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When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.
When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.
When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.
When Marlow ’ s helmsman dies, Conrad describes him as “ heavier than any man on earth ,” but after Marlow throws him into the river, he is carried off “ like a wisp of grass ”.
When they began raiding again, he led a unified army of all German tribes to victory at the Battle of Riade in 933 near the river Unstrut, thus stopping the Magyar advance into Germany.
When a river is in flood, it is at its most powerful, and moves the greatest amount of sediment.
When the Arabs conquered the region much later, their name for the river became Guadalete ( River Lethe, in Arabic ).
When he meets her she is washing herself, standing with one foot on either side of the river Unius.
When he reached the end of the river, he stumbled onto a small grotto.
When the river is in flood stage, its silted delta outlets are unable to carry off the high volume of water.
When the fire engulfed a tall church west of the Chicago River, the flames crossed the south branch of the river.
When the Argonauts were lost in the desert, he guided them to find the passage from the river back to the sea.
When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British.
When the second phase of the Tucuruí project is completed, there will be a system of locks that will make a long extension of the river navigable.
When Thames Water was privatised in 1990, its river management functions were transferred to the National Rivers Authority, in 1996 subsumed into the Environment Agency.
When the towpath changed sides, it was necessary to take the towing horse and its driver across the river.
When the canal was completed it linked the river systems of the Qiantang River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River, the Wei River and the Hai River.
The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.
When the Sirens were given a name of their own they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon ( the Earth ; in Euripides ' Helen 167, Helen in her anguish calls upon " Winged maidens, daughters of the Earth ").
When the ice melted, the upper Great Lakes emptied into the Niagara river, which followed the rearranged topography across the Niagara Escarpment.
When Elendil founded the Kingdom of Arnor its borders were quickly extended towards the river Greyflood, and Gondor likewise extended up through Enedwaith.
When the water level is at its maximum of above sea level, which is higher than the river level downstream, the dam reservoir is on average about in length and in width.
When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens slowly, while downstream the erosion occurs more rapidly.

When and breaks
When A bubble breaks, there's nothing.
When the ball crosses the plate the runner breaks for second base, and is essentially stealing the base on the middle infielders who have not covered second base.
When the sperm breaks through the hard outer shell of the egg a new cell embryo is formed, which, in humans, grows to full size in 9 months.
When the Avengers and the New Avengers are fighting Skadi, the Serpent ends up joining the battle and breaks Captain America's shield with his bare hands.
When " Light breaks where no sun shines " appeared in The Listener in 1934, it caught the attention of three senior figures in literary London, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson and Stephen Spender.
When blood glucose levels fall below a certain level, the body begins to use stored sugar as an energy source through glycogenolysis, which breaks down the glycogen stored in the liver and muscles into glucose, which can then be utilized as an energy source.
When she comes to the battlefield she chants a poem, and immediately the battle breaks and the Fomorians are driven into the sea.
When a heavy atom undergoes nuclear fission it breaks into two or more fission fragments.
When an electric current is passed through the coil it generates a magnetic field that activates the armature, and the consequent movement of the movable contact ( s ) either makes or breaks ( depending upon construction ) a connection with a fixed contact.
When morning breaks, Kambei orders his forces to allow the remaining bandits in.
When Henry learned how she had been treated, he breaks with his father and tells Catherine he still wants to marry her despite his father's disapproval.
When Judson advances on Warden with the knife, Warden breaks a beer bottle in two and uses the jagged edge as a weapon.
When basalt erupts underwater or flows into the sea, contact with the water quenches the surface and the lava forms a distinctive pillow shape, through which the hot lava breaks to form another pillow.
When a shark dies, the decomposing skeleton breaks up, scattering the apatite prisms.
* When the Antarctic ozone hole breaks up, the ozone-depleted air drifts out into nearby areas.
When cooked or stored at high temperatures, aspartame breaks down into its constituent amino acids.
When World War I breaks out, Chips, who had retired the year before at age 65, agrees to come out of retirement to fill in for the various masters who have entered military service.
* When the Frankenstein Monster breaks free of his bonds on the operating table in the climactic chase / fight scene, one of his neck electrodes clearly pulls off of his neck.
When the chicks and the female are too big to fit in the nest, the mother breaks out, then both parents feed the chicks.
* When a mutiny breaks out amongst the troops who are fortifying Piraeus ( the harbour for Athens ), the Council sends Theramenes to quell it.
When he tries to bar the eponymous hero of the opera Siegfried from awakening Brünnhilde from her magic sleep, Siegfried breaks the spear in two and Wotan flees.
When she refuses, he uses force: he breaks her concentration and terrifies her by throwing her out of the airplane, catching her with the airplane, and he uses this to kiss her.
When the distance between the two electrodes is reduced, the intensity of the electric field in the volume between the electrodes becomes greater than the strength of the dielectric ( at least in some point ( s )), which breaks, allowing current to flow between the two electrodes.
When Sam invites her on a date to a baseball game, Tess inadvertently breaks the " men only " atmosphere of the press box, and is initially confused and unfamiliar with the rules of the sport, before enjoying herself and befriending other spectators.

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