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Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel is the name of several places in the world:
- Mount Carmel, Israel
- Mount Carmel, Newfoundland , Canada
- Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States of America
- Mount Carmel, Tennessee, United States of America
(See also Carmel.)
Mount Carmel was also the name of the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco, Texas lead by Benjamin Rodel and later David Koresh. Named after the biblical mountain, it was here that the infamous Siege of Waco occurred in which 81 Branch Davidians were killed.
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