Light cruisers are named after rivers, for which the character will be , pronounced kawa or gawa. The very last Japanese cruiser should be named after a river, which could be the Sakawa (), containing "river" as part of the name; but the actual name of the ship is written , with a...
If we count onlynatural riversin the U.S., the total is 15 and the majority of the states were named after their respective rivers. The 15 states that share their name with a river are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississi...
LivelihoodMigrationBenue state is named after the River Benue, one of Nigeria's two principal rivers. It is located in the North-Central geo-political zone in Nigeria. It is bordered on the North by Nasarawa state, the East by Taraba state, and the West by Kogi state and in the South...
, the state’s natural beauty stands out more for its valleys, rivers, lakes and mountains than its mere 13 miles of atlantic ocean coastline. its highest peak, mount washington, stands at 6,288 feet in the white mountains, and lake winnipesaukee is its best-known inland resort. , among...
, snowy mountains, deep valleys, lakes and rivers cover the gem state, which is twice the size of the six new england states combined. a rocky mountain state, idaho is bordered by washington , oregon , nevada , utah , montana , wyoming and a small portion of canada’s british columbia....
www.nature.com/scientificdata OPEN Data Descriptor: The metabolic regimes of 356 rivers in the United States Received: 28 June 2018 Accepted: 7 November 2018 Published: 11 December 2018 Alison P. Appling1, Jordan S. Read2, Luke A. Winslow3, Maite Arroita4,5, Emily S. Bernhardt6, ...
How to find wild adventures across the U.S., from hiking Hawaii’s highest peak to snowshoeing amid Michigan’s frozen waterfalls.
Named after his great-great-great-uncle, the esteemed American author Herman Melville of Moby Dick fame, he was destined to leave a significant cultural imprint from an early age. Raised by his mother and maternal grandparents in Darien, Connecticut, Moby's journey into ...
South ofNew Yorkthe Coastal Plain gradually widens, but ocean water has invaded the lower valleys of most of the coastal rivers and has turned them into estuaries. The greatest of these isChesapeake Bay, merely the flooded lower valley of theSusquehanna Riverand its tributaries, but there are ...
…the rivers of the eastern United States. Colonial transportation had mainly taken place by water, either on the surfaces of coastal bays and sounds or on fairly broad rivers as far upstream as the lowest falls or rapids. Up to the beginning of the 19th century a system of coastal… Read...