1) From far away, the region east of the Oder River blends into a single space of collapsing living standards.

2) Thanks to its location on the Oder River and numerous bridges, Wroclaw is often called the second European Venice.

3) A city of north-central Czechoslovakia near the Oder River. It is a manufacturing center in a coal-mining area. Population, 325, 431.

4) A city of eastern Germany on the Oder River and the Polish border.

5) DROWNING GNOME: Water from the Oder River covered the garden at a house in Brandenburg, Germany, near the border with Poland Friday.

6) The East Germanic tribes settled east of the Oder River, but their languages have long since become extinct.

7) A city of north-central Czechoslovakia near the Oder River. It is a manufacturing center in a coal-mining area. Population, 325,(http:///oder river.html)43.

8) Manteuffel had been forced back to positions that extended 95 miles from Stettin to the junction of the Hohenzollern Canal and the Oder River.

9) A garden gnome sits just above flood waters from the Oder river near the Polish border.

10) A river, about 7'4 km (475 mi) long, rising in south-central Poland northwest of Cracow and flowing generally north and west to the Oder River.

11) A river, about 225 km (40 mi) long, rising in northwest Czechoslovakia and flowing generally north along the border of Germany and Poland to the Oder River.