This mountain is identified by tradition with a hill near the town of Jazirat ibn Umar on the east bank of the Tigris in the province of Mosul in northern Iraq, and Masudi says that the spot could be seen in his time.

Muirchu moccu Machtheni, in his highly mythologized seventh century Life of Patrick, says that St. Patrick lit a Paschal fire on this hill top in 433 CE in defiance of the High King Laoire who forbid any other fires while a festival fire was burning on the Hill of Tara.

Yet another story says that Colton thought the area would be a good place because it was on a hill.

Writing in I Me Mine, Derek Taylor says of Harrison's purchase of Friar Park: " It is a dream on a hill and it came, not by chance, to the right man at the right time.

For example, A. S. Altekar says: "... the three-arched hill in the cntre is replaced by Garuda, which was the imperial insignia of the Guptas.

She tells him she wants him to be well, and he begins to get better, but says the cure will only be complete if she agrees to meet him on the hill above the house, so as not to shame the king in his own house.

Seven Chimneys is a house located on Ridgewood Road atop a small hill and as the name says, it has seven chimneys.

The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place Names ( 2004 ) gives the translation " Royal Bell, the bell-shaped hill " and says that it is derived from the Old English cyne + belle, probably used as a place-name, and that the reference is to the prominent Pulpit Hill crowned with its hillfort, suggesting that ' royal ' referred to Great Kimble for distinction from Little Kimble.

" He ( Harvey ) goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in another ," says Nashe in Strange Newes, and he mimics him in the mocking couplet:

Popular legend says that at the end of Patrick's 40-day fast, he threw a silver bell down the side of the hill, knocking the she-demon Corra from the sky and banishing all the snakes from Ireland.

Caesar describes the enemy cavalry as sallying repeatedly from the woods at the top of the hill and says his cavalry did not dare follow them in when they retreated.

He finds the man who he thinks she is being forced to marry, and takes him to a hill and says " Ethel's dead ".

Legend says that he was a big man, so his warriors could not take him back, but to take apart his intestines, and buried them on small hill called The hodža's peak-Hodžina glavica.

Olivetian lore says that while Shipherd was on a trip to the site in Ingham County, his horse continued to get lost, and would always wander back to a hill above a swamp, which is where Olivet's Campus Square exists today.

* In the movie Win a Date with Tad Hamilton !, when Pete ( Topher Grace ) is flipping channels while Rosalee ( Kate Bosworth ) is on a date with Tad Hamilton ( Josh Duhamel ), a TV advertisement shows Hamilton riding a motorcycle over a hill, then drinking a soda while a voiceover says "¡ Hasta el próximo miércoles!

She tells him she wants him to be well, and he begins to get better, but says the cure will only be complete if she agrees to meet him on the hill above the house, so as not to shame the king in his own house.

Yet another version for the name says that this came from the " holy kontoura ", which is angels depicted οn the dome of the Church of Virgin Mary, on the hill with the same name.

A note included in his personnel record says his body was found on the east flank of the hill, alongside that of Juan Escutia.

History says that the Holy Cross was transferred by a miracle to the peak of a high hill over night and a strong light was coming out of that peak.

There is now a legend of origin and formation of the municipality of Concepcion Chiquirichapa by oral tradition which has been moving from generation to generation, the release says " In ancient times, the ancestors lived in this county on top of a hill located alongside the hill " Tuicacaix " started to build homes, then continued to work achieving complete the construction of a wooden church where they began to have their first religious activities.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Yet everywhere else sameness was stucco and wood in square blocks -- like fortresses perched against the slant of the hill, rising with the hill to the top where the church was and beyond that to the cemetery.

I was thinking of the heat and of water that morning when I was plowing the stubble field far across the hill from the farm buildings.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada ( Bare Mountain ).

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

For this deed, Poseidon summoned Ares to appear before the tribunal of the Olympic gods, which was held upon a hill in Athens.

A new forum was built in the name of Arcadius, on the seventh hill of Constantinople, the Xērolophos, in which a column was begun to commemorate his ' victory ' over Gainas ( although the column was only completed after Arcadius ' death by Theodosius II ).

Until 1939 iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg hill.

The temple site was on a low spur of the hill, below the town.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

The detachment at Jerusalem, which apparently encamped all over the city ’ s western hill, was responsible for preventing Jews from returning to the city.

However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the Temple Mount blocked the eastward route of the main decumanus, a second pair of main roads was added ; the secondary cardo ran down the Tyropoeon Valley, and the secondary decumanus ran just to the north of the temple mount.

The hill was planted with vines.

Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

* Dong Open Air, a heavy metal festival in Germany, named after the Dong hill

However, as the place did not prove to be defensible, they settled in the remains of an older town upon a hill not far away and founded a new town, which they named Tábor ( after the traditional name of the mountain on which Jesus was expected to return ; see Mark 13 ); hence they were called Taborites.

Complementing this proposal is the theory that Smith borrowed the names of the Comoros islands and applied them to the hill where he found the golden plates, which he named Cumorah.

The 680m high hill there is named for him and is called Halley's Mount.

Under his leadership, the Rough Riders became famous for dual charges up Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898 ( the battle was named after the latter " hill ," which was the shoulder of a ridge known as San Juan Heights ).

Becoming part of the Roman Empire during the first century AD, the city was named " Caesarodunum " (" hill of Caesar ").

Area 8 is called Southview and rests upon a broad hill named Little Bull Mountain across Oregon Highway 99W from the taller Bull Mountain.

Originally the camp was named after the hill Ettersberg but it was later renamed to Buchenwald ( German for beech forest ).< ref > As Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 ) puts it, " in the beautifully wooded Grosser Ettersburg, as the region is resoundingly called.

At a breakage site in Rome, Testaccio, close to the Tiber, the fragments, later wetted with Calcium hydroxide ( Calce viva ), remained to create a hill now named Monte Testaccio, high and more than 1 km in circumference.

The municipality is named for the old timur ( Old Norse: Hamarr, " rocky hill ") farm, since the first church was built there.

This may be the ancient settlement the remains of which have been found on the hill named Castillo de la Zuda.

Another theory published in an article in 2008 by Ursula Vedder suggests that the Colossus was never in the port, but rather was part of the Acropolis of Rhodes, on a hill today named Monte Smith, which overlooks the port area.

In honour of Raleigh, several roads and a hill have been named after him in Bideford.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

According to legend, a Roman plebeian named M. Caedicius heard a supernatural, nocturnal voice that issued from Vesta's sacred grove, at the base of the Palatine hill.

Even centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Quirinal hill in Rome, originally named from the deified Romulus, was still associated with power – it was chosen as the seat of the royal house after the taking of Rome by the Savoia and later it became the residence of the Presidents of the Italian Republic.

After her brother Erc was killed by Conall Cernach, she died of grief on a hill near Tara, which was named Achall after her.

The hill of Knockainy () is named after her, and was site of rites in her honour, involving fire and the blessing of the land, recorded as recently as 1879.

Bedd Taliesin, a hilltop Bronze Age tumulus in Ceredigion, opposite Aberdyfi ( see above ), is a traditional site for his grave but the village of Tre-Taliesin, located at the foot of the hill, was actually named after the bard in the 19th century.

It was named for the Keya Paha River that runs through it, which in turn was named from two Lakota words, keya ( turtle ) and paha ( hill or butte ).