The people of seven states and the people of Mexico needed and used the water of the Colorado River.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

So the pharaoh enlists all of the people to annihilate the Israelites by drowning all newborn males in the Nile River.

法老便召集了所有人民歼灭以色列人,将男婴溺死在尼罗河中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Actually I had thought I was going north when I went to colleges. We're only after I got to saw the Ohio and cross the Ohio River did people remind me that well, it was maybe north of the Ohio River, it was not the northeast.

其实我以为是在往北走,到斯沃斯莫尔去，只是,等到我看到俄亥俄，过了俄亥俄河,才有人提醒我,那儿可能是俄亥俄河北岸，而不是美国东北部。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Last January,Sullenberger's airliner lost both engines and he managed to safely land the troubled jetliner on New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of 155 people on board.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

In the latest incident, the U.N.refugee agency says about 2,000 indigenous Embera people have been displaced this month from their territories in different areas along the Baudo River in the Colombian department of Choco.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22