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Building History - The Vatican
William W. Lace
Hardcover (Lucent Books, Dec. 11, 2003)Sometime around 64 A.D. Simon Peter, a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, was crucified and given a hurried burial on a hillside outside Rome. Above his tomb, two thousand years later, stands one of the world's mightiest churches and most sacred places, home of the pope and spiritual home of the world's one billion Roman Catholics.
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Building History - The Suez Canal
Gail Stewart
Hardcover (Lucent Books, March 27, 2001)Built in the nineteenth century by a charismatic go-getter named Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Suez Canal was less an engineering feat than one of diplomacy and "people-managing." The Building of the Suez Canal examines the historical background of the project -- dating back to the Pharoahs -- as well as the diffiulties encountered by the workers as they dug the 100-mile ditch through the African desert.
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Building History - The Vatican by William W. Lace
William W. Lace
Hardcover (Lucent Books, March 15, 1843)None