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An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing a cherub. These multi-headed beings appear in Abrahamic religions where they often function as attendant angels. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

Marble statue from the West pediment of the Parthenon (West pediment A) depicting a river-god (possibly the river Ilissos), designed by Pheidias, about 438-432 BCE. (British Museum, London)

An 1883 oil on canvas, By the River at Vernon, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Painted in late-afternoon light, the artist was keen to capture the effect of the reflections in the river...

The Missouri River. Photo taken by Hans Andersen in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA in 2004 from the vantage point of the The Meriwether Restaurant looking toward the north. The photo resonates in the line from the Cheyenne legend...

Red River at Alexandria, Louisiana. Approximating what the sandbar on the Mississippi River might have looked like at the Sandbar Fight of 1827, which made James Bowie famous. Photograph by Billy Hathorn, 2008.

Washita River, Oklahoma, USA: Vicinity of the Washita Massacre of November 1868 where Black Kettle and his wife were killed trying to escape across the river.

An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing a typical scholar of the 17th to 18th centuries. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

Canal boats on the North River (now referred to as the Hudson River) in New York, illustration by William L. Stone and Cadwallader D. Colden, issued in 1825 to be presented to the Mayor of New York City to celebrate...

The Battle of Fort Henry (6 February 1862) is often referenced as the first major Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War, but it was not. The first major Union...

A map of Kenya showing the Tana River highlighted in blue. (By: Internal Map of the World (UTA) - derivative work: Svenskan)