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Waterfalls Calendars
Waterfalls Calendars


Paintings of the Hudson River Calendar
Paintings of the Hudson River School Calendars




RIVERS & WATER BOOKS

Rivers and Streams
Rivers & Streams


Rivers and Lakes
Rivers & Lakes


Rivers and Oceans
Rivers & Oceans


Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Asked
Don't Know Much About Geography...




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Great Rivers of the World “K...-L...-”
for social studies and science educators and home schoolers.


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Rivers of the World ~

Kwai
Lena

Li Jiang
Limpopo

Loire


Dawn Over The Kwai River, Thailand, Photographic Print
Dawn Over the
Kwai River, Thailand,
Photographic Print

(14º09'36"N 99º31'25"E)

River Kwai in Thailand is chiefly known for its association with the Pierre Boulle novel and David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which WWII prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese to construct two parallel bridges spanning a river as part of the Burma Railway.


Lean River Delta, Art Print
Lena River Delta,
Art Print

(73º00'00"N 127º00'00"E)

The Lena is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (Ob River and the Yenisei River). The Lena is the 11th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed.

The Lena delta is frozen tundra for about 7 months of the year, the spring thaw in May transforms the region into a lush wetland for a few months.


Cormorant fisherman on the Li River, Photographic Print
Cormorant fisherman
on the Li River,
Photographic Print

(24º37'48"N 110º38'24"E)

The Li Jiang River is noted for the unusual karst hillsides and cormorant fishing.

It is one of China's most famous scenic areas, featured in many scroll paintings.


1890 Africa Limpopo River Crocodile
1890 Africa Limpopo River Crocodile, Print

(25º10'00"S 33º35'00"E)

The Limpopo River rises in central southern Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean.

There is evidence of human habitation in the region with 3.5 million year old Australopithecus fossils in the Makapans Valley near Mokopane.

Vasco da Gama anchored off the mouth of the Limpopo in 1498.

Author Rudyard Kipling described as “the great grey-green, greasy...”, in the Just So Stories.


Bazouges Chateau and the River Loire at Sarthe, Pays De La Loire, Loire Valley, France, Europe, Photographic Print
Bazouges Chateau and the River Loire at Sarthe, Pays De La Loire, Loire Valley, France, Europe,
Photographic Print

(47º16'09"N 2º11'09"E)

The Loire River is the longest river in France. It rises in south-east France and flows west to the Atlantic Bay of Biscay.

The Loire River Valley is called the “Garden of France” with noble chateaux and grape vineyards lining the banks of the river.

Cities along the Loire include Tours, Orleans, and Nantes.


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