She tells her what had happened, then tricks her sister into believing that Cupid has chosen her as a wife on the mountaintop.

He sounded like he was singing from an Olympian mountaintop.

King Iasus wanted a son ; when Atalanta was born, he left her on a mountaintop to die.

The plea bargain was later mocked by former Maryland Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs as " the greatest deal since the Lord spared Isaac on the mountaintop ".

If this man was Chapman, he succumbed " a mere 45 seconds before ... Razor 01 appeared over the mountaintop.

In the foundation legend of a specifically Cean weather-magic ritual, Aristaeus was credited with the double sacrifice that countered the deadly effects of the Dog-Star, a sacrifice at dawn to Zeus Ikmaios, " Rain-making Zeus " at a mountaintop altar following a pre-dawn chthonic sacrifice to Sirius, the Dog-Star, at its first annual appearance, which brought the annual relief of the cooling Etesian winds.

After 17 hours on the mountaintop, a nighttime rescue took place and the ordeal was over.

The official name that includes the word Bald in this case was not intended to suggest a once-treeless mountaintop, the way the term is used for most other Appalachian balds.

According to Avestan sources, Afrasiab was killed by Haoma near the Čīčhast ( possibly either referring to Lake Hamun in Sistan or some unknown lake in today's Central Asia ), and according to Shahnameh he met his death in a cave known as the Hang-e Afrasiab, or the dying place of Afrasiab, on a mountaintop in Azerbaijan.

A Kehlsteinhaus, nicknamed Eagle's Nest by a French diplomat, was built in 1938-39 ( with remarkably lavish government funds spent as a national gift for his 50th birthday ) on the mountaintop above the Berghof, but Hitler rarely went there.

Given that the airport was built on a mountaintop, the terrain drops off abruptly shortly after the runway ends, prompting the need for the EMAS beds.

: ( Accessible in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 ) The town of Sarth is home to an ancient mountaintop fortress which was converted into an abbey and library by the Order of Ishap.

The first building on the mountaintop was the chapel of Saint Lawrence ( Laurentiuskapelle ), built ca.

A wooden weather station was built on the mountaintop ca.

The original " Dolly Sods " was a mountaintop meadow of about at the southern end of Rohrbaugh Plains, near the present Dolly Sods Picnic Area.

Formerly, the area encompassed by these three mountaintop flats — all south of FS Rt 19 — was known locally and collectively as " Huckleberry Plains ".

Jvari Monastery stands on the rocky mountaintop at the confluence of the Mtkvari and Aragvi rivers, overlooking the town of Mtskheta, which was formerly the capital of the Kingdom of Iberia.

The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin was a 12-hour performance, while KA MOUNTain and GUARDenia Terrace was staged on a mountaintop in Iran and lasted seven days.

In September, the transmitter was moved to Flint Peak, a mountaintop adjacent to Pasadena, and the power increased to 25, 500 watts.

On the mountaintop was to be a golf course surrounded by hotels and condos.

This mountaintop development was scrapped however, as the land that it was located on was sold by the State of New Jersey to Mountain Creek's previous owners, Great American Recreation, with a deed restriction that stated that the land was to be used only for passive recreation, such as fishing, hiking, and camping.

Their conversation typically involves the hero asking, " Do the eagles ( or ravens ) still circle the mountaintop?

" The herdsman, or a mysterious voice, replies, " Yes, they still circle the mountaintop.

Of the castro structures still located within the region, two share some importance: the castro Morro dos Mouros, and Cividade, which was located in a high mountaintop and separated the settlements of Afife from Âncora ( in the neighbouring municipality of Caminha ).

Techniques of surface mining include ; Open-pit mining which consists of recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying or gathering building materials from an open pit mine, strip mining which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore / seams underneath, and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth.

Procris then conceived doubts about her husband, who left his bride at the bridal chamber and climbed to a mountaintop and sang a hymn invoking Nephele, " cloud ".

Aerial view of the Citadelle Laferrière, in northern Haiti, a conservation project of the World Monuments Fund ( 1985-87 ). Also at the request of UNESCO, IFM launched a project for the preservation of the Citadelle Laferrière, a large mountaintop fortress near Milot, Haiti.

It is popular to visit to the mineral springs at the base and to drive to the mountaintop at sunset.

* 1994 May 13 Carlos Carsolio got mountaintop solo, introducing a world speed record at 23 h 50 min rise from basecamp to the summit.

On Wednesday, May 7, at around 4 AM, the mountain stepped up its activity ; the clouds of ash caused numerous bolts of volcanic lightning around the mountaintop, and both the craters glowed reddish orange into the night.

The prosecution had provided evidence that he threatened the hostage at gunpoint, drove the car, and, when the car approached the mountaintop, refused to free the hostage despite suggestions from the activists.

In addition, Yangsu Power Generator at the summit, a mountaintop lake and such historic sites as Jeoksang Sanseong and Anguksa Temple make the area more valuable.

Every year on 23 June, the night before St. John's day ( nit de Sant Joan ), there is a ceremony called Flama del Canigó ( Canigou Flame ), where a fire is lit at the mountaintop.

March 2007-Students protested mountaintop coal removal at “ Mountain Justice Spring Break ”, West Virginia.

The generators and turbines at river level are reversible, and at night the excess electricity available on the power grid is used to pump water back to the mountaintop.

Smoke can be seen emerging from the mountaintop at least 300 days a year, and several eruptions have caused fatalities.

In addition to fir trees, these " mountaintop island " biomes are a valuable and threatened habitat for many other flora and fuana suited to survival at higher elevation.

On October 6, 2010, Manchin directed a lawsuit aimed at overturning new federal rules concerning mountaintop removal mining.

There is also a hotel at the mountaintop train station and an alpine Gasthaus at the half-way point that serves excellent traditional Austrian country pastries and sausages.

The mountaintop which is also known as Ostrakia elevates at 1, 860 m is in the northwest central part.

By mid-August, wagons of visitors were able to enter the mountaintop forest for the first time.