Houghton Mifflin provides a more leisurely, philosophical escape in " River Horse : A Voyage Across America " ( October ) by William Least-Heat Moon, author of the best-selling " Blue Highways ."
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Karmay suggests that " river horse " ( " klung rta " ) was actually the original concept, as found in the Tibetan " nag rtsis " system of astrology imported from China.
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Hamilton, originally a painter, had a chance meeting with Barney Bright & ndash; the sculptor responsible for the " Derby Clock " and the " River Horse " statue & ndash; that changed Hamilton's life.
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William Least Heat Moon's travelogue " River Horse, " is the only other recent book on tape I can think of that is so riveting and well done that any modification of the original seems unfair.
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Along with economic Bowel L?G?m canal and the River Horse serial C?n Giu?c south, Kinh Tau Hu occupies an important position in terms of strategy and economics, connecting waterways of the Mekong Delta to Cholon, Saigon.
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The modern Scandinavian names are derived from an Old Norse " nykr ", meaning " river horse . " Thus, likely the brook horse preceded the personification of the nix as the " man in the rapids ".
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Samtay further reasons that the drift in understanding from " river horse " to " wind horse " would have been reinforced by associations in Tibet of the " ideal horse " ( " rta chogs " ) with swiftness and wind.
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First, he notes that there has long been confusion over the spelling because the sound produced by the word can be spelt either " klung rta " ( river horse ) or " rlung rta " ( wind horse )-- the first letter is silent in both cases.
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With River Horse Origins awards winner Alessio Cavatore has designed or co-designed many miniatures wargames and board games titles like Deus Vult, Shuuro, Loka, Waterloo-Quelle Affaire !, Terminator Genisys, etc .; not to mention a plethora of expansions and other type of supplements and support material for these systems.
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Heat-Moon piloted the boat, called Nikawa ( Osage for " river horse " ), up the Kill Van Kull between Bayonne, N . J ., and Staten Island, then detoured briefly south to pass under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and into the Atlantic Ocean, so the journey would be from sea to sea.
