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1. Alderney definition: an island in the English Channel
2. He is over the English Channel and under way.
3. “Blériot XI” monoplane, first to cross English Channel, 1909
4. He is the only American that has swum across the English Channel.
5. Louis Bleriot flew his monoplane across the English Channel, in 5 minutes.
6. 19 July – Hubert Latham makes the first attempt to cross the English Channel.
7. 12 He set out to break the record for the English Channel swim.
8. 2 World War II: German forces , under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
9. April 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
10. 20 She is the first woman who navigates a sail crossing the English Channel.
11. We managed to hold them back at the English Channel, but for how long?
12. Brighton is a seaside resort on the English Channel, 51 miles south of central London
13. 12 1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
14. The prominence of Beachy Head has made it a landmark for sailors in the English Channel.
15. The Spanish fleet entered the English Channel and was met by a fleet of English ships.
16. The site dates back to the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Period when the English Channel didn't exist.
17. As a countermeasure the Roman administration created a separate military district covering both sides of the English Channel.
18. The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the Channel Islands.
19. So the unwieldy fleet continued its voyage and finally reached the English Channel two months after leaving Lisbon.
20. With a stretch of cliffs and beaches facing the English Channel, Calvados boasts colourful sunsets and unique port towns
21. July 10 – The Battle of Britain commences with the first German attacks on British convoys in the English Channel.
22. In July 1940 Codrington was deployed out of Dover for convoy defence and patrol duties in the English Channel.
23. They connected the dense forests of Gaul with Greek cities and linked the Euphrates River with the English Channel.
24. Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French Balloonist who, with the American physician John Jeffries, made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel
25. Near Holbeton it becomes a ria and empties into the English Channel in Bigbury Bay, between the rivers Yealm and Avon.
26. The abalone is called awabi in Japan, muttonfish in Australia, and ormer on the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel.
27. Brittany is the westernmost region of France, surrounded by the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south
28. Artois (ärtwä`), region and former province, in Pas-de-Calais dept., N France, near the English Channel, between Picardy and Flanders
29. Edward crossed the English Channel to France in January, leaving Gaveston as his custos regni in charge of the kingdom in his absence.
30. Alderney definition: one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel: separated from the French coast by a Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
31. Blanchard:French aeronaut who was the first to cross the English Channel by balloon (17. He invented and demonstrated a parachute the same year.
32. Just one year later, Jean-Pierre-François Blanchard successfully crossed the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon carrying the world’s first airmail letters.
33. 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
34. Brisling: A clupeoid fish, Sardinella pilchardus , caught in great numbers in the English Channel, in the seas of Spain and Portugal, and in the Mediterranean
35. Albinus had been proclaimed emperor and gone into open revolt, crossed the English Channel and gained the support of many aristocrats from Gaul and Spain
36. To put it another way, buying a large telescope to start out in Astrophotography is like trying to swim the English Channel after one swimming lesson
37. They comprise three independently administered jurisdictions: the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
38. All of Belgium is drained into the North Sea, except the municipality of Momignies (Macquenoise), which is drained by the Oise river into the English Channel.
39. French Coastguards on Monday rescued 12 migrants trying to cross the English Channel, a few kilometers off the coast of the port of Calais in northern France, local authorities said.
40. The first successful aerial crossing of the English Channel occurred on January 7, 1785, in a gas balloon piloted by French Balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American Balloonist John Jeffries
41. He became inspired to try, and left his job to begin training, first at Lambeth Baths, then in the cold waters of the Thames, the English Channel and Hollingworth Lake.
42. France is located in Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; and bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain.
43. Alderney, French Aurigny, one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel, separated from the Normandy coast (Cap de la Hague) by the dangerously swift 10-mile (16-km) Race of Alderney.
44. Only when he felt ready (and only when Maximian finally came to relieve him at the Rhine frontier) did he assemble two invasion fleets with the intent of crossing the English Channel.
45. So they were then able to tell that both wetsuits were bought by the same customer at the same time, October 7, 2014, in the French city of Calais by the English Channel.
46. The Airfoil used on the Solar Challenger, an aircraft that flew across the English Channel on solar power, was designed with an totally flat upper surface so that solar cells could be easily mounted
47. This fleet of 130 ships, carrying more than 24,000 men, sailed up the English Channel, only to suffer defeat by the British navy and to fall victim to contrary winds and fierce Atlantic storms.
48. The attacks in 820 and 834 were unrelated and relatively minor, and more systematic raiding did not begin until the mid-830s, with the activity alternating between the two sides of the English Channel.
49. The high quantities of marine alluvial deposits (coastal sediment deposited by the English Channel) and fluvial deposits, mainly confined to the Baie des Veys and, its associated river valleys, constitute the key characteristics of the soil.
50. Brittany lies just across the English Channel from Wales, and for well over a thousand years there was a great deal of commerce between the two countries, with dogs surely being a part of that trade.