As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

The archaeological record indicates that the instructions reported by Akiba, for choosing a burial location, were rigidly adhered to ; almost all of the tombs from classical Jerusalem are to the east of the city, on the Mount of Olives, except for a few located over a kilometre to the west, and those in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

* Mark points out that the Mount of Olives is across from the temple ().

Category: Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives

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

Centre, L-R: The bombing of the Mount of Olives during the Six-Day War ; John F. Kennedy is Assassination of John F. Kennedy | assassinated in 1963, after serving the office of president for three years ; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million ; Millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969.

* April 14 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus surrounds the Jewish capital, with three legions ( V Macedonica, XII Fulminata and XV Apollinaris ) on the western side and a fourth ( X Fretensis ) on the Mount of Olives to the east.

In 1392 / 93 Henry undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he made offerings at the Holy Sepulchre and at the Mount of Olives.

* Church of the Pater Noster, church on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

In traditional use, the name " Ölberg " refers to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Titus surrounded the city, with three legions ( Vth, XIIth and XVth ) on the western side and one ( Xth ) on the Mount of Olives to the east.

Acts 1: 9-12 states that the Ascension took place on Mount Olivet ( the " Mount of Olives ", on which the village of Bethany sits ).

Before the conversion of Constantine in 312 AD, early Christians honored the Ascension of Christ in a cave on the Mount of Olives.

The Russian Orthodox Church also maintains a Convent of the Ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives.

Because Muslim authorities refused to permit Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, the custom developed of praying near the Western Wall, since it was the site nearest to the Foundation Stone, or on the Mount of Olives facing the site of the Temple.

Ir David and the Mount of Olives

Mount of Olives

The Mount of Olives ( also Mount Olivet,, Har HaZeitim ;, Jebel az-Zeitun ) is a mountain ridge east of Jerusalem's Old City in East Jerusalem.

The Mount of Olives is associated predominantly with Jewish and Christian traditions but also contains several sites important in Islam.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

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 ''.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

In the text, he is credited with winning the battle of Mount Badon.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The larger scheme of Canberra's layout is based on the three peaks surrounding the city, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill.

The main symmetrical axis of the city is along ANZAC Parade and roughly on the line between Mount Ainslie and Bimberi Peak.

The precise alignment of ANZAC parade is between Mount Ainslie and Capital Hill ( formally Kurrajong Hill ).

Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros ( 531 m ) in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.

When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

The principal one gives a detailed statement that soon after the incident at Meribah, Aaron, with his son Eleazar and Moses, ascended Mount Hor.

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.

It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.

* Sidas Cone, one of the cinder cones located north on the Mount Edziza plateau in British Columbia, Canada

" 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.

The Sermon on the Mount records that Jesus taught that if someone comes to harm you, then one must turn the other cheek.

Two main east-west roads were built rather than the typical one, due to the awkward location of the Temple Mount, blocking the central east-west route.

They also point out that in, Paul says that God will reward those who follow the law and then goes on to say that no one follows the law perfectly ( see also Sermon on the Mount: Interpretation )

Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.

Once an older NOAA ship leaves service, a newer one can be given the same hull number ; for example, " S 222 " was assigned to NOAAS Mount Mitchell ( S 222 ), then assigned to NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ), which entered NOAA service after Mount Mitchell was stricken.

The first of the Ten Commandments can be interpreted to forbid the Children of Israel from worshiping any other god but the one true God who had revealed himself at Mount Sinai and given them the Torah, however it can also be read as henotheistic, since it states that they should have " no other gods before me.

In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.

* Idê, one of the Cretan nymphs who nursed the infant Zeus: see Mount Ida, Crete

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, it appears in two forms: in the Gospel of Matthew as part of the discourse on ostentation in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the Gospel of Luke, which records Jesus being approached by " one of his disciples " with a request to teach them " to pray as John taught his disciples.

He then went up Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, looked over the promised land of Israel spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty, according to Talmudic legend on 7 Adar, his 120th birthday exactly.

Established by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in 1873, the Mount was one of the few institutions of higher education for women in Canada at a time when women could not vote.

The municipality is unusual for one its geographical size, in that it has only one municipal district, the third-largest in Greece ( after the Sílis district in Paranesti and the Mikró Déreio district in Orfeas ) if Mount Athos is not counted.

Mount Matutum is a protected area and is considered as one of the major landmarks of South Cotabato Province.