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An Alternative to the Suez Canal? - Untold lives blog


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An Alternative to the Suez Canal?
The opening of the Suez Canal in 1868 created a new trade route between Europe and Asia as an alternative to the long sea journey around the Cape of Good Hope, but a different route had also been given serious consideration.
The Isthmus of Suez and the River Euphrates in a detail from a map of Arabia by William Henry Plate (1847), IOR/X/3205, India Office Records, British Library
 
A survey of the Isthmus of Suez in 1798 had incorrectly shown the Red Sea to be 8.5m higher than the Mediterranean, an idea finally put to rest by a more accurate survey carried out by British army officer Captain Francis Rawdon Chesney in 1830.  Chesney’s recommendation however was for the establishment of a permanent steam-boat service on the Euphrates River as part of an overland route linking the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, and in 1834 the UK Parliament voted a grant of £20,000 towards determining ....

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Plague upon the waters: How a disease-ridden steamboat spread yellow fever


Plague upon the waters: How a disease-ridden steamboat spread yellow fever
When COVID-19 began to spread globally, the first large case cluster outside China wasn’t in another country. It was on a cruise ship: the Diamond Princess.
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An early COVID-19 cluster was on a cruise ship, continuing a tradition of disease spreading at sea
Posted: Mar 07, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: March 7
A ship flies a yellow flag, signalling yellow fever, at a safe distance from a port. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir painted between 1920 and 1950.(The Wellcome Collection) ....

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