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The hotel is in the tower-filled Pudong area, across the Huangpu River from the famous Bund, in the Lujiazu business district.
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Perhaps the most famous example is the Cuyahoga River, which was so covered with pollution and industrial waste that in 1969 it literally caught fire.
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In 1896, George Carmack discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River, Canada, precipitating the famous gold rush.
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Our tour followed a route along the bottom half of the Fleet River, the biggest and most famous of London's former waterways.
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The River Moy in County Mayo is the most famous and rightly so.
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You may not remember: Lenny Skutnik became momentarily famous in 1982 after an Air Florida plane crashed into the icy Potomac River in Washington, D.
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Redmayne has a virginal look, a knocked-silly astonishment when the most famous woman in the world shucks off her clothes and jumps into a freezing river.
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Next arrived the famous Culatello di Zibello or regional Parma ham aged for one year along the Po River -- an area whose winter fogs and humid summers make the air unlike any other in the world, plus the local Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, aged 30 months.
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Pecos is famous for its cantaloupe melons though these rely on groundwater pumps rather than the river, which is here no more than a few isolated puddles among the hubcaps and beer cans.
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Eddie Redmayne has a virginal look, and a knocked-silly amazement when the most famous woman in the world shucks her clothes in front of him and jumps into a freezing river.
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The politics didn't stop there: The world-famous Manguiera school, who eschewed nudity for resplendent costumes, performed a tribute to the Sao Francisco River, the subject of an intense irrigation dispute.
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Nepal is also famous for its multiday trips, such as a 12-day journey into the wilderness along the remote Karnali River.
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