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· There are two glacier top mountains in the Swiss Alps that primarily feed the river. One is named Hinter Rhine and the other is the Vorder Rhine which were the basis for being named the Rhine River.

· In 1986 the river was severely polluted by a chemical factory fire, within 10 days the pollution had travelled the length of the Rhine and into the North Sea.

· During early historic times, Germanic tribes settled on either side of the lower Rhine and Celts alongside its upper sides.

· The Rhine River is a name which stems from a Celtic word meaning "raging flow."

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