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- and current affairs satellite television channel of the same name, but has ... The original Al Jazeera channel was started in 1996 with a US$150 ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Swedish fjärd (for Baltic waterbodies), English ford, Scottish firth, and ... As a loanword from Norwegian, it is the only word in the English language ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- North Sea, Irish Sea, Celtic Sea, and the English Channel. ... ice age caused the formation of the English Channel, the body of water which ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- and passenger ferry service across the English Channel from Dover, Ramsgate ... *English Channel crossing--22 minutes by Princess Anne MCH SR-N4 Mk3 ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- Lisbon in Portugal, headed for the English Channel. An army of 30,000 men ... during the skirmishes in the English Channel, and accordingly conserved ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- the floodway, which consists of the stream channel and adjacent areas that ... which includes the stream's channel and any adjacent areas that ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 19:34, 9 November 2023
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... On June 15, 1940, the British Government decided that the Channel ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- but interacting bodies of water: the North Channel, the Georgian Bay, Saginaw ... was settled largely by Scottish and English immigrants in the second ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- in 2006, the American network The Travel Channel had begun to show a series ... The United States feed of the Animal Planet, cable-television channel ...16 KB (2,294 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- C.E., Britons had migrated across the English Channel and started to settle ... the geographical proximity across the English Channel of central Europe's ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- many countries around the world. Combined English and other language circulation ... also adopted by the National Geographic Channel. The National Geographic ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- and the fleet of ships guarding the English Channel, it looked as if he ... the ships in London, leaving the English Channel unguarded. Then came ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- army of Duke William of Normandy, and the English army led by King Harold ... after being delayed by a storm in the English Channel, asserted his claim ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- . The BBC introduced a second TV channel, (BBC 2), in 1964, renaming ... funded public service broadcaster Channel 4), especially on satellite ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- of dwarf mammoth found on the Californian Channel Islands (Mammuthus exilis ... with the pygmy mammoth on the outer Channel Islands of California, but ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Bedfordshire, but disappeared over the English Channel and was never found ... struck by RAF bombers over The English Channel after an abortive air ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- of Newfoundland and east of the Laurentian Channel on the North American continental ... is credited to John Cabot in 1497, English and Portuguese vessels are ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:24, 13 September 2021
- the north, Discovery Passage is the main channel connecting the Strait of ... The USGS defines the Strait of Juan de Fuca as a channel. It extends ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- century of such undersea tunnels as the Channel Tunnel connecting England ... *The Channel Tunnel between France and England under the English Channel ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- quot; being the first three letters of the English alphabet. As one of the ... Red affiliates were high-powered, clear-channel stations, heard nationwide ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 00:51, 9 January 2023
- The central back reef is characterized by a deep channel running in ... area is cut by two deep channels, the Main Channel and Victoria Channel, both ...15 KB (2,336 words) - 08:54, 27 September 2023
- southeast of Saint Kitts, across a shallow channel called "The Narrows ... is separated from these three by a deeper channel. Saint Eustatius and Saba ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- Rossella Lorenzi, Mona Lisa's Identity Revealed? Discovery Channel ... Press, 2006. ISBN 0192807250) —in English, "jocund" or ...18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- in England, and migrated across the channel to France. ===Gospels of ... "An English painter was surely responsible for the illustrations ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- Mi'kmaq, Acadian, Irish, and English. It is primarily recognized ... Gaelic culture. The growing influence of English-dominated media from outside ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- be tested. The last female to inherit the English throne was Empress Matilda ... England, making the king the head of the English church, thus beginning the ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- in the West Indies, as well as in the English Channel (BBC; JLL). By 1747, he had become Surgeon of HMS Salisbury in the Channel Fleet ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 21:20, 20 March 2024
- It is located in the English Channel, approximately 12 nautical miles ... island-Channel-Islands-English-Channel Jersey] Encyclopaedia ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- Guadalupe Hidalgo, "along the deepest channel" from its mouth on ... documented in 1582. The use of the modern English name Rio Grande began with ...17 KB (2,584 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- where he endeavored to re-establish English control over Normandy, Anjou ... remaining Plantagenet land across the English Channel. He was acquitted by ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- Dutch city of Hoorn; it became known in English as "Cape Horn," ... were victims of collisions in the busy British channel. ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- Dusty Springfield (April 16, 1939 – March 2, 1999) was an English ... (2002), and a panel of artists on the TV channel VH1 (2007). She is an inductee ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean ... to sea at an early age. He served on an English ship in the War of the Spanish ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- take the British Olympic team across the English Channel on their way to Paris. As noted earlier, the schedule and Liddell's decision were known ...8 KB (1,362 words) - 19:25, 13 February 2024
- and soon enjoyed the lively company of the English maids of honor who attended her. clothing and adopt more streamlined English styles. She liked this idea ...14 KB (2,263 words) - 04:57, 31 July 2023
- and then to England, crossing the English Channel with other refugees ... 1946. With a bibliography of Neurath in English, edited and translated by ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- journals, conferences provide an important channel for the exchange of information ... In some disciplines, such as English and other languages, it is common ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- 8, 1656 – January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer who is best known ... spent observing tides and mapping the English channel at the request of the ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- A native of Goa is referred to as a Goan in English, 'Goenkar ... People speak primarily Konkani while using English and Marathi for ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- founder of Westminster Abbey, where many English monarchs have been crowned. 1161 as part of a conscious development of English national identity was popular ...18 KB (2,742 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- :In British English, “geyser” can also refer to the water heating ... off, but because of the narrowness of the channel, convective cooling of the ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 02:41, 6 December 2022
- The English revolution of 1688 resulted in the supremacy of Parliament ... were forbidden, according to the English Court of the Star Chamber ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- to the thrones of both the Danes and the English although, unlike Harold ... of the Danes, Harthacanute that of the English, who regarded his mother ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- that he broadcast signals across the English Channel and, shortly thereafter ... share a single long-distance telephone channel, making telex the least ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) ... on the British and French sides of the English Channel. Fresnel and Francois ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- It is an important watershed event in English history for a number of ... Bessin, the Cotentin Peninsula, and the Channel Islands. ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- quot;) — which is often referred to in English-speaking countries as the ... The English name "River Plate" is not a mistranslation, ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- much emphasis was put on its inclusion. English publications such as the ... sport's powers: when in 2007, the English FA opted to switch its multi ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- called "acupuncture points" in English, or xue (穴, cavities) ... All the acupuncture points of a channel lie on its external pathway ...25 KB (3,706 words) - 21:55, 23 December 2020
- flotilla, which would require control of the English Channel. ... blockade, and in combination clear the English Channel of Royal Navy ships ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- **endemic to the coasts of Belgium, Britain, the Channel Islands, ... The English word "asparagus" derives from classical Latin ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- within a day's steaming of the English Channel, it seems unlikely in ... a month of attacks on convoys in the English Channel. This period of fighting ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- resulted in the loss of most of the English territories in France. ... but his ship was intercepted in the English Channel, and he was murdered ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- January 1826, was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time ... |England & English Channel, Scottish uprising, 1745 ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- They could not be sure that the language was English; in fact, a change from English to German in the unattended channel usually went unnoticed. They ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- Earl Grey tea is made by several companies, although the English tea ... do not contain any added flavoring. Some English tea dealers added bergamot ...15 KB (2,263 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- separated from the mainland by the main channel draining the lagoon into ... backgrounds of a black elite, composed of English-speakers from Sierra Leone ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
- for Sydney residents were Australian, English, Irish, and Chinese. The ... Most Sydneysiders are native speakers of English; many have a second language ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- dubbed in Tamil, Telugu (as Sivapuram), and English. ==Production== ... between Manoj K Jayan using Riya Sen as a channel for black magic, choreographed ...14 KB (1,924 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- A tin can, also called a tin (especially in British English) or a ... Waste and recycling facts and figures] Channel 4, UK. Retrieved May 22, 2008. ...10 KB (1,694 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- Only Joe "Tug" Wilson, an English fighter, went the four-round ... and was taken back across the English Channel to spend the next few ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 06:07, 3 August 2022
- #039; come from Old French seuwiere ("channel to drain the overflow from ... called sewerage or sewerage system in UK English and sewage system in U.S ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- Irish author and one of the most versatile English writers of the eighteenth ... partnerships in eighteenth-century English letters. Goldsmith became ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- blow air into a duct. This duct acts as a channel bringing the air to a sharp ... such as the oboe, cor anglais (also called English horn) and bassoon, and many ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- the coastal chalks of the English Channel, the Paris Basin, Thy in Jutland (flint mine at Hov), the Sennonian deposits of Rügen, Grimes Graves ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 17:39, 28 March 2024
- and later members of the French and English royal families. ... of England, thus giving impetus to the English reformation. The third Medici ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 04:04, 9 November 2022
- f. tsu harbor + nami waves. - Oxford English Dictionary]. For the plural ... America, and even as far away as the English Channel. On the facing coasts ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- In Australian and South African English, the word dam may refer ... The word dam can be traced back to Middle English, [http://www.bartleby ...36 KB (5,567 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Company laid the first line across the English Channel. It was simply a copper wire coated with gutta-percha, without any other protection. The ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- The major language of Australasia is English, spoken by over 20 million ... immersion schools and a Māori television channel. Despite the fact that te ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- – January 28 1596) was a pre-eminent English navigator, politician, civil ... fleet pursued the Armada up the English Channel in closing darkness ...19 KB (3,035 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- of the underwater telegraph cable under the English Channel the following month. He negotiated a contract with the London Stock Exchange to provide ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- the Catholic Church, and the recovery of English prestige in Europe. Henry ... land that previously belonged to the English crown. Old commercial disputes ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- century, the word came to be used in English to refer to a meeting of ... convince many people that she was indeed a channel for spirits. ...22 KB (3,512 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- campaign—due simultaneously to his English hatred of Jacobins and his ... soon placed in charge of defending the English Channel to prevent this. However ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- by Koi Kunboro in 1240, History Channel (November 23, 2004), video ... * History Channel. video documentary. "Heaven on Earth: Islam ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- to the syllables of languages such as English). The traditional hokku ... #039;s poetic value. The first advocate of English-language hokku was the Japanese ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- 000 for the first flight across the English Channel, and £10,000 for the ... it one of the largest circulations of any English language daily newspaper ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- In 1534, the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago was invaded by the English ... closed, with a 200 m (660 ft) wide channel on the north side and a ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- The modern word "dune" came into English from French, c ... Dunes on the bed of a channel significantly increase flow resistance ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- just west of the Anegada Passage, a major channel connecting the Caribbean ... on Virgin Gorda. Subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- often with the name Open University (in English or in the local language ... because of its reach. In India, the FM Channel is very popular and used ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- Shute lived a comfortable middle class English life, during a period ... * Landfall: A Channel Story (1940): A young RAF pilot is accused of ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- out electron transport. A heme (American English) or haem (British English ... changes in the mitochondrial channel protein, VDAC, and their ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- to the south. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the ... trade across the North Sea and the English Channel. The Romans abandoned ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- is about 40 km away across the Saint Lucia Channel while Saint Vincent sits ... dollar, which is shared with seven other English-speaking countries in the ...18 KB (2,530 words) - 23:24, 1 August 2023
- although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect ... public in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV. ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- of the Old French escrevisse, taken into English as crevise. The largely ... the tail meat, and are good at attracting channel catfish, largemouth bass ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- The boats are rowed through a narrow channel in the reef. This landing ... Tokelauan, a Polynesian language, and English are spoken. Older people ...17 KB (2,411 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- March 22, 2007 Encyclopedia of Ukraine in English He was taught to read by ... Kobzar" by the First National Radio Channel of Ukraine has collected ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- the course of which now lies below the English Channel. ... developed, that overflowed through the English Channel. This caused the Rhine ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- the raw output of the cones: a red-green channel, a blue-yellow channel, ... distinct from blue in Russian and Italian but not English). ...32 KB (4,860 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- the several Acts which severed the English Church from the Roman Catholic ... the English Army as they crossed the English Channel into France, and took ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- (April 7, 1939 – August 31, 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer ... program Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly ...34 KB (4,795 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- this period. It is also referred to as the English Renaissance. Francis Drake ... a Spanish invasion force across the English Channel from the Netherlands ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- are largely inhabited by residents of English ancestry. The northeastern ... created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years. ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- society and bureaucracy at the time. English translations have been published ... for China. He is called Tripitaka in many English versions of the story. Although ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- 1321. Hugh became a pirate in the English Channel, "a sea monster ... * Given-Wilson, Chris. 1987. The English Nobility in the Late Middle ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
- compared to the subsequent lightning channel. When a stepped leader ... of air become a conductive discharge channel as the electrons and positive ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
