Top Items About Rivers

Type	Title	Teaser	Author	Views	Rating
Images	Bathing in the Narmada		annette	94
Images	Stripping for Conservation	In October 2007, a hundred Chinese volunteers posed naked for a photo-shoot to publicise environmental issues. Photographer He Yuanbo said his Love Life, Protect Water project showed how much China had changed. "Twenty years ago, I definitely would have been arrested for doing something like this in China. But now people are more or less starting to accept this kind of art form," he told the Chongqing Evening News. The volunteers first signed their names on a board, then crossed a rushing river at Kaiyang town, Guiyang province. "They helped each other cross the river, showing the greatness of the human spirit," said He. And on rocks alongside the river, the volunteers then posed naked for group pictures.	root	77
Anecdotes	Offering of Swans	"In January 1923 during the Irish civil war, [the poet Oliver Gogarty], who had played a prominent role in the founding...	Anonymous	76
Anecdotes	Poker on the Set?	One day during the filming of 1492: Conquest of Paradise, the cast was required to shoot a challenging scene in...	Anonymous	66
Images	Varanasi Ghats	There are more than one hundred ghats along the Ganges at Varanasi. Here pilgrims come to pray and bathe in the river. Varanasi (historic Benares) is the city of Siva. Lord Siva the Destroyer is one of the triumvirate of Hindu gods, the others being Vishnu, the Preserver and Brahma the Creator. Devout Hindus pray for the protection of Shiva when they perform puja (i.e., pray) in the Ganges. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Shiva flew through the air on a bull while his wife, Parvati, sat on a white cow.. hence the protection of many cows and bulls in the old city of Varanasi.	annette	60
Images	Accurate forecast?	Wheeling News-Register.. "River Flood Unlikely."	root	39
Images	World's Tallest Bridge	The Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed road-bridge spanning the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains near Millau in southern France. The bridge is more than 300m (984ft) high -- taller than the Eiffel Tower.	root	35
Images	Orchha, Bathing in the River		annette	35
Images	Panoramic photograph	Looks like a wide-angle lens and some photo manipulation.	root	33
Images	Orchha Ghat		annette	32