It would also bring enough sand for construction purposes without depleting sand in the rivers eventually killing these rivers.

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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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Avoca is the ideal place to get sand between your toes, surf or simply enjoy walks along the headlands without having to deal with Sydney's mayhem.

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It was an unexpected and novel difficulty because the troop was used to eating on surfaces without sand.

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In November, Sand was arrested while trying to enter the Philippines without proper identification and was deported to Los Angeles, where he was taken into custody by U.S. marshals.

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Without any sense of the intervening hours, Houston awakened sweaty and all bitten up by mosquitoes and sand fleas, a sagging mattress swallowing him alive, a headache pounding against his skull.

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