"American market, was recorded in 1975 but was not released until 2000 when it was included on the cassette version of ""I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday"". In January 1974, Mike Batt appeared on an edition of Cilla Black's television series as Orinoco, having been led onstage by guest Bernard Cribbins, to plug ""The Wombling Song"". Consequently, when the single charted, the ""band"" was invited to perform on ""Top of the Pops"". Additional Womble suits were hastily made for the live performance. When appearing as a band, the Wombles were always played by experienced musicians in"
"River, the Aux Sables River, the Vermilion River and the Wakonassin River. The river's name and the name of the nearby towns of Espanola and Spanish are said to be due to French explorers and Jesuit priests encountering Ojibwe peoples speaking Spanish in the area, apparently as a result of a Spanish woman having been taken captive during an expedition far to the south. The Lower Spanish River Forest houses the world's oldest red pine and white pine forests, and much of that is under provincial protection, in the form of provincial parks and reclamation acts. This river has been"
"(Note: this list may be incomplete) North Carolina South Carolina Catawba River The Catawba River (named after the Native American tribes that first settled on the banks) originates in Western North Carolina and the name of the river changes to the Wateree River in South Carolina. The river is approximately 220 miles (350 km) long. It rises in the Appalachian Mountains and drains into the Piedmont, where it has been impounded through a series of reservoirs for flood control and generation of hydroelectricity. The river is named after the Catawba tribe of Native Americans. In their Siouan language, they identified"
"Solomon River The Solomon River, often referred to as the ""Solomon Fork"", is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River. The Native name for the river was Nepaholla, meaning ""Water on the Hill"" in reference to Waconda Spring which was located in the river valley. In 1744, French explorers named the river ""Salmon"", later corrupted into ""Solomon"", after Edme Gatien de Salmon, a prominent colonial official of French Louisiana at the time. Other names for"
"Catawba River The Catawba River (named after the Native American tribes that first settled on the banks) originates in Western North Carolina and the name of the river changes to the Wateree River in South Carolina. The river is approximately 220 miles (350 km) long. It rises in the Appalachian Mountains and drains into the Piedmont, where it has been impounded through a series of reservoirs for flood control and generation of hydroelectricity. The river is named after the Catawba tribe of Native Americans. In their Siouan language, they identified as the ""Kawahcatawbas,"" ""the people of the river"". It rises"
"Saponas. The Waccamaws were a peaceful tribe, and when the European immigrants began to show up they withdrew and joined the Catawba people further west, and some, at least, joined the Seminoles in Florida. It is said that the celebrated chief of the Seminoles, Osceola, was born on the Waccamaw River, and tradition says that his father was John Powell, a white man living in what is now the area of Columbus County. During the Revolutionary War, men from the area joined with the rebels in the Battle of Brown Marsh. The Loyalists won, marking the high point of their"
"in the Central United States. The southern terminus of the route is at the United States–Mexico border in Presidio, Texas. Sabula was established in 1835 when, according to legend, Isaac Dorman crossed the river from the Illinois side on a log and decided to settle on the present site of Sabula. Sabula is a name of French origin meaning ""sand""; this refers to the sandy soil of the area. In the late 19th century the principal industries in the community included a large ""pearl button"" factory—which produced buttons from clam shells harvested from large clam beds located in the river"
"Native American mythology tells the story of two Pacific Northwest Native American brothers – Enumclaw and Kapoonis – whose father turned them into thunder and lightning respectively. The City of Enumclaw says the name means ""thundering noise"". One of the first white settlers in south King County was Allen L. Porter. In 1853, he claimed a parcel on the White River, about three miles (5 km) west of the site of Enumclaw. He maintained a troubled relationship with the local Smalkamish tribe (some of the ancestors of the Muckleshoot tribe) for some time, and in 1855 his cabin was burned"
"Wattamolla Wattamolla is the name of a cove, lagoon, and beach on the New South Wales coast south of Sydney, within the Royal National Park. Wattamolla is the local Aboriginal name of the area, meaning ""place near running water"". That name was recorded as Watta-Mowlee by Matthew Flinders, but is today spelt Wattamolla. Flinders, George Bass and a boy, William Martin were exploring in a small boat named ""Tom Thumb"" when, on the evening of 29 March 1796, a southerly gale (known as a southerly buster in Sydney), forced them to seek shelter. They had been travelling northwards after having"
"Quercus gambelii Quercus gambelii, with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountain elevations of western North America. It is also regionally called scrub oak, oak brush, and white oak. As the Gambel oak and ""Quercus gambelii"", it was named after the American naturalist William Gambel (1823–1849). The natural range of ""Quercus gambelii"" is centered in the western United States and northwestern Mexico, in the states of Arizona, Chihuahua, Colorado, New Mexico, Sonora, and Utah. It also extends into Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, the Oklahoma Panhandle,"
"a small stream, lying in the fertile lands between the North and South Canadian Rivers. The steady rush of water over the falls gave rise to the name ""We-Wo-Ka"" – meaning ""Barking Water"" in the Mvskoke (Seminole) language. Other historians claim he named the settlement ""Wewokea"" after Osceola's second wife who was of both Seminole and African ancestry. In autumn of 1849, Horse and Seminole chief Wild Cat led Seminole families into Mexico to avoid the attempts of slavers to raid families and capture people of African descent. The Mexican government offered Wild Cat, Horse and other Seminoles land in"
"Columbia River just north of today's Portland, Oregon. From this headquarters, British-employed fur trappers spread throughout the Pacific Northwest, extending as far east as the Rocky Mountains and, by using the Siskiyou Trail, as far south as California's Central Valley. After the Spanish possession now known as Mexico (first known as ""América Septentrional"" or ""Northern America"") won its War of Independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico initially retained Spain's missions and settlements along the Pacific coast, and continued Spain's claims to territory as far north as today's border between California and Oregon. In the 1830s, Mexico ended Church control of"
"River warbler The river warbler (""Locustella fluviatilis"") is an Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus ""Locustella"". It breeds in east and central Europe into western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in east Africa. The genus name ""Locustella"" is from Latin and is a diminutive of ""locusta"", ""grasshopper"". This refers to the song of the common grasshopper warbler and some others in this genus. The specific ""fluviatilis"" is Latin for ""of a river"". This small passerine bird is a species found in dense deciduous vegetation close to water in bogs or near a river. Five to seven eggs are"
"at the time, the Comal River was often called the Guadalupe, and part of the Guadalupe often called San Ybón. In 1808, the Spanish established San Marcos de Neve, just south of present-day San Marcos. They had friendly relations with the Tonkawa Indians, but the hostile Comanche tribe forced them to leave in 1812. In 1998 and 2015, the river was affected by severe flooding. San Marcos hosts many events on the San Marcos River. The Texas Water Safari is an event that has run every year since its start in 1963 that uses canoe powered only by human muscle."
"(AEWA) applies. Whimbrel The whimbrel (""Numenius phaeopus"") is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Asia and Europe as far south as Scotland. The whimbrel is a migratory bird wintering on coasts in Africa, southern North America, South America, and South Asia into Australasia. It is also a coastal bird during migration. It is fairly gregarious outside the breeding season. This is a fairly large wader though mid-sized as a member of the curlew genus. The English name is imitative of the bird's"
"the Pecos River to allow his cowboy to get help. Although Loving managed to escape the onslaught, he was mortally wounded and died soon after. Goodnight on the other hand, also had to face raids along the way, once being wounded during an attack together with another fellow cowboy. These attacks affected the booming Texas economy. By the end of the 1860s, the Comanches had driven much of the livestock businesses out of West Texas. On December 19, 1868 a large Comanche and Kiowa band faced a company of 10 Cavalry (maj. M.H. Kidd) on the way from Fort Arbuckle"
"river. The shaman was not able to fully transform back into a human, and became an alligator with a human head. The Poira, whose name is interchangeable with the Mohan, is described by others as an Indian warlock who lives on the in Tolima, Colombia. The Poira is also believed to be a small, naked invisible boy or adult who can also appear formless or as a black bear. Mohan (legendary) The Muan, Moan or Mohan (moo-ahn), sometimes also known as Poira is a name applied to several mythological or otherwise supernatural creatures in South and Central American folklore. The"
"River. Today, however, what was once known as the east fork is now designated as the Tombigbee. The river flows east through Aberdeen Lake near Aberdeen, and Columbus Lake near Columbus. It flows through Aliceville Lake on the Mississippi-Alabama border, then generally SSE across western Alabama in a highly meandering course, past Gainesville and Demopolis, where it is joined from the northeast by the Black Warrior River. South of Demopolis it flows generally south across southwestern Alabama, past Jackson. It joins the Alabama from the north on the Mobile-Baldwin county line, approximately 30 mi (50 km) north of Mobile, to"
"River, using the Hoback River as a passage to the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River. Hoback River The Hoback River, once called the Fall River, is an approximately -long tributary of the Snake River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It heads in the northern Wyoming Range of Wyoming and flows north and then east through the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Its largest tributary is its South Fork, which joins the Hoback about nine miles downstream of its head as it turns northeast and continues to U.S. Route 191. It then turns northwest, where it spreads onto a"
"may be produced for long periods. River warbler The river warbler (""Locustella fluviatilis"") is an Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus ""Locustella"". It breeds in east and central Europe into western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in east Africa. The genus name ""Locustella"" is from Latin and is a diminutive of ""locusta"", ""grasshopper"". This refers to the song of the common grasshopper warbler and some others in this genus. The specific ""fluviatilis"" is Latin for ""of a river"". This small passerine bird is a species found in dense deciduous vegetation close to water in bogs or near a"
"also fell into the river. Before they were drowned, the daughter was transformed into a dolphin and the general into a porpoise. Amazon river dolphins, known by the natives as the boto, encantados or toninas, are very prevalent in the mythology of the native South Americans. They are often characterized in mythology with superior musical ability, seductiveness and love of sex that often results in illegitimate children, and attraction to parties. Despite the fact that the Encante are said to come from a utopia full of wealth and without pain or death, the encantados crave the pleasures and hardships of"
"nest with their parents within hours of hatching. There is an annual hunt for this bird in some places. The hunting season usually lasts from October to February. Gambel's quail The Gambel's quail (""Callipepla gambelii"") is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It inhabits the desert regions of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California. The Gambel's quail is named in honor of William Gambel, a 19th-century naturalist and explorer of the Southwestern United States. The species is not as widely"
"coast across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. In the late 1830s and 1840s, the Werribee River was the scene of conflicts between the Wautharong people and the European colonisers. The squatter Charles Franks and a shepherd were speared to death near Mount Cottrell in July 1836. This resulted in a punitive party led by John Batman which came upon a large party of aborigines and indiscriminately shot and killed at least ten. There are accounts of arsenic laced flour being given to local aborigines. In 1851, a substantial timber bridge was built to cross the Werribee"
"Bighorn River The Bighorn River is a tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately long, in the states of Wyoming and Montana in the western United States. The river was named in 1805 by fur trader François Larocque for the bighorn sheep he saw along its banks as he explored the Yellowstone. The upper reaches of the Bighorn, south of the Owl Creek Mountains in Wyoming, are known as the Wind River. The two rivers are sometimes referred to as the Wind/Bighorn. The Wind River officially becomes the Bighorn River at the Wedding of the Waters, on the north side of the"
"until the mid-19th century, long stretches of the Colorado and Green rivers between Wyoming and Nevada remained largely unexplored due to their remote location and dangers of navigation. Because of the dramatic drop in elevation of the two rivers, there were rumors of huge waterfalls and violent rapids, and Native American tales strengthened their credibility. In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell led an expedition from Green River Station in Wyoming, aiming to run the two rivers all the way down to St. Thomas, Nevada, near present-day Hoover Dam. Powell and nine men – none of whom had"
"the Gaborone Dam. The Chobe River lies to the north, providing a boundary between Botswana and Namibia's Zambezi Region. The Chobe River meets with the Zambezi River at a place called Kazungula (meaning a small sausage tree, a point where Sebitwane and his Makololo tribe crossed the Zambezi into Zambia). Botswana has diverse areas of wildlife habitat. In addition to the delta and desert areas, there are grasslands and savannas, where blue wildebeest, antelopes, and other mammals and birds are found. Northern Botswana has one of the few remaining large populations of the endangered African wild dog. Chobe National Park,"
"forced the Comanche to acknowledge the Arkansas River as their northern border. Moreover, the Comanche undertook extensive commercial enterprises to the Pueblo in New Mexico and to the Spanish settlements around San Antonio, Texas. In this trade of guns, horses, captives and other goods the Comancheros (Pueblo and New Mexico traders) acted as intermediaries. The Ciboleros also competed against the Comanche in the context of bison hunting. The Comanche language became the Lingua franca of the Southern Plains. Comancheria The Comancheria (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') is the region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the"
"of which it is the largest northern tributary. The name ""Wabash"" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, ""Ouabache."" French traders named the river after the native Miami tribe's word for the river. The Wabash Railroad resulted from numerous mergers or acquisitions as shown by this table: The name Wabash Railroad or Wabash Railway may refer to various corporate entities formed over the years using one or the other of these two names. The first railroad to use only Wabash and no other city in its name was the Wabash Railway in January 1877 which was"
"merges with the Ohio River at Smithland, northeast of Paducah. The explorer Thomas Walker of Virginia in 1758 named the river, but whether for the Duke of Cumberland or the English county of Cumberland is not known. The Cumberland River was called ""Wasioto"" by the Shawnee Native Americans, who lived in this area. French traders called it the ""Riviere des Chaouanons"", or ""River of the Shawnee"" for this association. The river was also known as the ""Shawnee River"" (or ""Shawanoe River"") for years after Walker's trip. Important first as a passage for hunters and settlers, the Cumberland River also supported"
"Gambel's quail The Gambel's quail (""Callipepla gambelii"") is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It inhabits the desert regions of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California. The Gambel's quail is named in honor of William Gambel, a 19th-century naturalist and explorer of the Southwestern United States. The species is not as widely introduced as the related California quail. It was however released on San Clemente Island in 1912 by Charles T. Howland et al., where it is currently still established."
"River with the Grand River in what is now Canyonlands National Park in Utah. The Macomb party designated the confluence as the source of the Colorado River. On April 12, 1861, South Carolina artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter to start the American Civil War. While many gold seekers held sympathies for the Confederacy, the vast majority remained fiercely loyal to the Union cause. In 1862, a force of Texas cavalry invaded the Territory of New Mexico and captured Santa Fe on March 10. The object of this Western Campaign was to seize or disrupt the gold fields of Colorado"
"near its confluence with the Washita River. The fort was named in honor of Howell Cobb, then Secretary of the Treasury. In 1973, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Several small tribes, including the Anadarko, Caddo, Tonkawa and Penateka Comanche had made peace with the government of Texas in 1854. In return, the Texas Legislature had created two reserves of land along the Brazos River. However, the Northern Comanche, more warlike people who dominated the area north of the Red River, continued to raid white settlements in northern Texas. The white settlers regarded the presence"
"of Rio Belén, meaning Bethlehem, to what the indigenous people called Yebra river. The admiral entrusted his brother, Bartholomew Columbus, to explore around the country, which resulted in an alliance with the Ngöbe under Quibían, who paid a visit to Columbus' ships. Columbus decided to found a settlement near the mouth of the river, including several houses made of palm trees to leave provisions and people. The settlement was given the name Santa María de Belén and was to be headed by Don Bartholomew with 80 men, while Columbus returned to Spain in search of reinforcements to continue the subjugation"