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How the Groundbreaking Suez Canal Forever Transformed the World’s Shipping Routes
The massive global shortcut linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas took ten years to dig through the Isthmus of Suez and was built on the path of an ancient canal ...
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Battle of Issus in 333 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III, which brought the first Persian Empire down
November 12, 333 BC. The second triumph of M. Alexander over the Persians, after Granikos, in the Battle of Issus. This time, his opponent was their king himself, Darius III, who panicked and fled in ...