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...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Millions flocked to the sacred Ganges river for religious rituals....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...While all this is enlightening, the V&A’s real triumph is to show how Constable absorbed yet transcended tradition to become an expressive, naturalistic painter, distilling effects of sunlight or fleeting...
...There is a river god on the run and he is yearning for some sun....
...In 1863, when General Grant took the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the last hindrance to free passage of Union supplies along the river, President Lincoln wrote in a letter to be read at a public meeting...
...George Pendle is author of ‘Death: A Life’ (Three Rivers) ………………………………………………………....
...Budapest hosts a rock festival with a line-up that includes Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand and Scissor Sisters - on an island on the river that runs through the city....
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