It fell out from under the cars and drivers who were at a standstill, and rescuers were pulling people in cars out of the Mississippi River until dark last night.

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Carr added that several hundred power customers in Greenville, near the Mississippi River, were in the dark.

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Heart-stopping switchbacks plummeted downwards between dark cliffs into a gorge cut by the Khunjerab River.

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Who else could get people to dance to the dark "Psycho Killer" and the gospel "Take Me to the River"?

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And all this interspersed by hours adrift on the river, planks and ropes gently creaking in the wind, the water dark and cool, the night sky clear above.

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When farmers later transported this unaged corn whiskey, or moonshine, across the Ohio River for commerce, the spirit would age in its oak barrel containers, becoming infused with dark colour and complex flavour.

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