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Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat (/ˈærəˌræt/ ARR-ə-rat;[8] TurkishAğrı DağıArmenianՄասիսMasis and Արարատ, Ararat) is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey.[9] It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat, the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian plateau with an elevation of 5,137 m (16,854 ft); and Little Ararat, with an elevation of 3,896 m (12,782 ft).[10] The Ararat massif is about 40 km (25 mi) in diameter.

Mount Ararat
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Little Ararat (left) and Greater Ararat (right); View from Yerevan, Armenia

Highest point
Elevation 5,137 m (16,854 ft)
See Elevation section
Prominence 3,611 m (11,847 ft) [2]
Ranked 48th
Isolation 379 kilometres (235 mi)
Parent peak Mount Damavand[1]
Listing Country high point
Ultra
Volcanic Seven Second Summits
Coordinates 39°42.113′N 44°17.899′E[3]
Geography

Mount Ararat is located in Turkey

Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat

Location in Turkey

Location Iğdır Province (65%)[4] and Ağrı Province (35%), Turkey[a]
Parent range Armenian Highlands
Geology
Mountain type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1840[6]
Climbing
First ascent 9 October [O.S. 27 September] 1829
Friedrich ParrotKhachatur Abovian, two Russian soldiers, two Armenian villagers
Designations

IUCN Category II (National Park)

Official name Ağrı Dağı Milli Parkı
Designated 1 November 2004[7]

Despite the scholarly consensus that the “mountains of Ararat” of the Book of Genesis do not refer to specifically Mt. Ararat, it has been widely accepted in Abrahamic religions as the resting place of Noah’s Ark. It is the principal national symbol of Armenia and has been considered a sacred mountain by Armenians. It is featured prominently in Armenian literature and art and is an icon for Armenian irredentism. Along with Noah’s Ark, it is depicted on the coat of arms of Armenia.

The first efforts to reach Ararat’s summit were made in the Middle Ages. However, it was not until 1829 when Friedrich Parrot and Khachatur Abovian, accompanied by four others, made the first recorded ascent

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat

Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives  also called Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri) or, in Germany, the Röhm Putsch[a] (German spelling: Röhm-Putsch), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate Hitler’s absolute hold on power in Germany. Many of those killed were leaders of the SA (Sturmabteilung), the Nazis’ own paramilitary Brownshirts organization; the best-known victim was Ernst Röhm, the SA’s leader and one of Hitler’s longtime supporters and allies. Leading members of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), along with its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were also killed, as were establishment conservatives and anti-Nazis (such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Bavarian politician Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Adolf Hitler‘s Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923). The murders of Brownshirt leaders were also intended to improve the image of the Hitler government with a German public that was increasingly critical of thuggish Brownshirt tactics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

Augmented third

In classical music from Western culture, an augmented third (About this sound Play ) is an interval of fivesemitones. It may be produced by widening a major third by a chromatic semitone.[1][3] For instance, the interval from C to E is a major third, four semitones wide, and both the intervals from C to E, and from C to E are augmented thirds, spanning five semitones. Being augmented, it is considered a dissonant interval.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_third

Major scale

The major scale or Ionian scale is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales it is made up of seven notes: the eighth duplicates the first at double itsfrequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note (from Latin “octavus”, the eighth).

The simplest major scale to write is C major, the only major scale to not require sharps or flats:

C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C (About this sound C major scale )

The major scale had a central importance in European music, particularly in the common practice period and in popular music, owing to the large number of chords that can be formed from it.[citation needed] In Carnatic music, it is known as Dheerasankarabharanam, and in Hindustani classical music it is known as Bilaval.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_scale

Staccato

Staccato [stakˈkaːto] (Italian for “detached”) is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation it signifies a note of shortened duration,[1][2] separated from the note that may follow by silence.[3] It has been described by theorists and appeared in music since at least 1676.[4]

Notation
In 20th-century music, a dot placed above or below a note indicates that it should be played staccato, and a wedge is used for the more emphatic staccatissimo. However, before 1850, dots, dashes,, and the dot a longer, lighter one. A number of signs came to be used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to discriminate more subtle nuances of staccato. These signs involve various combinations of dots, vertical and horizontal dashes, vertical and horizontal wedges, and the like, but attempts to standardize these signs have not generally been successful.[5] This does not, however, alter the rhythm of the music and the remainder of the time allotted for each staccato note is played as rest. The opposite musical articulation of staccato is legato, signifying long and continuous notes.

Playing staccato is the opposite of playing legato. A staccato passage for strings is by definition a bowed rather than a pizzicato technique, though pizzicato itself might be thought of as a kind of staccato effect. For example, Leroy Anderson’s Jazz Legato/Jazz Pizzicato. There is an intermediate articulation called either mezzo staccato or non-legato. By default, in the music notation program Sibelius, “staccatos shorten a note by 50%.”

Source: Staccato – Wikipedia

Sophocles

Sophocles (/ˈsɒfəklz/;[1] GreekΣοφοκλῆςSophoklēsAncient Greek: [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs]c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)[2] is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: AjaxAntigoneThe Women of TrachisOedipus RexElectraPhiloctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.[3] For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-stateof Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 18, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 14 competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles, while Euripides won 5 competitions.[4]

Sophocles
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Born 497/496 BC
ColonusAttica
Died 406/405 BC (aged 90-92)
Athens
Occupation Tragedian
Information
Genre Tragedy
Notable work(s)

The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and alsoAntigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of drama, most importantly by adding a third actor, thereby reducing the importance of thechorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus.[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles