* Monte-originally a summer refuge for the wealthy, due to its mild climate, Monte is symbolized by the toboggan drivers that race tourists down to the central town ; today it is one of the more populated areas of Funchal with over 7500 inhabitants ;

The boater may also be seen worn by the ' carreiros ' of Madeira, the drivers of the traditional wicker toboggans carrying visitors from the parish church at Monte ( Funchal ) down towards Funchal centre.

At the end of the 20th Century, the growth of Funchal along the Ribeira de Santa Luzia and along the Monte Railway ( which linked Funchal until Terreiro da Luta ) caused the growth in settlement along the rural roadways, forcing the creation of new industries and further settlement.

Monte () is a civil parish in the municipality and a suburb of Funchal in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira.

Monte is located a few kilometres east of Funchal and is near the road linking Funchal and Faial.

The parish of Nossa Senhora do Monte was created in 1565, turning itself into a summer refuge for many wealthy families of Funchal.

In 1850, the residents created an innovative method of moving rapidly between Monte and Funchal.

These carros de cesto ( literally, ), baskets with seats on wooden skis which were slid the inclined streets of Monte, guided by two pilots from behind, began operating in the late 19th century to descend the three kilometres to Funchal.

Between 1893 and 1943, the Monte was connected to Funchal by Madeira's only cog railway, which used to carry people between Funchal and Monte, but also to Terreiro da Luta ( at 867 m above sea level ), but was deactivated during the Second World War

The parish of Monte literally extends along the mountainous foothills in the northeast corner of the municipality of Funchal, limited by the valley of Ribeira de João Gomes and west by the river-valley of Fundoa.

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It is located about 3 km northeast of central Funchal, and linked by roadways from Monte and Camacha.

* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

* Monte Hacho ( Abila Mons ), the southern of the Pillars of Hercules on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy ( about to the east of Rome ), before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy.

Cão then coasted down along the present Angola ( Portuguese West Africa ), and erected a second pillar, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cape Santa Maria ( the Monte Negro of these first visitors ).

In Italy dolmens can be found in Apulia, Sardinia and in Sicily where they are located in Mura Pregne ( Palermo ), Sciacca ( Agrigento ), Monte Bubbonia ( Caltanissetta ), Butera ( Caltanissetta ), Cava Lazzaro ( Siracusa ), Cava dei Servi ( Ragusa ), Avola ( Siracusa ).

The Gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy ( because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913 ), and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process, future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely.

The most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in the summer of 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, an extremely uncommon occurrence ( but not more nor less common than any of the other 67, 108, 863 sequences of 26 red or black, neglecting the 0 slot on the wheel ), and gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black after the black streak happened.

Worldwide-known mountains in Italy are Matterhorn ( Cervino ), Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso in the West Alps, and Bernina, Stelvio and Dolomites along the eastern side of the Alps.

* MM ( album ), an album by Marisa Monte

35 million euros between 1997 and 2011 ), despite stiff competition from other film locations in Eastern Europe and North Africa, with the Malta Film Commission providing support services to foreign film companies for the production of feature cinema ( Gladiator, Troy, Munich and Count of Monte Cristo ' World War Z, amongst others, were shot in Malta over the last few years ), commercials and television series.

The precise dating of the Rule of the Master is problematic ; but it has been argued on internal grounds that it antedates the so-called Rule of Saint Benedict created by Benedict of Nursia for his monastery in Monte Cassino, Italy ( c. 529 ), and the other Benedictine monasteries he himself had founded ( cf.

This area is characterised by the many picturesque hilltop villages ( Pitigliano, Roccastrada, Roccatederighi, Sassofortino, Monte Massi, Massa Marittima, Cinigiano, Campagnatico, Pari ), which remind of the hilltop towns of the Siena area.

Paul the Deacon ( c. 720s – 13 April probably 799 ), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis, ( i. e. " of Monte Cassino "), was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.

His family worked as sharecroppers as did most of the people of Sotto il Monte – a striking contrast to that of his predecessor, Eugenio Pacelli ( Pope Pius XII ), who came from an ancient aristocratic family, long connected to the Papacy.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

Pope Julius III ( 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555 ), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from 7 February 1550 to 1555.

Monte Córdova is a civil parish in Portuguese municipality of Santo Tirso, located 4 kilometres east of the municipal seat.

The civil parish of Monte Córdova is situated 30 kilometres from Porto, and accessible through the EN105 motorway to many of the local communities, including Braga, Famalicão and Guimarães.

* Monte ( Fafe ), a civil parish in the municipality of Fafe

* Monte ( Murtosa ), a civil parish in the municipality of Murtosa

* Monte ( Terras de Bouro ), a civil parish in the municipality of Terras de Bouro

It counts 7 little civil parishes ( frazioni ): Canale, Colli, Ferrarisi, Monte, Piana, Puglia and Staglio.

The civil parish's name was a consequence of the older parish of Santa Luzia, but created from the dissection of lands in Sé and Nossa Senhora do Monte.

The Castro of Monte Valinhas, alternately the Castro of São João de Valinhas, is an archaeological site in Portugal, in the civil parish of Santa Eulália, in the municipality of Arouca, notable for the discovery of important traces of human remains from the last 2000 years.

Woodlands cover the planar civil parishes of Vila Real de Santo António and Monte Gordo, while in Vila Nova de Cacela, barren lands and schist hills are more predominant.