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Largest Dam in the World: The Three Gorges Dam
http://youtu.be/b8cCsUBYSkw It took 40,000 workers 17 years to complete the Three Gorges Dam in China. This videotape lasts about 45 minutes, but is very interesting if you can spend the time. The primary purpose of the Dam was to tame the violent Yangtse River, which every decade or so would flood and demolish whole villages [...]