U.S. infantrymen endured dreadful events and painful losses before embracing their Red Army counterparts on the Elbe River in April 1945.
He followed the river upstream through the flooded bowl of the foothills, swollen with April rain, sleeping in empty riverboats while the sun, pale in the blue mist of the river, grew dimmer.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, James Duguid was accused of setting upon 88-year-old John Gillespie, by the river Forth in Stirling on 19 April.
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At 12:32 in the morning on Sunday, April 27 1986, anyone east of the Mississippi river in the United States who was watching HBO was in the middle of the 1985 film The Falcon and The Snowman when the signal suddenly dropped out.
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In April China defended itself (another first) at the Mekong River Commission, the inter-governmental body supposed to resolve disputes.
In April, he accompanied several thousand soldiers as they crossed the Euphrates River into Baghdad.
The drive to reconstruct an ecological piece of the past in Grand Rapids comes despite rising river levels that reached historic heights during heavy rains in late April, cresting at more than 21 feet and testing floodwalls.
He also created the River Avon Mud Circle at Bristol's M Shed museum in April 2011.
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At a meeting chaired by Russian President Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and high-level railroad officials in early April, the construction of a railroad stretching from the banks of Russia's Lena River to the Bering Strait was discussed at length, adding further evidence that Moscow sees the BST project as not only feasible, but inevitable.
That is one reason why in April Metsa-Botnia, a Finnish company, began building a cellulose plant on the Uruguay River bordering Argentina.
Vallandingham was among 12 staff members taken hostage on April 11, 1993, when inmates overtook the prison that sits 10 miles north of the Ohio River.
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