River of Death
River of Death is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1981. As with most of MacLean's novels, it depicts adventure, treachery, and murder in an unforgiving environment, but is set this time in the steamy jungles of South America instead of above the Arctic Circle.
Plot introduction
In 1945, with the Allies approaching, two German officers ransack a monastery in Greece and make plans to escape with the loot. However, one of the Germans is left behind by his partner, while the other escapes by submarine from Wilhelmshaven. Forty years elapse, a wealthy millionaire, Smith, hires Hamilton, allegedly an expert on the jungle, to lead him to the ruins of a lost Indian civilization recently discovered in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle in Brazil. The entourage faces giant anacondas, giant spiders, cannibalistic natives, and so on, discovering a settlement of Nazi war criminals and their descendants, living as if the Third Reich had never ended. It is soon clear that Smith's real purpose has little to do with archaeology, and more to do with revenge.
River of Death (film)
River of Death is a 1989 American action film written and directed by Steve Carver and starring Ted Prior. It is based on the novel with the same name by Alistair MacLean.
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Tiyo
Tiyo (T'í'o) is a coastal town in east-central Eritrea.
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It is the capital of the Are'eta district in the Southern Red Sea region.
Nearby towns and villages include Anrata (0.6 nm), Ad Gaban (6.3 nm), Sahli (8.0 nm), Babaiu (15.4 nm) and Faraon (17.9 nm).
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TO
To, TO, or T.O. may refer to:
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Cao (Chinese surname)
Cao (/ˈtsaʊ/) is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 曹 (Cáo).
It was listed 26th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.
Romanizations
Cao is romanized as Ts'ao in Wade-Giles, although the needed apostrophe is often omitted in practice. It is romanized Cho, Cou, Tso, and Chaw in Cantonese; Chou, Chô, and Chháu in Min Nan; Chau, Chow in Teochew; and Tháu in Gan.
The Vietnamese surname based on it is now written Tào; the Korean surname is now written 조 and romanized as Jo or Cho; and the Japanese surname which still employs the same Kanji is romanized Sō.
Distribution
At last count, Cao was the 30th-most-common surname in mainland China and the 58th-most-common surname on Taiwan.
In the United States, the romanization Cao is a fairly common surname, ranked 7,425th during the 1990 census but 2,986th during the year 2000 census. It is one of the few Chinese surnames whose pinyin transcription is already more common than other variants. The Wade transcription Tsao was only ranked 16,306th during the 1990 census and 12,580th during the year 2000 one. The Cantonese transcription is actually becoming less common, falling from 7,638th place to 9,925th. The Korean name Cho is more common still than Cao, befitting its frequency in Korea itself, where it makes up about 2% of the South Korean population: see Cho (Korean name).
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