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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

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

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

VOA: special.2011.08.08

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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

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

VOA: special.2009.12.15

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

VOA: special.2009.11.01

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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

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

VOA: special.2010.03.31

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

VOA: special.2010.08.19

"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.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

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

VOA: special.2011.04.29

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

VOA: special.2010.03.31

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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

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.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

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

VOA: special.2011.04.29

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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

For weeks,the Union soldiers worked on the canal.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Grant ordered the men to build another canal.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

And Egypt controls the Suez Canal.

VOA: special.2011.02.04

Among the titles is a 1923 recording of "Canal Street Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band;

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

So they hurried to build a new Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from the old port of Georgetown in Washington to Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

At its peak in the 1870s, more than 500 long,narrow boats carried cargo on the canal.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Finally a canal company official showed up and set fire to sheaves of green corn to literally smoke the boatsmen out of the tunnel.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Venetians have been concerned about the declining population of the canal city for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27