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2 unusual facts about Riverbank


Riverbank

The RiverBank, a bank offering banking, insurance and investment services

Riverbank, California

Major James Burney, sheriff of Mariposa, established the Burneyville Ferry over the Stanislaus River at the site of the modern bridge in Riverbank.


Belvidere and Delaware River Railway

The main service the Belvidere and Delaware River Railway provided freight service south along the Delaware River from Phillipsburg, New Jersey to Milford, New Jersey, following a 16 mile riverbank line.

C. C. Wang

In 1998, 25 paintings from his collection, including the famous hanging scroll "Riverbank" by 10th century master Dong Yuan, were given to the Metropolitan Museum of New York City.

C. emoryi

Carex emoryi, the riverbank tussock sedge or Emory's sedge, a plant species

Devín

The border fortifications were dismantled after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, and there is now free access to the riverbank.

Dong Yuan

Another of Dong Yuan's painting The Riverbank is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was a gift from New York financier Oscar Tang.

European Bee-eater

A pair took up residence on farmland adjacent to the River Wye, near Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire in summer 2005; by mid-July the adults were bringing insect food to the riverbank nest-hole confirming that eggs had hatched.

European water vole

A water vole named Ratty is a leading character in the 1908 children's book Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame: the locality used in the book is believed to be Moor Copse in Berkshire, England, and the character's name "Ratty" has become widely associated with the species and their riverbank habitat, as well as the misconception that they are a species of rat.

Fabyan Villa

In fact, the National Security Agency has recognized Riverbank Laboratories as the birthplace of cryptology and has honored Fabyan for his associated services to the United States' government.

Halfeti

Until the area was flooded in 1999, the people lived from fishing in the Euphrates and farming on the riverbank, especially growing peanuts and the area's famous black roses.

Prosartes trachycarpa

The images of the rough-fruited fairy bell here were photographed as one was climbing up the riverbank of the South Saskatchewan River south of Saskatoon.

Truncatophaedusa

The habitat is a mossy riverbank under a thick boxwood (Buxus) forest.

Vega Sicilia

The word Vega refers to the green vegetation that grows along the riverbank of the Duero while Sicilia refers to Saint Cecilia, the patron saints of musicians, after whom several villages in Castile and León is named after.

Wynndel Property Management

The Severn Quay development includes the transformation of the town's neglected riverbank by creating landscaped gardens, a promenade and lookout deck over the River Wye.

Y. B. Mangunwijaya

In 1992, he received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his work on the slum dwellers by the riverbank Code in Yogyakarta.


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