- Channel Tunnel (England & France)
While the entrance of the Channel Tunnel is taken to lie between Ushant and the Scully Isles, its extreme breadth (between those points) is about 100 m., and its length is about 350m.
- Empire State Building (New York)
With office suites to suit almost any firm or organization, the building's modernization program has made it a rare find indeed for those lucky enough to occupy it.
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)
The Golden Gate Bridge is acclaimed as one of the world's most beautiful bridges and with its tremendous towers, sweeping main cables and great span, it is a sensory beauty featuring color, sound, and light.
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- Itaipu Dam (Brazil/Paraguay)
The Itaipu hydroelectric power plant is the largest development of its kind in operation in the world. Built from 1975 to 1991, in a binational development on the Parana River, Itaipu represents the efforts and accomplishments of two neighboring countries, Brazil and Paraguay.
- Netherlands North Sea Protection Works (Netherlands)
The Dutch, have for more than a millenium been wresting precious agricultural lands from the sea and fighting to hold on to them. Their greatest achievement-a colossal fun in the dike-if the vast and one dress project known as that Netherlands North Sea protection works.
- Panama Canal (Panama)
The history of the construction of the Panama Canal is the saga of human ingenuity and courage: years of sacrifice, crushing defeat, and final victory. Many gave their life in the effort.
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