The Egyptians then opened up the Nile dams and let the river flood, hoping to prevent Amalric from invading any further.

The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when the damaged wall of a utility tunnel beneath the Chicago River opened into a breach which flooded basements and underground facilities throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated of water.

The Germans fiercely defended the area for two reasons: it served as a staging area for the Ardennes Offensive ( what became the Battle of the Bulge ) that was already in preparation, and the mountains commanded access to the Schwammenauel Dam at the head of the Rur Lake ( Rurstausee ) which, if opened, would flood low-lying areas downstream and deny any crossing of the river.

This development opened not only the trade in spices from the Levant, but also advanced commercial and financial techniques and a flood of capital that soon took over the banking of Bruges.

Pierre Part experienced flooding when the Morganza Spillway was opened in the great Mississippi River flood of 1973.

As a result of the flood the company decided to end production of the Piper PA-24 Comanche Piper opened a manufacturing division in Lakeland, Florida in 1972 and through the 1970s, the Piper PA-31 Navajo, Chieftain, and Cheyenne III were manufactured at the more than 710, 000 ft < sup > 2 </ sup > facility on the Lakeland municipal airport.

Viking organise national ranking Canoe Slalom events at the Cardington Artificial Slalom Course ( CASC ), which was the first artificial whitewater course in the UK, opened in 1982 adjacent to Cardington Lock, in a partnership with the Environment Agency who use it as a flood relief channel.

During the Battle of the Yser, part of the First Battle of Ypres in World War I, Karel Cogge opened the sluice gates on the mouth of the river Yser twice to flood the lower lying land, thus halting the German advance.

In the first 2 games the teams traded 4-1 wins before the flood gates opened and the Colts took control of the series.

Above, flood control gates are opened under the direction of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

This opened a flood gate of country artists who followed with books.

At the same time the great push west along the newly opened Oregon Trail built up from a trickle of settlers in 1841 to a steady stream in 1844 – 1846, and then became a flood as the highly organized Mormon migration exploited the road to the Great Salt Lake discovered by mountain man Jim Bridger in 1847 – 1848.

Following the end of fighting in Aachen, the Western Allies ' First Army was tasked with the capture of a series of dams behind the Hürtgen Forest, which could be used by the Germans to flood the valleys which opened the road to Berlin.

In October 1830, while replacing the mill stones, the millers had opened the flood gates for 16 days, and built a dam across the river, thus preventing navigation.

This dam with twenty radial flood gates was almost completed when visited by the Queen and Prince Phillip in March 1963, then later completed and officially opened by then Prime Minister, ( Sir ) Robert Menzies on 20 July 1963 when he said that Kununurra and the Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ) is ".. the most exciting place in Australia.

Rain, snow, wind and hail were kept in storehouses outside the raqia, which had " windows " to allow them in-the waters for Noah's flood entered when the " windows of heaven " were opened.

The Weinberg was originally a large movie theater called the Tivoli, opened in 1926 ; the Tivoli was destroyed in a flood in 1976, and was reopened as the Weinberg Center two years later.

When the Nile had receded from flood stage, Faraz Pasha had opened the river gates and let the Ansār in.

On March 26, 1996, the penstocks and two of the outlet works ' bypass tubes at Glen Canyon Dam were opened to maximum capacity, producing a flood crest of about on the Colorado River.

The first bridge was opened over the Nepean in 1856 and was washed away the following year in a flood.

His father was a tenant farmer, but shortly after the Ohio River flood of 1937, the family moved to Heath, Kentucky where Buster Carroll sold tractor implements and opened a automobile repair shop in 1940.

It opened the door for a flood of Asian recording artists in the UK including Apna Sangeet, Chirag Pehchan, Sangeeta and DCS.

Located at the base of the Verdugo Mountains, Sun Valley is notably prone to flash floods, and one such flood on Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 2237 ( 10: 37 PM PST ) destroyed a portion of the 8000 block of Tujunga Avenue and killed a Los Angeles City Civil Engineer when a sinkhole 30 feet deep opened up.

The Government of Peru's economic stabilization and liberalization program lowered trade barriers, eliminated restrictions on capital flows, and opened the economy to foreign investment, with the result that Peru now has one of the most open investment regimes in the world.

The Victoria line platforms opened on 7 March 1969 ; interchange between that line and the Piccadilly line was via the ticket hall ( without having to pass through the exit barriers ).

Aris San, who worked at the Zorba club in Jaffa, owned and opened by Shlomo Bachramov wrote songs for Aliza Azikri ( Bahayim hakol over, Yesh ahava ata omer ), that effectively broke down the barriers between Israeli song and the world of Greek and Mizrahi music.

Movable wooden barriers that could be opened quickly were fastened between each wagon to prevent intruders, and two cannon were positioned.

Work began in May 1940 and the barriers were completed in September 1944, but were not officially opened until 12 May 1945, four days after the end of World War II in Europe.

Work began in May 1940 and the barriers were completed in September 1944, but were not officially opened until 12 May 1945, four days after the end of World War II.

A signal box was opened to control interlocked gates at the Gaffney Street level crossing, until boom barriers replaced them in 1965.

Following the network-wide fare zone merger of the former MTR and KCR networks on September 28, 2009, the transfer turnstiles along with the barriers separating the two fare zones were removed, and cross-platform interchange is now provided between platform 1 ( West Rail Line to Tuen Mun ) and platform 4 ( Tung Chung Line to Hong Kong ) thanks to the new passageways opened between the 2 platforms.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

In the summer months the spillway of the dam is opened for a few minutes daily and tourists gather to see the water rushing down the river ( picture ).

Furthermore, in leading his troops across the Rhine, without recourse to Tiberius, he contradicted the advice of Augustus to keep that river as the boundary of the empire, and opened himself to doubts about his motives in such independent action.

Shipbuilding on Clydeside ( the river Clyde through Glasgow and other points ) began when the first small yards were opened in 1712 at the Scott family's shipyard at Greenock.

The harbor was opened in 2006 and occupies the entire Moldovan stretch of the river ( less than ).

Each lock has a navigable passage next to it through the weir, which is opened during periods of high river flow, when there is too much water for the lock.

In 1935, Socony Vacuum Oil opened the huge Mammoth Oil Port on Staten Island which had a capacity of handling a quarter of million gallons of petroleum products a year and could transship oil from ocean going tankers and river barges

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

On the river Tronto, Count William of Loritello did homage to Lothair and opened the gates of Termoli to him.

Waves of angry immigrants stormed the downtown area and the mayor ordered the swing bridges opened to stop further waves of protestors from crossing the river.

This resulted in an unprecedented volume of water backing up behind Srisailam dam, resulting in floods both upstream of the river, and downstream as well, when all the gates of the dam were opened for several days to bring storage at Srisailam back to normal levels.

The river opened up for international navigation only recently ; before, Hungary distinguished " national rivers " and " international rivers ", indicating whether non-Hungarian vessels were allowed or not.

The Haven Bridge, which now carries the two trunk roads over the river, was opened in 1966, and the new road built in the early 1970s rather separated Skirbeck from Boston ; but the town largely avoided the development boom of the 1960s.

The Nizhny Novgorod Volga Aerial Tramway from Nizhny Novgorod to Bor across Volga river, was opened in 2012.

As the terminus of the Via Flaminia, which ended here in the surviving prestigious Arch of Augustus ( erected 27 BC ), Rimini was a road junction connecting central Italy and northern Italy by the Via Aemilia that led to Piacenza and the Via Popilia that extended northwards ; it also opened up trade by sea and river.

A new museum dedicated to the motion picture opened in 2007 at the newly restored chais on opposite side of the river at Saint Cybard.

It first opened as a toll bridge ; to avoid the toll, in the coldest winter months some daring motorists would cross on the firmly frozen river.

In 1906, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened a new facility in Enola, across the river from Harrisburg, which decreased the significance of Columbia ’ s railroad.

In the 1760s Boyne Navigation opened between Slane and Oldbridge, approximately down river.

Shortly after the completion of the initial Rivanna navigational works, Virginia requested that the river be opened to public usage.

The Champlain Canal was opened on 1823, so the ships could navigate from the Hudson river.

The Jamestown Canal was repaired, harbours built and John Killaly designed a canal alongside the river from Battlebridge to Lough Allen which was opened in 1820.