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A wall that tells a river to sit down and stay
means A barrier built across a river or stream to hold back water, raising its level or storing it for power, irrigation, or flood control.
from From Middle Dutch and Middle Low German 'dam,' a word that traveled into English through the watery, dike-building lowlands of the North Sea coast. It's a cousin of the same Germanic root behind 'Amsterdam' and 'Rotterdam' — towns literally named for the dams that tamed their rivers. The unrelated 'dam' meaning a mother animal is a separate word, a worn-down variant of 'dame.'
- world's biggest
- China's Three Gorges holds 39 trillion liters
- slows time
- Three Gorges water mass lengthened Earth's day
- beaver built
- One Canadian dam stretches over 850 meters
- old habit
- Romans built dams over 2,000 years ago
three gorges dam — world's largest hydroelectric dam by capacity, 22,500 mw, yangtze river china
hoover dam — iconic 726-foot concrete arch dam completed 1936 on colorado river, nevada-arizona border
itaipu dam — second largest hydroelectric capacity at 14,000 mw, shared by brazil and paraguay since 1984