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Mount Bisotoun, aka Bīsitūn (referring to the mountain and the nearby village), is a mountain with a rock precipice in the Zagros Mountains in Kermanshah, Iran. Darius I inscribed the flat rock face in three languages c. 500 BC , known as the Behistun Inscription .
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Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Lydia is located in a marine west coast climate zone, with a subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) at the summit. [5] Prevailing westerly winds blow moist air from the Tasman Sea onto the mountain, where the air is forced upwards by the mountains (orographic lift), causing moisture to drop in the form of rain and snow.
The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center saw the first full-scale activation of the facility during the Northeast blackout of 1965. [14] [15]According to a letter to the editor of The Washington Post, after the September 11 attacks, most of the congressional leadership were evacuated to Mount Weather by helicopter.
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The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r.
A 43-year-old man was shot during a home invasion in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, sustaining a gunshot wound to the abdomen, and was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.