Even small caldera-forming eruptions, such as Krakatoa in 1883 or Mount Pinatubo in 1991, may result in significant local destruction and a noticeable drop in temperature around the world.

Many of the Templar legends are connected with the Order's early occupation of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and speculation about what relics the Templars may have found there, such as the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant.

Mount may refer to:

The White Mountain National Forest links the Vermont and Maine portions of the Appalachian Trail, and boasts the Mount Washington Auto Road, where visitors may drive to the top of Mount Washington.

The sacrifices may only be performed in a specific place prescribed by God ( for Judaism, Jerusalem, and for Samaritans, Mount Gerizim ).

Some works of the artist J. M. W. Turner may owe their vivid red colours to the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Shaoshi, the peak where Shaolin Temple is located on Mount Song, means " little hall " and thus the name of the peak becomes a play on words for the six gates or doors by which the reader may enter the little hall on Mount Song and find enlightenment.

Mount Aetna may refer to:

For instance, while Jesus seems to forbid all oaths, Paul is shown using them at least twice ; thus the prohibition in the Sermon may seem to have some exceptions ; though in fairness to Paul, it should be pointed out that he was not present at the Sermon on the Mount and may not have been aware of all of its teachings.

The Sermon on the Mount may be compared with the similar but more succinct Sermon on the Plain as recounted by the Gospel of Luke ( 6: 17 – 49 ), which occurs at the same moment in Luke's narrative, and also features Jesus heading up a mountain, but giving the sermon on the way down at a level spot.

This massif may have been ancient Mount Cragus.

The sorcerers honor the fallen Toth by populating his funeral slab with eternally growing flowers and sealing off the section of Mount Korim with glowing quartz and crystal so that it may act as his tomb.

This may have been the source for the use of a tympanon in Cybele's rites ; in historical times, the resemblances between the two goddesses were so marked that some Greeks regarded Cybele as their own Rhea, who had deserted her original home on Mount Ida in Crete and fled to Mount Ida in the wilds of Phrygia to escape Cronus.

* It may mean " at / to the year of the siege of Mount Badon ... which happened 44 years and one month ago, and which is year of my birth ".

Mount Sinai may refer to:

Knowing that it is only a matter of time before Sauron rebuilds his forces for another attack, Gandalf and Aragorn decide to draw out the hosts of Mordor with an assault on the Black Gate, providing a distraction so that Frodo and Sam may have a chance of reaching Mount Doom and destroy the One Ring, unseen by the Eye of Sauron.

There may have been a gap between Mount Gundabad in the Misty Mountains and the westernmost extremity of the Grey Mountains, though published maps differ on this point.

In his book Greek Religion, Walter Burkert notes the connection with the motif of far-off Dilmun: " Thus Achilles is transported to the White Isle, which may refer to Mount Teide on Tenerife, whose volcano is often snowcapped and as the island was sometimes called the white isle by explorers, and becomes the Ruler of the Black Sea, and Diomedes becomes the divine lord of an Adriatic island ".

Maimonides, perhaps the greatest codifier of Jewish Law, wrote in Laws of the Chosen House ch 7 Law 15 " One may bring a dead body in to the ( lower sanctified areas of the ) Temple Mount and there is no need to say that the ritually impure ( from the dead ) may enter there, because the dead body itself can enter ".

The law committee of the Masorti movement in Israel has issued two responsa ( a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars ) on the subject, both holding that Jews may visit the permitted sections of the Temple Mount.

Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

And on the summit of Mount Washington, where thirty-five degrees below zero is commonplace and the wind velocity has registered higher than anywhere else in the world, there is a kind of wisdom to be found that other men often seek in the Himalayas `` because it is there ''.

There will be a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon at 2:30 p.m..

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

The Cenacle on Mount Zion, claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost.

He then organized the purchase of land on Mount Carmel that Bahá ' u ' lláh had instructed should be used to lay the remains of the Báb, and organized for the construction of the Shrine of the Báb.

Because of the seemingly highly symbolic and even cryptic language of this one New Testament passage, some Christian scholars conclude that Mount Armageddon must be an idealized location.

“ For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near … But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance ”

" All will be released into the wild near Mount Kenya. In 2004 Woburn Safari Parks ' Dr. Jake Veasey ; the Head of the Department of Animal Management and Conservation at Woburn Safari Park and a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums Population Management Advisory Group, with the assistance of Lindsay Banks took over responsibility for the management and coordination of the European Endangered species Programme ( EEP ) for the eastern bongo.

In the aftermath of this battle, Philip Augustus founded between Senlis and the Bishop Mount, Abbey of Victoire-which will be integrated into the domain of the Bishop of Senlis in 1486.

" The location of " Wibbandun ", which can be translated as " Wibba's Mount ", has not been identified definitely ; it was at one time thought to be Wimbledon, but this now is known to be incorrect.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

However, a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall could not be immediately adjacent to site of the tomb, which combined with the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

This arrangement was to provide the cornerstone for the privileged status which ultimately came to be enjoyed by the whole of Mount Lebanon in Ottoman Syria, Druze and Christian areas alike.

The mountainous and most recent part of the island can be found to the west, the centre of which is dominated by Mount Capanne (), also called the " roof of the Tuscan Archipelago ".

The climate of the Island is predominantly Mediterranean, except for Mount Capanne, where winters tend to be moderately cold.

* Mount Isa, Queensland is often said to be the world's largest or second largest city by surface area.

In 1766, he started switching Mount Vernon's primary cash crop away from tobacco to wheat, a crop that could be processed and then sold in various forms in the colonies, and further diversified operations to include flour milling, fishing, horse breeding, spinning, weaving and ( in the 1790s ) whiskey production.

According to Muslim tradition, in 620 Muhammed was taken on spiritual journey from Mecca to the " farthest mosque ", whose location is considered to be the Temple Mount, returning the same night.

The Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem is mentioned several times.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

Mount Carmel and the Kishon River are also mentioned in the Bible.

In apocalyptic literature, Mount Megiddo, the hill overlooking the valley where the current kibbutz is located, is identified as the site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil at the end of time, known as Armageddon and mentioned in the New Testament in Revelation 16: 16.

Upon the capture of Jerusalem by the victorious Caliph Omar, Omar immediately headed to the Temple Mount with his advisor, Ka ' ab al-Ahbar, a formerly Jewish rabbi who had converted to Islam, in order to find the holy site of the " Furthest Mosque " or Al Masjid al Aqsa which was mentioned in the Quran and specified in the Hadiths of being in Jerusalem. Ka ' ab al-Ahbar suggested to Caliph Omar to build the Dome of the Rock monument on the site that Ka ' ab believed to be the Biblical Holy of the Holies, arguing that this site is where Mohammad ascended to heaven during the Isra and Mi ' raj miracle.

* Mount Antipas, a place mentioned in the Book of Mormon

The Wilderness of Sin / Desert of Sin () is a geographic area mentioned by the Bible as lying between Elim and Mount Sinai.

The Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with David's flight from Absalom

However, while the geological feature, Hanging Rock, and the several towns mentioned are actual places near Mount Macedon, the story is not completely true.

They are also mentioned in close connection with the Amalekites, the inhabitants of Mount Seir ( the descendants of Esau ), the Edomites, the Canaanites, the Sethites and the Philistines.

Kaz Dağı National Park, extending around the ancient Mount Ida ( mentioned in Homer's epic poems such as the Iliad ), is situated within the boundaries of Edremit district and is an important tourist attraction with its natural scenery and a number of picturesque small villages around it.

Fasting is a biblical practice from even Old Testament times, and was mentioned by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and reportedly practiced by him as well.

Mount Holyoke was mentioned more recently in the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder, when the title character gives a half-time pep talk to his school basketball team, offering them a party with Mount Holyoke students should the team win.

Mount Holyoke was mentioned in television series, House, in the second episode from Season 4, " The Right Stuff.

" Mount Holyoke is mentioned frequently in Neil Simon's play, Broadway Bound.

His journal also frequently mentioned Thomas S. Hinde who was the son of Dr. Thomas Hinde and founder of the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois.

The site was brought into the public eye by The Washington Post, when the government facility was mentioned while reporting on the December 1, 1974, crash into Mount Weather of TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727 jetliner.

Mount Weather is mentioned extensively in Milton William Cooper's 1991 book Behold A Pale Horse.

Mount Weather was mentioned as the emergency facility in the case of a Soviet nuclear attack from Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 2000 film Thirteen Days.

Of the seven sites mentioned in their February, 1860 proposal, a plot centered on Mount Prospect was the most ambitious.

R. T. France ( 1987 ) notes that Mount Hermon is closest to Caesarea Philippi, mentioned in the previous chapter of Matthew.

Horites or Horim ( חרי ) were a cave-dwelling people mentioned in the Torah ( Genesis 14: 6, 36: 20, Deuteronomy 2: 12 ) inhabiting areas around Mount Seir.

In prehistoric times, St Michael's Mount may have been a port for the tin trade, and Gavin de Beer made a case for it to be identified with the " tin port " Ictis / Ictin mentioned by Posidonius.