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unusual facts about The Mount


The Mount, Sheffield

The Mount with its south-facing views over the Porter valley, became a fashionable location to live, attracting some of the upper echelon of Sheffield society.


The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth was written while Edith Wharton lived at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.


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Ain Dara

Ain Dara, Lebanon, a town in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Airavat

Airavata, the mythical elephant king and the mount of Indra in Hinduism.

Bamboo stove

In the Taiping rebellion of 1860 the temple was again destroyed and the rolls of poems which were found again in Shanghai given to the Mount Hui temple in Wuxi.

Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar

The Saint Patrick mosaic represents the saint lighting the Paschal fire on the mount of Slane.

Christ on the Mount of Olives

Sermon on the Mount, a sermon given by Jesus Christ while on the Mount of Olives

Colwich, Staffordshire

In 1836 the community, having been expelled from France during the French Revolution, finally settled at The Mount, Colwich, where they established the present house, raised to the rank of an abbey in 1928.

Daniel O. Fagunwa

Fagunwa's later works include Igbo Olodumare (The Forest of God, 1949), Ireke Onibudo (1949), Irinkerindo ninu Igbo Elegbeje (Expedition to the Mount of Thought, 1954), and Adiitu Olodumare (1961).

Eğirdir

Eğirdir lies between Lake Eğirdir and the Mount Sivri, and contains a castle said to have been built by Croesus, king of Lydia, although additions were built by the Romans, Byzantines, and Seljuks.

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The first occurred after Waterford Crystal, the mount of Ireland’s Cian O'Connor, tested positive for Zuclopenthixol (clopixol), Fluphenazine, Guanabenz and Reserpine.

Freiburg Charterhouse

It was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, in honour of the Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble, and was known as Sankt Johannisberg or St. Johannes des Täufers Berg ("St John's Mount" or the "Mount of St. John the Baptist").

Hawker Tomtit

It was acquired and restored by Hawkers in 1949 where it became the mount of the their test pilot Neville Duke and was painted in the dark blue company colours.

Hydrogen Jukebox

The Australasian premiere was given on April 17, 2003 at the Mount Nelson Theatre (Hobart, Tasmania) by the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, conducted by Douglas Knehans and directed by Robert Jarman.

Ipswich Castle

Ipswich Castle was built after the Norman conquest of England in the town of Ipswich; the exact location is uncertain, with the modern-day Ipswich arboretum or the mount near St Stephen's church being two possibilities.

Josef Speckbacher

After the enemy had been driven from the Mount Isel area, he and his men forced their way into the mountains of Salzburg, organizing and stimulating the defense of the countryside.

Los Angeles and Mount Washington Railway

The Mount Washington Hotel remains, having been purchased by the Self-Realization Fellowship in 1925.

Manapakkam

Manapakkam is located along the Mount-Poonamallee Road in Chennai.It is now a home to a lot of IT companies.

Mount Albion complex

LoDaisKa Site, Magic Mountain, Mount Albion, Helmer Ranch in Douglas County, and Yarmony House in Eagle County, Colorado are examples of the Mount Albion complex.

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 Davies Road

The Mount Davies Road is a remote unsealed outback track which runs from Mount Davies (Pipalyatjara) in the far north-west corner of South Australia to Anne's Corner on the Anne Beadell Highway 397 kilometres to the south-east.

Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple

The Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Mount Gulaga

These Pyrite-rich veins (which range in size from 15 to 45 cm) were mined by the Mount Dromedary Gold Mining Company.

Mount Jewett Charter School Coalition

The Mount Jewett Charter School Coalition exists in Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mount Lemmon

The Catalina Highway, also called the Mount Lemmon Highway, as well as the Hitchcock Highway (after Frank Harris Hitchcock) runs up the Santa Catalina Mountains from the east side of Tucson up to Summerhaven, at the top of Mt. Lemmon.

Mount Lofty Fire Tower

On 1 January 1988 the Mount Lofty Fire Tower was beamed live around Australia on Channel 9 television as part of the Australia Live broadcast to celebrate the Australian Bicentenary.

Mount Lola

The Mount Lola is named for Lola Montez, a famous resident of Nevada County, who lived in Grass Valley in the 1850s.

Mount Morgan Mine

Wealth from the Mount Morgan mine was also bequeathed in 1912 to establish the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Mount Pleasant Community School District

The Mount Pleasant Community School District is the public school system serving the city of Mount Pleasant, Iowa and the surrounding area, primarily Salem, Westwood, Rome, Swedesburg, and rural students.

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association is a non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Mount Vernon estate originally owned by George Washington.

Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

George Washington Memorial Parkway, formerly known as the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

Mount Vision fire

The Mount Vision fire was a wildfire that burned for 4 days in October, 1995 on the Point Reyes peninsula in northern California.

Murphy's War

When he discovers the U-Boat is hiding further up river, under the cover of the jungle, he sets about obsessively plotting his revenge to sink it by any means, including using a surviving Grumman J2F Duck floatplane from the Mount Kyle.

Nandambakkam

Nandambakkam is situated at a distance of 13 kilometres south-west of Chennai on the Mount-Poonamallee Road.

New Brunswick Route 970

The road is one of only three public roads crossing the provincial boundary on the Isthmus of Chignecto; the other two being Route 2/Nova Scotia Highway 104 (Trans-Canada Highway) and the Mount Whately Road.

Newman, Western Australia

It was built in the 1960s by the Mount Newman Mining Company, following the discovery of rich iron deposits on nearby Mount Whaleback.

Ohio Christian University

The school was founded in 1948 as Mount of Praise Bible College, which met at the Mount of Praise Campground, where the Churches of Christ in Christian Union held annual revivalist camp meetings.

Riekoperla darlingtoni

The small brown, wingless stonefly, is one of the only two wingless stoneflies in Australia, and the species was first collected by Darlington in 1931 from the Mount Donna Buang area.

Rocca dei Tre Vescovi

The name, meaning "Rock of the Three Bishops", derives from the fact that the mount is on the intersection point of three Catholic dioceses, those of Cuneo, Nice and Digne.

Scouting in Vermont

Its Boy Scout Camp is the Mount Norris Scout Reservation in Eden, Vermont and Cub Scout Camp is Camp Sunrise in Benson, Vermont.

Selaginella bryopteris

Hanuman was called upon to fetch this herb from the mount Dunagiri (Mahodaya) in the Himalayas or Valley of Flowers.

St James Cemetery

The southern entrance near Upper Parliament street is through a stone arch between the Garden Lodge and the steps up to the Mount.

T. gardneri

Thomasia gardneri, the Mount Holland Thomasia, a plant species in the genus Thomasia

The Devastator

The Devastator Assemblage, a rock unit forming the Mount Meager massif in southwestern British Columbia, Canada

The Legend of Sword and Fairy

Their search brings them to Sichuan, where the Mount Shu Sect, a powerful martial arts clan, is based.

West Kelowna

The Mount Boucherie Community Centre offers Royal LePage Place arena, home to the BCHL team the West Kelowna Warriors, and Jim Lind Arena for ice sport clubs such as hockey, figure skating and ringette.

White-headed Woodpecker

mtDNA cytochrome b and ATP synthase subunit 6 sequence data confirms this arrangement and also suggests that the Mount Pinos birds are closer to P. a. gravirostris (Alexander & Burns, 2006).