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the longest rivers

This is a top 10 list of the world's longest rivers, considering the length from its source to mouth. Source: Various. 01. Nile – 6,695 km — East and North Africa 02. Amazon – 6,516 km — South America 03. Yangtze – 6,380 km — China 04. Mississippi-Missouri – 5,969 km — USA 05. Yenisei – 5,539 km — Siberia 06. Yellow River – 5,464 km — China 07. Ob – 5,410 km — Siberia 08. Paraná-Rio – 4,880 km — South America 09. Congo – 4,700 km — Central Africa 10. Amur-Argun – 4,440 km — North Asia 11. Lena – 4,400 km — Russia

age of empires - II: the conquerors expansion

This video featuring Age of Empires 2 - The Conquerors is a work of inspiration. It is also a kind of fond remembrance for those all-nighters I did on this amazing game around 2000, 2001 and once again later in 2006 (basically my teenage and post-teenage years). The screenshot grabs in this video are from 2006 summer, when I played and enjoyed the campaigns night after night in Cairo. During the day I used to volunteer at WFP. One morning in a train to Maadi (in barely-slept mood after one such all-nighter with the game), I thought of creating a video using in-game cinematic. Instead of using the saved screen grabs, I had planned to use actual gameplay footage. The original idea was to capture the screen recording of the gameplay, interpolate the frames to around 30fps (I still had to figure out how), and upscale the video resolution to 720p, the go-to resolution of the time. :) It simply seemed too ambitious with the machine I had with me. At that time, I had a desktop computer with N