Crushing is also reported from pre-Columbian America, notably in the Aztec empire.

Crushing and flaking equipment from Damman-Croes Belgium has been selected.

Crushing devices hold material between two parallel or tangent solid surfaces, and apply sufficient force to bring the surfaces together to generate enough energy within the material being crushed so that its molecules separate from ( fracturing ), or change alignment in relation to ( deformation ), each other.

Depiction of an Crushing by elephant | execution by an elephant, from A Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon

Crushing basslines meet with a new hardcore scream vocal from Sato, a style he would move even further toward on 2008's " I'm Not Fine Thank-you, and you?

* Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream.

The campaign featured a revised version of the famous NBC Peacock logo, billed as the " Proud N ", along with a catchy high-energy jingle ( written for NBC by Joey Levine from Crushing Enterprises ) that promotes a network ready to shed its losing reputation and project an image of excitement in its programming.

The most famous exemplar was real-life martial artist Kwan Tak Hing ; he became an avuncular hero figure to at least a couple of generations of Hong Kongers by playing historical folk hero Wong Fei Hung in a series of roughly one hundred movies, from The True Story of Wong Fei Hung ( 1949 ) through to Wong Fei Hung Bravely Crushing the Fire Formation ( 1970 ).

* Torture, Detention, and the Crushing of Dissent in Iran from Human Rights Watch

In 1831 he exhibited much larger statues, Tiger Devouring a Gavial Crocodile which was a plaster sculpture 41 cm high and 103 cm long, and Lion Crushing a Serpent, 138 cm high and 178 cm long, made in bronze.

* Crushing defeat of the Idrisid dynasty against their Fatimid rivals.

* The destruction ( with comic effect ) of certain items, including " Crushing Things with a Steamroller ," " Throwing Things Off a Five-Story Building ," and " Crushing Things with an 80-Ton Hydraulic Press.

Crushing is the process of transferring a force amplified by mechanical advantage through a material made of molecules that bond together more strongly, and resist deformation more, than those in the material being crushed do.

Crushing by elephant has been done in many parts of the world, by both Western and Eastern empires.

Crushing by elephant had been abolished by the British after they overthrew the Kandyan kingdom in 1815 but the king's execution elephant was still alive and evidently remembered its former duties.

As " The Crushing Lands ", Malbolge was a place of craggy, black stone and ash filled with stinking vapors, smoke, fire pits, and huge caves and caverns in which ancient Baatorians lurked.

Crushing the rebellion incorporated Bavaria into Charles ' kingdom.

Crushing the bulk of the Yan army at the frozen Yishui River, Ji fell the following year and the ruler, King Xi, fled to the Liaodong Peninsula.

Crushing is the process when gently squeezing the berries and breaking the skins to start to liberate the contents of the berries.

Zulu expansion, later dubbed Difaqane ‘ the Crushing ’, set off a series of eastward migrations as refugees and defeated tribes fled the onslaught These displaced groups came into contact with the Sotho people residing on the Highveld.

Sodas were titled Illithid Brain Juice, Sneak Attack, Potion of Healing, Dwarven Draught, Bigby's Crushing Thirst Destroyer, and Eldritch Blast.

An official MySpace blog posted on February 8, 2007 gave an update on Josh Fiedler starting new band Vesta and Josh " Chip " Walters playing drums in his new band called Crushing Ground.

Crushing more than one Sno-Bee at once will increase the number of points awarded.

Crushing an ice block will award 30 points, or 500 points if it contains a Sno-Bee egg.

Crushing was the term coined for the compression of the system using CELF format.

Throne of Bhaal added a new dungeon called Watcher's Keep to the game ; new features and enhancements, such as the Wild Mage character class, a higher experience point cap, and high-level class abilities ; and new spells, such as Wish, Bigby's Crushing Hand, and Dragon's Breath.

Crushing employs hammer-like tools to break the solid into smaller particles by means of impact.

* Crushing: To make the shea nuts into butter, they must be crushed.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.

The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.

These people may have assisted the Scythians when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into what is now Southern Russia to punish the Scythians for their raids into the Achaemenid Empire.

File: Model of a chariot from the Oxus Treasure by Nickmard Khoey. jpg | Room 52-A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, circa 5th to 4th century BC

When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name " Chaldean " lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class.

600 BC or 576 BC – 530 BC ) – also known as Cyrus II – the grandson of Cyrus I, an Achaemenid ruler and the founder of the Great Persian Empire

Afghanistan was inhabited by the Aryan tribes and controlled by the Medes until about 500 BC when Darius the Great ( Darius I ) marched with his Persian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire.

They often provided the naval forces of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and their heartland in the Levant was still dominated by powers rooted east in Mesopotamia or Persia.

The Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, ruled an area from Greece and Turkey to the Indus River and Central Asia during the 6th to 4th centuries BC.

The district Aria of the Persian Achaemenid Empire is mentioned in the provincial lists that are included in various royal inscriptions, for instance, in the Behistun inscription of Darius I ( ca.

The endonym Śfard ( the name the Lydians called themselves ) survives in bilingual and trilingual stone-carved notices of the Achaemenid Empire: the satrapy of Sparda ( Old Persian ), Aramaic Saparda, Babylonian Sapardu, Elamitic Išbarda.

** Persian Babylonia, Achaemenid Assyria ( 6th to 4th c. BC )

Aramaic, which had already become common in Mesopotamia, then became the official provincial administration language of first the Neo Assyrian Empire, and then the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

The art of Mesopotamia rivalled that of Ancient Egypt as the most grand, sophisticated and elaborate in western Eurasia from the 4th millennium BC until the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered the region in the 6th century BC.

Little is known about the Achaemenid Persian invasion of modern-day Pakistan as historical sources and evidence are scant and fragmentary containing little detail.

In 550 BC, the Achaemenid Empire established the first Persian Empire in Pars ( Persis, or modern Fars ) in the southwestern region of the Iranian plateau.

From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).

Picture depicting the Achaemenid Persian empire in relation to the Persian Gulf.

Between 625 BC and 226 AD, the northern side was dominated by a succession of Persian empires including the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires.

Under the leadership of the Achaemenid king Darius the Great ( Darius I ), Persian ships found their way to the Persian Gulf.