István Széchenyi
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Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék was a Hungarian politician, political theorist, and writer. Widely considered one of the greatest statesmen in his nation's history, within Hungary he is still known to many as "the Greatest Hungarian".
István Széchenyi
Széchenyi offers one year's income of his estate to establish and endow the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Széchenyi at the Iron Gates - painting by Schöfft József and Schöfft Ágoston, 1836
Image: HUF 5000 1992 obverse
Canal du Midi
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The Canal du Midi is a 240 km (150 mi) long canal in Southern France. Originally named the Canal Royal en Languedoc and renamed by French revolutionaries to Canal du Midi in 1789, the canal is considered one of the greatest construction works of the 17th century.
The Orb Aqueduct, which allows the Canal du Midi to cross the river Orb in Béziers
Portrait of Pierre-Paul Riquet, the designer of the Canal du Midi
Photograph of the Letter, Archives of the canal, Toulouse
Plan of the Project