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And I thought the secret of the site was to make the building of the river, part of the river.
Unfortunately, though, the site was separated from the river by McLean Boulevard so I suggested, "Let's reroute McLean," and that gave birth instantly to Friends of McLean Boulevard.
And the bike route's going right through the building, so those traveling the river would see the exhibits and be drawn to the building.
And then I learned how the energy of burning fire, coal, the nuclear blast inside the chambers, raging river currents, fierce winds, could be converted into the light and lives of millions.
These fossils were deposited in a river system.
The river system was also home to a giant, car-sized coelacanth, a monster sawfish, and the skies over the river system were filled with pterosaurs, flying reptiles.
And a bridge that spans 22 meters across a river.
TK: The blue stripes represent the water, the river and the lake.
In 2000, the Indian Supreme Court held that the holy books of the Sikh religion was a legal person, and in 2012, just recently, there was a treaty between the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the crown, in which it was agreed that a river was a legal person who owned its own riverbed.
Over the river, beyond every cloud, she's passed the wind blowin' loud.
There's a new library across the river.
The bigger problem was that river and mudslide might wipe them out and flood the responders.
And it's that same seasonal pulse of water in the summer that built the river of grass 6,000 years ago.
Ironically, today, it's also responsible for the over half a million acres of the endless river of sugarcane.
And with this we could see that the radioactive dust was washing from the top of the mountain into the river system, and leaking into the ocean.
The first way to meet a metaphor is just to see the world through its eyes: an insect sings from a branch passing by in the middle of the river.
The trail was a network of tracks, dirt roads, and river crossings that threaded west out of North Vietnam and south along the Truong Son Mountain Range between Vietnam and Laos.
The Spanish set off into the jungle, but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun, spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole and a river that boiled.
Could the boiling river exist?
So it follows: We should not expect to see a boiling river.
I've swum in that river."
I immediately grabbed for my thermometer, and the average temperatures in the river were 86 degrees C.
The river flowed hot and fast.
I followed it upriver and was led by, actually, the shaman's apprentice to the most sacred site on the river.
I was handed a mug, a tea bag and, well, pointed towards the river.
I met the shaman, and he seemed like an extension of the river and his jungle.
I had received the shaman's blessing to study the river, on the condition that after I take the water samples and analyze them in my lab, wherever I was in the world, that I pour the waters back into the ground so that, as the shaman said, the waters could find their way back home.
I was trapped on a small rock about the size of a sheet of paper in sandals and board shorts, in between an 80 degree C river and a hot spring that, well, looked like this, close to boiling.
Not only that, the indigenous name of the river, Shanay-timpishka, "boiled with the heat of the sun," indicating that I'm not the first to wonder why the river boils, and showing that humanity has always sought to explain the world around us.
So why does the river boil?
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