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Old Man Of The Mountain (other)
Old Man of the Mountain is a former rock formation and New Hampshire landmark. Old Man of the Mountain may also refer to: People * Old Man of the Mountain (Assassin), referring to ** Hassan-i Sabbah (c. 1050–1124), founder of the Nizari Isma'ili state and its military group known as the Order of Assassins ** Rashid ad-Din Sinan (c. 1134–1193), Nizari leader in Syria * Brian Timmis (1899–1971), Canadian football player Other uses * ''The Old Man of the Mountain'' (film), a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon * '' Tetraneuris grandiflora'', an alpine sunflower in North America * ''Oreocereus ''Oreocereus'' is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), known only from high altitudes of the Andes. Its name means "mountain cereus", formed from the Greek prefix ' (, mountain) and the New Latin ', meaning wax or torch. As they are covered wi ...'', a genus of cacti in South America See also * Mountain Man (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Man Of The Mountain
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north. The rock formation, above Profile Lake, was tall and wide. The Old Man of the Mountain is called "Stone Face" by the Abenaki and is a symbol within their culture. It is also a symbol to the Mohawk people. The first written mention of the Old Man was in 1805. It became a landmark and a cultural icon for the state of New Hampshire. It collapsed on May 3, 2003.New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation: Old Man of the Mountain Historic Site Accessed: 14 August 2012. After it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Man Of The Mountain (Assassin)
The Old Man of the Mountain ( ar, شيخ الجبل, Shaykh al-Jabal, la, Vetulus de Montanis), is the expression used by Marco Polo in a passage from ''Book of the Marvels of the World'', to indicate Hassan-i Sabbah, the grand master of the Order of Assassins, who took refuge in Alamut Castle. It later became a common name used by the Crusaders. Subsequently, this nickname was given to various Isma'ili successors of Hassan, in Syria, particularly, for example Rashid al-Din Sinan, the ''da'i'' (missionary) and a leader of the Syrian branch of the Nizari Isma'ili state The Nizari state (the Alamut state) was a Shia Nizari Ismaili state founded by Hassan-i Sabbah after he took control of the Alamut Castle in 1090 AD, which marked the beginning of an era of Ismailism known as the "Alamut period". Their people .... References Bibliography * * * * * * {{refend, 2 Order of Assassins Marco Polo Nizari Ismaili state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan-i Sabbah
Hasan-i Sabbāh ( fa, حسن صباح) or Hassan as-Sabbāh ( ar, حسن بن الصباح الحميري, full name: Hassan bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ja'far bin al-Husayn bin Muhammad bin al-Sabbah al-Himyari; c. 1050 – 12 June 1124) was the founder of the Nizari Isma'ili state and its ''fidā'i'' military groupLewis, Bernard (1967), ''The Assassins: a Radical Sect of Islam'', pp 38-65, Oxford University Press known as the Order of Assassins, often referred also as the ''Hashshashin''. Since Marco Polo, he has been known in the West as the Old Man of the Mountain. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut. Sources Hasan is thought to have written an autobiography, which did not survive but seems to underlie the first part of an anonymous Isma'ili biography entitled ''Sargozasht-e Seyyednā'' ( fa, سرگذشت سیدنا). The latter is known only from quotations made by later Persian authors. Daftary, Farhad, ''The Isma'ilis'', p. 311. Hasan also wrote a treatise, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rashid Ad-Din Sinan
Rashid al-Din Sinan ( ar, رشيد الدين سنان ''Rashīd ad-Dīn Sinān''; 1131/1135 – 1193) also known as the Old Man of the Mountain ( ar, شيخ الجبل ''Shaykh al-Jabal'', la, Vetulus de Montanis), was a ''da'i'' (missionary) and leader of the Syrian branch of the Nizari Isma'ili state (the Assassin Order) from 1162 until his death in 1193. He was also a prominent figure in the history of the Crusades. Biography Rashid ad-Din Sinan was born between the years 1131 and 1135 in Basra, southern Iraq, to a prosperous family. According to his autobiography, of which only fragments survive, Rashid came to Alamut, the fortress headquarters of the Assassins, as a youth after an argument with his brothers, and received the typical Assassin training. In 1162, the sect's leader Ḥassan ʿAlā Dhikrihi's Salām sent him to Syria, where he proclaimed ''Qiyamah'' (repeating the ceremony of Hassan II at Alamut), which in Nizari terminology meant the time of the Qa'im and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Timmis
Brian Mercer "Old Man of the Mountain" Timmis (December 5, 1899 – August 22, 1971) was a star senior Canadian football player in the Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union (SRFU) and Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) for a combined 17 seasons, mainly for the Hamilton Tigers. He is a three-time Grey Cup champion as a player, having won with the Tigers in 1928, 1929, and 1932. He later coached the Hamilton Flying Wildcats, leading them to the 1943 Grey Cup championship. He was an inaugural member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and was also inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Brian Timmis Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario was named after him. Early life Timmis was born in Winnipeg and moved to Ottawa in 1910 where his father, a militia member, was stationed. He played football locally before enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1915 by stating he was two years older than he actually was. After returning from the First World War in 1919, he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Man Of The Mountain (film)
''The Old Man of the Mountain'' is a 1933 American pre-Code live-action/ animated short in the '' Betty Boop'' series, produced by Fleischer Studios. Featuring music by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra (as with ''Minnie the Moocher''), the short was originally released to theaters on August 4, 1933 by Paramount Pictures. Calloway voices all of the characters in the cartoon save for Betty herself (voiced by Bonnie Poe, her singing voice provided by Mae Questel). Calloway and his orchestra also perform all of the music in the cartoon, including two songs Calloway co-wrote. Plot The short begins with a live-action introduction of Calloway and his orchestra, who perform a short chorus of "Minnie the Moocher" (written by Cab Calloway, Clarence Gaskill and Irving Mills) before performing a vamp of the title song, "The Old Man of the Mountain" (Billy Hill ka George Brownand Victor Young). As the cartoon proper begins, a lion on roller skates (made of rabbits) rushes from his guard pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetraneuris Grandiflora
''Hymenoxys grandiflora'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names graylocks four-nerve daisy, graylocks rubberweed, or old man of the mountain. It is native to high elevations in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. Description ''H. grandiflora'' is a perennial herb up to 30 centimeters (1 foot) tall. The leaves are long. The plant generally produces one flower head per stem, up to 10 per plant, present between June and August. Each head has 15–44 ray flowers and 150–400 disc flowers. The seeds are five-sided with narrow scales at the tip. The species has the largest flowers of any in its genus, hence the specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... ''grandiflora'' (large-flowere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreocereus
''Oreocereus'' is a genus of cacti (family Cactaceae), known only from high altitudes of the Andes. Its name means "mountain cereus", formed from the Greek prefix ' (, mountain) and the New Latin ', meaning wax or torch. As they are covered with woolly white fuzz (modified spines), a few species in this genus are sometimes known as the old-man cactus, a generic name that also refers to ''Cephalocereus senilis'' or ''Espostoa lanata''. More rarely, the old man of the mountain is also used for some species. Species Synonymy The following genera have been included in this genus: *''Arequipa'' Britton & Rose *''Arequipiopsis'' Kreuz. & Buining *''Morawetzia'' Backeb. *''Submatucana'' Backeb. Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cactus, cacti. Biography He travelled extensively through Central and South America, an ... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q134007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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