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Atlantic Crossing is a historical drama in the form of a television miniseries set in Norway and the United States during World War II.The series is wide-ranging but pays special attention to interactions between Crown Princess Martha of Norway and President Franklin Roosevelt during the period when Martha was a war refugee in the United States after fleeing the 1940 Nazi Invasion of Norway.
Tobias Santelmann (born August 8, 1980) is a German-born Norwegian actor.He is best known for starring in the Academy Award-nominated film Kon-Tiki (2012). His credits also includeHercules (2014), Point Break (2015), The Heavy Water War (2015), Grenseland (2017), The Last Kingdom (2015–2018), Atlantic Crossing (2020), Those Who Kill (2021), Exit [] (2019-2023).
A transatlantic tunnel is a theoretical tunnel that would span the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe possibly for such purposes as mass transit.Some proposals envision technologically advanced trains reaching speeds of 500 to 8,000 kilometres per hour (310 to 4,970 mph). [1]
[2]: 166, 205 When she decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York. On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon , southern England. After a 20-hour flight, her Percival Vega Gull , VP-KCC named "The Messenger", suffered fuel starvation due to icing of the fuel tank vents, and she crash ...
Early life and Atlantic crossing. Grave at Arlington National Cemetery. Read was born in Lyme, New Hampshire on March 29, 1887 into a Boston Brahmin family.
The couple left Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia on June 11 en route to the Azores, a group of Portuguese islands in the mid-Atlantic, around 2,000 miles away. They were reported missing on June 18 ...
Amelia Earhart prior to her transatlantic crossing of June 17, 1928. In 1928, Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. The project coordinators included publisher and publicist George P. Putnam, who later became her husband. She was a passenger, with the plane flown by Wilmer Stultz and copilot/mechanic Louis ...
The first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic was made by the Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922. Coutinho and Cabral flew from Lisbon, Portugal , to Rio de Janeiro , Brazil in stages, using three different Fairey III biplanes, and they covered a distance of 8,383 kilometres (5,209 mi) between 30 March and 17 ...