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Rescue Workers

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  • 1964-8-4

Rescue workers in Champagnole, Eastern France, borrowing into the Mt. Rivel Chalk Mine, where 14 miners were trapped last week when a wall caved in blocking the 20 mile tunnel with rock and sand.

The Times of Ceylon Press

Rescuers Testing The Capsule

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  • 1963-11-5

Rescuers testing the rescue capsule which was used to bring to the surface which was used to bring to the surface last week three of the miners trapped 262-feet underground in a flooded iron mine at Peine, West Germany.

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Richard Beach Sculpts Major Gagarin

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  • 1961-6-3

A clay head of Major Gagarin — the world's first man-in-space, has been modelled by Sculptor Richard Beach who lives in Wakefield, Yorks. It is being produced for waxworks heads — by Jean Roger of West London. Mr. Beach used photographs and newspa...

Keystone Press Agency Ltd.

Robert Fulton - The Steamboat

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  • 1961-7-9

Returning to New York, Fulton again took up the challenge of steam navigation. A shipbuilder supplied a vessel 131 feet long and about 20 feet wide, with a draft of six and a half feet and a displacement of 160 tons. A pair of paddle wheels on the...

The Times of Ceylon Press

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