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unusual facts about Dover–Calais


Dover–Calais

The song lyrics describe a love meeting between two people on board a ferryboat moving across the English Channel between the UK and France in a pre-"Chunnel" era.


Abdul Rashid Khan

Khan has participated in many national and regional conferences like Sadarang Conference, Godrej Conference, Lucknow Mahotsav, Dover Lance Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Prayag Sangeet Samiti Sangeet Sammelan all over India and has been felicited by Critics, fellow artists and many reputed recognized institutions like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, (1981), Banaras Hindu University (1993), Eastern Zone cultural center and Press club Kolkata.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Arc International

The company was established in Arques, Pas-de-Calais, where it is still headquartered, as a glass-making firm under the name Verrerie des Sept Ecluses in 1825.

Azalea Park, Florida

Schools within the neighborhood include Azalea Park Elementary School, Chickasaw Elementary School, Dover Shores Elementary, Englewood Elementary School, Stonewall Jackson Middle School, and Colonial High School.

Bangor Union Station

Maine Central Eastern Division branch line trains to Calais, Bar Harbor, or Bucksport required backing moves to cross the Penobscot River bridge approach upstream of the station.

Baron Skelmersdale

The title was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.

Bay View Historical Society

They have restored the area surrounding the Pryor Avenue Iron Well and designated historical landmarks at the following locations: Beulah Brinton House, Bay View United Methodist Church, Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddler's Hall, St. Augustine School, St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Estes Home, Kneisler's White House Tavern, Club Garibaldi, Trowbridge Street School, Dover Street School, European Copper Beech Tree, Immaculate Conception Church, and the Keller Winery.

Bluebird

Examples are Jan Peerce's signature song, "Bluebird of Happiness", "Over the Rainbow" ("Somewhere over the Rainbow/Bluebirds fly"), "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" ("I'm Always Chasing Rainbows/Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain"), and "The White Cliffs of Dover" ("There'll be bluebirds over/The White Cliffs of Dover").

Bon Secours Sisters

For example, in northern France, four large schools which had been started in Lille and Lens to serve the local mining population were closed, based on accusations that they were not in compliance with the institute's approved charter.

Boulogne–Calais railway

The line opened on 7 January 1867 with railway stations at Wimille, Marquise, Caffiers and St Pierre.

British Rail Class 319

On 10 December 1993 they travelled through the Channel Tunnel to Calais-Fréthun and back with a party of invited guests, after the construction consortium TransManche Link (who were responsible for the construction of the Tunnel) had transferred responsibility for operations and management over to Eurotunnel.

Calonne

Calonne-Ricouart, commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in France

Carnival Splendor

Carnival Splendors godmother is Myleene Klass, who on 8 June 2008 christened the vessel in Dover in a lighthearted ceremony where she played Sailing on the piano, while a Royal Navy diver climbed up five decks on a rope, and broke the bottle of champagne on the bow by hand.

Cat and Fiddle Inn

Various etymologies are claimed: some believe it is a corruption of le chat fidèle ('the faithful cat'); others (including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) that it comes from 'Caton le Fidèle' (a former governor of Calais); a third theory is that it derives from 'Catherine la Fidèle' (Catherine of Aragon).

Cyril Golding-Bird

After time as vicar of St Barnabas', Dover, he began a long period of service overseas: first as Dean of the Falkland Islands; then a similar post in Newcastle, New South Wales following which he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Kalgoorlie.

Dover House

Dover House was designed by James Paine for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bart., MP, in the 1750s and remodelled by Henry Flitcroft, as "Montagu House", for George Montagu, created 1st Duke of Montagu, who had removed from Bloomsbury.

Dover Street

Oliver Wendell Holmes in Our Hundred Days in Europe records staying at Mackellar's Hotel, 17 Dover Street, where "we found ourselves comfortably lodged and well cared for during the whole time we were in London".

Dover, Minnesota

Dover is part of the Dover-Eyota School District.

Erlangen program

Heinrich Guggenheimer (1977) Differential Geometry, Dover, NY, ISBN 0-486-63433-7.

Fort Risban

Edward III of England's troops, finding the defences of Calais impenetrable, decided to erect a small fort to prevent any supplies reaching the town by sea, with a view to starving the inhabitants into submission.

Frogcircus

That year, the band appeared at a special feature show on United States-Television channel HBO to premiere the record, and also headlined the Campus Rock Festival together with Spanish rockers Dover, as well as appearances with Nada Surf, The Godfathers and Mick Taylor.

Geology of East Sussex

For much of its history the Weald had been slowly subsiding basin, but the growth of the Alpine Chain to the south during the Cenozoic caused a reactivation of the Variscan basement basin-bounding faults, the rocks were arched into a broad anticline which stretched across the English Channel to Northern France, the Weald–Artois anticline.

Gommecourt, Pas-de-Calais

The victorious German troops who defended the village during the battle were the 52nd Infantry Division from Baden together with 2nd Guards Reserve Division from Westphalia; the British Army force taking part in the attack comprised the 56th (London) Division and the 46th (North Midland) Division.

Graham Ibbeson

He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby.

Guînes

When the French captured the town of Calais in January 1558, Guisnes held out, by the courageous efforts of the English commander, William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton.

History of organic farming

He published his findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries (1911, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-43609-8).

Incourt

Incourt, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France

Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence

The ceremony however took place in secret at Calais on 11 July 1469, conducted by Isabel Neville's Uncle George Neville, archbishop of York.

James Audley

In 1360 he took the fortress of Chaven in Brittany, as well as the castle of Ferte-sous-Jouarre, and was present at Calais when peace was made between England and France in October 1360.

John Mennes

Mennes was himself satirised by John Denham, whose poem about Mennes going from Calais to Boulogne to "eat a pig" is mentioned by Samuel Pepys in his diary.

Kenneth Dover

Dover featured in an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme "In the Psychiatrist's Chair", presented by Anthony Clare.

Loïc Lantoine

Loïc Lantoine is a French singer and songwriter born in Armentières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Margaret of France, Queen of England

Additionally, the English monarchy would regain the key city of Guienne and receive £15,000 owed to Margaret as well as the return of Eleanor of Castile's lands in Ponthieu and Montreuil as a dower first for Margaret, and then Isabella of France.

Michael Alford

Upon landing at Dover he was mistakenly arrested on suspicion of being Father Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, for whose apprehension the government had offered a reward.

MV Volcan de Tacande

After 7 December 1997, during operation between Calais - Dover, the SeaFrance Monet was laid up in Dunkerque.

New York State Route 343

The highway helped General George Washington's troops during the American Revolutionary War and was also the main supply route to the hamlets of Payne's Corners (now Amenia), Washiac (now Wassaic) and Dover Plains.

Operation Acid Drop

Each raid consisted of one officer and 14 men, their targets were the beaches at Hardelot and Merlimont in the Pas-de-Calais, France with the aim of carrying out reconnaissance and if possible, to capture a German soldier.

Ophrys sphegodes

Despite its apparent vulnerability, it has very successfully colonised the chalk spoil dumping grounds created near Dover at Samphire Hoe from the excavations of the Channel Tunnel.

Richebourg

Richebourg-l'Avoué and Richebourg-Saint-Vaast, former communes of the Pas-de-Calais department, now part of Richebourg

Rover Light Six

The act to promote the new Rover Light Six in a headline-grabbing campaign was the brainchild of former motorcycle tester and pioneer publicist Dudley Noble, in which a Light Six was to race the Blue Train across France from Calais to St Raphael on the Côte d'Azur.

Ruins of the Reich

Part 3 - Warsaw Ghetto, Gestapo headquarters, Pawiak Prison, Palmiry massacre site, Oskar Schindler's Deutsche Emalia Fabrika, Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Fermont, Immerhof and Hackenberg on the Maginot Line, Compiègne, tomb of Napoleon and the German submarine pens and Cross-Channel guns in Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais.

San Ferry Ann

Wordlessly, with soundtrack and sound effects, it tells the story of a holiday crossing from Dover to Calais.

Sarton

Sarton, Pas-de-Calais, a commune of France in the department of Pas-de-Calais

SNCF Class Z 23500

They are mainly used on stopping services around the French Riviera (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and Lyon (Rhône-Alpes).

SS Dover Hill

On 17 May Dover Hill and three other ships left the Kola Inlet and went via the White Sea to Economia on the Northern Dvina River.

TER-GV

At the northern end of the LGV Nord in Calais-Fréthun, the train continues on the conventional line at lower speed toward Boulogne, Etaples and Rang.

Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings

In the 1540s, he served King Henry VIII as Marshal of Calais and keeper of the castle at Guînes, then took an active role in the invasion of France in 1544, in particular at Montreuil and the sieges of Boulogne.

Thomas Waterman Wood

As examples of his work in this direction the following may be mentioned: The Yankee Pedlar had for its model a tin peddler known as "Snapping Tucker", a resident of Calais, Vermont.

West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania

On July 1, J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry rode north-south through the township following the Battle of Hanover on their way to Dover.

WZLO

Under its previous ownership, WDME referred to itself on-air as, "The only radio station in the world broadcasting from a railroad passenger car." WDME's studios were located in a converted Amtrak coach formerly situated beside Routes 6 and 15 to the north and west of Dover-Foxcroft.


see also

Etienne Pradier

First, he was the magician on board Ferries Dover-Calais for SeaFrance and aboard cruise ships bound for Singapore, Malaysia, etc..

HSC Cyclades Express

Seacat Scotland transferred to the Hoverspeed Dover – Calais route which she operated with Seacat Danmark and Seacat France.

LD Lines

The French press reported on March 23, 2012 that LD Lines have chartered the Barfleur from Brittany Ferries in partnership with DFDS Seaways for their DoverCalais service where she will be put into service starting April 27 and renamed MS Deal Seaways.

MS Calais Seaways

At 13:00 on 17 February 2012, the Norman Spirit was 'relaunched' by model and actress Kelly Brook to start a new service for DFDS Seaways and LD Lines, with up to five return crossings per day on the Dover-Calais route.

MS Color Viking

On 1991-08-08 the Stena Invicta entered service on the DoverCalais route.

MS Pride of Dover

She mainly operated the Dover–Calais route for P&O until 2010.

MS Spirit of Britain

P&O Ferries signed a €360m contract with Aker Yards (later renamed STX Europe) on 8 August 2008, for the two largest ferries ever to be constructed for the Dover-Calais service.