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Did you know...

... that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company went out of business less than a decade after completing its headquarters building?
... that fashion model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke was inspired by Grey's Anatomy to get a degree in biomedical engineering?
... that Derby County F.C. chairman Sam Longson gave impromptu press conferences in his pyjamas in the aftermath of Brian Clough's resignation as manager?
... that the protagonist of the novel Long Live the Post Horn! campaigns against a real European Union Directive?
... that while Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing, it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode "The Long Goodbye"?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?

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Selected images

Image 1Yangtze in 1915 (from Yangtze)
Image 2The critically endangered Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians, reaching a maximum length of about 2 m (7 ft). (from Yangtze)
Image 3USS Luzon (from Yangtze)
Image 4The Three Gorges Dam in 2006 (from Yangtze)
Image 5Map of the Yangtze river (facing west) showing the major settlements along its banks (from Yangtze)
Image 6Narrowest point of the Tiger Leaping Gorge near Lijiang, downstream from Shigu (from Yangtze)
Image 7The silver carp is native to the river, but has (like other Asian carp) been spread through large parts of the world with aquaculture. (from Yangtze)
Image 8The first turn of the Yangtze at Shigu (石鼓) in Yunnan, where the river turns 180 degrees from southbound to northbound (from Yangtze)
Image 9USS Long as minesweeper, Oct 1943 (from USS Long)
Image 10The Chinese mitten crab is a commercially important species in the Yangtze, but invasive in other parts of the world. (from Yangtze)
Image 11Cruise boats on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 12A map of the Warring States around 350 BC, showing the former coastline of the Yangtze delta (from Yangtze)
Image 13Barges on the river (from Yangtze)
Image 14 Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan (from Yangtze)
Image 15 Golden Island on the Yangtze near Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, as it was in the mid-19th century (from Yangtze)
Image 16A container carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 17The Imperial Japanese Navy armored cruiser Izumo in Shanghai in 1937. She sank riverboats on the Yangtze in 1941. (from Yangtze)
Image 18The "Great River" (大江) with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire (from Yangtze)
Image 19Afternoon in the jagged mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge (from Yangtze)
Image 20The glaciers of the Tanggula Mountains, the traditional source of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 21A shipyard on the banks of the Yangtze building commercial river freight boats (from Yangtze)
Image 22Qutang Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)
Image 23A vehicle carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 24Wu Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)
Image 25Diagram showing dams planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 26The entirely aquatic Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, reaching up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. (from Yangtze)
Image 27The Tuotuo River, a headwater stream of the Yangtze River, known in Tibetan as Maqu, or the "Red River" (from Yangtze)
Image 28A topographical map of China depicting the Yangtze's steady course and the former route of the Yellow River south of Shandong to the Huai mouth, after its stabilization by the Grand Eunuch Li Xing's public works following the 1494 flood (from Yangtze)
Image 29The two sturgeon species in the Yangtze (here Chinese sturgeon) are both seriously threatened. (from Yangtze)
Image 30Xiling Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)
Image 31The Jinsha, "Golden Sands River", in Yunnan (from Yangtze)
Image 32Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, the world's largest hydroelectric project (from Yangtze)