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...Black Panthers. He was one of the survivors of the USS Leopoldville when it was torpedoed Christmas Eve 1944 in the English Channel. This instilled an ability to lead and protect. He was a quiet man who was compassionate and did not discuss himself...
...to setting and resetting the men's and women's world records over the next two years for swimming across the English Channel, to becoming the first person to swim one mile through 32-degree water to the shore of Antarctica in 2002. Cox...
...women's 25K events are this weekend. Though the roots of the sport can be traced to the first crossings of the English Channel in the late 1800s, it's relatively new in its current form. FINA, swimming's world governing body, started...
...Uruguay declared independence from Brazil. In 1875, Capt. Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, getting from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours. In 1944, during World War II, Paris was liberated...
...World War I Battle of Verdun. In 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris. In 1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court...
...safely around the world for over 20 years. Their routes include the Irish Sea, the North Sea, Scandinavia, the English Channel, Tasmania and Japan. These are all-season, open-ocean and inland routes. Our ferries will be built and operated...
...Honshu and Hokkaido islands, the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark, the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Chunnel under the English Channel and the planned Gibraltar, Bosphorus and Sakhalin tunnels. Incidental, playing on the name Chunnel, the Bering...
...included the Isle of Wight, which they completed last September; the length of Thames, completed in February; the English Channel, completed in April; and the Scilly Isles from Lands End, completed in May. For their last challenge, which they...
...swimmer, said she abided by "English Channel rules," swimming without a...course. Swimming the 21-mile English Channel is like the crown jewel of distance...Angeles. Along with swimming the English Channel, and a race around Manhattan...
...between a mile or two," said Gordy Vernon, who wore a drysuit for the swim. "It's kind of like swimming the English Channel for the average Joe. You can dress any way you want, but after a half-hour something's got to be cold." Dr...