Search results for "English Channel" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
