The Beginning of the Age of Canal Building in Great Britain
Overview
In 1760 the British Parliament approved construction of a canal to carry coal half a dozen miles (approximately 9.6 km) from the mi...
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Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.In the presence of former President Carter, wh...
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Drilling and filling and root canal, oh my!Koda, one of two young polar bears at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, was jabbed with an anesthetic dart and carted off for dental work on an infec...
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Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuari...
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Panama City (dpa) - Panamanian President Martin Torrijos detonated
on Monday an explosive charge to break ground on an expansion of the
Panama Canal, beginning an eight-year...
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Panama City (dpa) - Officials were to break ground on an expansion
of the Panama Canal Monday, beginning a project to double the
transport capacity of the historic 80-kilome...
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Panama City (dpa) - Panamanian President Martin Torrijos detonated
on Monday an explosive charge to break ground on an expansion of the
Panama Canal, beginning a project to ...
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Panama City (dpa) - Panama on Friday marked the 30th anniversary
of a historic deal to hand over the Panama Canal with low-key
celebrations, only four days after work starte...
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Panama City/Washington (dpa) - Only four days after the formal
start of work to expand its world-famous canal, Panama will mark on
Friday the 30th anniversary of the histori...
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Ottawa (dpa) - Canada's Rideau Canal is the oldest continuously
operated canal in North America. It snakes 202 kilometres through
lakes and marshland in the eastern part of ...
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