The First Panama Canal

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“A canal, of about 166 km (103 mi) long, from the
Isthmus of Suez and linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean Sea,was Built under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps, it was opened in
1869 and came under British control after 1875.
The modern canal was planned by the French engineer
Ferdinand de Lesseps, who also supervised construction (1859-69). Great Britain, which had opposed the construction of the canal, became the largest shareholder in 1875 by purchasing the interest of the Egypt’.He concluded at Suez canal and looked at his engineers.
They were still enthusiastic.
He started again. “There is one more canal,to allow ships from America east coast to west coast,from Atlantic to
Pacific,“Panama Canal has a very big history,France
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The advances in hygiene resulted in a relatively low death toll during the construction; still, 5,609 workers died during this period (1904–1914). This brought the total death toll for the construction of the canal to around 27,500.In 1907 Roosevelt appointed George
Washington Goethals as Chief Engineer of the Panama
Canal. The building of the canal was completed in 1914, two years ahead of the target date of June 1, 1916.
The canal was formally opened on August 15, 1914 with the passage of the cargo ship SS Ancon. Coincidentally, this was also the same month that fighting in World
War I (the Great War) began in Europe”. He went away after completing his teachnings for the day to look after the repairs to the Hava-Mahal,the name means at any given day in the year there will be fresh air in to the big hall where the King and queens enjoy the nature.
Somu was looking after the small rain water canals to
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be built on the sides of the market road,which is on the embankment of the big pond.
He thought for some time weather he shall give slope for the canal,and remembered to have seen the water flow,in to the pond during last rain,and decided to carry the work with out slope.Since cement was

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