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.

The war began presumably in 1165 on the Rhône, when an attack on a convoy, directed to some Pisan trade centres on the river, by the Genoese and their ally, the count of Toulouse failed.

Diodorus Siculus ( 4, 72 ) similarly presents Asopus ( here son of Oceanus and Tethys ) as a settler in Phlius and wife of Metope daughter of Ladon, presumably here and elsewhere the Arcadian river Ladon.

The River Shannon presumably refers to the Goddess associated with the river, " Sionna " ( pronounced SHAN-nen ).

In the following consular year ( the consuls now being Publius Valerius Poplicola and Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus ) the Sabines marched toward Rome and were stopped by the river Anio and presumably the consular troops south of it.

This name presumably derived from the word equivalents villa at the ford or river crossing.

The name Lasne comes from the Celtic word meaning flat or calm, presumably referring to the slow moving river.

It is of Gaulish origin, from * lindo-" lake " and * magos " plain ", and was thus presumably in origin the name of the plain formed by the Linth river.

The Dean and Chapter owned the river as far as Athelney weir, which was presumably a fish weir, as the river was an important source of fish for the local population.

Generally used as an ethnic slur, the term was originally coined and applied only to Mexicans who entered Texas by crossing the Rio Grande river, which is located at the Mexican border, presumably by swimming or wading across and getting wet in the process.

Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia.

) On the steamboat ride from New Orleans to Cincinnati, Junius became ill, presumably from drinking impure river water.

In diary entries, they recorded its name as " Flax River ", for the flax that makes up much of the river's riparian zone — and " Colorado Chiquito "— so, presumably they already knew about the river before they had come on the expedition.

This presumably derives from the colour of the river wall, constructed in the Middle Ages.

This species does not undertake extensive migrations within or between river systems, which has presumably influenced establishment of genetically distinct stocks in Northern Australia.

The entry into the world of the dead reflects Greek mythology when an aged boatman ( not named in the novel, but presumably representing Charon ) ferries souls across a river to a dark, joyless realm where the many worlds ' dead are tormented by harpies.

In the Chambal river valley they have been observed to locate nests of Kachuga dhongoka buried under sand ( presumably by moistness of the freshly covered nest ) and prey on the eggs of the turtle.

( The suffix " bidgee " was common in Aboriginal names for rivers in the Canberra area and presumably means " water " or " river ".

The river itself has a presumably Celtic name, Douro ( Durus in Latin ) maybe after Celtic " dwr ", water.

He is generally regarded as the only Axis prisoner of war to succeed in escaping from a Canadian prisoner of war camp and returning to Germany, though a second man, a U-Boat rating named Walter Kurt Reich is said to have jumped from a Polish troopship ( presumably the ex-liner Sobieski ) in the St. Lawrence river in July 1940.

It is believed that An Giang was once an important centre of the vanished Óc Eo culture, presumably owing to its position on the river.

The Maori name Tukituki roughly translates " to demolish ", presumably referring to the power of the river in flood.

The settlement presumably takes its name from the impressive river bluff, Buena Vista Hill, rising just to its east, the summit of which affords a magnificent view of the westward bend of the Grand Valley, Kuttshill, and the many Plainfield Hills.

It was presumably collected by panning from alluvial placers in river beds or near old rivers.