thought for the longest he was a tumor ''.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, which was formed in 1909 and once included Cole Porter as a member.

In ambiguous usages, the longest possible name was taken, for example was not treated as, whether or not and had been declared.

The longest part was the shaft with the thicker stalk closer to the tip of the harpoon.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

This was the occasion of the longest and most emotional of Bernard's letters.

At 68 minutes, it was his longest picture to date.

At the Academy Awards gala, Chaplin was given a twelve-minute standing ovation, the longest in the Academy's history.

The longest lasting of the ten governments between 1924 and 1932 was that of General Carlos Ibáñez, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship.

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

It was the longest game in Rockies history, in terms of both total innings and total length of time.

The 22-inning affair was the longest since August 31, 1993, when the Minnesota Twins, at home, defeated the Cleveland Indians, 5 – 4, in 22 innings.

Bill Podmore was the show's longest serving producer.

That three game sweep was Dallas ' first over any opponent and the longest against the Eagles since 1992 – 1995 when Dallas won seven straight matches against Philadelphia.

John Forrest was the longest serving president of Dalhousie, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.

It was the Wings ' first Stanley Cup since 1955, breaking the longest drought ( 42 years long ) in the league at that time.

His inauguration in September 1948 initiated what was to become the longest period of constitutional rule since the 1912-24 heyday of the Liberal plutocracy.

The Nile Valley and Delta, the most extensive oasis on earth, was created by the world's longest river and its seemingly inexhaustible sources.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

His signal was for the other dogs to come running, but it was also the signal for Mama and the other maids to watch out.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

Everyone else was running.

His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.

She did this now, comfortably aware of the mist running down the windows, of the silence outside, of the dark afternoon it was getting to be.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

It was General Burnside's horse running in a circle.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.

A most useful tool for wetting the surface without running down was made from a greenhouse `` mist spray '' nozzle welded to a hose connection, to be used at low water pressure.

John himself was bruised and clawed from head to tail, but he was in this fight to the finish, running almost as strongly now as in the morning.

It was followed by his first country number-one, " If Tomorrow Never Comes ".

His follow-up album, No Fences, was released in 1990 and spent 23 weeks as number-one on the Billboard country music chart.

The album was then released in November 1997, and debuted at number-one on both the Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 album charts in the United States, and later became his fourth album to reach a sales of 10 million copies.

The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two number-one hits between 1997 and 1998, " Two Pina Coladas " and " To Make You Feel My Love ", which also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.

His 1999 musical composition " Energy Flow ", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, was the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history.

Orbison's success was greater in Britain ; as Billboard magazine noted, " In a 68-week period that began on August 8, 1963, Roy Orbison was the only American artist to have a number-one single in Britain.

Limbaugh's unprecedented success is illustrated by Fresno, California's then number-one radio station, KMJ " news-talk radio ," a typical example of how the talk radio format was changed nation wide.

After the band split, Cook formed Beats International whose début album spawned their signature hit, Dub Be Good to Me which was another UK number-one as well as going on to become the 7th best-selling single of 1990 in the UK.

Its single " Baby Got Back " was a number-one hit that went double platinum and won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.

Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one U. S. hit for four weeks in 1972.

She was named the " top Latin artist of the ' 90s " and " Best selling Latin artist of the decade " by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits.

A few weeks later, on March 12, 2008, former Blue Jackets number-one draft pick Rick Nash was named the new team captain.

In October 1966, the song was released as a single, giving The Beach Boys their third U. S. number-one hit — alongside " I Get Around " and " Help Me, Rhonda "— and it sold over a million copies.

Their greatest success was in the 1980s with the number-one album, Sports, coupled with a series of highly successful MTV videos.

Their worldwide fame expanded when the song " The Power of Love " was featured as a key track in the film Back to the Future ( in which Lewis had a cameo appearance ), became a number-one hit, and nominated for an Academy Award.

Their song " The Power of Love " was a number-one U. S. hit and featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, for which they also recorded the song, " Back in Time ".

The single was once again another number-one for the girls in the United Kingdom, becoming their ninth chart-topper in their home country, and also making the top ten in eleven different countries.

The corridor was listed as the number-one high-priority corridor by transportation officials in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.

This was the first time since December 1985 that Kasparov was not world number-one, and Kramnik's six month stretch ( January through June 1996 ) as world number-one would be the only time from January 1986 through March 2006 where Kasparov was not world number-one.