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n. (plural of river English) vb. (context poker English) (en-third-person singular of: river)

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Rivers (Holidays in the danger zone)

Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers is a five-part travel documentary on dangerous rivers, part of the Holidays in the Danger Zone series, produced and broadcast by BBC This World. Written and presented by Ben Anderson, and produced by Will Daws. It was first broadcast between 21 February - 7 March 2006, on BBC Two.

  • Episode 1: Amazon
  • Episode 2: Ganges
  • Episode 3: Euphrates
  • Episode 4: The Jordan
  • Episode 5: Congo

In the series, Anderson journeys down some of the world's most dangerous rivers, exploring life and the daily struggle to exist beside rivers that havw been the course of so much political unrest. Starting with the Amazon, Anderson journey takes him into the Andes, where the effects of altitude sickness at the source of the Amazon take its toll on him. Then in India, Anderson visits the rapidly melting Satopanth Glaicer that feeds the Ganges, its possibly impacted with Pakistan over control over water rights, before visiting the holy city of Varanasi where the massive amount of burials and cremations has caused the Ganges to become highly polluted; it is the fifth most polluted river of the world as of 2007, and a modern health hazard to everything that depends on the river for life. Anderson then to the Euphrates & The Jordan, both ancient rivers, steeped in history of a troubled region, before ending on the Congo, which like the nation it cuts though has seen much violence in resent years.

Rivers (Wildbirds & Peacedrums album)

Rivers is the third full-length album by Swedish husband and wife duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums, released on The Leaf Label on 23 August 2010.

Rivers (song)

"Rivers" is a 2015 song by the Australian DJ/Producer Thomas Jack. Upon release, Jack said, “I’m really excited and honored to be releasing ‘Rivers’. It’s been a while since I released new music, and this track is very much in line with my musical direction right now.” The track was released on 10 July 2015. It peaked at number 16 on VG-lista, the Norwegian Official Singles Chart.

Remixes were released on 29 October 2015.

A later version was released on 30 October 2015 by Thomas Jack featuring Nico & Vinz.

Usage examples of "rivers".

Mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas that provided enough moisture for trees were the only intrusions into the essential grassy character of the northern lands during the Ice Age.

But with the horses, they could cross many smaller watercourses with little more than a splash or two, and even big rivers posed far less difficulty.

The hills of the uplands, that were graduating into higher foothills as they approached the mountains to the west, were crossed with the deeply cut narrow valleys of rivers they had to cross.

Some days Jondalar felt that they spent so much time going up and down, they made little progress forward, but the valleys offered sheltered campsites out of the wind, and the rivers supplied the necessary water in a land that was otherwise dry.

They were from animals that had died of natural causes, gathered from wherever they happened to fall on the steppes or, most often, from accumulated piles that had been swept up by flooding rivers and deposited at certain bends or barriers in the river, like driftwood.

People tend to live near fresh water, rivers or lakes, not out in the open.

Their boats were used primarily to get themselves and their possessions across waterways, whether small tributaries or the rivers that swept down, continent-wide, from the glaciers of the north to the inland seas of the south.

But before reaching the end of her course, the fine gritty soil settled out into an immense fan-shaped deposit, a mud-clogged wilderness of low islands and banks surrounded by shallow lakes and winding streams, as though the Great Mother of rivers was so exhausted from her long journey that she dropped her heavy load of silt just short of her destination, then staggered slowly to the sea.

Whinney would have to wear the harness and drag it constantly, but it was Jondalar who realized that it would actually make crossing rivers easier.

Racer was uneasy about rivers since his frightening adventure, but Jondalar had been very patient about guiding the sensitive young animal across the smaller waterways they had met, and the horse was overcoming his fear.

It pleased the man, since many more rivers would have to be crossed before they reached his home.

Even nervous Wolf, who disliked crossing rivers, showed no hesitation as he paddled around in the lake.

After turning away from the bountiful Mother of rivers, his concerns returned, and the changing countryside made him think about the landscape ahead.

Even if there were many more rivers ahead, they could certainly get across them without the boat, and it was slowing them down.

With deeper rivers, we can lift the pack baskets to their backs, instead of letting them hang down.