They are able to bend slightly and return to their original shape instead of breaking when pressure is applied to them.

The original borders of the parish stretched from the bend of the River Brent at Greenford and followed the river down to the River Thames.

In 1902, the original Kaw City was founded, prior to Oklahoma statehood, as a farming community in the fertile oxbow bend of the Arkansas River.

Later a three and a half mile section of the track was picked up and moved west a number of blocks starting at the corner of 99th St. E. and 17th Ave. E. At this corner the original track bed made a very slight bend to the south.

The original settlement that became the town of Philippi was on a section of bottomland at a bend in the river at the mouth of Anglin's Run.

The original location for this site was a bend in the brook which babbles its way through the valley bottom, eventually joining up with the River Calder near the Minster in Dewsbury.

The Emory River enters the Tennessee Valley just west of Harriman at a pass known as Emory Gap, and forms an oxbow bend that surrounds the original section of Harriman.

The Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, approximately 23 km ( 14 mi ) from its mouth at Moreton Bay.

Transverse loading causes the member to bend and deflect from its original position, with internal tensile and compressive strains accompanying the change in curvature of the member.

This resulted in the road being rerouted through pasture to the east of the original road, taking a right hand bend about south of The Old Mill, taking a 5. 5 % gradient, and rejoining the original road north of The Kell.

Lillooeters still, however, consider their town to be " Mile 0 " of the original Cariboo Wagon Road, and it is true that the numbered roadhouse names of the Cariboo district are measured from the bend in Main Street, where a cairn was erected to commemorate this fact.

The town's name is recorded in its earliest form as Mailros, ' the bare peninsula ' ( Old Welsh or Brythonic ), referring to the original site of the monastery, recorded by the Venerable Bede, in a bend of the river Tweed.

* bend: jazz term referring either to establishing a pitch, sliding down half a step and returning to the original pitch or sliding up half a step from the original note.

Route 11 makes a bend to the northeast, with the original right-of-way heading along Talowah Cutoff Road, which parallels the main highway.

The corner-press move from the original title, which allowed players a sneak peek around the next bend is expanded to allow players to fire from cover.

This version was much different than the Decepticon version but, ironically, almost the same as the original cartoon incarnation: using immobile devices called " Pillars " situated in a ring shape, it would establish a subspace tunnel between two points in space time, described by Sentinel Prime as using some kind of new physics principal that defy what humanity understands ( or more approriately, think we understand ) about the universe, to bend space-time so that two points contact.

The peculiarities of this coil lie in its physical as well as its electrolytical properties: the material has a high memory effect, allowing it to easily bend and regain its original coil shape.

Each star in the bend is given the heraldic value of thirteen which signifies the thirteen original colonies of the United States, and the cumulative numerical value of the three stars indicates that North Dakota was the thirty-ninth state admitted to the Union.

This deviation, constructed in 1978, was to eliminate the dangerous bend in the original alignment as the road followed the edge of the gully.

Tree onion bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth and take root some distance from the parent plant, giving rise to the name walking onion.

The charge of the original coat of arms showed the “ Rennfähnlein ” banner, quarterly argent and gules, on a lance or, in bend, on a blue shield.

To drive this new turbine a timber flume and a masonry aqueduct was constructed, running from Deadmans Hollow around the bend in the South Esk River to the slope immediately behind the Power Station, where it was led into a new steel penstock running alongside the original one.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

It is generally assumed by scholars that the Bastarnae's original home was around the Vistula river ( central Poland ) and that they migrated south-eastwards to the Black Sea region around 200 BC ( as, 400 years later, did the Gothic ethnos ).

The proximity and commanding view of the river kept these neighborhoods a fashionable address long after the original families departed.

A connection with Smyrna seems to be alluded to in a legend that his original name was Melesigenes (" born of Meles ", a river which flowed by that city ), with his mother the nymph Kretheis.

Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians, to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction of the Mississippi river, according to Milfort the original Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns.

Its original name Honovere may mean " high ( river ) bank ", though this is debated ( cf.

The river later returned to its original course, burying much of the city in silt and sand.

From then on, several stretches of the original Merwede were named " Maas " ( i. e. Meuse ) instead and served as the primary outflow of that river.

The original menorah was made for the Tabernacle, and the Bible records it as being present until the Israelites crossed the Jordan river.

According to the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the entire area has thousands of river names that can be traced back to an original Baltic language, even though they have undergone Slavicization.

The ferryman Charon is believed to have transported the souls of the newly dead across this river into the underworld, though in the original Greek and Roman sources, as well as in Dante, it was the river Acheron that Charon plied.

The original site was and included buffer areas across the river in Grant and Franklin counties.

The original course of the river is now covered by the Via Torre Vanga, Via Torre Verde and the Via Alessandro Manzoni.

Isis then finds and buries each piece of her husband's body, with the exception of the penis, which she has to reconstruct with magic, because the original was eaten by fish in the river.

The original plans for an attack around the river Somme were modified to let the British make the main effort.

Water Street was so called because it ran along the riverside and formed the original river dam.

Its original 1753 building at Forth Banks near the river Tyne were inadequate and impossible to expand.

The original borders of Gondor were: rivers Gwathló and Glanduin up to the Misty Mountains ; eaves of the Fangorn forest and river Entwash ; marshes of Nindalf and the Mountains of Shadow ; and river Poros.

Its original extent was from the rivers Seine and Marne in the north-east, which formed the boundary with Gallia Belgica, to the river Garonne in the south-west, which formed the border with Gallia Aquitania.

The Greater Polish Warta river basin was the original Poland — it is said that the Polans (), a West Slavic tribe, inhabited the Warta river basin from the 8th century.

At the lowest part of the town, by the river, Harvey & Son's Brewery, ' The Cathedral of Lewes ' is an unspoilt nineteenth century tower brewery and is the only one of the town's five original major breweries still in use.