Not far from Jericho, the River Jordan squiggles through the desert dividing the West Bank from Jordan.

BBC: A Biblical guide to the West Bank

In 1990, Engineers digging a railway tunnel under the Channel broke through the last dividing rock and joined Britain to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age.

CNN: Tuesday

But they can help them navigate the legal process through certain issues: dividing real estate or bank accounts, or honoring contracts.

CNN: Denied divorce, some same-sex couples 'wed-locked'

And the only way we're going to get through this is not by dividing ourselves, but by bringing these young people into the system somehow.

NPR: Violence In Europe Leaves People Fearful

Further, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. drew battle lines dividing Asia, across the East Sea, through Korea's 38th Parallel and the Taiwan Strait, and along Vietnam's 17th Parallel and the Mekong river.

CNN: The Bloc Buster

Democratic caucus-goers express their preference through a show of hands, a sign-in sheet or by dividing themselves into groups according to candidate.

BBC: Caucus

Over the years thousands of ingenious East Germans made it through, around, over, and under the Wall and other fortifications dividing the two Germanys.

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