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  • 1river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …

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  • 2River engineering — The Los Angeles River is extensively channelized with concrete embankments. River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.… …

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  • 3River Nene — River The River Nene at Kislingbury Watermill, Northamptonshir …

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  • 4Stream bed — The bed of this stream is armored with rocks, some very rounded (having had a longer life in the stream) and some not. A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral… …

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  • 5Mississippi River — For the river in Canada, see Mississippi River (Ontario). Coordinates: 29°09′04″N 89°15′12″W / 29.15111°N 89.25333°W / …

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  • 6List of pipeline accidents — The following is a list of pipeline accidents: This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. Contents 1 Bel …

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  • 7YUDITSKY — RUSSIA (see also List of Individuals) 24.6.1921/RU 25.1.1975 Leningrad/RU Grigory Abramovich Yuditsky graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer in 1951 and there submitted a PhD thesis in 1958. He was a senior… …

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  • 8Deeping Fen — Coordinates: 52°43′42″N 0°12′07″W / 52.7284°N 0.20205°W / 52.7284; 0.20205 …

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  • 9race — Synonyms and related words: Le Mans, accelerate, adolescent stream, affiliation, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air race, animal kingdom, apparentation, aqueduct, arroyo, automobile race, beck, bed, bicycle race, birth, blood, bloodline, boat race …

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  • 10SHVARTS — RUSSIA (see also List of Individuals) .6.1900/RU 9.6.1958 Leningrad/RU Alexandr Izrailevich Shvarts graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineering in 1925. In 1927 he started at the Melioration Institute of the Leningrad… …

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