The name Batu Pahat means " chiselled rock " in Siamese troops led by Admiral Awi Di Chu were chiselling rocks at a rocky spot in the coastal village of Kampung Minyak Beku, in hope of getting fresh water during their siege on the Malacca.
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Whilst there are no doubt mythological explanations among the surrounding tribal peoples as to how the mountain acquired its shape, geomorphology would suggest that this is the product of millennia of faulting activity coupled by the chiselling effects of wind erosion on the bare rock outcrops.
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Horemheb quickly removed Nakhtmin's rival claim to the throne and arranged to have Ay's WV23 tomb desecrated by smashing the latter's sarcophagus, systematically chiselling Ay's name and figure out of the tomb walls and probably destroying Ay's mummy.
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The "'Stub Contest "', an incarnation of which was organised by in stub articles as possible, particularly the most linked or viewed, and see what the community can do at chiselling away at the huge backlog of articles needing expansion to some significant coverage.
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D�az is both a minimalist scraping, chiselling, honing his prose into its flinty essence and a maximalist who's capable of code switching, flipping between the colloquial and the highbrow, creating a taut lexical calabash made up of Caribbean phrases, black American vernacular and the playful pugilism of urban street banter ."
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While most other blesmols dig through soil using their large, chiselling incisor teeth, the loose, sandy soil of their native environment makes this approach less effective for Cape dune mole-rats, which instead dig primarily with their claws, kicking the sand behind their bodies and eventually pushing it up to the surface as a molehill.
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For a quick comparison, take a chunk of glass and try chiselling something into it and let us know how you make out . :-) It makes outstanding points, but it's not something I would ever try to carve into with a metal implement . talk ) 18 : 00, 21 January 2011 ( UTC)
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Next to the cabinet holding the tekoteko three handsets made audio recordings available for visitors to listen to : the tracks included a recording of songs sung by the Manukau Institute of Technology's Mori choir, the sound of carver Lyonel Grant chiselling a pattern similar to that found on the tekoteko, and recordings of voices reading information about the tekoteko's provenance.
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In the centre of each upper beam there is a carving of Lord Ganesha . They are planned in the style of Sapt Rathis . The niches with lotus flower decoration and the horizontal beam supported by two vertical columns contain different deities . Some of the niches are devoid of any deity . May be in due course of time these deities could not survive the process of alternate heating and cooling . The outer walls of the temple are decorated with the chiselling of geometrical figures, triangles, quardrangles, pentagonals and so on, which is the unique character of this temple.
