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unusual facts about The Mountains



Aodh Méith

The Annals of the Four Masters relate that in 1179 "the churches of Tír Eoghain, from the mountains south, were left desolate, in consequence of war and intestine commotion, famine and distress".


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Agia Effimia Bay

The mountains surround the gulf to the east, while a small valley lies in the area of the port of Agia Effimia.

Antlers Frisco Depot and Antlers Spring

The railroad, which was built north to south through the mountains and virgin timberlands of the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory, brought civilization to the wilderness—three passenger trains operated daily in each direction, plus two freight trains, making for a total of ten trains per day.

Aosta Valley

This is probably due to the mountains blocking the mild winds from the Atlantic Ocean.

Auxiliary Pilot Badge

During the campaign to recapture the Philippines, pilots of the 25th Liaison Squadron flew a dozen L-5 aircraft in short 30-minute flights (Dec. 10-25, 1944) delivering supplies (including a 300-bed hospital) to the 6,000 men of the 11th Airborne Division isolated in the mountains of Leyte.

Bahá'í pilgrimage

The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, also known as the "Most Great House" (Bayt-i-A'zam) and the "House of God," is where Bahá'u'lláh lived from 1853 to 1863 (except for two years when he left to the mountains of Kurdistan, northeast of Baghdad, near the city of Sulaymaniyah).

Battle of Ollantaytambo

The main access route to Ollantaytambo runs along a narrow valley formed in the mountains by the Urubamba River, which connects the site with Machu Picchu to the west and with Pisaq and Cusco to the east.

Battle of Tiro

The first Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) unit was a small guerilla force that started out with twenty men (later grew exponentially) and operated in the mountains around the city of Gelemso.

Bothriechis lateralis

Found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, including the Cordillera de Tilarán, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca to the provinces of Chiriquí Province and Veraguas.

Brigandage

The Apennines, the mountains of Calabria, the Sierras of Spain, were the homes of the Italian banditos and the Spanish bandoleros (member of a gang) and salteadores (raiders).

Custer LaRue

In the 2004 film Vanity Fair, LaRue's singing was used to voice-over Reese Witherspoon's three songs: "Over The Mountains/The Great Adventurer", "Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal", and "The Mermaids Song".

Dobarsko

Many of the locals were merchants who bought cotton from Northern Greece and sold it in Central Europe and grazed large herds of cattle in the mountains and the plains around Drama and Serres.

Dupuyer Creek

It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest at the continental divide in northwestern Teton County and flows northwest down from the mountains, past Dupuyer, and joins Birch Creek in Pondera County 2 mi (3.2 km) west of Valier.

Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a 2005 double live album by American composer and saxophonist John Zorn's Electric Masada featuring performances recorded in Moscow and Ljubljana.

Gravia

The municipal unit Gravia is situated in the foothills of the mountains Giona and Parnassus.

Greenbrier River

The other salamander, the Cheat Mountain Salamander lives in the mountains of the headwaters.

History of the Incas

Manco Inca then retreated to the mountains of Vilcabamba, where he and his successors ruled for another 36 years, sometimes raiding the Spanish or inciting revolts against them.

Isami Doi

His first solo show at the Honolulu Museum of Art took place in April 1929, and featured painted landscapes of the mountains of Kauai as well as fifteen prints.

Jirisan

After United Nations forces took the area a considerable number of North Koreans remained in the mountains, where they continued a guerrilla war until finally beaten in 1955, two years after the cease fire was signed by the belligerents.

Jokke Sommer

Then, they fly between the mountains Tianmen in China, where Espen Fadnes narrowly escaped collision with a cable car.

Kaechon internment camp

It is situated along the middle reaches of Taedong river, which forms the southern boundary of the camp, and also includes the mountains north of the river like Purok-san.

Kulgera, Northern Territory

According to Nicolas Rothwell, Kulgera is derived from kalgka in the Pertam language of the mountains and that word "refers to a particularly private recess of a private part of the female anatomy".

Laas, South Tyrol

Laas is known for the pure white marble quarried in the mountains south of the village which has been used in buildings world-wide, including the Victoria Memorial, London.

Lewis and Clark Expedition

In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

Lewisia brachycalyx

It is native to the mountains of the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it grows in moist habitat such as meadows.

Lost Adams Diggings

Purcell believes that the gold exists and is perhaps somewhere in the mountains just south of Quemado, New Mexico.

Maria Mandl

In May 1945, Mandl fled from Mühldorf into the mountains of southern Bavaria to her birthplace of Münzkirchen, Austria.

Meliae

The species of ash in the mountains of Greece is the Manna-ash (Fraxinus ornus).

Mérida, Mérida

Moreover, the educational development of the city due, for the most part, to its university (ULA) has contributed to the creation of museums, libraries, and centers for scientific research, such as the Center for Astronomy Research (CIDA), located a few kilometers from the city in the mountains near Apartaderos.

Michael Roarty

He created many of the best known beer slogans of the era, including "Weekends were made for Michelob," "This Bud's for you," and "Head for the mountains of Busch" to promote Anheuser-Busch's beer brands.

Mount Carleton Provincial Park

The mountains in the park are erosional remnants of resistant igneous rocks that remained after an ancient Mesozoic peneplain surface was uplifted in the Cenozoic to form a plateau, and subsequently dissected via millions of years of erosion by wind, water and glacial ice.

Mount Lyell

:Note - the Mountains named after Charles Lyell were done so in the nineteenth century during the controversy about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula

The Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula are not found in a single mountain range, but instead consist of a number of unnamed mountain ranges found on the Iveragh Peninsula of County Kerry, in Ireland.

Nepenthes dubia

In 1997, Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek published their monograph "A skeletal revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)", in which they referred to N. dubia specimens from Mount Talang (Kurata s.n. SING) and the mountains of the Tjampo region near Payakumbuh (Meijer 6949 L).

Niha Bekaa

The mountains continue to rise over some ten kilometers to reach the top of Mount Sannine at 2,628 m (8,622 ft).

North Santiam River

It flows north through the mountains past Marion Forks, receiving the drainage from the western slope of Mount Jefferson.

Omizutori

It is told that the priest, Jitchu, made a journey deep into the mountains of Kasagi in 751 where he witnessed celestial beings performing a ceremony that was meant to cleanse and ask for repentance.

Qubain Family

The story told: One day, Hanna was out herding his cattle in the mountains of Ajloun when the rain came down heavily.

Roland Bonaparte

There is also a small lake on the mountains above the Coast Sámi/Norwegian village Kvalsund which is called Bonapartesjøen - Lake Bonaparte - after his abovementioned visit to the region.

Saint Bessus

On August 10 of every year, a festival and pilgrimage is held every year in the mountains of Gran Paradiso National Park (Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso), in the Val Soana.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Siberian Jay

It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Sichuan Jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan, and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.

Siege of Fredriksten

The bitter cold killed the guide on the very first day, and the army scatted blindly in the mountains (Sylan mountain range).

Siege of Phasis

Theodore led heavy infantry consisting of Tzani, a recently Christianized tribe living in the mountains above Trapezus, while Philomathius led Isaurian slingers and dart-throwers.

Silent Gunpowder

Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans.

Streptocarpus

In 1884, seed was collected in the mountains of the Transvaal gold fields, and sent to Kew by Mr E. G. Dunn of Claremont, Cape Town.

Sunny Side of Life

Sunny Side of Life is a documentary film from 1985 about the musical Carter Family focusing on the children of A.P and Sara who still live in the mountains and are trying to keep the legacy of their ancestors alive, at the Carter Fold near Maces Spring, Virginia.

There's a Star

Mark explains the original plan for the video: "We're off to Iceland to shoot it up in the mountains, imagine vast area covered in snow, think Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, we're all dressed Han Solo style with Rebel Alliance logos with rescue flares going up in the night and we're gonna comes across 'Snow Jawas'. Whilst Tim makes a quest across the snow scape searching for his "Flying V" just in time for the solo. How epic".

Thousand Buddha Mountain

According to a legend related in the Youyang Zazu (Youyang Miscellanies) by the Tang Dynasty writer Duan Chengshi (800-863), the Thousand Buddha Mountain was originally located by the sea and the sea god had locked it in place there by a large lock in order to prevent the god in charge of the mountains from moving it around.

Villa Los Almácigos

In the mountains around La Peonia, it is possible to see the Hispaniolan solenodon and Hutia, rare animals endemic to the Dominican Republic.

Wassuk Range

The mountains reach an elevation of 11,239 feet at Mount Grant, approximately eight miles northwest of Hawthorne.