Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when on a peak in Darien, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, after slogging through malarial jungles, emerged in sight of the Pacific. First man to hit upon the idea of an interoceanic canal was Balboa's companion, Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron...
...when France's Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, bursting with pride over his new Suez Canal, began excavating Culebra (now Gaillard...
...beginning in 1893 of another unsuccessful attempt by another French company to build the canal...
...Many precious weeks spent by the battleship Oregon on the 13,000-mile trip around the Horn during the Spanish-American War-proving to the U. S. the naval necessity of a canal...
...synthetic revolution of 1903 when the new Republic of Panama was set up (and instantly recognized by Roosevelt 1) after Colombia, the owner of the Isthmus, refused to grant the U. S. a canal concession. Said T. R.: "I took Panama...