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Article: Man crosses English Channel in homemade wing
Oakland Tribune;  September 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... kerosene and nothing below him but the cold waters of the English Channel. And it wasn't even another stupid David Blaine stunt ... case for a possible misdemeanor charge, office spokesman Frank Mateljan said. The rapper, 31, was arrested on a felony ...

Article: Mark channels his energy ; Exmouth's Mark Westaway has begun his ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  May 17, 2008 ;     296 words ... ... Mark Westaway has begun his final build up to swimming the English Channel in August. Westaway, a member of Exmouth Swimming and Lifesaving Society, is being trained by swimmer Alan Franks and Club Open Water secretary Barry Westaway. The swimmer ...

Article: Journey down the world's longest underwater tunnel. (boring the ...
Popular Science;  June 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Light Ship flash every 20 seconds, nine miles out across the English Channel. Put yourself a mile beyond it. Now, if you can, imagine ... itself, and, two, it holds out the sea. Tunnel expert Frank Davidson, who heads MIT's Macroengineering Research Group ...

Article: ACTIVE SPORT: FREEZE-STYLE SWIMMING Judith Palmer braves the ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 29, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... is when she's going to spend Boxing Day swimming in the English Channel. I'd always rather fancied spending Christmas on the beach ... timers. "Once was enough for me," admits hut caretaker Frank, leaning on his stick. "Besides, I've got a chest you ...

Article: Liberte, Egalite, Mediocrite; A Tale of Two Cities: The Musical ...
New York;  September 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... million times less cynical than, sya, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Frank Wildhorn's low-cal gloss on Les Miserables. Then again ... the hands of dramatist-critic Robert Brustein, whose The English Channel--now unfolding on the tiny Abingdon Theatre stage--is ...

Article: Putting the pleasure in cruising ; With its emphasis on culinary ...
Evening Post (Bristol UK);  August 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... board for an hors d'oeuvre four-day cruise up and down the English Channel which seem to be becoming more and more popular as a way of ... Greenhouse Spa, down in the bowels of the ship chief engineer Frank de Vries was just as proud of his 86,000 hp engines which ...

Article: Suspend rivalry: One horse hurt; Better Talk Now to miss race vs. ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... off between Better Talk Now and English Channel is off. This was becoming to horse ... that severe but Better Talk Now vs. English Channel was certainly becoming a serious rivalry ... 2 -mile Sword Dancer, meaning English Channel will be a huge favorite against the ...