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0-7653-4309-6. OCLC. 56722923. Preceded by. Up In A Heaval. Followed by. Currant Events. Cube Route is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series. [1]
Perhaps the most famous route in marathon swimming crosses the English Channel, first accomplished in 1875 by Captain Matthew Webb in 21:45. The first woman to complete the crossing was Gertrude Ederle 14:39 in 1926 as a 19 year old, thereby setting a new fastest known time by 1:54 by employing the crawl stroke technique.
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Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 22. LC Class. PS3551.N73 C87 2004. Preceded by. Cube Route. Followed by. Pet Peeve. Currant Events is a 2004 fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-eighth book of the Xanth series [1] and the first book in the second Xanth trilogy.
Webb was born on 19 January 1848 [a] in Dawley, Shropshire.He was one of thirteen children of the surgeon Dr. Matthew Webb. [4] [1] [4] In 1849, while Matthew Webb was only 14 months old, they moved to Madeley, and then in 1856 to Coalbrookdale. [4]
Gertrude Ederle, who was called America's best girl by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, died yesterday at a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J. She was 98. ^ She did it in 14 hours 39 minutes, breaking the men's record of the time by two hours.
The English Channel, [a][1] also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busiest shipping area in the world. [2]
150 feet (46 m) Max. depth. 68 m (223 ft) The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait (French: Pas de Calais French pronunciation: [pɑ d (ə) kalɛ] - Strait of Calais) [1] is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe.