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The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky. The title refers to the mountain of purgatory from Dante's ...
As a memorial, he had planned to lay her amber necklace on the mountain's summit. [14] After more than 70 days on the mountain, Mortenson and three other climbers had their ascent interrupted by the need to complete a 75-hour life-saving rescue of a fifth climber. Mortenson became lost while descending alone, and became weak and exhausted.
Hekou County removes part of a mountain to connect the new Hekou North Railway Station with Hekou Town. How Yukong Moved the Mountains, a French documentary film; Sisyphus, a similar Greek myth with a darker inflection; Dashrath Manjhi, an Indian man who singlehandedly cut a path through a mountain over 22 years; Three Old Articles (China)
Sideritis, also known as ironwort, [1] mountain tea, Greek tea and shepherd's tea, is a genus of flowering plants known for their use as herbal medicine, commonly as a herbal tea. They are abundant in Mediterranean regions, the Balkans , the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia , but can also be found in Central Europe and temperate Asia.
Kachi-kachi Yama (かちかち山, kachi-kachi being an onomatopoeia of the sound a fire makes and yama meaning "mountain", roughly translates to "Fire-Crackle Mountain"), also known as Kachi-Kachi Mountain and The Farmer and the Badger, is a Japanese folktale in which a tanuki is the villain, rather than the more usual boisterous, well-endowed ...
Yellowjackets was inspired by and is loosely based on the 1972 Andes Mountain plane crash.. On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying five crew members and 40 passengers, crashed ...
The fourth movie based on R.L. Stine's "Fear Street" book series, a new teen slasher features a retro 1980s setting and a story about a surprise prom queen entry and the murders of her fellow ...
Mountain Born is a children's historical novel by Elizabeth Yates. Set in the sparsely populated Rocky Mountains during the 19th century, it describes the life of a shepherd 's family. The novel, illustrated by Nora Spicer Unwin , was first published in 1943 by Coward-McCann and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1944. [ 1 ]