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  • termed the stone canal, which is, as its name implies, commonly lined with calcareous material. The stone canal runs to a circular ring canal, from which...
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    seawater into the stone canal, which connects to the ring canal around the mouth. Five or more radial canals extend from the ring canal, one in each arm...
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    exists. Either the body of the canal is dug or the sides of the canal are created by making dykes or levees by piling dirt, stone, concrete or other building...
    61 KB (7,927 words) - 22:42, 19 May 2024
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    The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the...
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    The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific...
    137 KB (14,657 words) - 20:48, 10 May 2024
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    Stoke-on-Trent, and 15 miles (24 km) north of Rugeley. As a notable canal town, Stone is recognised for its rich history, originating from the early Bronze...
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    stone canal, often lined with calcareous material, to a ring canal around the mouth opening. A set of radial canals leads off this; one radial canal runs...
    105 KB (11,388 words) - 00:49, 17 May 2024
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    The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, and part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway. The canal traverses the Niagara Peninsula...
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    The Grand Canal is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport...
    58 KB (7,247 words) - 01:31, 21 May 2024
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    The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, literally "North [Sea]–East (i.e. Baltic) Sea canal", formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98 km...
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    the madreporite through the slender stone canal to the ring canal, which encircles the oesophagus. Radial canals lead from here through each ambulacral...
    74 KB (7,692 words) - 05:46, 18 May 2024
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    The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus...
    70 KB (7,611 words) - 00:03, 6 May 2024
  • Singh refurbished the canal and extended it with another branch to Amritsar. According to scholar Ian Stone, these early canals were defective in many...
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    references to, or puns on, zoology and palaeontology. For example, in The Stone Canal the title of the book, and many places described in it, are named after...
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  • makes use of similar structures in his own novels, most notably in The Stone Canal. In 1990 Use of Weapons was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association...
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    vertical-sided brick- or stone-walled locks. On British canals and waterways most turf-sided locks have been subsequently rebuilt in brick or stone, and so only a...
    41 KB (4,929 words) - 05:52, 12 May 2024
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    locally quarried stone. It was about 800 yards (730 m) long, and rises seven feet above the summer level of the river. From Okhla the canal follows a route...
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    Template:Attached KML/Gowanus Canal KML is from Wikidata The Gowanus Canal (originally known as the Gowanus Creek) is a 1.8-mile-long (2.9 km) canal in the New York...
    124 KB (13,391 words) - 02:38, 10 April 2024
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    The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, romanized: Dioryga tis Korinthou) is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in...
    24 KB (2,653 words) - 21:40, 16 May 2024
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    water. Canal aqueducts are structures that carry a canal across a valley, road, railway, or another canal. Dundas Aqueduct is built of stone in a classical...
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