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Dunkerque. 1929. Roger Broders.
24 ¾ x 39 1/8 in./62.7 x 99.2 cm
The rarest of all Broders posters, it’s also the only image Broders created for the Chemin de Fer du Nord – though the railroad is nowhere to be seen. Instead, he gives us the view from an elegant couple’s yacht, pulling out of the harbor. The contrast between the modern (both people and ships) and the medieval (the spire of the Old Town Hall, the little skiff at right) makes Dunkirk all the more interesting and mysterious.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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Dusty Swirls of the Channel
Detritus from past floods swept out through the Thames estuary into the Channel.
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D-Day: Operation Overlord
American craft cross the English Channel soon before landing in Normandy.
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White Cliffs of Dover
oh…suddenly Horatio’s question in The Fire Ships makes so much more sense…that would not be fun to run into…
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EEEEEEEEEEEE I love this I freaking love this WIKIMEDIA RULES MY WORLD. Sorry!! I tend to get over-enthused about things. Only now and then, though. Okay almost always.
SO, this is the Isle of Wight, a county and the largest island in England, located a few kilometres from the coast of Hampshire. You can get there very very easily, by hovercraft or ferry or swimming or Apparition. Take your pick. (image wikimedia)
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in the early 1900′s, folks in the fishing village of Équihen-Plage on the English channel decided to put all the boat hulls that washed up on their shore to use, and made them into houses. What was then a practical necessity now is charming and quaint. The village becme a seaside resort, and the demand to stay in a boat house is so great that local authorities continue to build them as holiday lodges.
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American Journalist Harriet Quimby was the first woman in America to be awarded a pilots license. and on April 16th, 1912, was the first woman to fly the English Chanel.She was denied much of the glory of her achievement when 2 days later, the Titanic sank and dominated front page headlines.
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