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Many other showboats followed the Floating Theater onto the rivers in the following years, and some of them began to do other performances besides theater. One popular showboat during this period was the Floating Circus Palace of Gilbert R. Spalding and Charles J. Rogers, built in 1851, that featured large-scale equestrian spectacles. By the ...
Momotarō was born from a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there. The woman and her husband discovered the child when they tried to open the peach to eat it. The child explained that he had been bestowed by the gods to be their son.
Modder: from Afrikaans meaning "mud". Mooi River (KwaZulu-Natal) and Mooi River (Vaal): from Afrikaans meaning "beautiful". Niger: from the Tuareg phrase gher n gheren meaning "river of rivers", shortened to ngher. Nile: from Greek Neilos (Νεῖλος), sometimes derived from the Semitic Nahal "river." Nossob: from Khoikhoi meaning "black river".
The word "Conococheague" is translated from the Delaware Indian or Unami-Lenapi term òk'chaxk'hanna, which means "many-turns-river." [ 2 ] The Conococheague, or Connogochegue , as it was known at the time, was the northernmost extent of the range along the Potomac within which Congress in the Residence Bill of 1790 authorized the establishment ...
The name could be translated as "to float ritual vessel or lamp," and comes from the tradition of making krathong or buoyant, decorated baskets, which are then floated on a river. Many Thais use the krathong to thank the Goddess of Water and River, Goddess Khongkha (Thai: พระแม่คงคา) This festival traces its origin back to ...
1. (of a vessel) Floating freely (not aground or sunk). The term may also be used more generally of any floating object or person. 2. In service, even if not currently underway, but not stranded, crewless, in repair, or under construction (e.g. "the company has 10 ships afloat"). afore 1. In, on, or toward the fore or front of a vessel. [3] 2.
A 1.5 billion-euro ($1.6 billion) upgrade to the city’s antiquated sewage system has struggled to get the river’s pollution levels low enough to host the swimming leg of the triathlon and the ...
In the smaller, wilder stretches of a river where rafts couldn't get through, masses of individual logs were driven down the river like huge herds of cattle. "Log floating" in Sweden (timmerflottning) had begun by the 16th century, and 17th century in Finland (tukinuitto). [4] The total length of timber-floating routes in Finland was 40,000km. [4]