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El 7 de marzo de 1965, agentes de policía del estado atacaron brutalmente a cientos de activistas pacíficos a favor del derecho al voto fueron que estaban cruzando el puente Edmund Pettus en un intento por unir Selma con Montgomery.	On March 7, 1965, hundreds of peaceful voting rights activists were brutally attacked by Alabama state troopers, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery.
¿Porqué estaban cruzando el puente?	Why were they crossing the bridge?
Michael y Stephania habían conocido a Yossef cuando estaban cruzando Sudán dirección a Etiopía.	Michael and Stephania had met Yossef when they were in Sudan crossing towards Ethiopia.
Que personas enormemente diferentes entre sí estaban cruzando las fronteras para estar con los demás.	Vastly different people were crossing the boundaries to be with each other.
Relató que estaban cruzando el Alto Xingú, un afluente de sudeste del Río Amazonas.	They were reported to be crossing the Upper Xingu, a southeastern tributary of the Amazon River.
El Gyalwa Karmapa llevó a Rinpoche en su espalda cuando estaban cruzando los Himalayas hacia el exilio.	The Gyalwa Karmapa carried Rinpoche on his back while traveling across the Himalayas into exile.
Vitor estaba pasando por el campamento, que había llegado con un grupo de gitanos que estaban cruzando el puerto.	Vitor was passing through the camp, he had arrived with a group of gypsies who were crossing the harbor.
Dos hombres estaban cruzando el desierto, cuando avistaron la tienda de un beduino, y se aproximaron para pedir abrigo.	Two men were crossing the desert when they saw a Bedouin's tent and asked him for shelter.
El padre Paolo, el padre Frans, y el padre Jacques constantemente estaban cruzando caminos, igual que los jóvenes que los amaban.	Father Paolo, Father Frans, and Father Jacques were constantly crossing paths, as were the young people who loved them.
Los estadounidenses se sorprendieron al descubrir que un gran número de niños hondureños estaban cruzando México para intentar entrar en los Estados Unidos por su propia cuenta.	Americans were shocked to discover that large numbers of Honduran children were crossing Mexico on their own to try to enter the United States.
Así que cuando el Ejército Rojo arrojó todo su peso sobre el Wehrmacht en la batalla de Kursk, los británicos y estadounidenses estaban cruzando las playas de Sicilia.	So at a time when the Red Army was taking on the full weight of the Wehrmacht in the battle of Kursk, the British and Americans were wading ashore on the beaches of Sicily.
Dos estudiantes de Ucrania, durante un viaje que realizaron el año pasado desde Wroclaw a Berlín, fueron detenidos justo cuando estaban cruzando la frontera, principalmente porque los jóvenes no conocían las normas, y ellos solo querían hacer uso de nuestros recursos intelectuales.	Two Ukrainian students, who were travelling from Wrocław to Berlin last year, were detained just as they were crossing the border, mainly because the young people were not aware of the rules, and they only wanted to make use of our intellectual resources.
El camión arrolló a los dos peatones que estaban cruzando.	The truck run over the two pedestrians who were crossing.
Estaban cruzando el Bitterroot.	They were crossing the Bitterroot.