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Radio SunLounge Romania (March 24, 2023)

23:56 How To Destroy Angels - A Drowning (Vikmir Remix) 23:52 Hiatus - Save Yourself 23:46 Jens Buchert - Aquarel 23:46 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 23:42 Minus Blue - Too Far To Speak (Original Mix) 23:36 Orange Music - Leave It All Behind (Vocal Mix) 23:31 Gushi & Raffunk - Sound Of You (Beat Ambasada Remix) 23:25 Night Loungers - A Little Lazy Morning In Paris (French Kiss Vocal Mix) 23:21 Gary B - Stronger Love 23:17 V Dimension - Silence Of The Mind 23:13 Lorenzo Al Dino & Deep Josh Feat. Cope - Lullaby (Deep Josh Into The Lounge Mix) 23:08 Jens Buchert - Helios 3 (Mind Flux Mix) 23:02 Weekend Players - Higher Ground 22:57 Roberto Sol - Tomorrow (Extended Mix) 22:52 Velvet Dreamer, Tim Gelo, Diana Moon - Sky Is Falling 22:48 Stargazer - Because 22:43 351 Lake Shore Drive - Underwater Lights 22:38 Anthony Hicks - Cruisey Summer 22:35 Lenny Mac Dowell Feat. Jazzamor - Je Te Veux 22:29 Solanos - After The Rain (Original Mix) 22:25 Jessie Frye - Eighteen 22:20 Solarflow - Come Into My Space 22:15 Vargo - Precious (Part Two) 22:09 Don Gorda Project - Symbolic Interaction 22:03 Fragmentorchestra - The Muse 22:01 Counting Clouds - Daylight 21:57 Israel Medina - Stepping Out 21:53 Citrus Jam Feat. Judith Erb - Do You See (Rainbow Mix) 21:52 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 21:48 Zoe Moon & Miyoki - Mannequin 21:44 Greenfinch - My Blood For Your Love (Feat. Aphrow) 21:39 Ayla - Open Your Mind 21:36 Soulchef - Road Trip 21:32 Andrea Revel - White Noise 21:28 Five Seasons - Dreams Come True 21:23 Saba Rock & Sandy Cay - Outta Sight (Original Mix) 21:18 Deechiller - City Lights Soul 2 Sax Mix 21:13 Hotel Riviera - Give Me A Little Time 21:09 Liam Van Dyke - Cafe Del Mar (First Class Lounge Cut) 21:04 Emotional - I Found It Again (Tom's V-Mix) 20:59 Sunbeams - Uko 20:55 Mia Lemar - Colourful Life 20:53 Two Feet - Her Life 20:49 Anthony Island - Promets 20:43 Christa Vi - Small Way Through (Cosmonaut Grechko Version) 20:42 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 20:35 Morcheeba - Let Me See (Sonic Warrior ‘Beat’ Mix) 20:30 351 Lake Shore Drive - Xtc 20:24 V I F - Silence Of The Heart (Original Mix) 20:21 Jentarix Feat. M.k.touch - Reincarnation (Original Mix) 20:16 Dj Pippi & Ann West - On This Island (Feat. Ann West) 20:09 Charlie North - Saltwater (Ambient Mix) 20:05 Howard Maple - Springtime 19:58 Lounge Jam - Mistery 19:54 Calar Del Sole - Cafe Del Mar (Lounge Remake) 19:50 Karen Souza - Dreams 19:48 Fobee - Sea Of Love 19:45 Kraak & Smaak - Echo Park 19:41 Carl Kennedy - Room And Ripple (Boutique Mix) 19:37 Santerna Feat. Vadim Kapustin - Feeling Like A River (Chillout Mix) 19:33 Soro Sori - Starry Light (Vocal Dub Version) 19:28 Peter Pearson - Drifting Along 19:28 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 19:23 Loungebox - Love Is Always 19:18 Kentaro Takizawa - Gradual Life (Silent Dream Version) 19:13 Chris Le Blanc Feat. Liz June - Enjoy Your Life 19:09 Blue Six - Aquarian Angel 19:08 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 19:04 Lemongrass Feat. Skadi - Habla Mi Corazon (Original Mix) 19:00 Marcus Koch - Forever (Original Edit) 18:56 Smoke City - Underwater Love 18:50 Vargo - Get Back To Serenity (Beach Mix) 18:46 Direct Lights - Deeper (Original Mix) 18:39 Lounge\andreas - The Outlands 18:34 Arrojas - Over The Past Year 18:30 Keep Shelly In Athens - On The Road 18:30 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 18:26 Ielo - Beautiful Flower 18:21 Michael E - Southern Comfort 18:16 Kondencuotas Pienas Feat. Mill - So Pure (Lemongrass Remix) 18:11 Mop Mop - Blue Soul 18:11 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 18:06 Monodeluxe - All Night 18:01 351 Lake Shore Drive - Seabeam 17:55 Don Gorda Project - Stay On Course 17:52 Soulchef - California 17:47 Music On Canvas Feat. Tabitha - Upside Down 17:42 Pascal Dubois - Deep Into The Night (Long Island Mix) 17:37 Ian Pooley - Balance (Ian Pooley Bar Lounge Classics Mix) 17:33 Velvet Lounge Project - Contigo (Short Cut) 17:33 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 17:29 Mousse T. Feat. Roachford - Pop Muzak (Ian Pooley Remix) 17:24 Taylor Clare - The Right Track (Swift Again Mix) 17:16 From P60 Feat. Virag - You Take Me 17:16 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 17:10 Tanga - Helium 17:07 Glambeats Corp - Hollywood 17:03 Lazy Grooves - Secrets (Original Mix) 16:58 Newton - New Beautiful Life 16:55 Late Night Alumni - Mistake 16:49 V I F - Silence Of The Heart (Original Mix) 16:46 Jony Lipsey - Coming Undone 16:41 Club Salinero - Shade In The Sun 16:36 York, Asheni - Mercury Rising (Chillout Mix) 16:34 C Cil - Calm & Quiet 16:29 Stendahl Feat. Jama - Follow Me (Original Mix) 16:24 Leonie Meijer - Message In A Bottle 16:19 Man Behind C. - Pitcard (Dreamguitar Mix) 16:14 Afterlife - Falling 16:09 Edo - Heaven 16:03 Mirage Of Deep, Améthyste Spardel - I Hear Dreams (Five Seasons Remix) 15:59 Dubphonic - Trick Of Time 15:53 L' Art Mystique - Beautiful Things 15:48 Sky Sergeant - Music Connection (Dolphins Mix) 15:44 Living Room - The Essence 15:44 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 15:41 London Grammar - Metal & Dust 15:35 Deeper Sublime - La Musica Sei Tu 15:30 Worldwide Groove Corporation - Midnight In Venice (Feat. The Mystery Singer, Djlo) 15:25 Jazzamor - Lullaby (Original Mix) 15:25 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 15:21 Deeper Sublime & Coffee Machine - I've Got You (Original Mix) 15:16 Bulb - Impossible (Original Mix) 15:12 Man In A Room - L'entre Jeux 15:06 Dj Regal - The Village Calling 15:03 Minty-'s Style - See The Light 14:56 Max Melvin - Earth Inside 14:50 Kusuma Orchestra - Nightfall 14:44 Tactful - No Fear 14:43 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 14:40 C.cil - Sunset 14:34 Aural Float - Still Here (Feat. Kim Sanders) 14:30 Aiemo Feat. Kristina Frazzitta - I Need You (Vocal Mix) 14:25 Marga Sol - Love Affair (Original Mix) 14:20 Booper - Could Be Mine 14:13 Nostalgia 77 - Quiet Dawn (Bonobo Remix) 14:09 Lemongrass - All My Angels 14:04 Riccardo Eberspacher - Mi Amor Feat. Maria Teresa Pintus 14:00 Movie Chill - Wicked Game (Original Mix) 13:54 Sunpeople - Lost (Born This Way Mix) 13:50 Mystic Diversions - Float On 13:47 Thievery Corporation - It Takes A Thief 13:46 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 13:41 Mariella Narvaez - Play With Fire (Miami Chill Out Groove Mix) 13:38 Living Room - It-'s A Turning Around 13:35 Lemongrass - Forest Spirit 13:28 Max Melvin - Whatever (Sunset Mix) 13:23 S.w. - Humans And Gods 13:18 Deeper Sublime - Femme Fatale 13:11 Euphonic Traveller - Pont Notre Dame 13:08 Brook Sapphire - How I Will Feel 13:07 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 13:04 Aromabar - Winter Pagent 12:57 Cantoma - Paloma (Mudds Slender Loris Mix) 12:54 Villablue Feat. Juanita Grande - Leaving The Lights 12:48 Max Denoise, Claire Willis - All I See (Original Mix) 12:48 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 12:42 Man In A Room - Something New (Feat. Natasha Tsirou) 12:38 Spiritual Soul - Green Coffee - Ethereal Mix 12:33 Gary B - Ill Be Your World 12:28 Chicane Present - No Ordinary Morning (Original Mix) 12:28 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 12:19 Micatone - A Part Of Me 12:13 Dalminjo - And She Said (Ex-Girlfriend Mix) 12:08 Faro - Our Balloon 12:08 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 12:04 Velvet Lounge Project - Contigo 12:00 Pat The Cat - Hotel California (Feat. Rachel Moreau) 11:55 Cathy Battistessa - Two Eye's 11:49 Man In The Moon Feat. Oli S - Feel My Love 11:49 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 11:44 Simon Le Grec - I Need U (Smooth Mix) 11:40 Lissa - Some Of Me (Feat. Philip Nolan) 11:31 Vladi Strecker - Meditation In The City (Smooth Evening Cut) 11:27 Beth Orton - Daybreaker 11:27 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 11:23 Mystique - Essences (Rico Van Basten Chil Mix) 11:18 Soundset City - Smooth Delight 11:13 Cane Garden Quartet - Chillaxin' 11:09 Xerxes & Phoenix - Scarecrow 11:04 Soulstice - Andromeda 11:00 Urban Phunk Society - The Visitor 10:55 Marc Hartman - I Can't Stop 10:46 Electric Moonlight - Celebrating Love 10:41 Solar Moon Feat. Jen - Inside Out 10:36 Schwarz & Funk - Cala Llonga (Original Mix) 10:32 Comfort - In Travel 10:31 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 10:26 Dub Mars - Between The Lines 10:21 Dave Ross - Journey In A Space Tube 10:18 Randy Crawford - Give Me The Night (Chill Night Mix) 10:13 Simon Le Grec - I Need U (Smooth Mix) 10:08 Deeparture - Dambes 10:04 Lotus - New Day Rising 10:01 Moods - Comfortable (Feat. High Hoops) 09:56 James Vincent Mcmorrow - We Don't Eat (Dinka Bootleg) 09:52 Mo-'jardo - Summer Rain (Original Mix) 09:48 Marga Sol - Breath 09:44 Cling - Abandoned 09:40 Anthony Hicks, Melody. - Chase The Sunshine (Feat. Melody) 09:36 Andru Donalds - Hurts To Be In Love 09:31 Purple Avenue - American Boy 09:24 Boot Cut Rockers Feat. Mica Wanner - Sunflowers 09:19 Axel B - Sunset Love 09:15 Melorman - Ten 09:07 Jozef Kugler - Shaggy (Original Mix) 09:04 Nor Elle - Deep Breeze 08:57 Azymuth - Morning 08:53 The Smokering - Flying Colors 08:48 Simon Le Grec - Feelings (Piano Mix) 08:41 Sharion - Pleasure 08:35 Gods Blue Chest - Close To The Sun 08:35 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 08:31 Chris Le Blanc - Glass Reflections 08:27 Milosh - Another Day 08:22 Roberto Sol - Tomorrow (Extended Mix) 08:17 My Island - Maledives Beach Lounge (Palm Garden Mix) 08:12 Bebo Best - Out Of Myself 08:07 Polished Chrome - 2night 08:02 Edx - Falling Out Of Love (Lounge Mix) 07:59 Jens Buchert - Les Alpes 07:54 Kool&klean - I Smile 07:50 Euphonic Traveller, Zach Alwin - Planes Over Ushuaia 07:46 Pat Appleton - Ageless 07:42 Climatic - For No Reason At All 07:36 Florzinho, Florzino - Music Is The Universal Language (Instrumental) 07:31 Florzinho - Maha - Amba 07:27 Mr Vaud - Life In The Night 07:23 Acoustique Parfum - Petite Eto 07:23 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 07:17 Smith & Mighty - Maybe It's Me 07:13 The Urban City Myth Club - I Feel It 07:10 Cataldo - Do It All Night 07:04 The Maxwell Implosion - The Upper Left Hand 07:00 Francis On My Mind - Never Be The Same 06:57 Garden City Movement - Foreign Affair 06:53 Jazzamor - He-'s Not There (Original Mix) 06:49 Weathertunes - Grand View 06:46 Benatural - Dancefloor Red (Original Mix) 06:42 Candee Soulchillaz - Lily Was Here - Ibiza Del Mar Cafe Chill Mix 06:37 Jeff Bennet's Lounge Experience Feat. Alexandra - Sympathy 06:31 Vargo - Intuition (Touch My Hall Mix) 06:30 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 06:26 Reunited - Sun Is Shining (Out Of Sight Remix) 06:20 Cafe Americaine - Infrajam (Loungebar Mix) 06:16 Chris Coco - Summer Sun 06:11 Spooky - Dub Addiction 06:10 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 06:03 Triangle Sun - Karelia (Original Mix) 05:58 El Segundo - Blue Marlin (Juan Padilla Serve Chilled Remix) 05:55 Pochill - By And By 05:49 Lafoliedamour - You 05:49 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 05:45 Ladder & Rachel Rubinger - Your Mind 05:43 Mimi Page - My Vanilla Sky 05:37 Blank & Jones, Elles De Graaf - Closer To Me 05:28 Duo Varial Feat. Enaïd - Fly Away 05:22 The Ls Project - Le Voyage De La Vie 05:17 Soma Sonic - Rien 05:14 Cicada - Elle Et Moi 05:13 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 05:07 Deeparture - Ocean Drive 05:01 Schwarz & Funk - Fate Of Destiny 04:57 The Chiller - Chiller (Original Mix) 04:52 Martin Liege - New Brand (Blue Nebula Mix) 04:52 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 04:46 Blu Martini - Better With You (Miguel Musso Mix) 04:42 Michel Petit - Rhode Island 04:38 Blank & Jones - Summer Sky 04:34 Bessie Boni - Mystic Revelation (Feat. Gianna Partner) 04:33 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 04:28 Frank Borell - Icarus (Electric Slide Mix) 04:24 Lung - In Bloom 04:20 Peter Pearson - This Way To A Dream 04:12 Philippe Bestion & Karin Nobbs - Morning Light 04:12 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 04:07 Airstream One - Southern Light 04:00 Aimee Sol - Anything You Want (Sunshine Deluxe Edit) 03:56 Jason Bradberry - Seven Days (Gridlocked Remix) 03:52 Living Room - Space Traveller 03:52 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 03:48 Dharma - Probedas 03:44 Chris Reece - Island Of Love 03:39 Stigma - Eternity 03:35 Atb Feat. Melissa Loretta - White Letters 03:29 Shakes Seven - Angel 03:23 Man In A Room & Civilian - Night Mail (Velvet Dreamer Remix) 03:20 Weathertunes - Siddharta 03:14 Aandra Feat. Ayako Higuchi - Green Tea 03:06 Under The Sun - Waves Of The Sun 03:01 Eriq Johnson & Movox Feat. Marga Sol - Noname Story (Original Mix) (Original Mix) 02:56 Atb - 9 Am 02:53 Superhumanoids - Bad Weather (Tropics Remix) 02:52 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 02:48 Emotional - My Way (Jazzomatic Mix) 02:42 Emotional - I Found It Again (Tom's V-Mix) 02:38 Elektrohandel - Somnia Dulcia 02:34 Amber Mark - Conexao 02:33 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 02:28 Lenny Mac Dowell - Solar Energy 02:23 India Arie - Always In My Head 02:19 Seoan - Far From Paradise (Heaven Voices Mix) 02:14 Waldeck - Aquarius (Straight] 02:05 Bob Harz - What We Are 02:03 Deeper Sublime - Someone Like You 01:57 Majestic 12 - Alone Again (Trüby Trio Treatment) 01:52 Blank & Jones - Sun Starts Smiling (Eclectic Mix) 01:47 Smooth Deluxe - Medina 01:44 Late Night Alumni - Epilogue 01:40 Lemongrass - Lucky (Feat. Suzy Duffy) 01:34 Vargo - Intuition (Touch My Hall Mix) 01:27 Velvet Dreamer - 1000 Miles Away (Simon & Florzinho Remix) 01:23 Setsuna - White Light 01:16 Lagoon - Bare Your Heart 01:16 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 01:11 Karen Gibson Roc - We Can Shine Together 01:05 Green Lemon Feat. Magica Fe - 11 O'Clock (The Man Behind C. Edit) 01:02 Josh Mobley - Shades Of Blue (Feat. Sonji) 00:58 Chris Le Blanc Feat. Miss Luna - Into My Dream 00:53 Late Night Alumni - Summer Lies 00:49 Mandalay - Follow Me 00:47 Peter Pearson - Still On My Mind 00:42 Minus Blue - Be As One (Klangstein Edit) 00:42 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 00:38 Velvet Lounge Project - The Secret Of Your Heart (Anthony Island Remix) 00:35 Twins In Mind - I Hear Your Voice 00:31 Sinan Mercenk - France 00:23 Atrium - Sea Of Desire - Beach Del Mar Cafe Mix 00:23 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 00:18 Skysurfer - Circling Elements Feat. Lovay (Down By The Sea Mix) 00:11 Solanos - Sambado 00:08 Sven Van Hees - Pastel Paradise 00:03 Billie Marten - Out Of The Black (67th Hour Remix) 00:02 Jingle - Radiosun.ro

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Retro Game Spotlight 068: Solar Fox (1983)

Original Publisher (Arcade version): Bally Midway Original Designer (Arcade version): Jack Pearson Publisher (2600 version): CBS Electronics Designer (2600 version): Bob Curtiss

Trivia: As part of an unspecified contest run by CBS Electronics, Solar Fox contained six "Challenge" rounds, each awarding a letter spelling out the secret word HELIOS (the god of the sun in Greek mythology).

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7 Interesting Suez Canal Facts [UPDATED]

Suez Canal Facts

Built in: 1869

Located in: Egypt

Length: 193.3 Km or 120.11 mi

Panama Canal, Volga-Don Canal, the Corinth Canal, the Grand Canal, and the Suez Canal happen to be the most famous man-made canals in the world. They are responsible for carrying out the majority of marine transportation in the most economically efficient way possible.

Suez Canal has a special place in History and has been at the center stage of global conflicts and intrigues. Here are some of the fun Suez Canal facts which we are sure will interest you.

7 Interesting Suez Canal Facts

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Where is the Suez Canal located?

The Suez Canal is located in Egypt. It is an artificial waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It saves 7000 Km of extra travel by enabling water vessels to take a shorter way through Mediterranean and Red Seas. Navigating between North Atlantic and northern Indian Oceans these vessels can altogether avoid the South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans, thereby saving a lot of time and money in the process. Situated at the city of Suez, the canal extends from the northern terminus of Port Said to the southern terminus of Port Tewfik.

What are the dimensions of The Suez Canal?

If you include the northern and southern access channels, the length of the Suez Canal is 193.3 Km or 120.11 mi. On average, more than 47 vessels traverse this canal.

Who built the Suez Canal and when was it built?

Napoleon Bonaparte, after his Egyptian conquest in 1798 considered building the canal. So he sent some surveyors to gather information regarding the plausibility of his idea. Unfortunately, they erroneously reported that the Red Sea being around 30 ft higher than the Mediterranean Sea would result in floods of disastrous proportions should Napoleon try to build the Suez Canal. Hence Napoleon abandoned the project of constructing the Suez Canal. Luckily in 1847, a group of researchers confirmed those surveyors’ miscalculations, stating that there was no significant difference in the altitudes of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, in 1859 a Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps formed the Suez Canal Company after much discussion, thereby materializing an almost century-long vision.

How was the Suez Canal Built?

Though in the later stages the Suez Canal Company used steam-powered machines explicitly designed for the purpose the early years of its development involved manual labor. The Egyptian government forced poor peasants to work in exchange for meager pay and often threatened them with violence. So despite having cheap labor, the process of construction was prolonged.

After the ban on forced labor in 1863 by the Egyptian ruler Ismail Pasha, the company was forced to switch to alternatives to compensate for the shortage of laborers. The usage of the steam-powered equipment boosted the workflow by a tremendous amount.

The History of the Statue of Liberty

Now, this is a fun fact. Towards the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi tried to convince Ferdinand de Lesseps to let him build a sculpture called the “Egypt Bringing Light to Asia” at its Mediterranean entrance. He was inspired by work of Chares of Lindos, a sculptor in 280 BC, the Colossus of Rhodes. It was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios erected in the city of Rhodes.

The statue was 108 feet high and was the tallest statue of the ancient world. Bartholdi wanted to create something of similar proportions. He imagined a 90 ft tall statue of a woman wearing the type of clothes worn by Egyptian peasants. She would hold a massive torch which would also be used as a lighthouse to guide ships into this canal.

Lesseps never agreed, and hence the project was never realized. But Bartholdi did not give up hope. He kept pitching this idea at several places until finally in 1886 he unveiled the complete version in New York Harbour. Though better known to the world as the Statue of Liberty, its official name is “Liberty Enlightening the World.”

War and Politics Involving the Suez Canal

Franz Xaver Winterhalter Napoleon III

Britain and France ruled Egypt at that time. Lesseps was a French diplomat. His proposal for the Suez Canal had the support of the French Emperor Napoleon III. It led the British to believe that this was a political scheme that intended to undermine British dominance in global shipping. They were up in arms against Lesseps who in turn exchanged verbal attacks with the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. Robert Stephenson spoke against this project in the parliament causing Lesseps to challenge the former to a duel. Even after all this, the British Empire continued criticizing the plan but ironically ended up buying a 44% stake in the waterway when the Egyptian government auctioned its portion of shares.

In 1888, it was decided in the Convention of Constantinople that the Suez Canal would operate as a neutral zone. Meanwhile, it was to remain under the protection of the British who successfully defended it against the Ottoman Empire during World War I in 1915.

During World War II, the Axis powers of Italy and Germany tried to capture the Suez Canal.  It called for the Anglo Egyptian Treaty of 1936 which reaffirmed British control over the Suez Canal. Though it was decided earlier that the waterway would remain neutral, Axis ships, for most of the war, were banned from accessing it. When World War II ended the Egyptians withdrew from the treaty in 1951.

Suez Crisis

It was in the year 1956 that the British finally withdrew their troops from the Suez Canal and handed its control over to President Gamal Abder Nasser of Egypt. Nasser handed over the ownership to the Suez Canal Authority. It earned him the anger of the British and the United States who initially withdrew the financial support that they had promised for the improvement of the canal.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Nasser’s government decided to close the Straits of Tiran, which linked Israel with the Red Sea. It angered the European powers, and after that Briain, France and Israel retaliated by threatening to invade Egypt. It is known in history as the Suez Crisis. The Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson became anxious that the situation would worsen and thereby proposed to the United Nations the formation of a peacekeeping force for the protection of the canal ensuring that it remained accessible to all. On 4th November 1956, the U.N. consented to this proposal. But if you believe that this was the last time that the Suez Canal got entangled in an international conflict, you would be thoroughly mistaken.

During the Six-Day War of 1967, Nasser ordered the peacekeeping forces out of the Sinai Peninsula. Israel took this opportunity to invade the east bank of the Suez Canal successfully.

Nasser reacted by blocking all maritime traffic with mines and scuttled ships, resulting in 15 international vessels getting trapped. These cargo ships remained stuck for eight years! They were nicknamed the ‘yellow fleet’ because of the sand that accumulated on the ships’ decks.

Though most of the crew members were rotated on 3-month assignments, the rest had to satisfy themselves by building a floating community. It did become a full-fledged community with its internal trade, social events, and sports!

These ships were finally allowed to leave in 1975. But by then except for two, the vessels could hardly sail.

Suez Canal in Modern Times

Since then the Suez Canal has undergone much development. Egypt successfully expanded the Suez Canal in 2015. In addition to the 35 Km long shipping lane beside the main waterway, the project also included increasing the depth of certain parts in the canal. The construction of the Ballah Bypass was started in August in 2014. This was done to speed up the canal’s transit time.

The ‘New Suez Canal’, as the expansion was called, was done with the intention of doubling the capacity of the Suez Canal from 49 to 97 ships a day. The total cost of the project stood somewhere around $8.4 billion.

The Suez Canal Authority officially opened the new site on 24th February 2016. It helps in the berthing and unberthing of vessels from the East Terminus. With this new expansion, the canal could now handle two-way traffic and the passage of larger ships. The 400-meter long OOCL Hong Kong passed through the Suez Canalon in December 2017. The world’s largest container ship was carrying 21,400 containers. The Egyptian authorities believe that this project will double the canal’s revenue by the year 2023.

Around 8% of global sea-borne trade takes place through the Suez Canal. It has tremendously boosted the Egyptian economy. Reports from Reuters state that the Suez Canal generated revenue of $5.3 billion in 2017.

The Suez Canal Economic Zone refers to the set of locations in the vicinity of the canal, where there is no custom rate. It has been done to attract investment in those areas. This zone covers an area of 600 square kilometers. The projects in this zone are collectively referred to as the Suez Canal Area Developmental Project (SCADP).

  Canals serve as an essential factor in the growth and development of a civilization. In the past canals provided the most efficient way of transporting industrial goods and were indispensable in the advancement of industrialization. There are still many canals that are in use today, but with the technological progress in the field of transportation, the number has reduced to a fraction of what it was back in those days. Movement of bulk raw materials like coal and ore that fuelled industrial developments required a cost-effective mode of transportation and the canals were highly suited for this job. Much of the mechanization and development in several disciplines of research and technology owe a great deal to this form of transport.

The few canals that survived serve the large transportation industries to move bulk cargo. The replacement of the canals as a transportation medium was a gradual process that started in the United States in the mid-1850s where the cheaper and much easily maintainable railways gained popularity. That in no way undermines the importance of a man-made canal. Throughout the world, it helps in lowering the cost of transportation by shortening the shipping routes and happens to be one of the most reliable medium of international trade. 90% of the world trade is carried out by the 50,000 merchant ships that are providing their services all over the world. It has made the lives of millions of people better. In the present day, the aviation industry has enabled us to transport things within a short period. But water routes remain to be the most cost-effective mode of carrying goods in vast quantities. This is why man-made canals are so essential.

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Ship Tag List!!

Thanks for everyone who showed interest (and thanks to those who didn’t say they did but haven’t gotten on me for giving them a tag any darn way) but these are the romantic ship tags I have... I’m pretty sure the next step is to do a tag dump and then retag things already in place, but let me know if you want anything changed.  Alternately, if you’re not on here and want to be, also let me know

Ryoma and Souji- We mend each other’s hearts with gold  @peacemaking-gunslinger

Dante and Sakura - My heart was freed and it ran to you @cirquedeyokai

Shizuo and Souji - lips like sugar @san-ban

Hibiki and Souji - they call it puppy love yet we howl like wolves @cuteteacakes

Jackson and Souji - be my muse; let me be yours @cuteteacakes

Kuruk and Souji - warm winters as sweet as honey @cuteteacakes

Viridi and Souji - Beauty and the Beast @morteem

Aqu and Souji - Budding feelings and tangled threads @aquflux

Tian and Souji - signed my body but gave my soul @palecreme

Khonsu and Souji - We burn like wildfire - @fxrsakenhearts

Tsukuyomi and Souji - stars in your eyes and moonlight in mine @tempestxstride

Acheron Bael and Souji - the power of three withstands all things @cirquedeyokai

Pearson and Souji - I want you to see yourself how I do @aonaichte

Apophis and Souji - Feed from me and make me whole @kallxope​

Helios and Souji - the moon I howl to; the wolf I shine for @werekxnglives​

Gabriele and Souji - Picture perfect note for note @amorettos​

Ignatius and Souji - your arms are my fortress/I feel so safe with you @fierydog​

Cygnus and Souji - I want to sparkle so you can see me @kallxope​

Aki and Souji - wandering long but no longer lost @thelazyeditor