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Matthew Webb. Captain Matthew Webb (19 January 1848 – 24 July 1883) was an English seaman, swimmer and stuntman. He is the first recorded person to swim the English Channel for sport without the use of artificial aids. In 1875, Webb swam from Dover to Calais in less than 22 hours.
1883. (TV series) 1883 is an American Western drama miniseries created by Taylor Sheridan that premiered on December 19, 2021, on Paramount+. The series stars Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sam Elliott, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen, and James Landry Hébert. The story is chronologically the first of several ...
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
First woman and youngest swimmer (at the time) to swim the channel both ways non-stop, breaking Jon Erikson's record of 30 hours and setting a new world record. Her one way crossing in 1975 set the record of 9 hours and 46 minutes (a record that stood until 1988). [33] She holds the record for the most two-way crossings with a total of five. [34]
The most-subscribed YouTube channel is MrBeast, having 309 million subscribers as of August 2, 2024, and gaining subscribers by an average of over 3 million per week. [14][15] 50 most-subscribed channels. The following table lists the 50 most-subscribed YouTube channels,[B][16]as well as the primary language and content category of each channel.
Crossing the busy shipping lanes of the English Channel in dinghies is fraught with peril and the journey has claimed several lives in recent years, including children. A group of people thought ...
Lauren Hammersley. Lauren Hammersley (born January 8, 1981) [citation needed] is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Lisa Mason on the CBC Television sitcom Mr. D [1] and Charmaine on the Netflix romantic drama Virgin River. [2]
Cherokee Trail near Fort Collins, Colorado, from a sketch taken 7 June 1859. The Cherokee Trail was a historic overland trail through the present-day U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up through the early 1890s. The route was established in 1849 by a wagon train headed to the gold fields in ...