The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.

On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.

The ancient Greek township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.

The first bridges were made by nature itself — as simple as a log fallen across a stream or stones in the river.

Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.

It is situated such that looking out from the stand you can see the Putney End and the Cottage opposite, the Riverside Stand ( and the river itself ) to the right and the Johnny Haynes Stand to the left.

The river itself became known as the Rivière du Détroit, in which détroit is French for " strait ".

The citadel was named after the river, itself of uncertain etymology.

It is located in Götaland, with the river itself being a site of early Geatish settlement.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

The Zambezi river is the boundary between the two Rhodesias, and so the dam itself and the lake it formed both straddle the boundary.

Where it does, the border is the top of the bank of the southern side of the river ( i. e., none of the river itself is actually in Victoria ).

Lock 11 is unique in that the lock was built inside a bend of the river, with the weir in the bend itself.

He wished to know where the " Indus ( which is the only river save one that produces crocodiles ) emptied itself into the sea ".

Speyside, encompassing the Spey river valley in north-east Scotland, once considered part of the Highlands, has almost half of the total number of distilleries in Scotland within its geographic boundaries ; consequently it is officially recognized as a region unto itself.

Trade was boosted for a while but by the 20th century silting had resulted in the river only being navigable as far as Rome itself.

Inside the city itself, most of the population is concentrated on the right ( northern ) bank of the Vistula river.

This gave rise to the town itself through a combination of a good harbor, proximity to the sea routes, vast timber resources, and a river capable of supporting mills.

During this campaign Joseph Stalin ordered the regiment to style itself Normandie-Niemen in recognition of its participation in the battles to liberate the river of the same name.

I would say it looks like the source of the water could be the river itself, and I am hearing reports that fish are swimming in the basement of the Mart just feet from the swirl!

The South Platte River ( Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe ' ) is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and is itself a major river of the American Midwest and the American Southwest / Mountain West, located in the U. S. states of Colorado and Nebraska.

The river itself, however, is called Alligewi Sipo.

Strangely, there seems to be some confusion between the Gwynfi and the Afan itself ; one of the two streams that form the river is named the Nant Gwynfi, while the other appears not to have a name, but is labelled on the Ordnance Survey map of the area as " River Afan " ( as is the entire length of the Gwynfi ).

The area lends itself to a wide variety of outdoor sports, both winter ( ice hockey, Nordic and Alpine skiing, figure skating, and snowmobiling ) and summer ( trail running, hiking, camping, river and sea kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and road and mountain biking ).

Varina Davis, who had taken another boat to Brierfield, met him on the river, and he finally received some medical care.

That same day, Stalin received assurance that Germany would approve secret protocols to the proposed non-aggression pact that would place half of Poland ( border along the Vistula river ), Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Bessarabia in the Soviets ' sphere of influence.

It is stated in the Sikh texts that Guru Nanak while in deep meditation by a river was called to the court of God where he received direct revelations from God for three days.

In the elaborate First Salmon Ceremony, which is still observed, the entire community shares the flesh of a Spring Chinook, then returns its remains to the river where it was caught, so that it can inform the other fish of how well it was received.

This developed into the Treaty of Verdun, concluded in August 843, by which Louis received the bulk of the lands lying east of the Rhine ( Eastern Francia ), together with a district around Speyer, Worms, and Mainz, on the left bank of the river.

Surviving documents attest that around 1437 a representative of the Raczków family, Jakub Tabutowicz of the coat of arms Łabędź, received from Michael Žygimantaitis son of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Duke of Lithuania, a wilderness area located along the river Biała that marked the beginning of Białystok as a settlement.

The town received its name from a Swedish earth fortress near the river Porvoonjoki which flows through the town.

The silts received from the middle reaches form sediments here, elevating the river bed.

And since the galleries, each projecting beyond another, all received the light, they contained many royal lodgings of every description ; and there was one gallery which contained openings leading from the topmost surface and machines for supplying the gardens with water, the machines raising the water in great abundance from the river, although no one outside could see it being done.

He moved up the Thames valley to cross the river at Wallingford, Berkshire ; while there, he received the submission of Stigand.

It was local resident and District Surveyor John Charlton Thompson who received the directive to survey a plot an area on the South side of the river.

When Achelous on one occasion had lost his daughters, the Sirens, and in his grief invoked his mother Gaea, she received him to her bosom, and on the spot where she received him, she caused the river bearing his name to gush forth.

According to Strabo, Bithynia was bounded on the east by the river Sangarius ( modern Sakarya river ), but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius, which separated it from Paphlagonia, thus comprising the district inhabited by the Mariandyni.

Haunted by despair and the Erinyes he leapt into the river Nyctimus which afterwards received the name Alpheius.

In another story, according to Hellanicus of Lesbos, Phoroneus had at least three sons: Agenor, Jasus and Pelasgus, and that after the death of Phoroneus, the two elder brothers divided his dominions between themselves in such a manner that Pelasgus received the country about the river Erasmus, and built Larissa, and Iasus the country about Elis.

Captain Cresap's initial actions were innocuous, establishing a second ferry in the upper Conejohela down river from John Wright's but near his father-in-laws settlement at Peach Bottom, and demanding settlers either move out or pay Maryland for the right bank lands they'd already received from Pennsylvania, but here events soon got out of hand, blew up, and soon started Cresap's War by acting on behalf of Maryland as a henchman of Lord Baltimore confiscating farms near Peach Bottom and Wrightsville, establishing a second ferry there.

* Alphesiboea, an Indian nymph, who was passionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this circumstance received the name of Tigris.

The river received its name from the abundance of cottonwood trees on its banks.

In the partition of the realm, he received as his share the town of Paris, the country to the north as far as the river Somme, to the west as far as the English Channel, and the Armorican peninsula ( modern Brittany ).

In 1770 and 1772 General Thomas Gage, the commander in chief of Britain's North American forces, received warnings that the residents of Vincennes were not remaining loyal, and were inciting native tribes along the river trade routes against the British.

Records indicate that Francis Myerhoff, owner of the Columbia Glass Works, received a charter from the State of New Jersey to build a bridge across the river to help in the delivery of the sand he needed for his factory in New Jersey.

One theory holds that Shenandoah received its name from an Indian word meaning " sprucy stream " or " river flowing alongside high hills and mountains.