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On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;
Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.
Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.
Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.
The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.
Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.
Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.
North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.
It is situated on the Abens river, a tributary of the Danube.
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.
Anadyr () is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
If the Onemen Bay is considered part of the river, it also receives the Velikaya River ( Chukotka ) from the south and the Kanchalan River from the north.
The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
In the initial stanzas of the poem Asagarth is the capital of Asaland, a section of Asia to the east of the Tana-kvísl or Vana-Kvísl river ( kvísl is " fork "), which Snorri explains is the Tanais, or Don River, flowing into the Black Sea.
The river is still used for transportation of farming produce ; however, it is not as important as it once was due to the construction of roads and railways.

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Immediately above it, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some up the valley.
A north-flowing river was temporarily dammed southwest of present-day Louisville, creating a large lake until the dam burst.
The U. S. Supreme Court held that Kentucky's jurisdiction ( and, implicitly, that of West Virginia ) extended only to the low-water mark of 1793 ( important because the river has been extensively dammed for navigation, so that the present river bank is north of the old low-water mark.
The chancellor of Wei, Sunshu Ao, who served King Zhuang of Chu, dammed a river to create an enormous irrigation reservoir in modern-day northern Anhui province.
The river is dammed by the Wivenhoe Dam, forming Lake Wivenhoe, the main water supply for Brisbane.
Every river system has been dammed causing fresh water shortages in nearby desert communities.
Just before a break in the text there is a suggestion that a river is being dammed, indicating a burial in a river bed, as in the corresponding Sumerian poem, The Death of Gilgamesh.
The middle reaches of this great river were dammed to create the huge Zeysky Reservoir, which sprawls over between the Stanovoy Range and a southern parallel range running across the center of the oblast.
The river is dammed at several locations both for water supply and hydroelectricity generation.
The river was dammed in the 1960s and Tuttle Creek Lake was created as a result.
The river is dammed in Switzerland in order to create hydroelectricity, while in Italy it is primarily used for irrigation.
Cheshire is located within the valley of the Hoosic River, and is the site of a dammed reservoir on the river.
The river is dammed for part of this length as the southern end of the Sherman Reservoir, which formerly supplied power to the Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station.
The river is dammed at the nearby Secord Dam, providing water frontage for many vacation homes.
It is dammed downstream of central Astana, keeping its level higher than it otherwise would be most of the time, while the river bottom has been made deeper, in order to let flood waters through faster.
In central Astana, near the city park, there is now a public beach and pedalo boat rental ; meanwhile, if the river had not been dammed, " citizens would have been able to walk across it ".
Texas has also dammed the river at the Red Bluff Dam in the western part of that state to form the Red Bluff Reservoir.
North of Bautzen, the river is dammed by a reservoir ( Talsperre Bautzen, 5. 5 km² ).
The town is located at the river Bille which was dammed up here to form a mill pond.
The river is dammed at Lake Trevallyn with water being diverted into the Trevallyn Power Station with runoff flowing into the Cataract Gorge and eventually merging with the Tamar River.
This situation will persist until the bar is eroded by the sea, or the dammed river develops sufficient head to break through the bar.
The river has been dammed numerous times, primarily by Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) projects.
The river has been dammed for hydroelectric power.

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