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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze is a 2001 memoir by Peter Hessler. It documents his Peace Corps teaching assignment at Fuling Teachers College in Fuling , Sichuan / Chongqing [ a ] , which started in 1996 and lasted for two years.
A River Town is a 1995 historical novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. [1] Synopsis
a town on a river; Peter Hessler's book from 2001 about the town of Fuling on the Yangtze in Sichuan, China; Rivertown, a neighbourhood on the Detroit International Riverfront in Detroit, Michigan, USA; Rivertown, Georgia, an unincorporated community; Rivertown, a themed area at Dreamworld amusement park in Gold Coast, Australia
Guadix River, Spain River of Acci River – Guad comes from Arabic wādi 'valley' or 'river', and ix is a corruption of Acci, the name of the town nearest the river during Roman times. [2] River Gweebarra, Ireland – from Irish gaoth Bheara, "Beara's river" Hatchie River, southern US (River River – hatchie meaning "river" in Muskogean languages)
River Town can refer to: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, 2001 book by Peter Hessler; River Town, book written by Bonnie Geisert and illustrated by Arthur Geisert; See also. River Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota
Downtown Toms River, an organization devoted to improving the town's business district, has a new chief, after the previous leader left for Red Bank.
The word derives from the early 19th century, taken from the French word restaurer 'provide meat for', literally 'restore to a former state' [2] and, being the present participle of the verb, [3] the term restaurant may have been used in 1507 as a "restorative beverage", and in correspondence in 1521 to mean 'that which restores the strength, a fortifying food or remedy'.
River Inn is a closed casino resort located alongside the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada. It was built in an area known for its hot spring . Granite Hot Springs operated on the site as early as the 1870s, later becoming Laughton's Hot Springs in 1884.