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	Turkey - MSN Encarta
		The vast majority of Turkey is composed of the Asian territory of Anatolia, or Asia Minor, a large mountainous peninsula.
		Asian Turkey and European Turkey are separated by three connected waterways of great strategic importance: the Sea of Marmara and the straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles (also called the Turkish Straits).
		The landscapes of Turkey are varied, from fertile plains in the northwest and southeast to broad river valleys in the west to high barren plateaus and towering mountains in the east.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575380/Turkey_(country).html (1662 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Guyana
		A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization.
		Guyana is currently in a border dispute with both Suriname, which claims the land east of the Corentyne River in southeastern Guyana, and Venezuela which claims the land west of the Essequibo River as part of Guayana Esequiba.
		The Essequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guyana (1824 words)

	Complete list of Ship Types
		This term is only listed here to clarify the point to anyone new to this field that while there were certainly a large number of sail-powered vessels used in sea combat, there were never any sail powered "Battleships".
		A sampan is a Asian skiff constructed of wood, ranging from twelve to fifteen feet long and generally propelled by two oars.
		The Wherry was evolved for the Norfolk Broads, the lakes and rivers that criss cross Norfolk, and the outlet to the sea at Yarmouth.
	www.thepirateking.com /ships/ship_types.htm (10259 words)

	3 of World Top 10 Drying Rivers in China
		The 3 rivers are the Yangtze (known as Chang Jiang in China), Mekong (known as Lan Cang Jiang in China), Salween (known as Nu Niang in China).
		Five of the ten rivers listed in the report are in Asia alone.
		Dams along the Danube River — one of the longest flowing rivers in Europe — have already destroyed 80 per cent of the river basin’s wetlands and floodplains.
	www.chinatownconnection.com /drying-rivers-china.htm (471 words)

	Laos Travel Information
		Bordering Thailand across the Mekhong River in the west, Myanmar and China in the north, Vietnam to the east, and Cambodia to the south, it is a miracle this former French colony wasn't carved up as spoils to the ambitions of its powerful neighbours long ago.
		Listed by the United Nations as one of the poorest countries in the world, the Lao People's Democratic Republic is helmed by a single socialist party, that for all its faults has maintained a relative peace there over the past 25 years.
		Set on a peninsula at the confluence of three rivers, it is a marvel of ancient and colonial architecture, with contiguous temples up to 700 years old running down its spine and colonial mansions looming proudly in the sidestreets.
	www.circleofasia.com /laos (880 words)

	Asian Art Mall Blog » Latin America
		The Neuquen river is not navigable, but as its waters are capable of being easily dammed in places, large stretches of land in its valley are utilized; but the lands on each side of its lower part are of little commercial value.
		In the centre of the territory, also in the neighbourhood of the mining districts, are the valleys of Norquin and Las Lajas, the general camp of the Argentine army in Patagonia, with excellent timber in the forest on the Andean slope.
		Rio Pico, an affluent of the same river, receives nearly the whole of the waters of the extensive undulating plain which lies between the Rio Tecka and the Rio Senguerr to the east of the Cordillera, while the remainder are carried away by the affluents of Rio Jehua: the Cherque, Omkel, and Appeleg.
	www.latinartmall.com /wordpress/category/asian-history/latin-america (9158 words)

	List of rivers of Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearl River - China - South China Sea
		Red River - China, Vietnam - South China Sea
		Tumen River - China, North Korea, Russia - Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Asia (211 words)

	Wetlands
		The Mekong River – the 11th longest in the world - rises in the Himalayas of Tibet and on its route to the South China Sea, includes a section of some 2,400 km in.
		Along its entire length, almost 1,000 fish species are found, with at least 289 being found along the section in, including the endemic Mekong giant catfish – the largest freshwater fish in the world – and at least another 30 rare/endangered and endemic species.
		Given the great geographic range of the Mekong River, impacts from threats have the potential to be realised far from the threat, often in another country.
	www.wetlands.org /Thailand/En/listmenu.aspx?id=24222004-a814-4000-a6da-b0e4bcd73867 (797 words)

	10 Longest Rivers In The World Details 10 Longest Rivers In The World News and Information about 10 Longest Rivers In ...
		The longest undammed river in the contiguous USA is the Yellowstone River at miles in length.
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		The longest undammed river in the contiguous USA is the Yellowstone River at 692 miles in length.
	aptrate.org /longest-list/10-longest-rivers-in-the-world.php (613 words)

	Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia
		Huge forest giants line the river banks, their massive trunks leaning over the river at a remarkable angle in an effort to reach the sunlight.
		Lying within the headwaters of three river systems, the Tembeling in the south the Terengganu in the east and the Relai-Aring-Labir in the north, this vibrant rainforest receives rain throughout the year, approximately 2,200mm (lowland) and 3,800mm (highland).
		Giant trees line the river banks, their massive trunks leaning over the river at a remarkable angle in an effort to reach the sunlight.
	www.impression.com.my /destlist/Tmnlist.htm (4241 words)

	WWF Names World's Top 10 Rivers at Greatest Risk
		Ten of world's largest rivers are drying up due to "the wanton waste of freshwater resources, poor governance, and a disregard for the needs of local people that frequently exacerbates poverty," finds a new report by the global conservation organization WWF.
		There are some rivers on the list that are so damaged that without serious restoration efforts they could be lost, and others that are relatively intact, but face massive degradation unless action is taken now to conserve them.
		It harbors the endangered Indus River dolphin, one of the world’s rarest mammals.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/mar2007/2007-03-21-01.asp (2738 words)

	World Rivers Review, November 1995
		The subsequent change in the river's ecology brought on by river-development projects has led to an epidemic of bilharzia (or schistosomiasis), a large increase in the number of malaria cases, outbreaks of rift valley fever, and other health problems.
		This "river rush," which on paper already includes plans for 60 dams, could move from paper to the rivers themselves now that the region is no longer a theater of war.
		The world's eleventh longest river is also receiving increasing attention from groups that advocate a "big picture" approach to managing the river's resources.
	www.irn.org /pubs/wrr/9511wrr.html (7906 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook - Notes and Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This entry lists in alphabetical order by abbreviation those international organizations in which the subject country is a member or participates in some other way.
		This entry lists major infectious diseases likely to be encountered in countries where the risk of such diseases is assessed to be very high as compared to the United States.
		This entry is an ordered listing of religions by adherents starting with the largest group and sometimes includes the percent of total population.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html (9803 words)

	SAJA Stylebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Asian, Asian American Be careful of this usage when talking about those of Asian origin.
		Among the winners with a South Asian connection are: V.S. Naipaul, "In a Free State" (1971); Ruth Praver Jhabvala, "Heat and Dust" (1975); Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children" (1981); Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient (1992); and Arundhati Roy, "The God of Small Things" (1997).
		The name Punjab means "five waters," or "five rivers," and signifies the land drained by the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers, which are tributaries of the Indus River.
	www.saja.org /stylebook.html (9961 words)

	Vacation in Shenzhen China with Asian Vacations, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		River excursions: One possibility is a trip down the Huangpu River to the mouth of the Yangtze River.
		The rivers and streams in Zhouzhuang crisscross in the form of the Chinese character jing and are spanned by 14 stone-arch bridges from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD), Ming, and Qing Dynasties.
		Rivers and creeks spanned with stone bridges in various designs flow through the town, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes by.
	www.vacationsinchina.com /Shanghai_attractions.html (5236 words)

	Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives » 2004 » May
		In 2002, a status assessment of the riverâs cleanup showed the amount of hazardous waste leaking into the Niagara had fallen by about 90 percent since 1989, and the water in the Niagara River is nearly 60 percent cleaner.
		Although the River was used as a wastewater dump, it is one of the best remaining examples of a warm-water river system within the Great Lakes region, with a diverse population of fish species and several endangered mussel species.
		The physical characteristics of the river have changed drastically over the last century, with construction of artificial islands in the river for boat docks during the lumbering era in the late 1800s, building of harbor breakwaters in 1913, and completion of the dam and an artificial channel in the 1920s.
	www.healthylakes.org /2004/05 (11048 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Platanista gangetica ssp. minor
		Meanwhile, the demand for river water for agricultural, industrial, and urban use continues to escalate, which implies a continuing decline in suitable habitat, and in the number of subpopulations, extent of occurrence, and number of mature individuals, thereby also meeting subcriterion 'b' of B1.
		This subspecies is endemic to the rivers of the lower Indus basin in Pakistan.
		Indus River dolphins generally occur in the deepest river channel and are less common in secondary channels and small braids (Bhatti and Pilleri 1982, Braulik 2003).
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/41757/all (2797 words)

	World's Top 10 Rivers at Risk-WWF Report
		list of all the dams on the Ganges
		Human civilization was born on a river bank.
		Asia’s largest rivers, the Ganges and the Bramaputra are rises every year.
	www.scribd.com /doc/23078/Worlds-Top-10-Rivers-at-RiskWWF-Report (1110 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Orcaella brevirostris (Ayeyarwady River subpopulation)
		The threshold of 50 mature individuals for listing a species or subpopulation as CR according to Criterion D (and C2a(i)) refers to the number of individuals known, estimated or inferred to be capable of reproduction.
		During surveys in the Ayeyarwady River dolphin sightings were concentrated in geomorphologically complex reaches upstream and downstream of channel convergences (especially tributaries), islands, and defiles (where an alluvial channel becomes abruptly narrow and deep as it cuts through a mountain range, Smith and Hobbs 2002).
		Gill nets were also the most widespread gears in terms of their distribution throughout the river and there was a significant positive relationship between gillnet encounter rates (i.e., number of gears observed each day) regressed against downstream progress on the survey (DF 19; fixed gillnets p=0.0176, F=6.8321, R2=0.2750; drifting gillnets p=0.0002, F=20.7149, R2=0.5351).
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/44556/all (2236 words)

	International Rivers Network: Mekong
		The Mekong River is the heart and soul of mainland Southeast Asia.
		The 12th longest river in the world, the Mekong runs 4,800 kilometers from its headwaters on the Tibetan Plateau through Yunnan Province of China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam.
		In Thailand, IRN has been working with communities affected by the Pak Mun and Rasi Salai dams who are campaigning for the gates of both dams to be permanently opened and for the Mun River to be restored.
	www.irn.org /programs/mekong (1550 words)

	Evolution of Modern Humans: Early Modern Homo sapiens
		Through comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences from living people throughout the world, she concluded that Africa has the greatest genetic diversity and, therefore, must be the homeland of all modern humans.
		The endangered list includes 1/3 of all amphibian species, nearly 1/2 of the turtles and tortoises, 1/4 of the mammals, 1/5 of the sharks and rays, and 1/8 of the birds.
		This list does not include the many millions of species that are still unknown to science.
	anthro.palomar.edu /homo2/mod_homo_4.htm (2685 words)

	South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation
		It is located in the Northern part of the South Asian sub-continent between 26 deg 22' and 30deg 27' north latitude and 80deg 4' and 88deg 12' east longitude.
		Unplanned establishment of urban in the riverbanks, drainage of industrial wastes directly into sensitive rivers, problem of damping site of solid waste, over use of vehicles, more drainage of ground water are the factors that damage the environment in context of Nepal.
		The South Asian Seas Programme was formally adopted at a meeting of the Plenipotentiaries of member countries held in New Delhi on 24th March 1995.
	www.south-asia.com /saarc/newspectrum4.htm (11758 words)

	NAUTICAL NONFICTION BOOKLIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Includes 8 appendices listing eight categories of records and all of the records in these categories at the time.
		Describes the complete story of the river boat fleet, from it's inception in 1964 through April, 1972, when the last naval bases are turned over to South Vietnam.
		Rooke, Henry South and East, 1975 Reminiscences of sailing the Yorkshire coast, the River Derwent and across the North Sea to Norway.
	euler.sfasu.edu /booklists/nautnonf.html (17129 words)

	Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - the World's Longest Beach: ThingsAsian
		The maximum temperature here in the winter is only about 12 degrees Celsius (53.6 degrees Fahrenheit), but tourists on the seashore enjoy cups of tea, snacks or the very popular green coconut water.
		Of total travellers in 2000, nearly 18.56 percent came to Bangladesh for pleasure visits, 16.47 percent were on business and the remainder - nearly 70 percent - had multiple reasons for arriving.
		The Bangladesh Monitor, a fortnightly tabloid focusing on the tourism industry, said Bangladesh was a promising destination for foreign tourists, but infrastructure problems, including hotel accommodation, were a major impediment to growth.
	www.thingsasian.com /stories-photos/2334 (849 words)

	Vacation in China with Asian Vacations, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		China's two major Rivers, the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang (Yangzi or Yangtze River), as well as the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) in southeastern China, have provided the framework for agricultural development and population growth throughout China's history.
		Because some of China's largest rivers have their source regions on the high Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and drop great distances over their middle and lower courses, China is rich in hydroelectric resources.
		Siltation at the mouth of the Yellow River extended the length of the river by approximately 35km (20 miles) between 1975 and 1991.
	www.vacationsinchina.com /General_Info.htm (6745 words)

	Asian Studies Institute - Other published material
		In this interaction, the inequality between the civilising center and the peripheral peoples has its ideological basis in the center's claim to a superior degree of civilisation, along with a commitment to raise the peripheral peoples' civilisation to the level of the center, or at least closer to that level.
		Of the four distinct "civilising projects" that Harrell identifies, the Confucian Project, [7] as conducted by the Imperial State during the Ming and Qing dynasties in particular, is both of longest standing and least well studied.
		In the second juan, where Kuang Lu describes the mountains and rivers, the grottos and cliffs, the ponds, springs and wells of the area, the landscape, the very strangeness of which is marked by the names of the sites, is nonetheless naturalised in certain ways.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /asianstudies/publications/working/KuangLu.html (4140 words)

	Palm Oil Report ~ Center for Science in the Public Interest
		Indonesia and Malaysia have, concomitant with the destruction of enormous tracts of tropical rainforest, some of the world's longest lists of threatened wildlife.
		Five mammals exemplify the impending disaster: the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, Asian elephant, and Sumatran rhinoceros.
		Plantations also pollute the soil and water with pesticides and untreated palm oil-mill effluent, cause soil erosion and increased sedimentation in rivers, and cause air pollution due to forest fires.
	www.cspinet.org /palmoilreport (873 words)

	Washington City Paper: News & Features: Blogs
		But the AWS has decided not to resume its flagging program for the 2006 season, leaving river users to rely on their schnozzles to figure out what’s in the water.
		The boats she rows don’t put her in much contact with the water, and she’s seen enough trash and dead fish in the river to know how dirty it is. “I just figured either someone wasn’t changing [the flag],” she says, “or [the water] was so bad they didn’t have a color for it.”
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	www.washingtoncitypaper.com /blogs/citydesk/index.php/category/environment/rivers (524 words)

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