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Tonight we are going to learn about the longest undersea tunnel in the world.

This tunnel actually goes under the ground at the bottom of the ocean.

England and France are separated by a large area of water called a channel. Before the tunnel,

people had to take boats to go back and forth between the two countries. A long time ago,

someone had the idea to dig very deep below the ocean and all the way across to the other side.

Because it's a tunnel and it crosses a channel, it was called the channel.

The first person to have the idea of digging this tunnel was a Frenchman named Albert Matthew.

At the time, they didn't have large digging machines, so they would have to do much of it using

shovels and horses and wagons. Later others were going to try to dig the tunnel. At another time,

some even started to dig from both sides, but because France and England weren't getting along

at the time, some were worried they would use it to try to attack each other. For this reason,

they waited to start building the tunnel. Finally, many years later, both England and France

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