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Podcast Episode 15: The Suez Canal
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:30:02
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Synopsis
The Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas through Egypt and thus provides a quicker shipping route from west to east, was inaugurated in an elaborate, weeks-long ceremony in November of 1869. It was promoted not only as an engineering wonder, but as a means by which permanent international peace and harmony would [...]