Seventy-Seven (77) people died during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. Should we build large public works projects, knowing the construction is so dangerous people will be killed?
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No one knows how many people died while building the great pyramids of Giza. But some historians estimate the number of deaths in the thousands. If true, what does this estimate tell us about civil engineering in ancient times?