In 1513, Henry VIII conclusively crossed the English Channel and stopped at Azincourt.

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

* 1958 – Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it.

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

Jean-Pierre Blanchard flew the first human-powered dirigible in 1784 and crossed the English Channel in one in 1785.

A month after Blériot's crossing of the English Channel the aviation week in Reims, France, August 1909, caught special worldwide attention.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

The group raced to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville, thus isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and some divisions of the French Army in northern France.

The Channel Tunnel (; also referred to as the Chunnel ) is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

This trip to the English Channel could have merely been a training and scouting mission.

A kingdom of Domnonee ( and of Cornouaille alongside ) was established in the province of Armorica directly across the English Channel, and has apparent links with the British population, suggesting an ancient connection of peoples along the western Atlantic seaboard.

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: Therefore, either Socrates is a man or pigs are flying in formation over the English Channel.

Rudolf Diesel died mysteriously when he crossed the English Channel on the SS Dresden.

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In Lao cuisine and parts of northern Thailand, dill is known in English as Laotian coriander and Lao cilantro (, ).

While the transcription of the Chinese words used by Ricci was not very consistent, he systematically used Latin p and t for unaspirated Chinese sounds that Pinyin renders as b and d. Accordingly, Ricci called the adherents of Laozi, Tausu (, Pinyin: Daoshi ), which was rendered as Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus Magnus and variously in historical writings also as Gustavus, or Gustavus the Great, or Gustav Adolph the Great (, a formal distinction passed by the Swedish Parliament in 1634 ).

Leonhard Euler (, () () English approximation, " Oiler ";

Livonia (,,, German and Scandinavian languages: Livland, Latvian and,, archaic English Livland ,, Liwlandia ; Лифляндия / Liflyandiya ) is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

The Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (, " festivity of breaking the fast "), sometimes spelled in English as Eid al-Fitr, marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the next lunar month called Shawwal in Arabic.

A derivative, Daoshi (, " Daoist priest "), was used already by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, rendered as Tausu in the original Latin edition ( 1615 ), and Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

Turners (, gymnasts in English ) are members of German-American gymnastic clubs.

Other English names for Japanese knotweed include fleeceflower, Himalayan fleece vine, monkeyweed, monkey fungus, Huzhang (, literally " tiger stick "), Hancock's curse, elephant ears, pea shooters, donkey rhubarb ( although it is not a rhubarb ), sally rhubarb, Japanese bamboo, American bamboo, and Mexican bamboo ( though it is not a bamboo ).

The word spleen comes from the Greek ( splḗn ), and is the idiomatic equivalent of the heart in English, i. e. to be good-spleened (, eúsplankhnos ) means to be good-hearted or compassionate.

The Primary Chronicle (, often translated into English as Tale of Bygone Years ) is a history of Kievan Rus ' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113.

The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (, VVD ), often referred to in the English language press as the Liberals or by its initials from its official Dutch name, is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands.

The Bay of Biscay (, more commonly named as Mar Cantábrico, in English Cantabrian Sea ; ; ; ; Gascon: Golf de Gasconha ) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.

The most accurate translations of the English word " prince " are Huang Zi (, lit.

Sigismund III Vasa (,, English exonym: Sigmund ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, a monarch of the united Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and King of Sweden ( where he is known simply as Sigismund ) from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599.

Gelderland (, English also Guelders German: Geldern ) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country.

Tragedy (, tragōidia, " he-goat-song "< ref > Middle English tragedie < Middle French tragedie < Latin tragoedia <, tragōidia ; see " Tragedy ", p. 1637 in E. Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Volume II L-Z, Elsevier ( 1967 ).

Badajoz (, formerly written Badajos in English ; ) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain, situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid – Lisbon railway.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the word comes ultimately from Greek (, " accent of ' turning away ', or elision "), through Latin and French.

The Institut d ' Estudis Catalans (, English: " Institute for Catalan Studies "), also known by the acronym IEC, is an academic institution which seeks to undertake research and study into " all elements of Catalan culture ".

Aotearoa (, commonly mispronounced by English speakers ) is the most widely known and accepted Māori name for New Zealand.

Draughts (, British English ; checkers, American English ) is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces.