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#OnThisDay 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard & Dr John Jeffries crossed the #Channel from Dover to Calais in a balloon, though only after an unseemly argument resulting in Blanchard having to prove he was not weighted down by lead underwear
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trql jvie dans le pas de calais j'peux lae pecho (jk) https://t.co/EoJfOK0kzm
@honeybonnies The first two are Amaranth, the second is Calais ✨✨ Amaranth is headstrong & mischievous at times but ultimately good. Calais is a gentlemanTM but a little bit of a prude and also has a sort of gentle innocence about him.
William Turner, 1775 – 1851, English Romantic painter, (Early Works), Calais Pier
We couldn't be happier to announce our animations feature in the newly opened Refugees: Forced to Flee at @I_W_M London!
The exhibition explores a century of refugee experiences, from Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews to the Calais Jungle
Find out more: https://t.co/tFF3TiPMhl
[oc] his names calais, he's an aristocrat whose very self-absorbed and superficial. he's very intelligent but sadly he's only about indulging in his own pleasures. <3
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#OTD in 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first known person to swim the English Channel.
Webb swam from Admiralty Pier at Dover to Calais.
It took him 21 hours and 40 minutes.
Although the Channel is 21 miles at its narrowest, Webb’s zig-zag course was nearly 40 miles.
#Khione/Χιονη was a #Thracian #nymph,the daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia and sister of Cleopatra,Zetes,and Calais. Poseidon got her pregenant with Eumolpus, and in order to conceal this,she threw the boy into the sea; he was saved by Poseidon and Khione became #goddess of #snow
17 July 1453. French forces under Jean Bureau defeated the English led by the Earl of Shrewsbury at the Battle of Castillon. It’s considered the last major battle of the Hundred Years’ War. As a result, the English lost all landholdings in France, except Calais.
Voici une carte bathymétrique relevant les principales épaves ayant sombrées dans le détroit du pas de Calais (strait of Dover). Un exercice que j'avais fait l'année passée ! ⚓
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David Cox - La jetée de Calais
Stream sur... le mode histoire de Blazblue Central Fiction ! On tente de comprendre pourquoi tout le monde est frère est soeur comme si c'était le nord pas de calais. Venez ! 🔴 https://t.co/YEbnw3z3jn
.@MyriadEditions signs graphic novel from former Calais refugee Majid Adin https://t.co/tJMwOAdVpv (£)
Turner’s painting is based on an actual event he experienced, when he travelled from Dover to Calais in 1802 on his first trip abroad and was ‘nearly swampt‘ in a storm at sea. https://t.co/WOSvjnJoNx @NationalGallery Calais Pier
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1803
now we're getting into ocs again
aristos (2012 -> 2019)
calais (2012 -> 2019)
This was a temporary exhibition about the refugee camps in the Calais area... harrowing & moving. @Pitt_Rivers