But last week, canal boats trapped on the shut-down central section of canal were given a window of opportunity to leave.

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Stretching along a section of Canal Street in central Nottingham, the Southreef complex has a combination of offices, apartments and retail space.

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The three zones in the 1x3 mile area of the Kenzo Tange Master Plan are connected by a canal in the central link.

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Along with serving as a cultural base, Panama City is also the starting point for one of the most unique journeys in all of Central America: the Panama Canal Railway.

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Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.

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Central College Nottingham said it wants to build the development on derelict land on Canal Street, next to the tram line.

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Three of the most central and historically significant places to explore the canals are Khlong Saen Saeb, a canal in the centre of the city, Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem, one of the original canals around the Grand Palace, and Thonburi, a neighbourhood on the west side of the Chao Praya.

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The report says the Venezuelan Army Corps of Engineers is now studying construction of a highway between Puerto Cabezas in the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) and Rio Blanco in the central department of Matagalpa, also to be integrated into the network linking to the Dry Canal.

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In addition, some Port Said residents say the central government doesn't invest enough of the tax dollars it reaps from international ships traveling through the Suez Canal back into in Port Said.

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