River Eau

The River Eau (/ˈjuː/ EW) is a 15-mile-long (24 km) tributary of the River Trent that flows through Lincolnshire, England.

The Eau catchment lies between that of the Bottesford Beck to the north, and the River Witham to the south and east, and covers an area of 125 square kilometres (48 square miles). The river is one of the few notable streams that drain the right bank of the tidal Trent.

The source of the river is near Harpswell, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Edge, and it joins the tidal River Trent at Barlings, near Scotter. Unlike other rivers that drain into the tidal Trent, there is no pumping station associated with the outfall, it relies on gravity to discharge during periods of tidal low water.

The Eau flows through the village of Scotter, which has a history of being flooded by the river; the most recent occasion was in June 2007.

The river is also important for the drainage of the flat low-lying agricultural land that surrounds it, with some 2000 hectares or 20 square kilometres (8 square miles) of the Gainsborough Internal Drainage Board district, relying on the Eau for this function. Whilst the drains that discharge into the Eau are maintained by the Drainage Board, the river is the responsibility of the Environment Agency being designated as a Main river.

Eau

Eau may refer to:

Rivers

Eau is often used in place of 'river' in several instances in Lincolnshire and The Fens:

See also

The carafe in Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I

Eau (trigraph)

Eau is a trigraph of the Latin script.

French

In Modern French, eau is pronounced /o/ and may or may not be the same phoneme as the one attached to the letter o.

It is used as an ending for several words, like “berceau” (cradle) or “manteau” (coat), usually being the remnant of a suffix (bercer — to cradle, mante — mantle). But this is also a word by itself: “eau” means water.

English

In English, eau only exists in words imported from French, and so is pronounced likewise in almost all cases. The only exceptions to this are “beauty” and formations of it (excepting plain “beau”) where it is pronounced /juː/, “bureaucrat” where it is pronounced /ə/, and “bureaucracy” where it is pronounced /ɑ/.

List of Firefly characters

This page lists characters from the television series Firefly.

Major characters

Malcolm Reynolds

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Malcolm's main mission is to keep his crew alive and to keep his ship flying. As Firefly writer Tim Minear stated in an interview: "It's just about getting by. That's always been the mission statement of what the show is — getting by." In "Serenity", Mal says of himself: "[If the] Wind blows northerly, I go North."

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River is a 2011 Japanese drama film based on the 2008 Akihabara massacre incident. The film is written and directed by Ryūichi Hiroki. The film stars actress Misako Renbutsu, who will play the role of a person who lost her love interest in the attacks.

River debuted at the 12th Tokyo Filmex as one of its special presentations. It will subsequently be released in Japanese cinemas on 10 March 2012.

Plot

Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akihabara, the scene of the incident. There, she encounters many people who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the incident and are still suffering from the aftereffects.

Cast

River (album)

River is the fourth studio album by former Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin. It is the third album to feature ex-Guns N' Roses bass guitarist Duff Mckagan

Track listing

All lyrics and music by Izzy Stradlin, except where noted.

Personnel

References