The ferry at the Mekong crossing of Ban Muang in Laos operates in a pretty laissez-faire sort of way.
In 1952, the liner United States made the fastest-ever crossing of the Atlantic, on her maiden voyage.
Both of them have a status they could not have otherwise achieved through their symbolic crossing of cultural boundaries.
This was only the third vehicle crossing of Antarctica in history, and the first to get there and back.
Rolls was also a trained engineer who was a promising pilot, the first to complete a double crossing of the English Channel.
The biggest news for the South East was that the Chancellor said that work will start on a new crossing of the Lower Thames.
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They remembered a wandering childhood of nameless places, an existence in tents and silent nighttime crossing of borders, the unceasing search for somewhere better.
The recent returnees are understood to have taken a considerable risk in the crossing of the Mereb river which forms the border at that point.
Expeditions depart from either Puerto Williams in Chile or Ushuaia in Argentina, and include a tough three- to four-day crossing of the notorious Drake Passage.
In 1978, three American balloonists, Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, completed the first crossing of the North Atlantic in their balloon, Double Eagle II.
But the experiment for which he is best remembered is the crossing of a sweet william with a plant of the same genus, the ever-popular carnation.
"We have made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by a solar boat and the longest distance ever covered by a solar electric vehicle, " said Domjan.
Mr. RAPHAEL GARRON(ph) (Realtor): The days of slipshod paperwork and not doing the crossing of all the T's and the dotting of all the I's is over.
If the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 was part of this pattern, the crossing of viral strains must have had something to do with birds as well as pigs.
With this plan firmly in mind, Hooker called back the Union troops when they advanced to some high ground after having gained a tactical surprise with an easy crossing of the Rappahannock River.
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These have included one about Saladin, the (Kurdish) warrior who drove the crusaders out of Jerusalem, a film about the Iran-Iraq war and one about the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973.
Five thousand people were gathering in a depot close to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, while 2, 000 were at the border crossing of Reyhanli, which houses one of the largest refugee camps set up by Ankara for Syrians fleeing the violence, officials said.
The Joline set off from Ramsgate on Wednesday with two lorry loads of sheep, but the captain aborted the crossing because of strong winds and rain.
This rippling suggested a series of rings crossing in front of the star in advance of, and then behind, the profile of the transiting planet.
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Machynlleth mayor Mr Jones and his town council colleagues say they want a crossing capable of handling 21st Century traffic.
It said the increased use of the crossing as a result of the extra housing would make it "incompatible with the current level of protection provided".
In 1875, a British naval captain named Sir Frederick Evans finally began crossing some of these phantoms out, removing no fewer than 123 fake islands from the British Admiralty Charts.
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The trailblazingly democratic and bourgeois Netherlands never nurtured the border-crossing habits of the kings and nobles whose avidity as collectors survives in the major museums of Paris, London, Vienna, and Madrid.
Despite the fact that we were crossing some of the most desolate terrain in the United States, we had access to hundreds of channels of satellite radio, turn-by-turn navigation, and voice communication to anywhere in the world.
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Those found guilty of crossing the boundaries face the full force of public condemnation as well as the full force of the law.
Even among such intimates, boundaries are observed, for fear of crossing an unseen line and triggering a stare of blank, silent rebuke.
Mali's army chief General Ibrahima Dahirou Dembele told AFP that Chadian troops would join some 500 Nigeri troops in western Niger with the aim of crossing the border and heading towards the town of Gao, in north-eastern Mali.
However, as one Bolivian official remarks, that still leaves plenty of children crossing with the full permission of their parents.
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