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Mt. Ararat girls basketball beats defending Eastern A champ Hampden

Jan 11, 2012

TOPSHAM, Maine — The Hampden Academy girls basketball gang, the defending Eastern Maine Class A champions, was hit hard by graduation, with only two players returning to the lineup with eloquent playing experience.

The Broncos showed they’re a proud team, but the taller Mt. Ararat Eagles showed their strength imprisoned and at the foul line in pulling away for a 51-41 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference win on Tuesday.

The winning gives coach Kelly LaFountain’s squad a 7-2 record, good for the No. 2 spot in Eastern A behind undefeated Cony at the halfway nitty-gritty of the season, while Hampden dropped to 4-5 and still holds the ninth and final playoff spot.

“They lost a lot of seniors from last year’s cooperate, but they’re still good and fundamentally sound,” said LaFountain. “Their defensive intensity picked up, and we were fatiguing to slow it down. We had some turnovers [22] today.”

Mallory Nelson led the way for Mt. Ararat with 19 points, including 11 of her link up’s 17 first-half points as the Eagles held a low-scoring 17-12 edge at the break.

Source: Bangor Daily News

Noah's Ark on mount Ararat

Pictures of a piece of Noah's Ark on mount Ararat (meaning: sacred land or high land), eastern Turkey or former western Armenia, because Noah's ...

Ararat: An Addendum


Mount Ararat (Agirî)/ by Sevan Nişanyan

Note: Sevan Nişanyan is a prominent Turkish intellectual, a hotelier, and a writer of several guide books to Turkey. In the following short article, which can be considered an Addendum to my post, The Five-Thousand Meter Fantasy, he fills in some interesting facts about the origin of Ararat's Turkish name, Ağrı Dağı. Above all, he talks about the most irrational thing about Ararat; namely, that its name means "the mountain of pain." Obviously he's correct; it must be a Turkified version of a Kurdish name. For more about Urartu, simply do a Google search.

This article was sent to me by Zerkes, who blogs at zerkesorg.blogspot.com. He also very kindly provided the translation. The original was in the Kurdistan Post. I have altered some of the syntax, as well as adding notes.


How can there be a mountain named Ağrı (Pain) for God's sake? What pain, whose pain? Agir means "fire" in Kurdish. Agirî is the adjective form [of Agir] making it [Mount Ararat] the "mountain of fire." It's obvious the Turkish name came from this word. The most recent volcanic activity [in Mount Ararat] was recorded in 1840, when it emitted smoke. But I couldn't find out when the name [Agirî] was used first.

The mountain's Armenian name is not Ararat, but Masis. Ararat is a common Hebrew name in the Torah for the mountain-country today called "Eastern Anatolia". In Genesis 8:4 it's written that Noah's Ark, landed on the MOUNTAINS of Ararat: "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." Notice that it is plural, not singular [MountainS]. Later on, they reasoned and decided...

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