Talk:1693

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 * See: Talk:1650. -Wikid77 22:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

1693 winter
I have reverted this change again as it's frankly fantastical. The English Channel is a sea and so would not freeze, or freeze over, in even the coldest of modern winters. As Verfiability says, "Exceptional claims require exceptional sources", and this is an exceptional claim. The only source for it seems to be this magazine article, quoting an author: not a BBC news report. I did some searching and came up with a much more detailed report of the winter in question, from the Times, which says the winter was so exceptionally cold that the upper reaches of the Thames froze over, and some harbours and coasts froze. But not the channel. It would take an ice age to freeze it, when the UK was joined to the continent so the channel was more an estuary than a sea, i.e. more fresh water than salt.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 20:48, 21 December 2010 (UTC)