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Today's latest news:
The Ever Given container ship has been officially impounded after its owner refused to pay a reported £655 million in compensation for blocking the Suez Canal....
"The Salvation of Mankind lies in making everything the responsibility of All"
Sophocles.
Who2 wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:31 am
Today's latest news:
The Ever Given container ship has been officially impounded after its owner refused to pay a reported £655 million in compensation for blocking the Suez Canal....
Let’s hope they find somewhere - out of the way - to park it.
Who2 wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:31 am
Today's latest news:
The Ever Given container ship has been officially impounded after its owner refused to pay a reported £655 million in compensation for blocking the Suez Canal....
Wonder who is going to compensate all the companies that have been waiting for the cargo that is on it.
Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
I have no idea how long it took to dig out and prepare, test and then open the original Suez Canal. (OK, I'm lazy and not searched for the information either.) It does seem to me...
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Since the opening of the 'new' Suez Canal, revenue has significantly declined from previous years. The government of Egypt has recently set up an inquiry as to why this is so,........Hmmm....
Hopefully this could be interesting tonight on Ch4.
Mind you, celebrating the 6th of October must be like celebrating the great exodus of Afghanistan.
I believe it's called a Pyrrhic victory ?........
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Shame the programme involves Tony Robinson otherwise I might have checked in. He should have stuck to being Blackadder’s servant. I find it impossible to take him seriously as a historian.
GREAT CANAL JOURNEYS was on CH 4 tonight on the Nile Repeated on More 4 on Wednesday at 9 00pm
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I loved the programme when then entered my home turf, the pool of Little Venice on the Regents Canal.
As they passed 'the bucket of blood now renamed
The Waterway ' Bistro-style gastropub with...
Its odd that the Egyptian media doesn't mention the 60th anniversary of one of the most important events in modern Egyptian History - the nationalization of the canal. The fact that the canal has not...
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Good - all friends - all agreed (maybe? - up to you) we have said too much and at too much length (me).