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May 6, 1994

English Channel tunnel opens

In a ceremony presided over by England's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel was... MORE >

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TUNNEL,

Underwater sunken tube tunnels, such as the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, have been built by fabricating short tunnel sections in a trench in the riverbed or sea floor. Orwigsburg (1821), water tunnel at Orwigsburg Landing, . . .

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