A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylos in Asia Minor and turned into stone as she wept.

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylus in Asia Minor and either turned to stone as she wept or killed herself.

East Malaysia contains the five highest mountains in Malaysia – the highest being Mount Kinabalu at 4, 095 m, which is also the highest mountain in Borneo and the 10th highest mountain peak in Southeast Asia.

The highest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Asia, whose summit is above mean sea level.

The name of the Cabeiri recalls Mount Kabeiros, a mountain in the region of Berekyntia in Asia Minor, closely associated with the Phrygian Mother Goddess.

In ancient geography, Pamphylia was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus ( modern day Antalya province, Turkey ).

Some sources claim Mount Wilhelm,, as the highest mountain peak in Australia, on account of Indonesia being part of Asia and Southeast Asia.

; MegaZip Adventure Park: located at the top of Mount Imbiah, MegaZip Adventure Park is Singapore's first adventure park with one of the longest and steepest zip wires in Asia, a 12m high ropes course, a free-fall parachute simulator and a challenging climbing wall.

In 1959, the 10th World Scout Jamboree was held in Mount Makiling, Los Baños, Laguna, the first world Scout jamboree held in Asia.

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The park is a two hour drive away from the city and it contains Mount Kinabalu which is the 10th highest peak in South-East Asia, and the highest in Malaysia.

One of over 70 Kunlun Volcanoes is the highest volcano in Asia and China and second in East Hemisphere ( after Mount Kilimanjaro ) and one of Volcanic Seven Summits by elevation, with above sea level (), the last known eruption is on May 27, 1951.

Nepal adopted community radio in 1997 when Radio Sagarmatha ( Sagarmatha is Nepalese for " Mount Everest "), broadcasting on 102. 4 MHz, became the first independent public-interest broadcaster in South Asia.

* However, atop the 5, 642 meters ( 18, 510-feet ) Mount Elbrus -- Russia's highest peak, the highest mountain in all of Europe and ( at least ) topographically dividing Europe from Asia -- sits the world's " nastiest outhouse " at 4, 206 meters ( 13, 800 feet ).

In Greek mythology, Endymion (, gen .: Ἐνδυμίωνος ), was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis, and he was also venerated and said to reside on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor.

Khalups is the singular form of Khalubes or Chalybes, who were mythical people living on Mount Ida in north Asia Minor who had invented iron working.

Wells was an avid alpinist and came close, but did not achieve his goal of the Seven Summits, climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents: Kilimanjaro in Africa, Denali ( Mount McKinley ) in North America, Aconcagua in South America, Elbrus in Europe, Mount Everest in Asia, Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, and Vinson in Antarctica.

Pinus merkusii, the Sumatran Pine, is a pine native to the Malesia region of southeast Asia, mainly in Indonesia in the mountains of northern Sumatra, and with two outlying populations in central Sumatra on Mount Kerinci and Mount Talang, and in the Philippines on Mindoro and in the Zambales Mountains on western Luzon.

He was an amateur archaeologist and organized expeditions from Rome to Mount Athos, to Syria, and Asia Minor, from which he gained an interest in the early history of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the systematic classification they published, it shows Mizo is the name of the nation which may have an ancient origin somewhere in Central Asia, and comprising 11 tribes: the Aso, Chho, Halam, Gangte, Lai ( Pawi ), Lusei, Mara, Miu-Khumi, Paite ( Zomi ), Ralte and Thado ( Kuki ).

Transferring a 2, 000 pound Joint Direct Attack Munition | JDAM to a lift truck for loading onto a B-1B Lancer supersonic strategic bomber in Southwest Asia in 2007.

This species of flea is the primary Vector ( epidemiology ) | vector for the transmission of Yersinia pestis the organism responsible for bubonic plague in most plague epidemic s in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Tajikistan – Afghanistan bridge at Panji Poyon | Afghanistan-Tajikistan bridge after completion in 2007 is one of several bridges used for trade between Afghanistan and Central Asia.

The Greek Kingdom and the Greek diaspora in the Balkans and western Asia Minor, according to a 1919 map submitted to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 | Paris Peace Conference.

A United States Air Force | U. S. Air Force airman in Southwest Asia stands in the ringmount of a FRAG 6-reinforced HMMWV in April 2010.

Southeast Asia c. 1400 CE, showing Lan Xang kingdom in teal, Khmer Empire in red, Ayutthaya Kingdom | Ayutthaya Kingdom in violet, Sukhothai kingdom in orange, Champa in yellow, Kingdom of Lanna in purple, Dai Viet in blue.

This map shows the boundary of 13th century Mongol Empire and location of today's Mongols in modern Mongolia, Russia, Central Asia n States and People's Republic of China | China.

East Asian Seal ( East Asia ) | name seal

Southeast Asia c. 1300 CE, showing Khmer Empire in red, Lavo kingdom in light blue, Sukhothai Kingdom | Sukhothai empire in orange, Champa in yellow, Dai Viet in blue and Kingdom of Lanna in purple.

Southeast Asia c. 1400 CE, showing Khmer Empire in red, Ayutthaya Kingdom | Ayutthaya Kingdom in violet, Lan Xang kingdom in teal, Sukhothai Kingdom in orange, Champa in yellow, Kingdom of Lanna in purple, Dai Viet in blue.

Naan, a leavened flatbread from Central Asia | Central and South Asia.

Chicken egg ( biology ) | eggs vary in color depending on the hen, typically ranging from bright white to shades of brown and even blue, green, and recently reported purple ( found in South Asia ) ( Araucana varieties ).

Asia in 323BC, the Nanda Empire and Gangaridai | Gangaridai Empire in relation to Alexander the Great | Alexander's Empire and neighbors.

" The most important and pretentious building of the whole Mission period ..." was modeled after the Byzantine architecture | Byzantine cathedrals scattered throughout Europe and Western Asia.

Scheme of a water-driven Hierapolis sawmill | Roman sawmill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor.

Gandharva ( right ) with an Apsara, 10th century, Cham ( Asia ) | Cham, Vietnam

Dikpala, Cham ( Asia ) | Cham civilization, Mỹ Sơn, Vietnam 10th century.

Dell's tagline ' Yours is Here ', as seen at their SM Mall of Asia | Mall of Asia branch in Pasay City, Philippines

File: Prostitution in Asia. PNG | Prostitution in Asia

Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

One such event is the landing in Europe itself, when the mingled familiarity and strangeness of the Occident, after the blank immensities of Asia, shocks the returning traveller into a realization of the infinite possibilities of human life.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

It is generally conceded that the Formosan air force is the best by far in Asia, and the army the best trained.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Create a free market here, give us a sound, debt-free money system, and we'll compete with anyone, Europe and Asia combined.

`` Confrontation '' should fortify us all, whether in Southeast Asia or the U.S..

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

Fifty lantern slide teaching sets on the subject of `` Emergency War Surgery ( NATO ) '' were assembled and distributed to the Medical Military Services of foreign Governments associated with NATO and South-East Asia Treaty Organization.

The first year's projects should also be spread through several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

For almost 3,000 years Europe and Asia have rubbed shoulders in its streets.

Then the editorial added prophetically: `` how far they may reach in Asia is yet undetermined, but they fall far short of our dreams of the war conferences ''.

Then China promptly went Communist, and Mr. Truman had to fight the interminable Korean war for the democratization of Korea before we learned how far our writ did `` reach in Asia ''.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

out of the question was the neutralization of Asia and Africa.

During the nineteenth century these views were protested by virtually all the Latin American writers, though ineffectively, just as the new nations of Africa and Asia protest them, with more effect, today.

Cereal grains, supplemented with soybeans or dry edible peas or beans, comprise about two-thirds or three-fourths of the diet in parts of Asia and Africa.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.