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After a seaman had floated across the Channel on a bundle of straw, Matthew Webb made the crossing without the aid of artificial buoyancy. His first attempt ended in failure, but on 25 August 1875, he started from Admiralty Pier in Dover and made the crossing in 21 hours and 45 minutes, despite challenging tides (which delayed him for 5 hours) and a jellyfish sting.
Hanna-Barbera. Television premiere. Originally served as the series finale. August 10, 2001. Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie. Cartoon Network Studios. Three-part series premiere. November 3, 2001. The Flintstones: On the Rocks.
400 m freestyle. Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2] Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her "Queen of the Waves".
Red triangle (Channel 4) A red triangle of this sort preceded broadcasts, warning viewers that special discretion was required. The red triangle was a content warning system employed by mainstream terrestrial British television broadcaster Channel 4 for a brief period from 1986 to 1987. The channel showed a number of mainly 18 certificate art ...
Channel 4 (previously 4oD and All 4) is a video on demand service from Channel Four Television Corporation, free of charge for most content and funded by advertising. The service is available in the UK and Ireland; viewers are not required to have a TV licence—required for live viewing and the BBC iPlayer on-demand service—when watching on-demand services.
The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular: demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes; appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;
Original release. Network. Channel 4. Release. 7 February 2023. ( 2023-02-07) [1] Consent is a 2023 British television drama film set in an elite private school in England. It tells the story of a working-class Black girl who attends a previously all-male public school where misogyny is rife.
In a Rolling Stone magazine interview, vocalist Chris Martin announced the album's release date and its title, Viva la Vida, which is a Spanish phrase that means in English "long live life". [40] It takes its name from a painting by Frida Kahlo , an acclaimed 20th-century Mexican artist. [ 41 ]