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Show With no engineering experience. Ferdinand de Lesseps planned, promoted, and built the Suez Canal. He talked Turkey's Viceroy of Egypt into giving right of way In 1854. but four years passed before he raised the capital. The word "maelstrom" came Into English as the name of a celebrated cele-brated whirlpool off the Norwegian coast. The vortex was once believed to suck in all ships within a wide radius. The nine million tons of waste paper used annually in the United States by the paper industry is equivalent to the annual growth of trees in the forests of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. |