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 Ararat (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
The name "Ararat" is mentioned four times in the Bible's original manuscripts (Gen.
It is believed that the land of "Ararat" is the Hebrew equivalent of Urardhu, or Urartu, which was the Assyrian-Babylonian name of the Vannic or Chaldean kingdom (between the Aras River and the Tigris River).
At the close of the seventh century B.C. the kingdom of Ararat came to an end, and the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the Armenians of the present day.
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 Encyclopedia: Ararat (movie)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Widely viewed as a great film, it has also been attacked as powerful propaganda by those who believe that the Armenian Genocide was overblown by anti-Turkish elements and Armenians seeking sympathy, or that it was necessitated by world politics and the behavior of Turkish Armenians.
Ararat thus includes graphic sequences depicting the horrors of the holocaust, but they are always framed as scenes from Saroyan's film-within-the-film, and the actors and filmmakers are shown discussing the questions raised by the adaptation of contentious subjects into simplistic movies.
Mount Ararat (Turkish Ağrı Dağı; Armenian Արարատ; Persian آرارات; Hebrew אררט, Standard Hebrew Ararat, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĂrārāṭ), the tallest peak in modern Turkey, is a snow-capped dormant volcanic cone, located in the far northeast of Turkey, 16 km west of Iran and 32 km south of Armenia.
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 Image of Ararat, Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ararat is the largest and highest (16,940 feet, 5,165 m) volcano in Turkey.
Ararat is a stratovolcano and is located at 39.7N, 44.3E.
The volcano is thought to be the resting place of Noah's ark. The observation of vessel-shaped features in aerial photographs of Ararat caused a stir in the late 1950s.
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 Ararat, Mount --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
An isolated mountain of volcanic origin, Mount Ararat is located in the extreme eastern part of Turkey.
Ararat, traditionally known as the landing place for Noah's Ark at the end of the flood, is a sacred place…
The river rises north of Lake Van near Mount Ararat, in eastern Turkey, and flows westward for 449 miles (722 km) through a mountainous region to unite with the Karasu Çayi and form the Upper Euphrates near Malatya.
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 Mount Ararat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Technically, Ararat is a (Click link for more info and facts about stratovolcano) stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta.
Vessel-shaped features interpreted in aerial photographs of Ararat caused a stir in the late 1950s (see (Click link for more info and facts about pseudoarchaeology) pseudoarchaeology), though expeditions found the features to be landslides and lava flows.
Even though the mountain is located in Turkey, Ararat is the national symbol of Armenia, where it is sometimes called Masis (Մասիս), and is featured in the centre of the (Click link for more info and facts about Coat of Arms of Armenia) Coat of Arms of Armenia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mount_ararat.htm   (249 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ararat (Turkey Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Ararat[ar´urat] Pronunciation Key, Turkish Agri Dagi, name of two mountains, Little Ararat (12,877 ft/3,925 m) and Great Ararat (16,945 ft/5,165 m), E Turkey, near the Iranian and Armenian borders.
The tradition that Mt. Ararat is the resting place of Noah's ark is based on a misreading of Gen. 8.4, which properly reads "upon the mountains of Ararat," indicating a country or region.
The land or the kingdom of Ararat (fl.
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 Amazon.com: Video: Ararat (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ARARAT is a very emotional movie which generates even more emotions from the viewer.
"Ararat" is a brilliant film, even more so after you have seen it and think through some of the issues presented by Egoyan.
"Ararat" is a brutal film containing recreations of Turkish atrocities, so it is definitely off limits to the kiddies, but it isn't horrific for the sake of sensationalism.
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 Ararat on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'Ararat' Opens With the Largest Per Screen Average of Any Film This Week; Film Averages $32,188 Per Screen in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.
Arts: When history still hurts; Atom Egoyan's controversial new film, Ararat, deals with the massacre of the Armenians by Turkish soldiers during the First World War.
Volcanic cone Mount Ararat (also known as Agri Dagi), highest mountain in Turkey at 5137m.
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 Ararat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Though Ararat radiates intelligence, its impact is diminished by an overly intricate plot and cerebral style.
ARARAT, Atom Egoyan's mysterious drama about the horrors of the largely unknown Armenian genocide in Turkey, unrolls through a film within the film (also titled ARARAT).
"Ararat is among the director's best work, a rendering of the past that offers hope for the future."
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/Ararat-1118312   (1113 words)

  
 Ararat Rural City Council Home Page
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Ararat Little Athletics - Track and Field Session - 1/9/2005
This is the official web site of Ararat Rural City Council, ©2005.
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 Rural City of Ararat - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Rural City of Ararat (formerly the Shire of Ararat) is the local government area in south-west Victoria, Australia.
The region has an area of 4230 square kilometers and is centred around the town of Ararat.
2001 Census profile of the Rural City of Ararat
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 Encyclopedia article on Mount Ararat [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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