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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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From upstream it looks like a long arcaded box laid across the river ; ;
There had been settlement on this part of the Abens river since long before the High Middle Ages, dating back to Neolithic times.
The river was, for the first time in years, overflowing its banks, heralding the end of a long drought.
The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.
In such pre-industrialized, or poorly developed infrastructure regions, many barges are purpose-designed to be powered on waterways by long slender poles thereby becoming known on American waterways as poleboats as the extensive west of North America was settled using the vast tributary river systems of the Mississippi drainage basin.
The proximity and commanding view of the river kept these neighborhoods a fashionable address long after the original families departed.
The locks make the river navigable, even for large cargo vessels ( 88 m long ).
Those for the east and south legs were straightforward, each leg resting on four concrete slabs, one for each of the principal girders of each leg but the other two, being closer to the river Seine were more complicated: each slab needed two piles installed by using compressed-air caissons long and in diameter driven to a depth of to support the concrete slabs, which were thick.
The river is long ; its watershed drains an area of including 18 counties and 158 townships.
It was originally an area of marshland along the banks of the Eridanos river which was used as a cemetery as long ago as the third millennium BC.
Andvari responds that lying men receive a " terrible requital ": having to wade in the river Vadgelmir, and that their suffering will be long.
The Murray River forms part of the long combined Murray-Darling river system which drains most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland.
Recent extreme droughts ( 2000 – 2007 ) have put significant stress on river red gum forests, with mounting concern over their long term survival.
The disruption of the river's natural flow, run-off from agriculture, and the introduction of pest species like the European Carp has led to serious environmental damage along the river's length and to concerns that the river will be unusably salty in the medium to long term — a serious problem given that the Murray supplies 40 % of Adelaide's domestic water.
South of Namur, further upstream, the river can only carry more modest vessels, although a barge as long as 100 m. can still reach the French border town of Givet.
Classical authors explained the summer flood by calculating the time it took for flood waters to move down a river, and calculating how long the Nile must have been for the waters to travel from a mountain range in the spring.
Two types of inland river barges were generally available in Europe for use in Sea Lion: the peniche, which was 38. 5 metres long and carried 360 tons of cargo, and the Kampine, which was 50 metres long and carried 620 tons of cargo.
** Alluvial plain, formed over a long period of time by a river depositing sediment on its floodplain or bed which becomes alluvial soil.
About 4700 km long, the Paraná River is the second major river in the country.
The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.
These usually consist of a long two-story building, in which the boats are stored on racks ( horizontal, usually metal, bars ) on the ground floor with a large door at one end which most probably leads out to a pontoon on the river or lakeside.
The Sabine River (; Alibamu: Sabìina, Sabìnka ) is a river, long, in the U. S. states of Texas and Louisiana.

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