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One of his first major projects was construction of the King Khalid Military City in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [ 1 ] In 1989, Lemley joined the TransManche Link , a consortium of British and French construction companies that was tasked with building the 31-mile Channel Tunnel , an undersea tunnel linking France and Britain.
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46 km (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
Chris Froome in June 2014, one of a number of cyclists to have ridden through the Channel Tunnel. On the night of 2/3 December 1994, [9] [10] a group of professional and semi-professional cyclists went road bicycle racing from London to Paris in aid of Téléthon en France '94 broadcast live on French national television.
In October 2012, for the first-time ever, YouTube offered a live stream of the U.S. presidential debate and partnered with ABC News to do so. [132] The peak in concurrent views on any live stream was reached on October 14, where over eight million watched a sky dive. [133]
On December 12, 2018, approximately 6 days and 10 hours after upload, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind became YouTube's most-disliked video of all time, surpassing Justin Bieber's Baby. Shortly after, it also became the first YouTube video to reach 10 million dislikes, doing so in 6 days and 12 hours.
I live in Kent and use "the Channel Tunnel" quite often, with family in the north of England, and non of us have used the phrase "Chunnel" since it was completed, the phrase only seems to have been used before and during construction. Olive Oil 18:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Six Flags opened in 1961 in Arlington. These photos from the Star-Telegram show long-gone rides, historic moments and fun memories from the 1960s into into 2010s.
The Tunnel is a British-French crime drama television series adapted from the 2011 Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge (Broen / Bron). The series premiered on 16 October 2013 on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom, and on 11 November 2013 on Canal+ in France. The Tunnel stars Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy as British and French police detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann ...