The river flowed over its banks.

The river overflowed.

The rain compelled the water to run over the banks.

Every spring the river floods here.

The typhoon caused the river to flood.

After the heavy rains, the river overflowed its banks.

Guided by the star, they reached the island.

Comparing and contrasting the two sides of the Atlantic has a long pedigree, of course.

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The river overflowed its banks and flooded the fields around it.

You can see it every night along the river banks.

The Lilongwe River overflows during the rainy season.

The finds brought great interest when they reached England.

And his tags popped off in the Caribbean and even in Brazil.

But oil is not the only threat to marine environments.

A fisherman caught a rare blue lobster off the coast of the Cape Cod peninsula (USA).

Over 800 refugees died in the disaster off the coast of Libya last month.

Various Asian countries joined efforts to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia.

It is also the country with the lowest natural highest point in the world, at .

Indonesia was the hardest hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.

Keiko eventually died of pneumonia in a Norwegian bay on December 12, 2003.

As she reports, the flood was caused by overflowing of Chagan and Derkul rivers.

Often when the channel does this, some of its flow remains in the abandoned channel.

Likewise, hundreds, if not thousands, of Africans die every year trying to reach the shores of Fortress Europe.

The Nuclear Security Summit plays an essential role in linking both strands of Obama s nuclear policies.

At 3 34 a.m. local time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck off the coast of the Maule region in Chile.

Come the rainy season the rivers fill up with water. During that time many children die from drowning.

Juan Fernandez, sailing from Chile in 1576, claimed he had discovered the Southern Continent.

The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.

When the only way to stay in your motherland is to carry it inside you underneath the distant skies of the strange shores.

European authorities claim to be trying to alleviate the situation in Greece, a country inundated by the flow of refugees coming from Turkish coasts.

The incident occurred on August 2, off the coast of the Cape Cod peninsula in the northeast of the United States, the Necn website clarifies.

It was soon understood that Columbus had not reached Asia but had found a new continent, the Americas.

In the Indus valley, the Acacia nilotica (babul) (babbur) is the most dominant and occurs in thick forests along the Indus banks.

We Europeans cannot afford to turn our backs on our Arab friends along the far shores of mare nostrum.

Therefore, we started the job of protecting the river banks, initiating a total deactivation of the Chernobyl plant.

Similarly this Golden V kelp collected in Alaska just below the low water mark is probably a new species.

This wave of rushing water came from the Ewaso Nyiro River which has burst it's banks following heavy rain around Mount Kenya.

Katra emerged in Madagascar in the 17th century it was at around this time that a wave of Bantu migration reached Madagascar's shores.

The Italian coastguard rescues two of the 156 survivors of the October 3 tragedy off Lampedusa Island.

He survived a sinking ship off the coast of Lampedusa and the drowning deaths of many of those he knew on board.

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire spanned from Britain to the Arabic Peninsula, North Africa and Eastern Europe.

She was devastated when she found out Amjad, like so many others, didn't make it.

Now, it has reached the bay of Mejillones, in the north of the country, where more than three tons of dead anchovies have piled up along the coast.

Biography Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen in 1770 (according to some accounts, in 1768), the son of Gottskálk Þorvaldsson, an Icelander who had settled in Denmark.