For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".

Although the Caiman has not been studied in-depth, scientists have learned that their mating cycles ( previously thought to be spontaneous or year-round ) are linked to the rainfall cycles and the river levels, which increases chances of survival for their offspring.

Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

The channel of the river has been considerably improved by the federal government.

The city has a river port, industry enterprises, Katanov State University of Khakasia, and three theatres.

The river has a very variable discharge, ranging from minimum values such as 6 m³ / s to more than 2, 000.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

The three arches are elliptic, and though very light and elegant, have resisted the fury of the river, which has swept away several other bridges at different times.

Bozizé has strengthened military presence along the border and deployed an amphibious force patrolling the Ubangi river.

In addition, the navy's riverine brigade has been patrolling waterways more aggressively in order to establish safer river transport in the more remote areas in the south and east of the country that are controlled by rebel groups.

The city has a river which proceeds " out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Since then it has been eroding, creating dramatic incised valleys, and providing the sediment that gives the Yellow River its yellow color and that causes the flooding of the river in the lower reaches ( hence the river's nickname ' China's sorrow ').

In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.

In recent years, however, the ecological importance of the river has warranted a vast restoration effort, and the river today has a wide variety of economical and recreational uses.

The portion of the river in the city of Detroit has been organized into the Detroit International Riverfront and the William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor.

Since the river is fairly short, it has few tributaries.

The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.

This river has a steeper gradient and therefore flows more swiftly than the White Nile, which it joins at Khartoum.

It has been said that Ceithlenn got wounded in battle by an arrow and attempted to swim across the river but she never reached the other side.

Traffic of smaller vessels at Elbląg is within the river and very marginal, while larger vessels cannot reach the open Baltic Sea because the channel, once built in East-Prussia to go through the peninsula, has belonged to Russia since 1945.

The river has become almost stagnant and its banks are overgrown with waterlilies and tulies.

Was it only a few nights ago that they had been standing together in front of the house looking at the moon-washed river??

There had been settlement on this part of the Abens river since long before the High Middle Ages, dating back to Neolithic times.

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.

Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river.

Canoeing and kayaking on the borough's namesake river have been promoted by the Bronx River Alliance.

Tacitus reports that before their arrival the area had been " an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side " ( Tacitus, Historiae iv. 12 ).

This would only have been possible by the use of some kind of buoyancy device: Ammianus Marcellinus mentions that the Cornuti regiment swam across a river floating on their shields " as on a canoe " ( 357 ).

Further south, near Vukovar and near Šarengrad, there are two river islands ( Vukovarska ada and Šarengradska ada ) which have been part of SR Croatia ( during Yugoslavia ) but during the war they came under Serbian control.

A channel of the Çarşamba river once flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on alluvial clay which may have been favourable for early agriculture.

Although Attlee's second government was less radical than the first, it oversaw the passage of a number of reforms relating to issues such as industry in development areas, the restoration of land which had been devastated by ironstone pollution, and river pollution.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Opposition from local seamen and merchants saw the route diverted to Kingswear on the opposite side of the river, but this occurred after the station had been built at Dartmouth.

Millions of dollars so far have been used to dredge pollutants out of the river, and the recent cleaning up and restoration of the Detroit River is remarkable, although other problems are still at hand.

Locations across the river in St. Louis, Missouri were used, including Union Station and the Fox Theater, both of which have since been renovated.

In Akkadian the river was similarly called Purattu, which has been perpetuated in Semitic languages ( cf.

The ethnonym has been connected with the name of a river flowing through Västergötland in Sweden, the Göta älv, which drains Lake Vänern into the Kattegat.

His sister Maria, who was said to have been epileptic, drowned in a river.

Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

In the latter painting on silk ( image and description provided in the link ), bald-headed Buddhist Luohan are depicted in a practical setting of washing clothes by a river.

The river is depicted on the coat of arms of Skopje, which in turn is incorporated in the city's flag.

Until locks were installed to raise the level in the 1800s, the river was much shallower within the city most of the time, and consisted of a small channel of continuous flow bordered by sandy banks ( depicted in many illustrations of the period ).

Concerning valley forms, uniformitarianism depicted the cycle as a sequence in which a river cuts a valley more and more deeply, but then erosion of side valleys eventually flatten the terrain again, to a lower elevation.

In another myth, the cornucopia was created when Heracles ( Roman Hercules ) wrestled with the river god Achelous and wrenched off one of his horns ; river gods were sometimes depicted as horned.

Another woman, the river Ganga – often depicted flowing out of Shiva's locks – sat on his head, while Parvati ( as Gauri ) sat on his lap.

Michael McDowell's original script is far less comedic and much more violent ; the Maitlands ' car crash is depicted graphically, with Barbara's arm being crushed and the couple screaming for help as they slowly drown in the river.

Specifically, the scene that inspired the battle was a scene that, according to Itoi, depicted a woman being raped near a river, although the scene in question depicts a murder rather than a rape.

" Kamanistigouian ," as a place, is first mentioned in a decree of the Conseil Souverain de la Nouvelle-France dated 23 August 1681 instructing one of two canoes to make known the king's amnesty to coureurs de bois, although the still unnamed river is depicted on the 1671 " Carte des Jésuites " as " R. par où l ' on va aux Assinipoualacs à 120 lieues vers le Nord-Ouest.

When the war artist John Lavery depicted it in 1919, he showed a train in the background, running along the bank of the river below the sandy crest on which the cemetery was sited.

Ruins of Losenstein, depicted from the southern shore of the river Enns

In some star maps, Eridanus is depicted as a river flowing from the waters poured by Aquarius.

The stars that correspond to Eridanus are also depicted as a river in Indian astronomy starting close to the head of Orion just below Auriga.

) Also, the Delaware at what is now called Washington Crossing is far narrower than the river depicted in the painting.

Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

Mention of the river is found in Sangam & Medieval ( Thevaram-Bhakti cult era ) literature, where it is depicted as rich with lush vegetation on its banks.

In particular, the southern tip of Africa is quite clearly depicted, as well as a river which may correspond to the Orange River in Southern Africa.

As depicted in contemporary ukiyoe prints by artists such as Hokusai, travelers crossed the river on bearers ' shoulders or on horseback.

When Easy leads a cavalry charge or paddles a canoe down a lazy river, the panel is as wide as the page, giving panoramic sweep to the scene depicted.

The Druzhba-1 pipeline branches off toward Hungary in Banská Bystrica Region ( Slovakia ) near the river of Ipeľ, crosses the Hungarian border at Drégelypalánk and leads to Százhalombatta ( not depicted on the map at the beginning of the page ).

The river depicted in the shield is the Snake or Shoshone River.

Sir Henry Newbolt wrote a ballad titled The Fighting Temeraire, referencing the scenario depicted: " And she's fading down the river, But in England's song for ever, She's the Fighting Téméraire.