If you have an eye and a streak of adventurousness, you can invest in emerging painters at the decade-old River Gallery at the Strand Hotel.
McPhee spent months trying to understand the centuries of engineering prowess that have gone into trying to control the Mississippi, especially the creation of structures much in the news today, like Old River Control and the Morganza Floodway, which was opened over the weekend to allow floodwaters to course down through the Atchafalaya basin.
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The breakers are now stronger two blocks north and south of the structure, or directly in front of the pier where the wrecked Jet Star remains, said Greg "Grog" Mesanko, a 62-year-old Toms River resident who for years was at the center of the Seaside Heights surf culture.
Chevron pumps out some 180, 000 barrels every day from 100-year-old fields like Kern River in the San Joaquin Valley.
Brandon was playing in and around the 4-year-old's Toms River home on Monday evening when the younger child left the yard and went inside, police explained.
Kilbeggan 15 Year Old: Sitting on the banks of the Brosna River and opened in, the Old Kilbeggan Distillery was the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world (it no longer distills).
In the old part of town, near the Pangani River, a few buildings from the German colonial era and old houses of Indian traders bear cobwebbed witness to this part of history.
Casa Anselma, across the river in the old flamenco barrio (district) of Triana, is beloved by aficionados who every night launch into impromptu performances.
Brandon was playing in and around his 4-year-old friend's Toms River home on Monday evening when the younger child left the yard and went inside, police explained.
His tours focus on well-known Perth landmarks, such as the Swan River and the Old Swan Brewery, and explains what their role was before 18th-century Europeans arrived in Australia.
The 17-year-old former Oak Park and River Forest High School student, who police and school officials are not identifying because he is a minor, was arrested at his Oak Park home Monday night and was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
In August, a 36-year-old man died after falling from the A48 bridge into the River Neath, while a 33-year-old man died in February.
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In states like Massachusetts, old Portuguese language cities like Fall River have seen the Brazilian community numbers dwindle to maybe a couple of hundred.
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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The Department of Environmental Conservation will issue an interim access plan within a few weeks that is expected to enable paddlers to walk 0.8 of a mile from the iron bridge just below the Goodnow River confluence along an old logging road to parking, agency officials said.
Plenty of controlled aggression can be heard on 30 Year Low's alternate take of "Aspect of an Old Maid" (Okkervil River's Will Sheff sings the male lead on the set's other version), as Bracy and McCardle, each acutely aware of the other's bitterness, frantically trade lines and barbs.
Fall River, Massachusetts, an old textile mill town, never recovered from its loss as a textile hub in the 1970s.
On a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at West Point, the Yankees revived an old tradition, traveling up the Hudson River to play Army, something they hadn't done since 1976.
Manila sprawls east from Manila Bay along the Pasig River, and immediately south of the river is Intramuros, the old walled Spanish town where many of the city's historical sites are found.
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It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
And a 17-year-old soldier went missing after falling in a river during a march near Catterick Garrison army base in North Yorkshire.
Malton, Old Malton and Norton are defended from the river but surface water and backed-up drains have flooded several properties in the area.
Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith said the body of 34-year-old Marco McMillian was found on the Mississippi River levee Wednesday at about 10 a.m.
In 1995 a 14-year-old boy found a leopard skull in a river in Bodmin perhaps lending weight to the beast's existence and its demise.
Many of the city's current flood defences are about 50-years-old after being built in response to the River Exe bursting its banks in October 1960.
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The work, which will involve drilling and grouting old mine workings and strengthening slopes and the river banks, will take four years, the council said.
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