A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua.

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It also needed a canal across Central America so the Navy could sail quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

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About twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to the Suez Canal.

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Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

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They would build a canal to carry them past the turn in the river, past the Confederate cannon.

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For years, shipbuilders limited the size of many ships so that they could fit through the Panama Canal.

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In eighteen fifty-five, the first canal connecting Lake Superior with Lake Huron was completed at Sault Ste.Marie,Michigan.

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The most likely place to build such a canal was at the thinnest point of land: Panama.

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His company failed. In the eighteen nineties, an American company tried to build a canal across Nicaragua.

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The Army Corps of Engineers has put an electric fence in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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In nineteen fifty-six, he traveled to the Middle East to cover the war over the Suez Canal.

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And he proposed building a canal in central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

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The glands in the ear canal that produce the wax make too much in some people.

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Some members of Congress questioned the administration's deal with the French canal company in Panama.

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"The present canal has a total capacity of about three hundred and forty million tons a year that it can handle, that's the maximum capacity.

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But De Lesseps' company still owned the land on which the canal would be built.

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Use a syringe device to gently direct water against the wall of the ear canal.

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He set up the Patowmack Company and started building the canal in seventeen eighty-five.

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You should never put a cotton swab or other object into the ear canal.

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With a canal across Central America, ships could sail directly from ocean to ocean.

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The study decided it would be less costly,overall, to build the canal in Nicaragua.

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One of them said: "As soon as the canals at Vicksburg are finished, we are going to cut a canal across the upper part of Florida.

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De Lesseps spent three hundred million dollars to build just one-third of the canal.

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These are some of the other recordings added to the National Recording Registry: A nineteen twenty-three recording of "Canal Street Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

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When a baby's head is stuck in the birth canal for an extended period of time, it cuts off the blood supply to the woman's surrounding organs.

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Leidyonor Muniz Quinones wants to hear about George Washington's Patowmack Canal.

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Over the years, several attempts were made to build the canal.

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