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    The Suez Canal (Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red...
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    Greek engineers were the first to use canal locks, by which they regulated the water flow in the Ancient Suez Canal as early as the 3rd century BC. The...
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  • railway, 1.8 km Limfjordstunnelen Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, under the Suez Canal between Suez and Ismailia. Ülemiste Tunnel, road, 320 m Raisiotunneli Raisio...
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    cancellation of Operation Herkules, the planned German invasion of the Suez Canal and Malta. The stand by the Free French gave the defeated and retreating...
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    was director of 'Ponts et Chaussées' (bridges and roads) in Egypt. After accompanying the expedition to the remains of the Canal of the Pharaohs, built...
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    Paris-Lyon-Marseille line), the digging of the Fréjus tunnel and the Suez Canal, the Paris buildings designed by Baron Haussmann... Three years after...
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    Henri Paul Nénot (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
    arrondissement 1911-1913: Headquarters of the Suez Canal Company at 1, rue d'Astorg in Paris 1914–1926: Institut de géographie, 5th arrondissement 1921: building...
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    Charleroi-Brussels canal is dug in the valley of this stream. The Eau d'Heure river comes from the south and also flows into the Sambre at Marchienne-au-Pont. About...
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    making and railway enterprises, and was a director of the Suez Canal Company and the Banque de France. Florent Guillain was born on 7 February 1844 in Paris...
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    de Weisweiller, married Claude du Pont of the Du Pont family. Bertha Clara de Rothschild (1862) married Prince Alexandre de Wagram Bertha Juliet de Rothschild...
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