Punting on the Thames.

London is on the Thames.

7,000 pigs into the Thames!

Seven million pigs into the Thames!

I throw it into the Thames.

Sometimes I go down to the Thames.

That goes straight to the North Thames Gas.

London, the capital of England, is on the Thames.

I want a blade of light across the Thames.

The river that flows through London is the Thames.

Who had the clever idea to throw her into the Thames?

They should be in Gravesend by now. I threw them into the Thames.

Other examples to consider. In the U.K., the Thames Barrier protects London from storm surge.

The Millennium Bridge was supposed to be the pride of London a beautiful new footbridge erected across the Thames, first river crossing in over 100 years in London.

And here is the Queen in a dazzling evening dress, followed by her Prince Charming, Philip, as relaxed as if this were the Thames on an English Sunday.

These cables were on the side of the bridge, like if you took a rubber band and stretched it taut across the Thames that's what's holding up this bridge.

Now this gentleman, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designed many great things in his career in the 19th century, including the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol and the Thames tunnel at Rotherhithe.

If we look at a map of London in the 17th century, we can see that its grain, which is coming in from the Thames, along the bottom of this map.

Fine city of Oxford, so what I've done is I've gone and got some water from the River Cherwell, and the River Thames, that flow through here. And this is the water.

And to do that meant creating the flattest gradients that had ever yet been made, which meant building long viaducts across river valleys this is actually the viaduct across the Thames at Maidenhead and long tunnels such as the one at Box, in Wiltshire.

In London, the air around the River Thames is cooler than it is a few blocks away in built up areas. If we plant trees and build water features, we won t just beautify our surroundings, but we ll also cool things down by upwards of 8 C, according to climate models.

For one such area, New York City, an alternative has been proposed massive storm surge barriers across the entrance to the harbor region that could be closed when a major storm approaches. Such structures have been built across the River Thames in London, and a similar barrier project is underway in Venice, Italy.

Such structures have been built across the River Thames in London, and a similar barrier project is underway in Venice, Italy. But, in addition to requiring substantial investment, this approach raises serious questions, reflecting uncertainty about the effects that river flows can have on harbors, the environmental consequences of closing a bay, and the impact on shipping.

Economic historians like Ken Pomeranz rightly point out that before the Industrial Revolution, differences in median standards of living across the high civilizations of Eurasia were relatively small. A peasant in the Yangtze Valley in the late seventeenth century had a different style of life than his or her contemporary peasant in the Thames Valley, but not one that was clearly better or worse.