The opening ceremony was attended by the Lord Chamberlain and the Home Secretary, H. H. Asquith, who watched the Prince of Wales formally declare the bridge open while a parade of vessels passed underneath the raised bascules.
St Paul’s Cathedral was completed in 1710, and was the first cathedral in England to be completed under the direction of a single architect.
The canal was designed as a sea-level waterway stretching approximately 120 miles across the Isthmus of Suez, and its completion in 1869, ten years after work began, significantly reduced travel time between Europe and Asia.
Construction of the Aswan High Dam took just over ten years and cost nearly $1 billion.
The Hoover Dam was known as the Boulder Dam at the time.
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