• He thought that if he brought lots of very clever people together he could reconstruct that moment by the Grand River.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • Officials said Friday they're adding the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Mich.

    WSJ: EPA, other US agencies expand urban waters effort

  • He had put in years of preparation before that moment by the Grand River, and it was impossible to know what unconscious associations triggered his great insight.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • Gray never had an epiphany overlooking the Grand River.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • "People are kind of wary and there is a little bit of caution because the Grand River is a fantastic rowing spot, " said Landon Bartley, president of the Grand Rapids Rowing Association.

    WSJ: Real Rapids in Grand Rapids?

  • "We are seeing an exciting shift in communities after businesses left and downtowns are looking to revitalize, " said Jason Carey, founder of River Restoration, a Colorado-based engineering firm working on the Grand River effort.

    WSJ: Real Rapids in Grand Rapids?

  • But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • But five people came up with the steamboat, and nine people came up with the telescope, and, if Gray had fallen into the Grand River along with Bell, some Joe Smith somewhere would likely have come up with the telephone instead and Ma Smith would have run the show.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • The paper reported the combined ashes would be spread over where the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River merge in the Grand Canyon.

    CNN: Goldwater's Body To Be Cremated; Funeral Set For Wednesday

  • Sudanese workers are busy with Khartoum's face lift, especially on Nile Road, running along the Blue Nile River past the grand palace grounds and government ministries, the road's median lined with newly planted pink bougainvillea and palm trees, running up to a brand-new development built especially for the African heads of state due here for the two-day meeting beginning January 23rd.

    NPR: African Union Leaders to Meet in Sudan

  • Google will pay the Oklahoma utility, Grand River Dam Authority, a premium for the electricity generated by the Canadian Hills Wind Project when it comes online this year.

    FORBES: Google Signs Utility Deal To Power Data Center With Wind Energy

  • Near dusk, another good viewing time, the cranes will gather on the sandbars in the river, reversing their grand morning exit.

    BBC: Nebraska��s awe-inspiring crane migration

  • Located mid-way between the town of Jackson Hole and the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, close to the Grand Teton National Park and the Snake River, the community of some 27 homes on about 640 acres includes hundreds of protected acres on which there is a wildlife habitat with swans, elk moose, eagles, and osprey.

    FORBES: Indian Springs Ranch, near Jackson Hole, Wyoming

  • On 14 March, the Fairmont Grand Hotel Kyiv opened along the Dnipro River, one of the many new hotels coming to Ukraine and Poland in time for the 2012 European Championships.

    BBC: Openings: New York, Chennai, Istanbul and Kiev

  • Thonburi, west of the Chao Praya River and directly across from the Grand Palace, was the first area of Bangkok to be settled.

    BBC: Exploring Bangkok��s canals

  • Too many people who live in the cities and towns that flank the Mississippi have forgotten that a river as grand and nearly as long as the Nile flows beside them.

    ECONOMIST: Cities and rivers

  • Barry Goldwater's body will be cremated and a newspaper reports his ashes will be mixed with those of his first wife and spread in the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

    CNN: America Says Farewell To Barry Goldwater

  • The company's Lansing Grand River, Mich.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • PHOENIX, Ariz. (AllPolitics, June 2) -- Barry Goldwater's body will be cremated after his funeral Wednesday, and a newspaper reports his ashes will be mixed with those of his first wife and spread in the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

    CNN: Goldwater's Body To Be Cremated; Funeral Set For Wednesday

  • About a decade ago, local AM radio shock jocks mocked Reyes' grand vision to revitalize the river: his school-age daughter even came home upset, Reyes said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Strel plans to swim across the Grand Canyon , along 1, 000 miles of the freezing Mackenzie River in Canada, and the length of the 2, 000-mile Volga .

    BBC: What adventures are actually left?

  • Once a Category 5 storm, Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with 127 mph winds when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.

    CNN: Court: Army Corps of Engineers liable for Katrina flooding

  • The drive to reconstruct an ecological piece of the past in Grand Rapids comes despite rising river levels that reached historic heights during heavy rains in late April, cresting at more than 21 feet and testing floodwalls.

    WSJ: Real Rapids in Grand Rapids?

  • Towards the end, the patron saint travels the Atrato River, and people celebrate the dawn with devotional hymns and perform the Grand Procession of the Saint.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • "One of our mottos is get the dam thing right, " said Steve Heintzelman, a local realtor who co-founded Grand River Future Vision, a group of fishing enthusiasts who initially opposed the plan.

    WSJ: Real Rapids in Grand Rapids?

  • Those glorious inundations moved massive quantities of sediment through the Grand Canyon, wiping the slate dirty, and making a muddy mess of silt and muck that would make modern river rafters cringe.

    ECONOMIST: Flooding the Grand Canyon

  • Perched in a smoky penthouse recording studio in Chelsea last night as the sun slipped into the Hudson River below, Wiz Khalifa found himself in a milieu conducive to making grand pronouncements.

    FORBES: Wiz Khalifa: I'll Earn $100 Million This Year

  • To appreciate the Grand Canyon you have to go into it, and that means getting on the Colorado River.

    FORBES: Grand Canyon Rafting

  • And the grand plan of shoehorning Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall into office looks like going down the river without a paddle.

    BBC: Chick Young's view

  • Wolves in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, the John D Rockefeller Jr Memorial Parkway and the Wind River Indian Reservation will be protected from hunting.

    BBC: Wyoming drops federal protection of gray wolves

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