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A Brief History Of The Corinth Canal
The Culture Trip ^
| December 9, 2016
| Ethel Dilouambaka
Posted on 09/15/2022 7:52:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/15/2022 7:52:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
09/15/2022 7:55:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
A man. A plan. A Canal. Corinth.
Dang, I’ll never be able to create a palindrome.
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posted on
09/15/2022 7:57:53 PM PDT
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Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: SunkenCiv
I wonder if anyone ever bungee jumps off that bridge.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:01:28 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Wouldn’t mind taking the sailboat through there one day, should we ever get to Europe.
To: BenLurkin
Last sentence of the excerpt.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:07:29 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: BenLurkin
Seems like a great idea, y’know, for someone else to try.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:15:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Larry Lucido
Corinth kinda screws it up. Means “the place of the Khar”, if that helps. Yeah, no, it doesn’t.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:16:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:18:02 PM PDT
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Ken H
(Trump /DeSantis)
To: Conan the Librarian
I’ve wondered about the transit since reading about a fictional one in, hmm, probably Clive Cussler.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:18:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
As the project was too complicated given the limited technical capabilities of the times, Periander constructed the diolkós, a stone road which allowed ships to be transferred on wheeled platforms. They had something like that in Newark NJ, about 2400 years later. It was called a "plane," and there were many of them on what was called the Morris Canal. The one pictured below was called "Plane 12 East," and was built around 1830. It hauled canal barges up a height of 70 feet.
As you can see in the picture, the weight of a downward-heading boat supplied most of the energy needed to pull the other boat up the incline.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:18:17 PM PDT
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Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
Smart.
My tiny contribution to Jean Pierre’s idea about the use of the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid is, the counterweight crib of rocks was just under the amount needed to pull the granite blocks up the other ramp, so, after hooking everything up, the workers would dogpile on the crib, and the additional weight would finish the job.
Then they and their buddies on the other crews would get on the sled that carried the granite up the other ramp, and their weight would raise the counterweight back to the top as they headed down to the plateau level.
I probably should tell him about it sometime, y’know, if I ever meet him.
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:25:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Deaf Smith
Thank you. I got caught up admiring the photo.
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09/15/2022 8:36:40 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv
I have driven over the canal a couple dozen times, it is an amazing feat of engineering and determination. Each time I pass, I think it was a whole lot of effort to simply avoid sailing around the Peloponnese. Then again, having sailed the Aegean, I know it can be a rough ride.
To: Ken H
Makes me claustrophobic to look at it...
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posted on
09/15/2022 8:46:45 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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posted on
09/15/2022 9:13:02 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Second link no worky for me...
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posted on
09/15/2022 9:26:40 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: SunkenCiv
Those Greeks could dig ‘em deep and how!
(120 stadia on the Corinth Canal)
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posted on
09/15/2022 10:15:37 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: SunkenCiv
been there.....it is SCARY looking, even more than this picture.
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posted on
09/16/2022 4:04:32 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Ann Archy
I’m sure it’s worse at the ship deck level. :^)
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posted on
09/16/2022 7:43:41 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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