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The world's most magnificent waterways
It's National Cruise Week and to celebrate, why not take a tour of the world's longest waterways. From the Nile to the Mississippi, Tamara Hinson discovers the most magnificent rivers to sail down.
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The Queen of the Mississippi river cruiser recently departed from New Orleans on its inaugural Mississippi river cruise, becoming the first newly built paddle wheeler to sail the Mississippi in 17 years. Mississippi river cruising ground to a halt in 2008 with the demise of the Majestic America Line, whose three boats - American Queen, Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen, departed regularly from New Orleans. To mark the revival of the Mississippi river cruising and to celebrate National Cruise Week, we've put together a list of the world's most magnificent waterways....
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I don't know why people still instead in saying that the Nile is the longest river, the Amazon is the longest river, it runs through Brazil (which on its own already has the size of these 10 countries together) and Peru, Bolivia, Colombia Ecuador, Venezuala and Guyana. The Nile only looks bigger when it is only taken into consideration the Brazilian part of it. In addition to that, at the discharge of the river, the Nile has 1,584 cubic m per second and the Amazon 180,000. Quite frankly, it makes the Nile look like a little stream.
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i discovered a fish there two years ago it had arms and three little fingers on each limb its headwas flat like a bullhead the arms moved all about like a diver i called it the diver fish as i never knew of one before it was about 2 feet long i caught it on the river bottom using some kind of pork rind in a tin local stuff.it had 4 -6 mm long death black eyes .well weird took a foto but camera was knicked from bag we think local village boy
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