Bakersfield comes in fifth, while Sacramento, despite being on a river, ranks eighth.
Aelian described how Macedonians did it on a river called the Astraeus.
At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.
The New York Times has a hilarious article on a bunch of neuroscientists who take a rafting vacation on a river without cell reception.
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Agnes fetches up on a river bank beside the corpse of Father Damien Modeste, a priest drowned on his way to an Ojibwe mission.
"Now, I can repair the roofs of my house, " Alexander Chavez told Reuters as entire families descended on a river to gather gold tailings.
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When this cruise is over, I will have visited 98 and will be able to join when I visit Romania in September on a river cruise.
The spike in numbers for 31 August 2005 represents the deaths of about 1, 000 people in a stampede of Shia pilgrims on a river bridge in Baghdad.
There are few experiences more thrilling than tracking and capturing a wild crocodile in the dead of night, on a river in the heart of the Central American jungle.
Producers knew they couldn't pull off that trick with this year's Battle of Blackwater, a big rebel siege that begins on a river and spills over into the capital city.
At one construction on a river in Charsadda, built by the British colonial government, more than twice the volume of water of the previous record flood, in 1929, gushed in, snapping off its gates.
Hilda Lezama, the owner of the boat that was attacked, says she was transporting 13 passengers before dawn on the morning of May 11 on a river near the town of Ahuas, when the helicopters appeared overhead.
When my future wife and I met on a river boat on the Hudson in 1962, we sang our way through half the major musicals of the 40s and 50s, including almost the complete catalog of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
There's also quite a bit of visible death, especially if you get on to like a river or on an inlet.
Fraser is currently stranded on a Nile River cruise boat in Luxor.
Jamie Neal and Garrett Hand are heading upstream in a small boat on a jungle river, said Jose Luis Silva, Peru's minister of tourism and commerce.
It will examine the potential effect of putting a turbine on the river bed at a depth of 20m (66ft) to generate electricity.
The planning application, submitted to Wiltshire Council, also includes a pedestrian and off-road cycle route, locks, pedestrian and road bridges, a new weir on the River Avon and a hydro-electric turbine.
Well I'm a river pilot on the River Mersey what I do is to bring the big ships into Liverpool and then take them out again when they've finished discharging their cargo.
What do you make of householders turned austere pilgrims who live in tatty canvas tents on a flood plain of a river braving regular baths in freezing water, biting cold, smoky skies and ear-splitting din for more than a month?
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There is sailing, jet-boating, sandboarding and helicopter flights, or more gentle outdoor pleasures like chasing the reflections on a mirror-calm Gordon River cruise, riding through the rainforests on a restored heritage railway or being driven to the heart of it all in a comfortable 4x4.
If you live on the coast, on a floodplain, near a river, or on an island waterway.
When the couple was spotted traveling in a small boat on a remote jungle river, Peruvian officials said they were clearly enjoying their trip and weren't aware that their families were looking for them.
Wall Street boomed, the United Nations picked a Manhattan spot on the East River as its base, and developer Robert Moses lit a fuse on city projects that created the skyline that is so familiar to us today.
Mooring a liner on the River Lagan is one possibility that was discounted but the potential use of pop-up hotels is a short-term solution being examined.
The problems at Airbus are analogous to assigning two crews to build a bridge where each starts construction on the opposite banks of a river and, as the bridge comes together at mid-span, they discover that the two sides do not match.
But my favorite excursion was to An Dinh Palace, a French-style royal residence on the Perfume River built by a Nyugen emperor for a crown prince, whose mother lived in the home until her death.
"This is a really significant event and we need to learn from it, not just in Washington but around the country, " Hersman said after taking a boat ride on the Skagit River below the dramatic scene where a truck bumped against the steel framework, collapsing the bridge and sending two vehicles and three people falling into the chilly water.
Kornhauser describes a painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the landscape-oriented, mid-19th-century Hudson River School, depicting a tourist attraction on the Connecticut River.
After a week on the run, Moat was discovered armed with a shotgun on the banks of the River Coquet at about 1900 BST on Friday.
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