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Grand Coulee Dam is truly magnificent to behold. Built from 1933 to 1975, it is 550 feet tall, from the 500 foot wide polished granite base, to the 30 foot wide crest which supports a paved two lane road. When you include the third power house, Grand Coulee Dam is almost 1 mile long. Did you know there is enough concrete in the Grand Coulee Dam to build a 60 foot wide highway four inches thick, from Los Angeles to New York City! ~ That is a 4 lane Highway 3,000 miles long! | |||||
| The only remaining wonder of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, is the Great Pyramid of Giza, near the city of Cairo, Egypt. | ||||||
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The original height of the Great Pyramid of Giza is approximately 482 feet. It's base covers over 13 acres. |
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In comparison, the base of the Grand Coulee Dam is almost four
times as large as the Great Pyramid built by the Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops).
It stands 550 feet in height, from the bedrock to the blacktop!
Like the Pyramid, the Grand Coulee Dam has its galleries.
They serve for gate inspections and control, drainage, regrouting, cooling,
and other purposes. There are over eight and a half miles of corridors
throughout the inside of the Grand Coulee Dam. In size, it is the second structure created by man to exceed that of the Great Pyramid [c. 2680 B.C.E.] The first structure built after Khufu's pyramid would be the Great Wall of China [c. 215 B.C.E.], which is 1400 miles long and varies between 18 and 30 feet in height. aa |
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Grand Coulee Dam is truly The Eighth Wonder of the World! a The Grand Coulee Dam sits deep in the Columbia River Gorge of central Washington. It is located about 90 miles west of Spokane, 105 miles South of Canada's boarder, and about 250 miles east of Seattle. a |
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