| On the riverboats, large communal kitchens serve tea and bread for breakfast and rice and beans for lunch and dinner. |
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| Ted Joans was born in Cairo, Illinois, on 4 July 1928, to African American entertainers working on Mississippi riverboats. |
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| You can see the gears that turned to pivot the enormous centre section of the bridge into the air, allowing riverboats to pass underneath. |
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| When the war ended these same itinerants took to the roads and even to flat-bottomed riverboats, which were both shop and home. |
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| Visit the observation decks at four area lock and dams to watch barges and riverboats pass through. |
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| Lincoln's status as a great patenter, incidentally, stems from a single patent for a device for lifting riverboats over shoals. |
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| Some require riverboats to cast off from shore before gaming can begin. |
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| Once there they could take a gaiola, those were small riverboats used by the local inhabitants. |
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| It contains rules applicable to channels and rivers, riverboats, health, the environment, captains, and crews. |
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| Tarot Tour's fleet of tourist buses, its riverboats on the Nile and its dozen hotels on the Red Sea coast have emptied out. |
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| A spot where many cyclists and hikers board or leave the riverboats linking Biel and Solothurn. |
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| Except, of course, that calliopes are intimately associated with riverboats, and New Orleans was once the mother of all riverboat ports. |
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| But close to 10,000 people are barred for life from gambling on the riverboats. |
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| Ultimately the riverboats did not become the mode of choice to move grain from the prairies. |
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| At the same time, other police officers took the bateau-mouche by storm from fast riverboats. |
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| We did tractor beam the craft into the river and get assistance to it by sending code to the operators of the surrounding riverboats. |
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| A cruise along river Kemijoki with traditional riverboats, lunch served from a special kitchen boat, maybe some live music too? |
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| The Enkhuizen municipality decided, in 1998, to build a new harbour for large riverboats and tourist vessels. |
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| A local grocer explained how his profits fell off sharply when the riverboats came to town. |
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| Take one of the many bateaux-mouche riverboats plying the Seine and get carried away by the magic of the City of Lights. |
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| The advent of several casinos, two on riverboats and one on dry land, brought some hope of revival to Greenville. |
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| The Indiana Gaming Commission has licensed nine riverboats, and seven are presently in full operation. |
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| In later years, he headed out to the Yukon Territory, where he dealt cards, prospected for gold, ran riverboats, and m.c.'d the cancan show at Diamond Tooth Gertie's casino. |
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| Atlantic City legalised the activity in 1971, and in the early 1990s a succession of new casinos sprung up in unlikely locations ranging from Mississippi riverboats to Indian reservations. |
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| But whereas the other states allowed gambling only on riverboats, Mississippi added an ingenious loophole that let gambling halls be constructed on barges that float in moats. |
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| The River Oueme has long open expanses and is navigable for relatively large riverboats over long sections, although not over its complete length in the country. |
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| From the first struggling passage of the New Racket in 1869 to the last sailing of the S. S. Klondike in 1955 steam powered riverboats were a common sight on the Yukon River. |
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| Today, the S. S. Klondike is one of Canada's few remaining steam-powered paddlewheelers, chosen to represent the many riverboats that played such a critical role in the events that shaped modern Yukon and Canadian society. |
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| It should also be noted that the order book for 2007 includes the second phase of work started in 2006 for the floating moorings for riverboats in the middle of the Scheldt River, at Lillo, in the Antwerp harbour region. |
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| The service provided by the Company includes the provision of sightseeing tours by passenger-carrying vehicles, passenger-carrying riverboats, and guided tours on foot. |
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| He started out by building flat-keel riverboats out of fiberglass, and was soon joined by his young son, Umberto, who concentrated on designing and building new types of canoe intended for use in competitions. |
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| The number of passengers on the riverboats in Paris increased by over 70 per cent during the two-day event while the number of people visiting heritage sites throughout France was estimated at 8 million. |
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| Then Louis' horn rose in harsh, elated notes, phrases he'd invented on riverboats and ratty blues tonks, using all the sinews of his face and muscle of his tongue. |
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| Eleven historic riverboats, including the Delta Queen, will converge along the Mississippi Riverfront in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Oct. |
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| The bidders for Emerald Casino are expected to include developers seeking to locate riverboats in Rosemont, Des Plaines and Waukegan. |
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| The Soviet Reds had the Amur Flotilla which patrolled the river on sequestered riverboats. |
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| Jackpot and Players have filed gaming applications in all jurisdictions where Players operates riverboats. |
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| But the arrival of riverboats in Shreveport and Bossier City in 1994 dealt a serious blow to horse racing. |
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| It joins Vantage's fleet of European riverboats and supports its worldwide program of river cruises in Europe, China, Russia, the Amazon, and the Nile. |
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| Our opponents have been quite vocal in telling Muscatine voters that riverboats bring no economic benefits, but city leaders throughout Iowa would disagree. |
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| Charles Riverfront Station and President Casino Riverboats are the first riverboat gaming operations to open in Missouri. |
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