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The ridge was prominent during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, allowing the city to stand above the surrounding plain, but the flooding of the river has since buried most of the ridge in deposited silt.
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However, from ground level, this sunset would be obscured by a ridge in the landscape, and the viewer would need to be raised by two meters: another observation platform was needed.
The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.
There was a sharp armoured exchange south of Ruweisat ridge during the morning and the main Axis advance was held.
Its progress was checked at the Miteirya ridge and it was forced to withdraw that evening to the El Alamein box.
The intention was for the 4th New Zealand Brigade and 5th New Zealand Brigade ( on 4th Brigade's right ) to attack northwest to seize the western part of the ridge and on their right the Indian 5th Infantry Brigade to capture the eastern part of the ridge in a night attack.
Auchinleck ’ s plan was for Indian Infantry 161st Brigade to attack along Ruweisat ridge to take Deir el Shein, while the New Zealand 6th Brigade attacked from south of the ridge to the El Mreir depression.
The plan was to break the enemy line south of Miteirya ridge and exploit north-west.
By 01: 00 on 27 July, 24th Australian Infantry Brigade was to have captured the eastern end of the Miteirya ridge and would exploit toward the north-west.
The unsupported 2 / 28th Australian battalion on the ridge was overrun.
In 1887, the rail link to Sydney was completed, requiring a bridge over the Hawkesbury River and a tunnel through the sandstone ridge west of Woy Woy.
A spoiling attack base was set up on the Taplakhar mountain ridge
If the strip was in the same place each year, the soil built up into a ridge, creating the ridge and furrow topography still seen in some ancient fields.
Many Romulans have a V-shaped ridge above the bridge of their nose, which was not shown in TOS, but introduced in the later series and films.
Under his leadership, the Rough Riders became famous for dual charges up Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898 ( the battle was named after the latter " hill ," which was the shoulder of a ridge known as San Juan Heights ).
The spectacle that confronted Kulik as he stood on a ridge overlooking the devastated area was overwhelming.
The English soldiers formed up as a shield wall along the ridge, and were at first so effective that William's army was thrown back with heavy casualties.
As the ridge was pushed up and the straits of Gibraltar closed through tectonic activity, the sea level was lower, and Malta was on a bridge of dry land that extended between the two continents, surrounded by large lakes.
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The head is flat, U-shaped and has a prominent ridge running from the blowhole to the top of the upper lip.
The most prominent part is the middle ridge, or shinogi.
A prominent ridge of hair matching the spine is also common, giving rise to the name razorback in the southern United States, where they are common.
The Hawthorne formation forms a prominent ridge down the spine of the county, from east of Dunedin, south to the Walsingham area and east towards St. Petersburg.
Many of Birmingham's television and radio broadcast towers are lined up along this prominent ridge.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( now CSX Transportation ) enters the valley through Boyles Gap, a prominent gap in the long low ridge.
From 1920, Michelson started planning a definitive measurement from the Mount Wilson Observatory, using a baseline to Lookout Mountain, a prominent bump on the south ridge of Mount San Antonio ( Old Baldy ), some 22 miles distant.
There is a prominent ridge on the back.
The water tower sits atop this prominent ridge.
In 1818, prominent Detroit judge Augustus B. Woodward bought the ridge, and platted the village of Woodwardville in 1825.
Two prominent man-made features of Lead's geography are the giant open cut, which was used for surface gold mining by the Homestake Mine, and the resulting ridge nearby built with the non-producing material from the cut.
Formerly within the parish of Birstall the village is located on a prominent ridge between Pudsey Beck and Cockers Dale, its place-name probably derived from its location between the two valleys, from the Old English term tang, meaning tong or fork, such as a river fork.
The most prominent geological feature is the chalk of the North Downs which forms a ridge ( the Hog's Back ) to the east of the town, and continues through Farnham Park to the north of the town centre, and westwards to form the Hampshire Downs.
Other prominent hills in the Harz are the Acker-Bruchberg ridge ( 927 m ), the Achtermannshöhe ( 925 m ) and the Wurmberg ( 971 m ) near Braunlage.
The most prominent examples of the mid-oceanic ridge transform zones are located in Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa.
A prominent lingual ridge divides the lingual aspect in half and creates the mesial and distal lingual fossae between the lingual ridge and the marginal ridges.
The plantar surface presents in front a deep groove, the peroneal sulcus, which runs obliquely forward and medialward ; it lodges the tendon of the peroneus longus, and is bounded behind by a prominent ridge, to which the long plantar ligament is attached.
The most significant feature of the Marsh is the Rhee wall ( Rhee is a word for river ), forming a prominent ridge.
The Roaches ( from the French les roches-the rocks ) is the name given to a prominent rocky ridge situated above Leek and Tittesworth Reservoir in the Peak District of England.
The Roaches are the most prominent part of a curving ridge which extends for several miles from Hen Cloud in the south to Back Forest and Hangingstone in the northwest.
* The medial and lateral surfaces are concave, for the attachment of the interosseus muscles, and separated from one another by a prominent anterior ridge.
Most prominent is the ridge to the north.
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As the Axis forces dug in, Auchinleck — having drawn a number of German units to the coastal sector during the Tel el Eisa fighting — developed a plan — codenamed Operation Bacon — to attack the Italian Pavia and Brescia Divisions in the centre of the front at the Ruweisat ridge.
Monsoon troughing in the western Pacific reaches its latitudinal zenith in each hemisphere above and below the equator during the late summer when the wintertime surface high pressure ridge in the opposite hemisphere is strongest.
This predominantly occurs during the months of May, June, September and October when strong westerly winds flow at right angles to the ridge, and produce a large-scale standing wave ( Mountain Lee Wave ).
The Tasman Sea's mid-ocean ridge developed between 85 and 55 million years ago as Australia and Zealandia broke apart during the breakup of supercontinent Gondwana.
Supported by a creeping barrage, the Canadian Corps captured most of the ridge during the first day of the attack.
The town of Thélus fell during the second day of the attack, as did the crest of the ridge once the Canadian Corps overcame a salient of considerable German resistance.
The ridge fell under German control in October 1914 during the Race to the Sea as the Franco-British and German forces continually attempted to outflank each other through northeastern France.
The French made another attempt during the Third Battle of Artois in September 1915 but only captured the town of Souchez at the western base of the ridge.
The Germans did not attempt to recapture the ridge, even during the Spring Offensive, and it remained under British control until the end of the war.
North of the mountain ridge known as Cape Horn, near the Connecticut River, are the remains of Fort Wentworth, built by the New Hampshire Militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War.
The original church was built by the first parishioners during the American Civil War from limestone quarried from a site below the ridge on which the church stood.
The ridge was discovered during the expedition of HMS Challenger in 1872.
The British occupied the town and ridge during the morning of 13 June.
The 26th Panzer then proceeded to create a formidable defensive complex around the town and along the ridge towards Ortona on the coast and Orsogna was not occupied by the Allies — despite a further two determined attempts during December — until the Germans withdrew after the Allied breakthrough at Cassino in May 1944.
In the following year, Messner joined an Andes expedition, during which he succeeded, together with Peter Habeler, in making the first ascent of the Yerupaja east face up to the summit ridge and, a few days later, the first ascent of the 6, 121 metre-high Yerupaja Chico He also made the first solo ascent of the Droites north face, the Philip intersection on the Civetta and the south face of Marmolata di Rocca.
Not until September 23, 1942, during the Second World War, did Alfredo Perino, along with guides Louis Carrel ( nicknamed " The Little Carrel ") and Giacomo Chiara, climb the complete ridge and the overhangs directly.
* A phonetic term of the secondary articulation of consonants by which the body of the tongue is raised toward the hard palate and the alveolar ridge during the articulation of the consonant.
Zino's Petrel may have a similar strategy, since preliminary results from geolocation studies indicate widespread dispersal over the North Atlantic central ridge during the breeding season, and migration towards the Brazilian coast in the non-breeding period.
The area of high pressure associated with the descending branch of the Hadley cell, known as the subtropical ridge, steers tropical waves and tropical cyclones across the ocean and is strongest during the summer.
Monsoon troughing in the western Pacific reaches its zenith in latitude during the late summer when the wintertime surface ridge in the opposite hemisphere is the strongest.
East Rock is a fault-block ridge formed 200 million years ago during the Triassic and Jurassic periods and is composed of trap rock, known as basalt, if extrusive, or diabase, if intrusive.
Faulting Sleeping Giant, a fault-block ridge that formed 200 million years ago during the Triassic and Jurassic periods, is composed of traprock, also known as basalt, an extrusive volcanic rock.
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