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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Hôtel Matignon (redirect from Hôtel de Matignon)
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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Rothschild family (redirect from De Rothschild)
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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