Heavy rains the night of August 23, 1882, swelled Dove Creek, Spring Creek, the Middle Concho River, and the South Concho River, already high because of a wet summer, out of their banks.

The Songhai people are descended from fishermen on the Middle Niger River.

In 1803, most of Polk's relatives moved to the Duck River area in what is now Maury County, Middle Tennessee ; Polk's family waited until 1806 to follow.

Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).

The shipyard is a major employer ( largest industrial employer in the state of Virginia ) not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but also portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina.

The Palace of Westminster site was strategically important during the Middle Ages, as it was located on the banks of the River Thames.

Around 1720 BC, Semitic Canaanite nomads called Hyksos took over Egypt, ended the Middle Kingdom, severed links with Kush, and destroyed the forts along the Nile River.

During the High Middle Ages, under the Salian emperors and, later, under the Teutonic Knights, German settlers moved east of the River Saale into the area of a western Slavic tribe, the Sorbs.

North of the Middle Atlas and separated by the Sebou River, the Rif mountains are an extension of the Baetic Cordillera ( Baetic mountains, which include the Sierra Nevada ) in the south of Spain.

During World War II, the Glenn L. Martin Company in Middle River had 53, 000 employees manufacturing airplanes for the war effort and Bethlehem Steel had more than 30, 000 workers at its sprawling Sparrows Point steel mill.

In 2007, Friends of the Earth Middle East ( FoEME ) named the Jordan River as one of the world's 100 most endangered ecological sites, due in part to lack of cooperation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.

Along with Symphony Woods, many other stands of mature trees have been maintained in Columbia, including the large Middle Patuxent Environmental Area in the western part of the city between Harper's Choice and River Hill villages, protecting much of the river valley from development.

The construction of the Jia Canal left only of Yellow River navigation on the Grand Canal, from Suqian to Huai ' an, which by 1688 had been removed by the construction of the Middle Canal by Jin Fu.

This ‘ Middle Canal ’ section runs from Huai ' an to Weishan Lake, passing through Luoma Lake and following more than one course, the result of the impact of centuries of Yellow River flooding.

French Equatorial Africa () or the AEF was the federation of French colonial possessions in Middle Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River to the Sahara Desert.

In the Middle Ages, the name " Waal " continued after the confluence with River Meuse.

A portion of the County in the west drains into the Middle Fork River, principally through Elk Creek.

* H. r. rustica, the nominate European subspecies, breeds in Europe and Asia, as far north as the Arctic Circle, south to North Africa, the Middle East and Sikkim, and east to the Yenisei River.

* River Springs Middle School

The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).

For instance, Bamako was chosen as the capital of Mali because it is located on the Niger River near the rapids that divide the Upper and Middle Niger Valleys,

It was built at the mouth of the Godlik River in the Byzantine period ( 5th to 8th centuries ), was destroyed by the Khazars and revived by the Genoese in the High Middle Ages.

Located in the Middle Peninsula region, it borders the York River and the lower Chesapeake Bay.

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

In the Middle Ages Hastings became one of the Cinque Ports ; Sandwich, Dover, and New Romney being the first, Hastings, and Hythe followed, all finally being joined by Rye and Winchelsea, at one point 42 towns were directly or indirectly affiliated to the group.

Although on opposing sides of the Middle East Peace Process spectrum, Turkey and Sudan have in recent years joined forces to end the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

In 1770, he joined the Middle Temple and studied law for three years, which would eventually lead him to his life-work in India ; after a spell as a circuit judge in Wales, and a fruitless attempt to resolve the issues of the American Revolution in concert with Benjamin Franklin in Paris, he was appointed puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Bengal on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted.

In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.

The church joined with Morehouse College to launch Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School Leadership Academy.

Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of The Lovely Bones, opposite Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter, Eva Amurri, in Middle of Nowhere ; both of the films were filmed in 2007.

A drive-in billed as the only one of its kind in Middle Tennessee outside of Nashville joined the local theatre.

The Middle and High Schools are joined, while the Elementary School is located approximately half a mile to the south.

In 2007, Scranton joined the newly formed Landmark Conference, which ended a long history with the Middle Atlantic / Freedom Conference.

" According to Leiby and Linton Weeks, in their essay " In the Shadow of a Scandal ", Riza's employment at the World Bank predated Wolfowitz's nomination as Bank president: " Riza started at the World Bank as a consultant in July 1997 and became a full-time employee in 1999 "; and the relationship between Riza and Wolfowitz pre-dated it as well: In the early 1990s, Riza joined the National Endowment for Democracy and is credited there with development of the organization's Middle East program.

In May 2000, he joined the House of Commons Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee and in July 2003 he was elected Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council, a position he still occupies.

He was the eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving the university is supposed to have joined the Middle Temple.

He joined an institution that was a prestigious law school but also a centre of literary and dramatic activity — the Middle Temple.

In 1939, Prince Aly Aga Khan joined the French Foreign Legion and served with its cavalry division in Egypt and the Middle East.

Feith joined the NSC as a Middle East specialist that same year, working under Pipes.

He left the university without a degree, and joined the Middle Temple.

After being at school at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, and Worcester he was entered as a ' gentleman commoner ' at Trinity College, Oxford, and afterwards studied law under Sir Francis Winnington, who became solicitor-general, and joined the Middle Temple.

Rubin joined Bloomberg in January 2011 and oversees editorial issues of Bloomberg News in Central and South America, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

He joined the Middle Tennessee Union Infantry as an assistant surgeon ; he was thrown from his horse and killed.

Many of the men went back to their previous regiments following the decision, while others chose to remain in the Middle East and subsequently joined other special forces units that were raised later.

A group of Planters from Swansea, Massachusetts formed the first Baptist congregation in the colonies that later joined Canada in what is now Middle Sackville when they arrived in 1763.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem ( Catholic ), the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, have recently joined together in order to proclaim and to publish the Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism ( August 22, 2006 ).

He trained at the Inns of Court School of Law, and joined the Middle Temple in 1978 and practised as a barrister for eight years.

Originally happy with the idea of being a simple attorney, after the death of his older brother it was instead assumed he would become a barrister, and Kenyon joined the Middle Temple in November 1750.