When a river is in flood, it is at its most powerful, and moves the greatest amount of sediment.

The FSLN's literacy campaign, which saw teachers flood the countryside, is often noted as their greatest success.

** The Great Flood of 1951 reaches its highest point in Northeast Kansas, culminating in the greatest flood damage to date in the Midwestern United States.

Quintilian wrote, " Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable.

However, the National Weather Service station in the nearby settlement of Ft. Ripley received of rain in 24 hours during the flood, which is the second greatest one day rainfall ever recorded in Minnesota ( 15. 10 inches was officially recorded in Hokah, in southeast Minnesota, on August 18, 2007 ).

On May 24, 1968, at approximately 2: 00 A. M. Laurelville suffered its greatest flood.

At its greatest extent the flood was wide and long.

The 1878 flood is regarded as New Zealand's greatest known flood.

The flood peaks between June and August, during Botswana ’ s dry winter months, when the delta swells to three times its permanent size, attracting animals from kilometres around and creating one of Africa ’ s greatest concentrations of wildlife.

The greatest Guadalupe River flood on record occurred in 1955 and was part of the legendary " Christmas Week Floods " when the Guadalupe River flooded.

In these flood areas there are elevated sectors called restingas, which always remain above water, even in times of the greatest swellings.

Some of the greatest human-caused effects on the region have resulted from the water diversions and flood control measures along the Colorado River.

1789 Storofsa-the greatest flood recorded in Gudbrandsdalen: Several farms were devastated, and many people killed.

The nildoror undergo a process of rebirth, and Gunderson ’ s greatest guilt comes from having denied rebirth to seven nildoror to make them help him repair flood damage.

Rochester suffered the greatest flood in the town's history in January 2011.

The greatest recorded flood, in September 1986 caused an estimated $ 35 million in damage to 10, 000 dwellings and 263 business and industrial sites.

Less than two years after completion, Pine Flat Dam halted " what would have been at the time the greatest Kings River flood ever measured " in late November 1955, when the Kings River reached a peak inflow into the reservoir of.

Whitcomb accepted this criticism, being already aware that his inability to deal effectively with objections raised to flood geology by ASA scientists was his " greatest weakness ".

Marcellin " Marcel " Cerdan (; July 22, 1916 – October 28, 1949 ) was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa.

Probably the greatest moment in the team's early existence came against a team from Pine Village, Indiana, in 1916.

He made many contributions to the epidemiology of malaria and to methods of its survey and assessment, but perhaps his greatest was the development of mathematical models for the study of its epidemiology, initiated in his report on Mauritius in 1908, elaborated in his Prevention of malaria in 1911 and further elaborated in a more generalised form in scientific papers published by the Royal Society in 1915 and 1916.

Prof. Graydon A. Tunstall of the University of South Florida called the Brusilov Offensive of 1916 the worst crisis of World War I for Austria-Hungary and the Triple Entente's greatest victory.

Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered ( beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916 ) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception-El " Martín Fierro " ( written with Margarita Guerrero )-gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.

Battalions from the regiment had served in most land conflicts involving British forces since its formation, from the Wars of the Austrian and Spanish succession's, through the American war of Independence and various campaigns in India and Africa, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second Boer War and many of the greatest battles of World War I ( the Battle of Mons, the Battle of the Somme ( 1916 ), the Battle of Passchendaele, the Battle of Cambrai ) and the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919.

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (,, ; October 19, 1916 – October 14, 1985 ) was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.

" Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women's rights or, as a critic labelled him in 1916, ' the greatest misogynist since Schopenhauer ',' the country's high-priest of woman-haters.

Keni Liptzin ( 1863 ( or earlier ) – 1916 ), surname sometimes spelled Lipzin, was a star in the early years of Yiddish theater, probably the greatest female dramatic star of the first great era of Yiddish theater in New York City.

The greatest loss suffered by the Russian Black Sea fleet was the destruction of the modern dreadnought Imperatritsa Mariya, which blew up in port on 7 October 1916, just one year after it was commissioned.

However, all failed, and finally General Townshend-who was subsequently accused of inactivity during the relief attempts-surrendered to the Turks in late April 1916, in what was perhaps the greatest humiliation to befall the British army to that date.

While living here, Muir realized many of his greatest accomplishments, co-founding and serving as the first president of the Sierra Club, in the wake of his battle to prevent Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley from being dammed, playing a prominent role in the creation of several national parks, writing hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and several books expounding on the virtues of conservation and the natural world, and laying the foundations for the creation of the National Park Service in 1916.

He explained that he would not like to be the one to kill off one of the Doctor's greatest enemies, having supposedly killed off the Master ( although he was revived later in The End of Time, where he seemingly perishes again ).

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

According to Mel Hein, " If he hadn't been killed, he could have been the greatest tackle who ever played football.

The USSR emerged from the Second World War in 1945 with the greatest total casualties of any participant in the war, sufferning an estimated 27 million killed along with the destruction of much of the nation's industrial capacity.

They suffered the greatest number of casualties ( killed, wounded and missing ) in a single day in the history of the British army, about 57, 000.

The 2006 Bathurst 1000 became a very emotional event to all drivers, teams, friends and fans of one of its greatest drivers in its history, 9 time winner of the " Great Race ", Peter Brock ( killed in the Targa West rally event the month before ).

It was the greatest victory ever over the Wends, with up to 15, 000 killed.

The ensuing battle was one of the Black Prince ’ s greatest victories, but King Peter ( Spanish: Pedro ) was later killed, and there was no money to pay the troops.

When the Myrmidons led by Achilles turn the tide of battle and Hector is killed, foreshadowing Troy's imminent fall, Helenus-like most of the greatest heroes-survived the poem.

He vanquished ( and could have killed ) Hector ( the greatest Trojan Warrior ) on two occasions and Aeneas ( the second best Trojan warrior ) once.

Sorley is regarded by some, including the Poet Laureate John Masefield ( 1878 – 1967 ), as the greatest loss of all the poets killed during the war.

It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and, in numbers killed, the second greatest defeat of Rome ( second to the Battle of Arausio ).

* November 29-Dar Robinson, considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.

He became recognized by many Mexicans and international fans as Mexico's greatest world champion ever, but that moment of glory was short lived, because almost a year after his fight with Gómez, on August 12 of 1982, Sánchez was killed in a car accident.

Yugoslavia was among the countries that had the greatest losses in the war: 1, 700, 000 ( 10. 8 % of the population ) people were killed and national damages were estimated at US $ 9. 1 billion according to the prices of that period.

This pandemic has been described as " the greatest medical holocaust in history " and may have killed more people than the Black Death.

Lord Ivan Bongwater Solvenski was also one of the greatest Russian snipers he started his military service in 1905 he killed 104 people total in WW1 1914-1918

He also testified that being killed is the greatest danger facing young men in such neighborhoods.

Thebes won the battle, but its greatest general, Epaminondas, was killed in the fighting.

Within two months he was again in the field, and on 14 August he destroyed an English army at the battle of the Yellow Ford on the Blackwater river, in which engagement Henry Bagenal was killed ; it was the greatest of all setbacks to English arms in Ireland.

He killed two bulls and won one ear, but was overshadowed by younger men-although the actress Deborah Kerr, who was in the crowd, insisted, " He is still the greatest bull-fighter.

Eighteen soldiers were killed – the British Army's greatest loss-of-life in a single incident during the conflict.

Roarke's fantasies were not without peril, but the greatest danger usually came from the guests themselves ; in some cases people actually got themselves killed due to their own negligence, aggression or arrogance.