A new super special stage was built at Hippos, along with a VIP village for 1, 600 people.

However the final choice of design was determined by a storm during which the " Swiss Roll " was washed away and the " Hippos " were undermined while Beckett's floating roadway ( subsequently codenamed ' Whale ') survived undamaged.

The PRR decapod, class I1s, was unlike the Russian decapod ; it was huge, taking advantage of the PRR's heavy trackage and high axle loading, with a fat, free-steaming boiler that earned the type the nickname of ' Hippos ' on the PRR.

Between the 3rd century BC and the 7th century AD, Hippos was the site of a Greco-Roman city.

Hippos was part of the Decapolis, or Ten Cities, a group of cities in Roman Palestine that were culturally tied more closely to Greece and Rome than to the Near East.

Hippos was built on a flat-topped foothill 2 kilometers east of and 350 meters above the Sea of Galilee, 144 meters above sea level, near modern Kibbutz Ein Gev.

Hippos was part of a demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel before Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. National Park of Hippos

It is likely that Hippos, on a very defensible site along the border lines of the 3rd century BC, was founded as a border fortress for the Ptolemies.

The city of Hippos itself was established by Seleucid colonists, most likely in the second century BC.

Antiochia Hippos was improved with all the makings of a Greek polis: a temple, a central market area, and other public structures.

Pompey granted self-rule to roughly ten Greek cities on Coele-Syria's eastern frontier ; this group, of which Hippos was one, came to be called the Decapolis and was incorporated into the Roman Provincia Syria.

Under Roman rule, Hippos was granted a certain degree of autonomy.

Hippos was given to Herod the Great in 37 BC and returned to the Province of Syria in 4 BC.

According to Josephus, during this time Hippos, a pagan city, was the " sworn enemy " of the new Jewish city across the lake, Tiberias.

After the Romans put down the Bar Kokhba revolt, they created the province of Palaestina in 135, of which Hippos was a part.

This was the beginning of Hippos ' greatest period of prosperity and growth.

The most important improvement, however, was the aqueduct, which led water into Hippos from springs in the Golan Heights, 50 km away.

Choi had played keyboards on the demos for Progress, but when it came time to record, they decided instead to have Rich Zahniser of The Hippos, who was touring with the band, play on the album.

A third city, Hippos, was similar in character to Gadara and Gerasa, and it may fit the biblical account even better.

On February 3, 1933, Ritter was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis and titular bishop of Hippos by Pius XI.

Leo Kinnunen and Bengt Söderström during the Hippos circuit stage in 1964

Hippos have been clocked at over short distances.

Hippos measure long, including a tail of about in length and average about 1. 5 meters ( 5 ft ) tall at the shoulder.

Hippos leave the water at dusk and travel inland, sometimes up to 8 kilometers ( 5 mi ), to graze on short grass, their main source of food.

* Videos of Pygmy Hippos at Arkive. org

Hippos itself fell under attack by rebels at least once.

They unearthed some domestic buildings, the main city gate at the east and a large Byzantine church that had probably been the seat of Hippos ' bishop.

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Hippos at Kazinga Channel

Hippos are recognizable by their barrel-shaped torso, enormous mouth and teeth, nearly hairless body, stubby legs and tremendous size.

There is fossil evidence that many Malagasy Hippos were hunted by humans, a likely factor in their eventual extinction.

The hippopotamus characters " Happy Hippos " were created in 1988 by the French designer Andre Roche based in Munich, to be hidden in the " Kinder Surprise egg " of the Italian chocolate company Ferrero SpA.

* Hungry Hungry Hippos, a children's game marketed by Milton Bradley.

Currently, four Hippos are in British service, one each on HMS Albion and Bulwark, with two used by 11 ( Amphibious Trials and Training ) Squadron of the Royal Marines.

Established as Antiochia Hippos () by Seleucid settlers, the city is named after the Greek language word for horse, Hippos, and a common name of Seleucid monarchs, Antiochus.

Hungry Hungry Hippos is a tabletop game made for young children, currently produced by Hasbro, under the brand of its subsidiary, Milton Bradley.

In some versions of Hungry Hungry Hippos, Henry is replaced by a blue hippo of the same name.

* It is mentioned in And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.

She occasionally performs on the lecture circuit with a show based on her experiences with wildlife, titled Harassed by Hippos and Battered by Cod: A Humble Way to Make a Living.

The Greeks, Hasmoneans, and Romans founded flourishing towns and settlements on the land-locked lake including Gadara, Hippos and Tiberias.

Besides the fortified city itself, Hippos controlled two port facilities on the lake and an area of the surrounding countryside.