In this way, great strength is not needed to produce a force strong enough to bend steel, or crack the hardest stone.

The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.

At the point where it makes its great bend the river meets the Chinchipe, which originates in southern Ecuador.

Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of Indus river, its eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, just west of the great bend of the Tsangpo river.

Some of its sources are near Zebak, close to the great bend of the Oxus northwards, so that it cuts off all the mountainous area included within that bend from the rest of Badakhshan.

A very remarkable meridional range extends for 100 miles northwards from the Hindu Kush ( it is across this range that the route from Zebak to Ishkashim lies ), which determines the great bend of the Oxus river northwards from Ishkashim, and narrows the valley of that river into the formation of a trough as far as the next bend westwards at Kala Wamar.

Ellinwood is also located just north of the Arkansas River, roughly in the area where it makes its " great bend " to the southeast en route to its final destination, the Mississippi River.

They named the settlement after its location at the " great bend " of the Arkansas River, the point where the river ’ s course bends eastward.

A small non-contiguous piece of land within the great bend of Brandywine Creek is included in the township.

William Elstobb and others had suggested that the great bend in the river above King's Lynn should be removed by creating a cut, but it took 50 years of arguing before the Eau Brink Act was obtained in 1795 to authorise it, and another 26 years until the cut was finally opened in 1821.

He wrote of William the Conqueror in Historia Anglorum: He was of just stature, ordinary corpulence, fierce countenance ; his forehead was bare of hair ; of such great strength of arm that it was often a matter of surprise, that no one was able to draw his bow, which himself could bend when his horse was in full gallop ; he was majestic whether sitting or standing, although the protuberance of his belly deformed his royal person ; of excellent health so that he was never confined with any dangerous disorder, except at the last ; so given to the pleasures of the chase, that as I have before said, ejecting the inhabitants, he let a space of many miles grow desolate that, when at liberty from other avocations, he might there pursue his pleasures.

As a result, much of the river above the Texas-Oklahoma border is intermittent, and until the river is past its great bend south in Arkansas, the flow varies widely.

It initially flows west but then very shortly makes a great bend to the east, entering the Chinese province of Yunnan and the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Area, a World Heritage Site.

A sharp bend west and another south takes the Salween between the great mountain ranges of eastern Burma, the Daen Lao Range, a subrange of the Shan Hills, followed by the Dawna Hills in the east and the Karen Hills in the west, to join the Moei River from the east as it approaches Thailand, where it is called the Salawin.

It extends for from Bhutan in the west to east of the great bend of the Brahmaputra River in the east, largely along the crest of the Himalayas.

In contrast, the wooden section of a cylinder had to be treated with great pains to keep its form perfectly over time, lest it warp or bend, and make it impossible to retract or extend.

The fibers pass downward, and end in a tendon, which occupies the anterior border of the muscle, passes through a distinct compartment in the cruciate crural ligament, crosses from the lateral to the medial side of the anterior tibial vessels near the bend of the ankle, and is inserted into the base of the distal phalanx of the great toe.

The Tinariwen guitar style has its roots in West African music, specifically that from the " great bend " region along the Niger River, between Timbuktu and Gao.

If I just learned to bend over and say thank you a little more politely, it could've been great.

The mountain chains separating the Ordos from the central Gobi in the north of the great bend of the Yellow River are: the Kara-naryn-ula, the Sheitenula, and the Yin Mountains, which link on to the south end of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

The northern part of the great bend of the Yellow River is filled with the sands of Kuzupchi River, a succession of dunes, 12 – 15 m high.

Hausa is also spoken various parts of Cameroon and Chad, which combined the mixed dialects of Northern Nigeria and Niger Republic, French has made a great influence in the way Hausa is spoken by the native Hausa speakers.

This finding, which would be of great importance to both the history of Niger and the history of the diffusion of Iron Age metalworking technology in all of sub-Saharan Africa, is as yet contentious.

The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba " great river " in Manding ; Orimiri or Orimili " great water " in Igbo ; Egerew n-Igerewen " river of rivers " in Tuareg ; Isa Ber " big river " in Songhay ; Kwara in Hausa ; and Oya in Yoruba.

It was only with the 18th century visits of Mungo Park, who travelled down the Niger River and visited the great Sahelian empires of his day, that Europeans correctly identified the course of the Niger, and extending the name to its entire course.

Activity along the coast stimulated European interest in the interior, especially along the two great rivers, the Senegal and the Niger.

III, 822 ) points to Guinea having been a corrupt form of Jenne year old city in central Mali on Niger river, less famous than Ghana but nevertheless for many centuries famed in the Maghrib as a great market and a seat of learning.

The Sudanian Savanna is home to two great flooded grasslands, the Sudd wetland in the Sudan, and the Niger Inland Delta in Mali.

He had been thought dead, and his return home with news of the discovery of the Niger River evoked great public enthusiasm.

A competing theory, first forwarded by Leo Africanus in 1526, claims that ' Guinea ' is derived from Djenné, the great interior commercial city on the Upper Niger River.

He repeats the old error of assuming that the Senegal river and the ( actual ) Niger river are connected to each other, forming one great east-west river, and relates the legend that it was believed to be a tributary of the great Biblical river of Gihon ( Gion ) that flowed from the Garden of Eden across the lands of Aethiopia.

To meet them the capital of the company ( renamed the National African Company ) was increased from £ 250, 000 to £ 1, 000, 000, and great energy was displayed in founding stations on the Niger.

It was under Mali that the great cities of the Niger bend-including Gao and Djenné-prospered, with Timbuktu in particular becoming known across Europe for its great wealth.

One by one the other great mysteries had been investigated: the coasts by Prince Henry the Navigator's Portuguese sailors in the 15th century ; the Blue Nile by James Bruce in 1773 ; the remote upper Niger by Mungo Park in 1796 ; the vast Sahara by competitors Laing, Callié, and Clapperton in the 1820s ; the fever-ridden mangroves of the lower Niger by the Lander Brothers in 1830 ; southern Africa and the Zambezi by Livingstone and John Clafton in the 1850s ; the upper Nile by Burton, Speke, and Baker in a succession of expeditions between 1857 and 1868.

It receives a great deal of rainfall, and the headwaters of three major rivers, the Niger River, the Gambia River and the Senegal River, have their sources on it.

It was under Mali that the great cities of the Niger bend — including Gao and Djenné — prospered, with Timbuktu in particular becoming known across Europe for its great wealth.

Communist guerrillas recently have been reported increasing their activities and the great flood of the Mekong River has interposed a new crisis.

Thus such great American documentaries as The River and The Plow That Broke The Plains were composed as visual stories rather than as illustrated lectures.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé ( and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort ), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm.

Culture and the arts flourished, with grandiose artworks such as Along the River During the Qingming Festival and Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, along with great Buddhist painters like the prolific Lin Tinggui.

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

In 1380, at Kulikovo on the Don River, the Mongols were defeated, and although this hard-fought victory did not end Tatar rule of Russia, it did bring great fame to the Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy.

They had initially selected the land near the Wabash River for its isolation and opportunity for expansion, but the Harmonites were now a great distance from the eastern markets and trade in this location wasn't to their liking.

He also had a great interest in ferryboats, at his fiancee's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull boat, part of the Millersburg Ferry, in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

The city was an important port in the trade from Mesopotamia to India and provided port facilities for the great city of Susa, further up the Tigris River.

On the north it is separated from the Nusayriyah Mountains of Syria by An Nahr al Kabir (" the great river "); on the south it is bounded by Al Qasimiyah River, giving it a length of 169 kilometers.

" The River of Cuyari, called by the Portuguese Madeira or the Wood River, is formed by two great rivers, which join near its mouth.

The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.

The Indus, one of the great rivers of the world, rises in southwestern Tibet only about 160 kilometres west of the source of the Sutlej River, which joins the Indus in Punjab, and the Brahmaputra, which runs eastward before turning southwest and flowing through Bangladesh.

It runs through a continuous forest at the bottom of the great depression lying between the Madeira River, which skirts the edge of the Brazilian sandstone plateau, and the Ucayali which hugs the base of the Andes.

It is navigable for a period of about five months of the year, when the Purus valley is inundated ; and, for the remaining seven months, only canoes can ascend it sufficiently high to communicate overland with the settlements in the great India-rubber districts of the Mayutata and lower Beni ; thus these regions are forced to seek a canoe outlet for their rich products by the very dangerous, costly and laborious route of the falls of the Madeira River.

In 1233 the work began in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ), and during the winter the Prussians gathered a large army for a major battle on the Sirgune River, where they suffered a great defeat.

The wide river bed ( paleo-channel ) of the Ghaggar river suggest that the river once flowed full of water during the great meltdown of the Himalayan Ice Age glaciers, some 10, 000 years ago, and that it then continued through the entire region, in the presently dry channel of the Hakra River, possibly emptying into the Rann of Kutch.