"It was the bus carrying our baggage which was in front of us which they fired on the most, " he told French TV channel Canal Plus.

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The study, led by the former CEO of French pay-TV channel Canal Plus, Pierre Lescure, proposed a total of 75 measures to "protect the cultural exception in the face of digital innovation".

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Eli Hodapp, editor of a website called The Duke Nukem Forever List, reminds us the Suez Canal, the Channel Tunnel and the Manhattan Project were finished in less time.

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In 2002 the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) installed a series of electric barriers 37 miles downriver in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, an artificial channel that links the lakes with the Mississippi and its tributaries.

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Pierre Lescure, a former head of Canal Plus, the television channel, was commissioned by Mr Hollande to make recommendations on how France should adapt its commitment to preserving French-language culture in the fast-changing digital era.

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In France, Canal Plus, a subscription-based channel, wooed its audience with a formula of football and films.

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My candidates are the Panama Canal, the Thames Barrier and the Channel Tunnel.

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If you do not fancy being showered with soggy tomatoes, you can watch the spectacle in dry comfort on Canal 9, Valencia's local TV channel.

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