Belluno in northern Italy.

Mosor

In April, 2009 speleologists discovered human remains in pits on the mountain, originally thought to be victims of the Yugoslav Partisans from World War II.

Mount Abantos

On the wast side of Abantos is the port of Malagon, one of the toughest mountain stages of the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain).

Mount Barney National Park

The first known climb to the summit of Mt Barney by a European was completed in 1828 by Captain Patrick Logan, by one of the hardest and spectacular ridges on the mountain, named in his honour.

Mount Shindainichi

The mountain is easily accessible by a hiking trail from Yabitsu Pass, which intersects with the Nagaone Trail from the village of Kiyokawa, and with the trail leading directly to Mount Tō which is approximately a 40 minute hike.

Mount Tomanivi

The main river systems, the Rewa, Navua, Sigatoka, and Ba, all have their headwaters in the central mountain area.

Mountain Records

Mountain Records is a record label started in Cape Town, South Africa in 1980 by Patrick Lee-Thorp.

Mountain Village, Colorado

Mountain Village is a Home Rule Municipality in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

Mynydd y Glyn

It is the mountain which was used in The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain in which Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice star as English cartographers.

North Carolina Highway 184

Lance Armstrong also made his return to biking after cancer on 184 up Beech Mountain.

Oregon Coast Range

Other mammals here are Mountain beaver, beavers, coyote, mink, river otter, mountain lion, porcupines, skunks, and brush rabbit.

Per Bergsland

After arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as "Peter Rockland" (Per = Petrus, meaning rock in Greek, and Berg meaning mountain or rock in Norwegian) to the Germans.

Pfänder

The Pfänder is a mountain in western Austria close to Lake Constance (Bodensee).

Punta Bagnà

Administratively the mountain is divided between the Italian comune of Bardonecchia (southern face) and the French communes of Modane (north-western face) and Avrieux (north-eastern face).

Resia, Friuli

The same mountain pass also leads to the Učja Canyon (Uccea), which ends in the Soča valley near the Slovenian village of Žaga.

Šámalova chata

Šámalova chata is a mountain hut for bikers, skiers and tourists, situated at Nová Louka, a mountain meadow in Jizera Mountains (in Czech Jizerské hory) near the city of Bedřichov, district of Jablonec nad Nisou.

Sella Nevea

Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.

Simorgh Alborz F.C.

In the Shahnameh, Zal, the son of Saam,, is rescued after being abandoned at the Alborz mountain by the simorgh that lives at the peak of this mountain.

Squinobal

Oreste Squinobal (b. 1943), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

SRF Airspace monitoring and management system

From 1955 to 1966, a school complex in Dübendorf (the "Radar Doerfli" (Radar Village) on the training site Dürrbach Rüti bei Riggisberg), one on the top of Bütschelegg (above Bern-Belp) and the plants on height locations (mountain peaks) were formed for the first radar aerial surveillance system of Switzerland.

The Holdup

Some notable locations are: The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA; Slims -San Francisco, CA; The Catalyst -Santa Cruz, CA; BB King’s Blues Club - New York, NY; House of Blues - Boston, MA; House of Blues - Anaheim, CA; Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View, CA; The Bellyup - San Diego, CA; and Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA.

The Mountain

The Mountain (French: La Montagne) is a political group during the French Revolution whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the Assembly.

William Duell

Duell graduated from the Green Mountain Junior College (now Green Mountain College) (Vermont), Illinois Wesleyan University, and Yale University.

William Spratling

Using money received from commissions he organized for Rivera, Spratling bought a home in Taxco, Mexico in 1928, where he began work on a book, Little Mexico, about this small mountain town.

Zangezur

Zangezur Mountains, mountain range that defines the border between Armenia and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan)


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