The last River Thames Frost Fair was held in 1814.
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"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation, " said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
This is the last navigable point up the river after boats have entered from the Atlantic.
We're about 2, 000 miles upstream from the Atlantic Ocean and more than 600 miles past Kisingani, the last significant city on the river.
The body of hospice nurse Annette Creegan, 49, was found in the River Bure last September following a police search.
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Whatever water manages to get to Texas is destined for the town of Pecos, the last big farm community to use the river before it joins the Rio Grande.
The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.
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At the bridge site, recovery crews have removed several vehicles from the river in the last two days, and Navy divers have searched for possible victims in and around the others.
Last season the River Erriff yielded 320 salmon and 284 sea trout.
It stretches 87 miles along the Mississippi River and last year handled 200 million tons of imports and 80 million tons of exports, including 60% of outgoing U.S. foodstuffs.
''Liverpool has proven hosting capabilities and its people illustrated their great support for this race when crowds in excess of 80, 000 flocked to view the spectacular finish of Clipper 2002 from both sides of the mighty Mersey River last month.
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The identity of a man found dead in the River Thames in Berkshire last week remains a mystery and police have appealed for help from the public.
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The Environment Agency said heavy rainfall over the last few days has caused levels in the River Nene to "rise significantly".
It's one of the last Sunni islands on the east side of the river.
That would mean more bad news for flood-prone eastern India, including Bihar, where over 3m were displaced last year when the Kosi river burst a crumbling embankment.
It fell out from under the cars and drivers who were at a standstill, and rescuers were pulling people in cars out of the Mississippi River until dark last night.
Mr Wang's rethink was triggered by a spate of 200-odd strikes last year in the Pearl River delta that began in May with workers downing tools at a Honda car-parts factory in Foshan, near Guangzhou.
The figure does not include insurance claims by private home owners also recovering after the River Elwy burst its banks last November.
Last summer, the North Platte River was running high near Douglas, Wyoming.
If it had been available when the Kaduna river burst its banks last week, driving 5, 000 people from their homes, the government could swiftly have identified the worst-affected areas.
At long last, we reached the Wild River, promptly disrobed and sat in the low but rushing stream, letting the cool water wash over us as we filled and sterilized our bottles.
Det Chief Insp John Coull said the soldier, who was based at Brompton Barracks in Dock Road, Gillingham, was in a drunken state in an area close to the river when he was last seen.
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Such a move isn't unusual for the agency, which last issued a similar advisory last spring for banks affected by flooding along the Mississippi River, a spokesman said.
The sandy beach with palm trees that opened along the Seine last year is unlikely to be imitated along the banks of the Chicago River.
The flood defence scheme, named Our City Our River, is aimed at protecting the area which last experienced serious floods in 2007.
Three Ukrainians were swept to death by the unusual flood last year when they were at a hot water spring along the Seti river some 20 kilometres north of Pokhara.
At the end of last week police began detailed searches of a stretch of river between Leckwith Hill bridge and the mouth of the River Ely near Cardiff Bay Yacht Club.
The government froze plans to finish the plant at Belene last year, when work at the site on the southern bank of the River Danube was already well under way.
Divers are still searching the muddy Mississippi River, looking for those lost when the interstate bridge in Minneapolis collapsed last week.
Last year heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Chao Phraya river system, on which Bangkok sits, and the Thai capital only just avoided a catastrophe.
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