Dardanelles
About Dardanelles
The Dardanelles, also known as the Strait of Gallipoli, is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey. Together with the Bosporus, the Dardanelles forms the Turkish Straits.
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The idea was damming up all the places where water could get in — dam up the Strait of Gibraltar, dam up the Dardanelles, dam up the bit between Tunisia and Sicily — and eventually water would stop coming into the Med and it would dry up.
from 163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 at 00:46:03 · read transcript
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Oh, my God. Get with it, kids. Yeah. Then the second one was built 33 years later. They presumably thought, oh, this is a really good idea. That was slightly lower. That was the Hellespont, apparently, which is just... Oh, that's the Dardanelles. That's a different part of Istanbul, right? It is indeed. Yeah. It's just southwest of the Bosphorus. Then 1973, AD was when the first permanent bridge was built across the boss for us.
No Such Thing As Captain Birdseye's Caribou Sausage, 2025-03-06 · listen
Which your orders is probably, what, 700 mean? 700. Is that not a standard abbreviation of 100? 700. Oh, my God. Get with it, kids. Yeah. Then the second one was built 33 years later. They presumably thought, oh, this is a really good idea. That was slightly lower. That was the Hellespont, apparently, which is just... Oh, that's the Dardanelles. That's a different part of Istanbul, right?
No Such Thing As Captain Birdseye's Caribou Sausage, 2025-03-06 · listen
I saw one amazing article in the Boston Globe. This was from the 12th of April 1896. They said that when Gardner Williams arrived on the boat in Athens. He came onto land in his trunks and a purple robe and announced to the press, Leander swam the Hellespont, and I will swim this here. Oh, sentences you regret. I have a feeling it might have been satire. They didn't admit at any stage that this was a satirical piece, but I think it might have been, because they mentioned another guy called Hoyt, who was a pole volta, and they said that he was practicing over a statue of Zeus outside his hotel, and that he knocked the god off his pedestal three times, but cleared him at the fourth try.
No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 · listen
That does bear credence to the idea that he jumps in the water It was too cold and he jumps out again. I saw one amazing article in the Boston Globe, this was from the 12th of April, 1896. They said that when Gardner Williams arrived on the boat in Athens, he came onto land in his trunks and a purple robe and announced to the press, Leander swam the Hellespont and I will swim this here. Oh, sentences you regret.
544: No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 · listen
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