The Original Suez Canal
A land bridge between India and Sri Lanka, Canada's new border and a flight through the Arc de Triomphe
The Suez Canal, completed in 1869, is not the first canal to connect the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The Canal of the Pharaohs made the same connection via a different route in ancient times. It was likely completed several centuries before Christ, and was permanently closed about a thousand years later in 797 AD.
Sri Lanka and India were connected by a land bridge until a cyclone destroyed it in 1480. The Ramayana says it was constructed by Rama, while the 11th century Iranian scholar al-Biruni claimed Adam crossed it after his expulsion from Eden.
On June 10, 2022, Canada and the European Union officially gained a land border. This is the result of the incredibly bitter Whisky War between Denmark and Canada.
Video of a WWI plane flying through the Arc de Triomphe and lifting a man off of a train. It’s interesting how effective humanity was at flight by this time considering the first plane was only built about a decade earlier.
The largest American city and the largest Canadian city have both been named after York. As of 2019 York is #87 in terms of population within England, but surely #1 in terms of its naming legacy.
The fact that light travels at a finite speed was determined way back in 1676, by an otherwise little-known Danish scientist named Ole Rømer. His estimate of the exact speed was 26% off.
