Carving from the meeting house Hotunui, 1878In Māori mythology, taniwha () are beings that live in deep pools in rivers, dark caves, or in the sea, especially in places with dangerous currents or deceptive breakers.

Carving from a Māori canoeIn Māori mythology, Tāwhaki is a semi-supernatural being associated with lightning and thunder.

Carving took a year and a half, and in September 1831 the column safely separated from the rock.

Carving depicting King Sisowath obtaining the provinces of Preah Vihear, Battambang and Siam Riep in 1907 from Siam, which had annexed the provinces from Cambodia in the later half of the 18th century.

* Carving out the commandery of Donghai from the Principality of Chu ( modern northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui ), based on Liu Wu, the Prince of Chu, having sexual relations during the mourning period for Grand Empress Dowager Bo.

* Carving out the commandery of Changshan from the Principality of Zhao ( modern central and southern Hebei ), based on an unspecified offence.

* Carving out six counties from the Principality of Jiaoxi ( roughly modern Weifang, Shandong ), based on Liu Ang, the Prince of Jiaoxi, embezzling funds from the sales of titles intended for paying border patrol costs.

* Carving out the commanderies of Huiji and Yuzhang from the Principality of Wu, based on various offences by Liu Pi, the Prince of Wu.

Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material.

* George, David C. Carving From the Veldt: Rifle Carvings from the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Northern Rivers, 2004.

* Harihara-Photograph of Carving from Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid ( art-and-archaeology. com )

Carving of a tarasque, the legendary monster of Provence, devouring a man, from the Cloister ( 12th century )

* More Ice Carving Photos from years past

Carving was action.

Carving of St. Benedict of Nursia, holding an abbot's crozier and his Rule of St. Benedict | Rule for Monasteries ( Münsterschwarzach, Germany ).

" Carving passages " is where one marks out the network of available routes.

* 1251 – Carving of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist scriptures recorded on some 81, 000 wooden blocks, is completed.

Carving is based on the shape of the ski itself ; when the ski is rotated onto its edge, the pattern cut into its side causes it to bend into an arc.

Carving turns are generally much smoother and longer than stemming, and keep the skis along the direction of travel as opposed to angled across it.

Image: MayahuelTemploMayor. JPG | Carving of Mayahuel displayed at the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan.

Ridgway is home to the Ridgway Chainsaw Carving Rendezvous, the largest chainsaw carving gathering of its kind.

More information on the Ridgway Chainsaw Carving Rendezvous can be found at http :// www. chainsawrendezvous. org

File: Stone Carving by Alonzo Hauser. jpg | Original stone carving by Alonzo Hauser

* Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Carving, at Country Village.

Rock Carving on Cheung Chau.

and epilogue ); The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving Out a Niche.

Carving its way southwest across the Colorado Plateau, the Colorado forms Cataract Canyon and other gorges and receives its principal tributary, the Green River, before flowing into Lake Powell, a reservoir formed by the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona nearly downstream.

* Rock Carving Site: Located north of Taif, this was the site of the Okaz Souk, the largest and most well known of the pre-Islamic souqs or gathering places.

Image: Carvingknives. JPG | Carving Knives

Image: Carveknife. JPG | Carving Knife used to round a corner of a piece of wood

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Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

Even so, confusion in this period gained such strength ( from compromise and other factors ) that it led to the bloodiest war of the Nineteenth century.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Whenever some Washington circles were really ready for talks to eliminate friction they have always succumbed to pressure from the war clique in the Pentagon and in Bonn.

Both won a pretty fair-sized war with a modest assist from British strategy.

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

Our military forces must be capable of contending successfully with any contingency which may be forced upon us, from limited emergencies to all-out nuclear general war.

-- The deterrent power of our Armed Forces comes from both their nuclear retaliatory capability and their capability to conduct other essential operations in any form of war.

During the war it was in constant use by the wagon trains transporting supplies from the railhead at Grafton to the troops operating in the interior.

When necessary, we should make it clear that countries which choose to derive marginal advantages from the cold war or to exploit their potential for disrupting the security of the world will not only lose our sympathy but also risk their own prospects for orderly development.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

-- The statewide meeting of war mothers Tuesday in Salem will hear a greeting from Gov. Mark Hatfield.

A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.

For the army of compulsive eaters -- from the nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons -- reducing is a war with the will that is rarely won.

But he got ahead in business: on leave from his job to an important Washington assignment during the war ; ;

Then and throughout the war, Lincoln came under heavy, often vituperative attack from antiwar Democrats, called Copperheads.

In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict.

After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.

The absence of a tax base meant that there was no way to pay off state and national debts from the war years except by requesting money from the states, which seldom arrived.