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1978 - USA Swimming  After the English translation of Thevenot's work became the standard ... The first woman to swim the channel was Gertrude Ederle in 1926. ... In 1983, Ashby Harper swam the channel just a few days before his 66th birthday, making him the oldest. ... The restorative power of water has long been recognized Ancient cultures...
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Dover Solo - Bibliography  Open Water Swimming ; Author: Penny Dean ; Source: Human Kinetics ; Date: 1998 .... Synopsis: Junior Swimmer story of Gertrude Ederle's Channel Swim in 1926. ... Don't ask me if it's cold, Don't ask me if I want to get out, Don't ask me if it hurts ... Synopsis: Ashby Harper becomes the oldest person to swim the English...
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Courage in the Water - Sadlier Connect  ... the pounding wind and tumultuous waves must be taking ... watching Gertrude Ederle attempt to swim the English Channel. Not only is she the .... Early on, Trudy became my inspiration. ... I have been a swimmer ever since, and I have been...
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Jeopary Questions page 1957 - HAITI - TriviaBistro.com  1982: At 65, Ashby Harper became the oldest to swim this body of water; Gertrude Ederle must have been impressed  "Z" ABBREVIATIONS: The Z in ZIP code is...
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Adventuring with Books - Eric - U.S. Department of Education  outstanding language arts educators, Adventuring has always been a ...... 201969-3. Unpaged. (P). Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the.
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Gertrude Ederle, 98; First Woman to Swim Across English Channel ...  Dec 1, 2003 ... 6, 1926. "People said women couldn't swim the channel," Ederle told Associated Press in a 2001 interview marking the 75th ... "I proved they could. ... But Ederle said her well-wishers needed to be buoyed more than she did.
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Ken Jennings Final Jeopardy Clues II Quiz - By camwdw71 - Sporcle  Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim, HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN. Born in 1564, he was employed by Elizabeth...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Aug 18, 2010 ... 23, 1960 the bathyscaphe Trieste made a record dive to the bottom of this trench. Reply . Report Abuse ... #40129 Aug 18, 2010. ` Naturalist John C. Lilly said in June 1960 that this mammal may have a higher IQ than man.
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J! Archive - Show #3258, aired 1998-11-04  For your safety, always swim near one of these that's manned & ... The cornerstone for the first of these was laid on July 23, 1833 in Kirtland,...
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William Golding Flies classic holds true 60 years on - BBC News  Sep 17, 2014 ... William Golding's daughter Judy Carver talks fondly of her author father ... "I think probably when my father turned 40 he thought he hadn't yet hit ... The picture of the white bodies turning over in the green sea is very vivid. ... by RM Ballantyne's classic adventure The Coral Island, published a century before.
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Diana Nyad completes historic Cuba-to-Florida swim | inspiration ...  Diana Nyad, Historic Cuba To Florida, Cuba To Florida Swim, Key West, Completes .... first attempt, at 64 years old, and on her fifth and final try, Diana Nyad swam 110 .... became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage! .... She left the Cuban capital, Havana, on Saturday afternoon and is aiming to...
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Articles about Roger Tory Peterson - tribunedigital-thecourant  An unprecedented sale of the works of artist and ornithologist Roger Tory ... Saturday's auction included more than 300 pieces from the collection of the celebrated Old Lyme naturalist, who died in 1996 at age 87. ... Naturalist Finds Satisfaction In His Field-guide Art ... Gerald S. Mersereau, 77, of Tarriffville, died April 15.
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Diana Nyad, 64, is first person to swim from Cuba to Florida ...  Sep 2, 2013 ... Endurance-swimming grandmother Diana Nyad finally reached shore today following her ... Bashar al-Assad challenges the West to provide proof he used chemical weapons ... Monday, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage. ... She had also tried in 1978.
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Best Director (Oldest Nominee) - Golden Years - Purple Clover  Best Director (Oldest Nominee) ... The oldest winners and nominees in Oscar history. by Michael Dukas ... Hal Holbrook was 82 when he was nominated for "Into the Wild" in 2008. Best ... John Huston, at 79, for "Prizzi's Honor" (1985). Best...
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Gertrude Ederle, 98; First Woman to Swim Across English Channel ...  December 01, 2003|From Associated Press ... The exact cause of death was not announced. ... few were as celebrated as Ederle, who was 20 when she made her historic swim ... "People said women couldn't swim the channel," Ederle told ... in a movie ("Swim, Girl, Swim") and had a song and a dance step named for her.
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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream ...  The opening paragraphs of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone...
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Swimtrek: Crossing The Hellespont - Triathlete Europe  By Paul Moore; Published May 12, 2010; Updated May 14, 2010 at 11:31 am ... The great British Poet Lord Byron recreated that swim on May 3rd 1810 and every year ... the winner, British swimmer Colin Hill, managed the crossing in one hour 27 minutes, ... I was hauled out the water as my hands and feet were so numb I...
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140 Years Ago, Captain Matthew Webb Swam The English Channel ...  Aug 24, 2015 ... But first, 140 years ago today, he swam the English Channel, catapulting ... swimming across one way and crossing back via the precarious Buildwas ... Rather than racing other pros or teaching amateurs, Webb slowly made his hobby more lucrative ... He had been swimming for 21 hours and 45 minutes.
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Florence Chadwick - Queen of the Channel  Florence Chadwick was the first female to complete 2 and 3 crossings and the ... as she had swum France to England in 1950 (Cap Gris Nez to South Foreland). ... Long-distance, open-water swimmer Florence Chadwick (1918-1995) was the ... a world record for the crossing, swimming from Cap Gris-Nez, France to Dover,...
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Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim Across the English ...  Dec 1, 2003 ... Gertrude Ederle, who became first woman to swim across English Channel in 1926, dies at age 98; ... English Channel, Dies at 98. By RICHARD SEVERO DEC. 1, 2003 ... Of the four other men who succeeded before Ederle, none were ... she received in the weeks to come, when somebody wrote a song...
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Florence Chadwick - Queen of the Channel  Florence Chadwick was the first female to complete 2 and 3 crossings and the second ... FOR THE RECORD: First woman to swim the English Channel both ways, 1950 ... the women's record (14:34) set by Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim it. ... Chadwick swam again from England to France (14:42, a new women's...