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the patient knife that carved the Grand Canyon while no one was watching
means a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel toward a sea, lake, or another river
from From Old French 'riviere,' meaning riverbank or river, descended from Latin 'riparia' (the bank or shore), from 'ripa,' a bank or edge. So the word once leaned toward the land beside the water rather than the water itself — possibly a cousin of 'rive,' to tear or split, hinting at how a river cleaves the earth it runs through.
- never repeats
- the water you touch is gone forever
- flows uphill
- momentum pushes rivers up gentle slopes briefly
- oldest current
- the Finke in Australia is 350 million years old
- reverses course
- engineers flipped the Chicago River's direction in 1900
- underground giants
- the Amazon hides a vast river beneath it
amazon river — flows 4,000 miles through south america, discharges 209,000 cubic meters of water per second into atlantic
nile river — 6,650 km through northeast africa, flows through egypt and sudan to mediterranean sea
yangtze river — 3,915 miles through china, longest river in asia, powers three gorges dam
mississippi river — 2,320 miles through north america, drains 31 u.s. states into gulf of mexico