Another story from the Precious Scroll of Fragrant Mountain describes an incarnation of Guanyin as the daughter of a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man.

Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story " Christmas on Bear Mountain " as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth.

It is also home to Mountain Island Lake, a smaller man made lake that is used as Charlotte's city water.

Hurston developed this idea in her novel Moses: Man of the Mountain, in which she calls Moses, " the finest hoodoo man in the world.

Robespierre, who hated the Girondists, had proposed to include them in the proscription lists of September 1792 ; The Mountain Club to a man desired their overthrow.

Mountain man Historical reenactment | reenactor dressed in buckskins

He started working with the Ashley expedition, signed on with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and became a well-known mountain man.

He later became the first European man to enter Yellowstone National Park, and to see what is now Jackson Hole and the Teton Mountain Range.

The area today known as the Town of Wilbraham first became of interest in 1636 when a young man named William Pynchon ( founder of Springfield ) purchased the area from the Native Americans starting at the Connecticut River in Springfield and extending all the way to the foot of the Wilbraham Mountain Range by 1674.

On August 7, 1761 on Wilbraham Mountain a young man named Timothy Merrick was bitten by a rattlesnake.

So the brother took his younger sister to the top of the Kunlun Mountain and prayed, " If the heavens allow us to be man and wife, please let the smoke before us gather.

These included Daniel Boone ( not the Fess Parker characterization ), Texas John Slaughter, Elfego Baca, Francis Marion, the " Swamp Fox ", and Kit Carson and the Mountain Man ( 1977 ), with Christopher Connelly as Kit Carson, Robert Reed as John C. Fremont, and Gregg Palmer as mountain man Jim Bridger.

Additionally, Cuban plays himself in a television commercial for diet Mountain Dew, making elaborately fantastic offers to a man in a grocery store if he will give Cuban the store's last bottle.

Burnett Stone, an elderly man, lives on Muffle Mountain, near Shining Time Station, in which Stacy Jones was the manager.

" Carrington's guide was the seasoned Mountain man Jim Bridger.

Led by General Louis Botha, they formed Dinuzulu's Volunteers and after several clashes with Zibhebhu, defeated him at the Battle of Ghost Mountain ( also known as the Battle of Tshaneni ) on 5 June 1884, killing Zibhebhu and his forces to the last man.

In one such incident a man was seriously injured when attacked with pitchforks and slash hooks in the Mountain Top area of the town.

The next day these forces won a major victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain, where the out-numbered Americans overwhelmed a 1, 100 man Loyalist force, suffering only twenty-eight fatalities.

** Mountain ( Leslie West album ), a 1969 solo album by Mountain front man Leslie West

In March 1793 he had several meetings with Georges Danton, who was anxious to bring about a rapprochement between the Girondists and The Mountain during the Revolt in the Vendée, but he unconditionally refused to join with the man whom he held responsible for the September Massacres.

In " Christmas on Bear Mountain ", Scrooge was a bearded, bespectacled, reasonably wealthy old man, visibly leaning on his cane.

Positioned on the shore of Bay Lake near Discovery Island in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, River Country was a rustic wilderness theming, replete with rocks and manmade boulders ( created by the same man who created Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at the Magic Kingdom ).

When an inebriated old man also in the cell sings a passage from the Irish ballad " The Rare Old Mountain Dew ", the narrator ( MacGowan ) begins to dream about the song's female character.

* Hamiduddin Farahi: One of the lessons of this surah is that a lot of people see historical sites, which are a sign of destroyed nations. So when we see the legacies ; the Pyramids, the Mountain homes of Thamud, and the great buildings and nations of power who have died-we realise that Allah destroyed them through time. This is a reminder of ; Inna al insaana la fee Khusrin-surely man is in loss. Allah replies to such people ;

This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.

In the state legislature Round Mountain is located in the 4th Senate District, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Jim Nielsen.

** David Castle ( engineer / mixer ), the Clinch Mountain Boys, Jim Lauderdale ( producers & artists ) & Ralph Stanley for Lost in the Lonesome Pines

The title track " Falling into You " and " River Deep, Mountain High " ( a Tina Turner cover ) made prominent use of percussion instruments ; " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " ( a remake of Jim Steinman's song ) and a remake of Eric Carmen's " All by Myself " kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano ; and the number-one single " Because You Loved Me ", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.

In 1830, Jim Bridger and several other trappers bought out Ashley and established the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, competing with the Hudson's Bay Company and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company for the lucrative beaver pelt trade.

Long after the Lewis & Clark Expedition and also after the consolidation of the fur trade in the region by the Canadian fur companies, American " Mountain Men " such as Jedediah Smith and Jim Beckwourth came roaming into and across the Rocky Mountains, following Indian trails through the Rockies to California and Oregon.

" The Mountain Whippoorwill " is the title of a poem written by Stephen Vincent Benet about a fiddling contest, won by Hillbilly Jim, who refers to his fiddle as a whippoorwill and identifies the bird with the lonely and poor but vibrant life of the mountain people.

James Mountain " Jim " Inhofe (; born November 17, 1934 ) is the senior United States Senator from Oklahoma and a member of the Republican Party.

* The Mountain Whippoorwill: How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize, 1925 ( full text )

Starting in 1963, with the founding of the journal American Haiku, poets such as Cor van den Heuvel, Nick Virgilio, Raymond Roseliep, John Wills, Anita Virgil, Gary Hotham, Marlene Mountain, Wally Swist, Peggy Willis Lyles, George Swede, vincent tripi, Jim Kacian, and others have created significant oeuvres of haiku poetry, evincing continuities with both Transcendentalism and Imagism and often maintaining an anti-anthropocentric environmental focus on nature during an unparalleled age of habitat destruction and human alienation.

In 1996, the product was spun off into a separate venture capital funded startup company based in Mountain View, California under the leadership of CEO Jim Groff.

* 2006: Jim Sheeler of Rocky Mountain News, " for his poignant story on a Marine major who helps the families of comrades killed in Iraq cope with their loss and honor their sacrifice.

* Jim Macdonald, a resident of the area in which the Hills claimed to have been abducted, has produced a detailed analysis of their journey which concludes that the episode was in fact provoked by their misperceiving an aircraft warning beacon on Cannon Mountain as a UFO.

The pair also wrestled in feuds against each other as well before Buchanan was recruited by Jim Cornette for Smoky Mountain Wrestling.

Terry's parents, Helen and Jim Stanford, reside in Stone Mountain, Arkansas.

In 1992, Koloff also wrestled in the first television main event of Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling, beating Bobby Fulton.

She has four grandchildren and remains in Asheville today where she lives with her second husband, former publisher of Black Mountain News, Mr. Jim Aycock.

Bird's time in the Rockies was enlivened especially by her acquaintance with Jim Nugent, " Rocky Mountain Jim ", a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry.

The Boyne Mountain Resort was originally co-developed by Everett Kircher, Jim Christianson and John Norton and is now owned and operated by Boyne Resorts.

As a manager, he has worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation and from 1991 to 1995, was the owner of Smoky Mountain Wrestling.

The festival has also had the American premiere of films such as My Dinner With Andre ( Louis Malle, 1981 ), Stranger than Paradise ( Jim Jarmusch, 1984 ), Blue Velvet ( David Lynch, 1986 ), The Civil War ( Ken Burns, 1990 ), The Crying Game ( Neil Jordan, 1992 ), Mulholland Drive ( David Lynch, 2001 ), and Brokeback Mountain ( Ang Lee, 2005 ).