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On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
A palapa (a Spanish word of Tagalog origin, originally meaning " petiole of the palm leaf") is an open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves. [ 1 ] It is very useful in hot weather and, therefore, very common on Mexican beaches and deserts. According to Rubén Carrillo, palapa is derived from the traditional construction ...
Beach huts by the Baltic Sea in Höllviken, Sweden. A beach hut (also known as a beach cabin, beach box or bathing box) is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches. They are generally used as a shelter from the sun or wind, changing into and out of swimming attire and for the ...
"How Not to Be Seen" was first broadcast as the 11th episode of the show's second series (episode 24) on 8 December 1970. The sketch was reproduced in And Now For Something Completely Different with some alterations: there are 47 people stated to be in the first shot (rather than 40), Mr. E. V. Lambert was renamed Mr. E. W. Lambert, the farmland scene isn't shown, the beach hut scene is ...
On Hilton Head, when Coligny Beach-goers hear music in the briny sea air, it’s likely from the Tiki Hut. Local musicians have played at the bar and on-the-beach music venue almost every day ...
The Juno Beach Centre (French: Centre Juno Beach) is a museum located in Courseulles-sur-Mer in the Calvados region of Normandy, France. It is situated immediately behind the beach codenamed Juno, the section of the Allied beachhead on which 14,000 Canadian troops landed on D-Day 6 June 1944. The centre was conceived in the 1990s by a group of ...
Ross Island (77°30′S 168°00′E) is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles (80 km; 49 mi) from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Cape Royds in the west to Cape Crozier in the east. The island is entirely volcanic.
Brighton Bathing Boxes, 2016. The Brighton Bathing Boxes are 93 beach huts on Dendy Street Beach in Brighton, Victoria, Australia, in the City of Bayside. They are a significant tourist attraction for the area. [1] In November 2019 a bathing box was sold for $340,000 [2] and historically they have been valued at about 10% of the median Brighton ...