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The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of 156 miles (251 km) [1] that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop ). [2] Though not especially long, the river is notable because it is one of the reasons for Chicago's geographic importance: the related Chicago Portage is a link ...
River is a six-part British television drama series, created and written by Abi Morgan [1] and starring Stellan Skarsgård and Nicola Walker. It premiered on BBC One on 13 October 2015 and internationally on Netflix on 18 November 2015. [2] The series is a police procedural. Detective Inspector John River is suffering from guilt over a recent loss.
The Seine ( / seɪn, sɛn / sayn, sen, [ 1] French: [sɛn] ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [ 2] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [ 3] It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres ...
The Des Plaines River was named by early French coureurs de bois sometime between the 17th and 18th centuries, after the trees lining the banks of the river. The word la plaine, in the 18th-century Mississippi Valley dialect of French spoken at the time, referred to either the American sycamore or the red maple, both of which resembled the European plane tree either in their palmate leaves or ...
Nicknames. Sac River, Nile of the West [ 8] The Sacramento River ( Spanish: Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. [ 9] Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for 400 miles (640 km) before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and ...
The Minnesota River ( Dakota: Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of 14,751 square miles (38,200 km 2) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5,200 km 2) in South Dakota and Iowa . It rises in southwestern Minnesota, in Big Stone Lake ...
Navy river crossing teams had also been dispatched. [41] More than 4,000 people were rescued and over 10,000 people were sent to 93 disaster relief camps in Wayanad. [ 10 ] [ 25 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Schools and colleges were closed in 10 of 14 districts.
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