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The Minbari flagship Black Star closes in to finish off the Lexington but is destroyed by the mines—Earth's only real victory during the war. The Minbari faction that feels the war has caused enough senseless bloodshed—led by Delenn, who has learned that Dukhat believed an alliance with humans would be necessary to defeat the Shadows—uses ...
The Indus Valley climate grew significantly cooler and drier from around 1800 BC, which is linked to a contemporary general weakening of the monsoon. [64] Aridity increased, with the Ghaggar-Hakra River retracting its reach towards the foothills of the Himalayas , [ 64 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] leading to erratic and less-extensive floods, which made ...
Yu tried a different approach to the project of flood control; which in the end having achieved success, earned Yu renown throughout Chinese history, in which the Gun-Yu Great Flood is commonly referred to as "Great Yu Controls the Waters" (Chinese: 大禹治水; pinyin: Dà Yǔ Zhìshuǐ). Yu's approach seems to have involved an approach more ...
Great Flood of 1951 — The 1951 flood was the second biggest in terms of discharge at 573,000 cubic feet per second (16,200 m 3 /s). The 1951 crest on July 14, 1951, was almost 2 feet (0.61 metres) lower than the 1844 flood and three feet lower than the 1993 flood.
The Gilgamesh flood tablet 11 (XI) contains additional story material besides the flood. The flood story was included because in it, the flood hero Utnapishtim is granted immortality by the gods and that fits the immortality theme of the epic. The main point seems to be that Utnapishtim was granted eternal life in unique, never-to-be-repeated ...
The khan pretended to surrender to him, welcomed him warmly, persuading him to divide the Russian army to dwell in five separate towns in order to facilitate foraging. The Khivans then attacked the five towns one by one, slaughtering most Russians, selling the others as slaves, and executing all Russian officers including Prince Cherkassky.
The Circassian genocide, [10] [11] or Tsitsekun, [a] [b] was the systematic mass killing, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement of between 95% and 97% [c] [d] of the Circassian people during the final stages of the Russian invasion of Circassia in the 19th century.
Urshanabi, also known as Sursunabu, was a figure in Mesopotamian mythology.His name is considered unusual and difficult to interpret, and consists of a prefix common in Sumerian names and a cuneiform numeral which could be read as either 2 ⁄ 3 or 40.