Nov. 14 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1666, the first blood transfusion took place in London. Blood from one dog was transfused into another. Advertisement In 1832, the first horse-drawn ...
In 1992, legendary actress Marlene Dietrich died at her Paris home at age 90. In 1994, the Channel Tunnel, a railway under the English Channel connecting Britain and France, was officially opened.
The Channel Tunnel has been open for 25 years. Every day it transports thousands of people and millions of products between England and France, with its trains travelling further under water than ...
The Channel Tunnel opened in May 1994 and connects Kent, in southern England, to Calais, in northern France, underneath the sea bed of the English Channel. The 31 mile (50.5km) journey takes just ...
Nearly 50 years later, in 2019, the hotel opened up the western escape tunnel to the public. An interesting feature of the 85-meter western passage is a slide that runs along a 74-step staircase. In ...
The Channel Tunnel is an undersea railway tunnel which connects the UK and France via Kent and Calais, beneath the English Channel. Having opened in 1994, it has the longest underwater section of ...
Engineers are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Channel Tunnel, which established the first fixed link between Britain and Europe since the Ice Age. Here are 10 ...