We walked on the banks of the Thames.

Their ship made it to the shores of Sicily.

Soon after she became pregnant, the Corps of Discovery arrived near the Hidatsa villages.

A significant portion of the population lives in villages that are close to riverbanks.

It is the southernmost district of Transnistria, located mostly south of Tiraspol.

This was the first diplomatic encounter of the Russians and the Japanese.

Some 300,000 people were duly herded to the banks of the Araxes River.

Why is there such a vast exodus of China s brightest to the shores of Europe, Australia, the UK and the US?

Everyone's Meguro River Illumination Winter cherry blossoms are in bloom beside the Meguro River.

The arrival of desperate boat people on Europe s shores is a symptom of their failure to do so.

Bangladesh is a country of 160 million people and most of them live in villages that are close to riverbanks.

Every spring, when flying fish are carried to Taiwan by the Kuroshio Current, many fishermen are waiting for them.

The cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.A., are connected by two international bridges.

They board a military helicopter and set off for the shores of Scotland, but inclement weather forces them to ditch their aircraft over Kosovo.

But there are still over 650 million Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Nepalese, who remain washed up on the shores of poverty.

An innovative approach to recycling and alternative power generation is allowing the cherry trees along Tokyo's Meguro River to bloom in winter.

But when the boat brings the group back to Vietnamese shores, they are caught by security forces on the lookout for escapers.

Citizens of Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea or Syria fall into the hands of mafias dealing in human trafficking, who use old fishing boats to carry them to the European coast.

Warm water off the coast of South America leads to torrential rainfall in Ecuador and Peru, and at the same time, drought in Southeast Asia.

Any threat to the canal s normal operations would shift the Far East Europe route to the southern tip of Africa, marginalizing the Mediterranean (and sending costs soaring).

It leaked to the London Sunday Times that it had placed nuclear armed submarines off Iran s coast.

In 1789, few observers in Paris would have predicted that a Corsican would lead French forces to the banks of the Nile within ten years.

The New York Times recently published an exceptional description of Ecuadorian polleros transporting their human cargo to the coasts of Guatemala and then onward through Mexico to the US.

Compare that to the Syrians who flee war only to face the risk of death once more in tiny, overloaded rubber dinghies headed for Europe's shores.

Perhaps the biodiesel fueled cherry blossoms lights on the Meguro River provide a clue about how to deal with the dilemma that exists between the anti illumination criticism and the desire for pleasant winter lights at night.

The combined light from these beetles these are actually tiny beetles is so bright that fishermen out at sea can use them as navigating beacons to find their way back to their home rivers. It's stunning.

China s willingness to throw its weight around amplifies the grave imbalance in size, and leverage, between it and the other countries bordering the South China Sea.

The New York Times recently published an exceptional description of Ecuadorian polleros transporting their human cargo to the coasts of Guatemala and then onward through Mexico to the US. Colombian displaced persons and Venezuela's middle class are fleeing to Miami.

Because Russia currently has no land connection to Crimea, the bridge, stretching from the Kuban region of Russia to the shores of Crimea, would be a strategic transportation artery, allowing Russia to carry supplies, construction materials, goods, and people to the peninsula and back.