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The Suez Canal connects two seas without locks.
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean and Red seas without locks. Ships follow a sea-level channel across Egypt instead of being raised to an inland summit and lowered again.
The Suez Canal connects two seas without locks.
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Cleopatra lived closer to the 1969 Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid. The pyramid was already about 2,500 years old when she was born.
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Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid was built.
A surviving population of woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island while Egyptians were building the Great Pyramid. These Arctic animals persisted until about 4,000 years ago, long after most mainland populations disappeared.
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