These include the restoration of a Stour Lighter river barge, landscape art and research into historic houses and farm buildings.
Such exposure is apparent in Rosso's Mannerist "Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro" (1523) in the Uffizi museum in Florence, which resembles nothing so much as a brawl on an American river barge.
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The water levels forced evacuations, closed roads, swamped hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and shut down much of the upper Mississippi River to barge traffic.
First the shuttle will spend weeks in an airport hangar before floating down the Hudson River on a barge.
In addition to the scenic backdrop of the Mississippi River and local entertainment, the event will feature the iconic Super Bowl roman numerals floating from a barge on the majestic river.
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The silt will be removed from the river using an excavator on a barge.
On the vast expanse of the river itself, a huge freight barge from Germany glides slowly past the city's medieval cathedral, towards the more modern structures of the chemical industries.
At the end of September, one family discovered that loggers had secretly built a track into the back of their land so they could take out timber by barge along a tributary of the Amazon River.
Tugs were holding the ruptured barge at the bank on the Louisiana side of the river, directly across from Vicksburg's Riverwalk and Lady Luck casinos.
In addition to creating the sill, officials are planning to take 2.5 million gallons of fresh water from farther north in the river -- past mile marker 100 -- then carry it by barge southward "and suck it into our water treatment facilities, " Laigast said.
The air also holds a whiff of fuel oil after a barge collision that dumped more than 400, 000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River.
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