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Mildred then turns to a page in the book that has the poem Dover Beach on it and assures that none of her friends will understand any of the words.
After Montag scares her friends away by reading Dover Beach and unable to live with someone who has been hoarding books, Mildred betrays Montag by reporting him to the firemen and abandoning him.
The judge in the Dover trial wrote " By defining irreducible complexity in the way that he has, Professor Behe attempts to exclude the phenomenon of exaptation by definitional fiat, ignoring as he does so abundant evidence which refutes his argument.
The town has been inhabited since the Stone Age according to archeological finds, and Dover is one of only a few places in Britain – London and Cornwall being other examples – to have a corresponding name in the French language, Douvres.
Dover ’ s history, because of its proximity to France, has always been of great strategic importance to Britain.
The higher land on either side of the valley – the Western Heights and the eastern high point on which Dover Castle stands – has been adapted to perform the function of protection against invaders.
Dover has two long distance footpaths: the Saxon Shore Way and the North Downs Way.
Dover has one hospital, Buckland Hospital located in a former Victorian workhouse on Coombe Valley Road.
Dover has two paid for newspapers, the Dover Express ( published by Kent Regional News and Media ) and the Dover Mercury ( published by the KM Group ).
Dover has one local commercial radio station, KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country, broadcasting to Dover on 106. 8FM.
Dover has three twin towns:
Lionel recovers Lucy ( whose mother has died ), and the party reaches Dover en route to France.
Dover has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ) with four distinct seasons.
Dover also has satellite locations of the University of Delaware and Wilmington University.
Arthur Treacher has a cameo as the man with the donkey who steals young David's money, forcing him to walk from London to Dover.
In their 1928 edition of the play for the New Shakespeare, Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson wholeheartedly supported Alexander's theory, which has remained popular ever since.
Sandwich has been bypassed by the A256 road, which connects the Thanet towns to Dover.
Dunkirk has a ferry connection with Dover, England.
Smith sentimentally and poignantly sings the opening lines of " White Cliffs of Dover ", and " We'll Meet Again ", and then ( to avoid lowering the tone ) has to interrupt Jones when he begins to sing, " Hitler has only got one ..."
Dover is a small town near Russellville ; it has several churches, a grocery store and a hardware store.

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In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the white cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.
The design of Framlingham's defences is similar in many ways to Henry II's innovative work at Dover and Orford.
The event was the subject of great public interest: it was reported that there were 10, 000 visitors at Calais, and a similar crowd gathered at Dover, and the Marconi Company set up a special radio link for the occasion, with one station on Cap Blanc Nez at Sangatte and the other on the roof of the Lord Warden Hotel in Dover.
These harbours were both of a similar size to Dover harbour.
During Apollo, the ILC Dover-produced A7L used the life support backpack, helmet, and locking rings supplied by Hamilton United, but originally, ILC Dover was to just supply the arms and legs of the suit, a similar process that is still going on today.
The creature has been speculated by various ufologists that the Dover Demon was a Grey, due to its similar appearance.
* South Foreland-site of a similar battery east of Dover
Where the chalk hills meet the sea there are white cliffs such as the White Cliffs of Dover, Seven Sisters and The Needles on the Isle of Wight The chalk would once have extended across the English Channel and similar cliff features can be found on the French coast.
Along with the consolidation of many similar small railroads at the time, the Dover and Rockaway was almost immediately consolidated with the New Jersey Central High Bridge Branch.
During the Second World War South Foreland carried a Chain Home radar station similar to the still-extant towers at Swingate, east of Dover.

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He refused a bribe from Louis XIV, but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10, 000 crowns ; in 1670 he was the only minister besides the Roman Catholic Clifford to whom the first secret treaty of Dover ( May 1670 ), one clause of which provided for Charles's declaration of his conversion to Romanism, was confided ; and he was the chief actor in the deception practised upon the rest of the council.
Around the same time, the rest of Munford's brigade ( the 1st, 4th, and 5th Virginia Cavalry, under the command of Col. Williams Carter Wickham ) arrived at Dover Mills, a small hamlet on the Little River west of Aldie.
He ran three races the rest of that season for his father, his best finish seventeenth at Dover.
Dover was captured in Alabama and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.
Chaffin ran most of the rest of the races with Stanton Barrett driving the car at Dover and Lepage made the race at Atlanta.

Dover and England
* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.
* Ash, Dover, Kent, England
The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.
* 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from ( Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom ) in 37 minutes.
* 1959 – SR. N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours.
* 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
* 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
* 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
For example, for Preece's station to span the English Channel from Dover, England, to the coast of France would require sending and receiving wires of about along the two coasts.
* On the coast of New Hampshire, the settlement of Hilton's Point that will become Dover is established by men from London, England, the first European settlers in the state.
* October 25 – King Stephen of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by Henry Plantagenet, the son of his cousin Matilda.
* May 26 – In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
* January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
* May 25 – Charles II of England lands at Dover.
* Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover.
Dover (; ) is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.

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