Civilians fleeing the town streamed over the St Paul River Bridge, deeper into Liberia.
It stands at an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,300 metres) on a basaltic ridge from which streams flanking the town flow to Lake Tana, 21 miles (34 km) south.
"I believe that we will win!" Reinforcements would arrive soon in this college town — students streaming back after the summer break.
Everyone on the planet is constantly exposed to low levels of background radiation, mostly from naturally-occurring radon gas.Doses vary widely from place to place, from a global average of around 3 milliSieverts (mSv) a year (mostly from exposure to radon, a naturally-occurring gas) up to 260 mSv in Ramsar, an Iranian town whose streams contain large quantities of naturally occurring radium.
This time our road led through the valley behind the town, skirting a stream overhung with cactuses and blooming mimosa.
Andermatt's natural setting is exquisite, the surrounding mountains jostling in so tightly that it's a wonder the town's small stream can pick a way through them.
In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi writes of the Mosque of Abraham in Lajjun, the town's "copious stream", and that it was a "part of the Jordan Province".
Although it took a while for me to understand the world properly, once I'd made it a quarter way through an entire stream of towns, cities and landmarks unravelled as I read.
Though the market downturn has caused the number of condo and town house sales to drop sharply in Harlem, brokers say there have been a small stream of town house sales at significant but reduced prices.
In Lewes, East Sussex, Harvey's seems to run through the town like an underground stream; almost every pub is, in effect, the brewery tap, and when the town flooded in 2000 "Ouse Booze", chemically altered by the flood water, was suddenly on sale everywhere.
