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  2. Six Rivers National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Six Rivers National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California. It was established on June 3rd, 1947 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman from portions of Klamath, Siskiyou and Trinity National Forests. Its over one million acres (4,000 km 2) of land contain a variety of ecosystems and 137,000 acres (550 ...

  3. North Valley Bancorp - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, North Valley Bancorp was incorporated as the holding company for North Valley Bank. [1] In 2000, the company acquired Six Rivers National Bank. [3] [4] [1] In September 2004, the company acquired Yolo Community Bank for $23 million. [5] [6] [7] [1] In June 2006, the company merged its two subsidiary banks: North Valley Bank and NVB ...

  4. Bank (geography) - Wikipedia

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    In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water. Different structures are referred to as banks in different fields of geography, as follows. In limnology (the study of inland waters), a stream bank or river bank is the terrain alongside the bed of a river, creek, or stream. [1] The bank consists of the sides of the channel, between ...

  5. List of rivers of India - Wikipedia

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    Mahanadi. Purna. Godavari. Krishna. Kaveri. Penna River. Rivers falling into Arabian sea jointly as Panjnaad Sutlej, Vyas, Ravi, Chenab, Jhehlam, flowing through The Punjab, a province shared by Modern India and Pakistan. River Sindh or Sindhu is flowing alone from Himalaya in between these rivers and Afghanistan.

  6. List of rivers by discharge - Wikipedia

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    This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate. Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than 2,000 m 3 /s (71,000 cu ft/s) are shown. It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric. For context, the volume of an Olympic-size ...

  7. List of Indus Valley Civilisation sites - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Harappan Civilisation, was a major early civilisation, existing from 3300–1300 BCE. It covered much of modern-day Pakistan and northwest India, as well as possessing at least one trading colony in northeast Afghanistan. [ 1 ]

  8. Beirut River - Wikipedia

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    The right bank of the Beirut River, southwest of the mountain resort town of Beit Mery at an altitude of approximately 125 metres (410 ft) above sea level, is an archaeological site, "Beit Mery I", discovered by Jesuit Father Dillenseger who determined it to be an Acheulean site; the archaeological finds from the site were donated to the French ...

  9. Chōsen Industrial Bank - Wikipedia

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    The Chōsen Industrial Bank (Japanese: 朝鮮殖産銀行, Korean: 조선식산은행), sometimes referred to as Joseon Industrial Bank or Chosun Siksan Bank, was a major financial institution in Korea under Japanese rule. It was formed in 1918 by merging six banks established under the Korean Empire.