The company also does an Alaskan version of the trip, which left July 28, and is planning a European trip on the Danube River for May 2, 2013.

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Hence, in the frame of the overall enlargement process of the European Union, A River's Dream intends to promote folk music, an intangible cultural heritage, as a means of reconciliation, regional and cross-border cooperation and, a vehicle of cultural identity and diversity as well as of mutual understanding.

UNESCO: Culture

Once, the sight of a Viking prow coming down a river was as terrifying a sight as any European could imagine.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

In their university-funded study, Dr. Brodin and his colleagues first tested wild European perch caught from a midsize stream in Sweden called the River Fyris and found that levels of the drug in fish tissue were more than six times the level commonly detected in the water.

WSJ: Anxiety Drug in Rivers Affects Fish Behavior

The judge said the river was a site of special scientific interest and a European Union designated special area of conservation.

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