52) Amazon River. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...water, flowing about 6,275 km (3,900 mi) from northern Peru across northern Brazil to a wide delta on the Atlantic Ocean. The first European to explore it was probably...

53) Rosetta stone. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...that was discovered in 1799 near Rosetta, a town of northern Egypt in the Nile River delta, and provided the key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics....

54) Xingu. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1,979 km (1,230 mi) generally northward to the Amazon River at the head of the Amazon delta....

55) Huang He. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...to the Bo Hai. It is named for the vast quantities of yellow silt it carries to its delta. The river is sometimes called China's Sorrow because of the devastating...

56) Brahmaputra. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...mi) east then south and west through northeast India to join the Ganges River and form a vast delta in central Bangladesh....

57) Mississippi River. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...about 3,781 km (2,350 mi) generally southward to enter the Gulf of Mexico through a huge delta in southeast Louisiana. Probably discovered by Hernando de Soto in...

58) Red River. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...and flowing about 1,175 km (730 mi) generally south through northern Vietnam to a fertile delta on the Gulf of Tonkin. 2. A river of the south-central United States...

59) ticket. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...to an end: He went to Washington to become press secretary it was his ticket out of the Delta (Nicholas Lamann). Inflected forms: tickˇetˇed, tickˇetˇing, tickˇets1....

60) Mississippi. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...big river. The French took the name with them as they went down Big River to its delta, and it superseded all the other names for Big River used by local Indian tribes...