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River Gelt Roman Quarry
River Gelt Roman Quarry (Written Rock of Gelt), Cumbria: Roman army sandstone quarries near Brampton supplying Hadrian's Wall repairs, with inscriptions dated AD 207, a carved officer caricature, and scheduled monument protection.
River Irwell
River Irwell: Pennine-source river in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, flowing through Manchester and Salford into the Manchester Ship Canal. Once among Europe's most polluted rivers; now recovering, with flood schemes and the 8 km Irwell River Park.
River Island
River island (riverine island): land surrounded on all sides by river channels, formed by sediment deposition in braided or meandering rivers; examples include Majuli and Tianxingzhou on the Yangtze; distinct from the Falklands' saltwater River Island.
River Joseph
River Joseph (River Iye Manalo Joseph), born 2001 in Muntinlupa City, is a Filipino actor and entrepreneur under Star Magic, known for Pamilya Sagrado, Love at First Spike, The Secrets of Hotel 88, and Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition, and founder of CASSA.
River Luiro Mires
River Luiro Mires (Luiron suot), Ramsar site 1529 in Lapland, Finland, designated 2004: 12,345 ha of aapa mires and raised bogs along the Luiro River, with Finland's most extensive pristine birch fens.
River Mersey
River Mersey, North West England river flowing through Manchester into the Mersey Estuary at Liverpool; famed as one of Europe's most polluted rivers, later restored via the 1985 Mersey Basin Campaign, with salmon returning and 2025 flood repairs.
River Mobility
River Mobility is an Indian electric two-wheeler startup in Bengaluru, founded in 2021 by Aravind Mani and Vipin George, maker of the Indie utility scooter.
River monitor
A river monitor, also called a riverine monitor, is a shallow-draft, heavily armed and armored warship built for rivers and inland waterways rather than the sea, a type named after the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
River Monsters
River Monsters is an Animal Planet documentary series (2009–2017, nine seasons) in which angler-biologist Jeremy Wade investigates legends of fish attacks on humans, becoming the network's most successful show.
River Nile
River Nile State (نهر النيل) is a northern Sudanese state on the main Nile, capital Ed Damer, six localities, 122,123 km², Meroë pyramids, top-three gold producer, hit by 2025 drone strikes on Atbara.
River North
River North is a Chicago Near North Side neighborhood bounded by Chicago Avenue, Michigan Avenue, and the Chicago River. Formerly industrial (Smokey Hollow), it was renamed by developer Albert Friedman in the late 1970s and became a major gallery district, now known for theMART, nightlife, and dining.
River of Dreams
River of Dreams (1993) is Billy Joel's twelfth and final pop studio album, released on Columbia, produced mainly by Danny Kortchmar with cover art by Christie Brinkley. It topped the Billboard 200 for three weeks, earned four Grammy nominations, and closes with the farewell song "Famous Last Words."
River of No Return
River of No Return is a 1954 American Western directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum as a frontier farmer and Marilyn Monroe as a saloon singer.
River Phoenix
River Phoenix (River Jude Bottom, 1970-1993) was an American actor known for Stand by Me, Running on Empty (Oscar-nominated), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and My Own Private Idaho (Volpi Cup, Independent Spirit Award); died of an overdose at 23.
River restoration
River restoration is the set of activities that modify channels, floodplains, and water and sediment inputs to improve degraded rivers' hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes.
River Ribble
The River Ribble is a 110 km river in northern England that rises in the Western Pennines and flows into the Irish Sea west of Preston.
River Ryan (baseball)
River Jason Ryan (born 1998) is an American MLB pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, formerly a Dodgers prospect; two-way UNC Pembroke player, 11th-round 2021 Padres pick, 1.33 ERA 2024 debut before Tommy John surgery, traded for Skubal in 2026.
River Severn
River Severn (Afon Hafren), longest river in Great Britain at 354 km, rising at Plynlimon in Wales and flowing to the Severn Estuary; supplies 6 million people, navigable Stourport to Avonmouth, regulated by Clywedog reservoir.
River Shannon
River Shannon (Abhainn na Sionainne), longest river in the British Isles at about 340 km, draining some 15,000 km2 of Ireland through Loughs Allen, Ree and Derg to the Shannon Estuary; home of Ardnacrusha hydro station, a major navigation, and the Parteen Basin abstraction project to Dublin.
River shark
River sharks, genus Glyphis, rare tropical requiem sharks of Indo-West Pacific rivers and estuaries; euryhaline like the bull shark, with five described species, all IUCN-listed threatened.
River Snow
River Snow (Jiang xue) is a twenty-character quatrain by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan, written during his exile in Yongzhou, showing a lone fisherman fishing in the snow.
River Song (Doctor Who)
River Song (Melody Pond), a Doctor Who character created by Steven Moffat and played by Alex Kingston: archaeologist, the Doctor's wife and assassin, meeting him in reverse timeline order, from 2008's Silence in the Library to Big Finish audio dramas.
River Spey
The River Spey is a major Scottish river rising at Loch Spey in the Monadhliath Mountains, flowing 170 km northeast to the Moray Firth at Spey Bay; seventh-largest in Britain, famed for salmon fishing and Speyside whisky.
River Sunset
River Sunset (长河落日, Chang He Luo Ri) is a 2026 Chinese 44-episode WWII espionage drama directed by Zhao Yilong and Shaun Piccinino, starring Zhang Luyi and Janine Chang, dramatizing the Chinese rescue operation behind the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
River Taff
River Taff (Taf), South Wales river about 64 km long, formed by the Taf Fechan and Taf Fawr at Merthyr Tydfil, flowing through Pontypridd to Cardiff Bay; historic coal-and-iron artery, now managed for flood risk, water quality, and hydropower.
River Thames
The River Thames is a 210-mile English river rising in the Cotswolds and flowing through Oxford and London to the North Sea. Tidal through London with over 7 m spring range, defended by the Thames Barrier, and served by the debt-laden Thames Water utility.
River Torrens
River Torrens (Karrawirra Pari), Adelaide's main river: 85 km from the Mount Lofty Ranges to the sea at West Beach, named by Light in 1836, dammed in 1881 to form Torrens Lake, with highly modified regulated flows.
River Trent
The River Trent is England's third longest river, rising near Stoke-on-Trent and running about 271 km to the Humber Estuary. Navigable from Shardlow, tidal below Cromwell Lock with the aegir bore, it drains 10,450 km2 of the industrial Midlands and supplies about half the Humber's freshwater.
River valley civilization
River valley civilizations were early complex societies arising in the floodplains of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Yellow Rivers between about 4000 and 1500 BCE, marked by cities, surplus agriculture, writing, and social hierarchy; the older river valley theory of civilization's origins is now qualified.
River View Coal Mine
River View Coal Mine is an underground bituminous coal mine in Union County, Kentucky, owned by Alliance Coal and producing about 9 million tons in 2024.