Since Roman times, London has built its most important public buildings on or very near the banks of the Thames, and gradually embanked the river to protect them. By the 1920s London was the biggest city in the world, and the Thames was compressed into a sinuous coil that wound through its heart. On both …
The Mississippi flood of 1927 was one of America’s worst natural catastrophes. More significantly, it became the catalyst for one of the most profound changes in the country’s social and political fabric. The flood began in Cairo, Illinois on April 16. After six months of record rainstorms had swollen the Mississippi’s two main tributaries – …
The Huang He (Yellow River) is both ‘the Cradle of Chinese Civilization’ and ‘China’s Sorrow’. Only slightly shorter than the Yangtze, at 5,464 km (3,398 mi), it loops northwards from the Bayan Har mountains, then sweeps east, each year bringing 1.6 billion tons of fine-grained silt from the Loess plateau to the huge flat basin …
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