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    Tunneling the English Channel (French: Le Tunnel sous la Manche ou le Cauchemar franco-anglais / Tunnel under the Channel, or the Franco-English Nightmare)...
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    railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait...
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  • and migrants have been entering the United Kingdom illegally by crossing the English Channel in the last decades. The Strait of Dover section between...
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    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth...
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    The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the...
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    Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. (The same attendant later reprised his kingly role in Méliès's 1907 fantasy Tunnelling the English Channel.) Méliès's nephew Paul...
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  • In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or...
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  • a tunnel to be built between the ports of Fishguard and Rosslare. This route would be approximately twice the distance of the English Channel Tunnel at...
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    Barbara, "Encyclopaedia of Tunnelling, Mining, and Drilling Equipment", 1995. West, Graham. Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry (Cambridge, England:...
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    The Chimney Sweep, and Tunnelling the English Channel. Another scenic effect occurs when the rag-and-bone man comes across the beggar girl; when he turns...
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  • The House of the Devil (in French, Le Manoir du diable, lit. The Devil’s manor), released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as...
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    cycles in the Channel Tunnel are normally allowed to cross the Channel Tunnel fixed link between the United Kingdom and France only by using the Eurotunnel...
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  • January 30, 2007, and the paperback edition was released on June 2, 2008. With 284 pictures between the book's 533 pages, the book depends as much on...
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    of the same name. The image is a visual pun: the phrase dans l'œil, literally "in the eye," is the French equivalent of the English word "bullseye". "Labor...
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    through the Channel Tunnel. The fire lasted for sixteen hours and reached temperatures of up to 1,000 °C (1,830 °F). Of the 32 people aboard the train,...
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    the mistress and eventual wife of filmmaker and inventor Georges Méliès. D'Alcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage...
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    bodystocking). The maid helps the woman bathe, pouring water over her, and finally covers and dries her with a robe. Méliès was not the first filmmaker...
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  • Hugo (film) (category Use American English from September 2019)
    restore the automaton both to a functioning status and to its rightful owner. The particular copy given to Hugo looks like the 1917 English-language...
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    from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012. Kirkland, C. J. (2002). "The fire in the Channel Tunnel" (PDF). Tunnelling and...
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    Georges Méliès (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    for a family friend and to improve his English. While in London, he began to visit the Egyptian Hall, run by the London illusionist John Nevil Maskelyne...
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    legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a 109.9-kilometre (68.3-mile) high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel. It is part of the line...
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    Cendrillon) is an 1899 French trick film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company...
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    Chaudron infernal, released in Britain as The Infernal Cauldron and in the United States as The Infernal Caldron and the Phantasmal Vapors, is a 1903 French...
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    Impossible Voyage, An Adventurous Automobile Trip, and Tunnelling the English Channel, played the leader of the suffragettes. During his career, Méliès had built...
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    Since the film is silent and has no intertitles, the proper names and quotations below are taken from the English-language description of the film published...
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  • The Rag Picker (French: Le Chiffonnier), also released as A Good Joke (French: Une bonne farce), was an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges...
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    England, the film was distributed by the Warwick Trading Company, which handled English releases of Méliès's films until 1902. In the United States, the Edison...
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  • Le Cake-Walk infernal, sold in the United States as The Cake Walk Infernal and in Britain as The Infernal Cake Walk, is a 1903 French silent trick film...
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  • entitled The Tunnel: Sabotage, and consisting of eight episodes. Series 2 would focus on the crash of an airliner into the English Channel, with Dillane...
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  • cinema (his The Haunted Castle, made in 1896, is sometimes labeled the first horror film). The Cave of the Demons is also believed to be the first film...
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