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We weren't sure exactly where to start, so we decided to browse rather than search. From the Yahoo! home page, we worked our way to Recreation & Sports, then Sports, and finally arrived at Swimming and Diving. Once there, we were presented with several more categories, as well as a list of approximately 20 sites. A few looked promising, but we figured the International Swimming Hall of Fame would definitely have some mention of the historic swim, so we clicked on it. We arrived at the site ready to dive in. Imagine our disappointment when, after
several minutes of clicking around, we were unable to find the answer. The site doesn't offer a search tool, which made our task even more difficult. Down, but not out, we checked out the links section of the page. The information was vast, but not all that helpful. Back to the diving board. We decided to search on what we determined to be the four keywords: English, channel, woman, and swim. And to make sure we would only be returned search results with all of those words, we attached a "+" to the beginning of the words so our search looked like this: "+woman +english +channel +swim." The results were perfect. The search results turned up almost 3,000 web pages that contained those four
words, and though we didn't visit all of them, we can confidently say that Gertrude Caroline Ederle was the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel, completing the feat on August 30th, 1926, in 14 hours and 39 minutes. For a picture of the event and short description of her journey, check out The History Net.
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