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Mount Wutai is one of the Four Sacred Mountains in Chinese Buddhism. Each of the mountains is viewed as the bodhimaṇḍa ( 道場; dàocháng) of one of the four great bodhisattvas. Wǔtái is the home of the Bodhisattva of wisdom, Mañjuśrī or " 文殊 " ( Wénshū) in Chinese. Mañjuśrī has been associated with Mount Wutai since ancient ...
- Cultural: ii, iii, iv, vi
- 3,061 m (10,043 ft)
- Hike
- 2009 (33rd Session)
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into several groups. The Five Great Mountains ( simplified Chinese: 五 岳; traditional Chinese: 五 嶽; pinyin: Wǔyuè) refers to five of the most renowned mountains in Chinese history, [1] which have been the subjects of imperial pilgrimage by emperors throughout ages. They are associated with the ...
The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built from 1907 to 1908 for the German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg, in the Châteauesque style, and designed by C. P. H. Gilbert. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold it to a real estate developer.
Mount Vesuvius (/vɪˈsuːviəs/ viss-OO-vee-əs)[a] is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a ...
- 25,000 years before present to 1944;, age of volcano = c. 17,000 years to present
- 17–23 March 1944
- 1,281 m (4,203 ft)
- Campania, Italy
Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan, Japanese: [ɸɯ (d)ʑisaɴ] ) is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft 3 in).It is the tallest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), and seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth.
Mauna Loa (4,169 m or 13,678 ft) is the largest mountain on Earth in terms of base area (about 5,200 km 2 or 2,000 sq mi) and volume (about 42,000 km 3 or 10,000 cu mi), although, due to the intergrade of lava from Kilauea, Hualalai and Mauna Kea, the volume can only be estimated based on surface area and height of the edifice.
Alexander III of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western ...
