• Bakersfield comes in fifth, while Sacramento, despite being on a river, ranks eighth.

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  • Aelian described how Macedonians did it on a river called the Astraeus.

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  • At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.

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  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction (2)

  • "Now, I can repair the roofs of my house, " Alexander Chavez told Reuters as entire families descended on a river to gather gold tailings.

    MSN: Weakened typhoon set to make second landfall in Philippines - Weather | NBC News

  • 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.

    FORBES: A Cruise Specialist's "Bucket List" 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.

    BBC: Iraq 10 years on: In numbers

  • 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.

    BBC: Tagging crocodiles in Belize

  • 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.

    WSJ: HBO's Bigger, Pricier 'Game of Thrones'

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Blighted Pakistan

  • 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.

    CNN: Honduran, US relations overcome deadly drug raid

  • 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.

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  • There's also quite a bit of visible death, especially if you get on to like a river or on an inlet.

    NPR: Photographer Feels Weight of His Myanmar Images

  • Fraser is currently stranded on a Nile River cruise boat in Luxor.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • 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.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • It will examine the potential effect of putting a turbine on the river bed at a depth of 20m (66ft) to generate electricity.

    BBC: Research into River Dart's tidal power potential

  • 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.

    BBC: Plans for Wiltshire town's canal submitted

  • 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.

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  • 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?

    BBC: Does the Kumbh Mela experience improve your well being?

  • 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.

    BBC: Tasmania's wild wild west

  • If you live on the coast, on a floodplain, near a river, or on an island waterway.

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  • 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.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • 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.

    BBC: Jack Kerouac��s US road trip

  • 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.

    BBC: World police and fire games under starter's orders

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Machine politics

  • 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.

    FORBES: A Vietnam Less Traveled -- For Now

  • "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.

    NPR: NTSB Says Wash. Bridge Collapse Is Wake-Up Call

  • 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.

    CNN: NY Met revamp highlights American history in art

  • 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.

    BBC: 'I wish Raoul Moat was alive,' says victim's sister

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