How the Panama Canal Works

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🗓️ 2 April 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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It's on more than one list of the Seven Wonders of the World and for good reason - the Panama Canal is one of the great feats of engineering ever undertaken. First conceived of in the 1580s and finally completed in 1914, the canal has a fascinating histor

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