Sail the Panama Canal and Marvel at This Great Human Achievement
03.09.2010 - Alfred Sauber
This incredible piece of human engineering, dreamt up by the ambitious King Charles V of Spain, took around 75,000 workers over 10 long years to complete and throughout the construction was beleaguered by a range of problems, from financial bankruptcy, very poor project management and serious outbreaks of malaria that killed many of the workers.
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