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History.com: The Engineering That Built the World: The Panama Canal

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Two powerful nations -- France and America -- compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every obstacle imaginable -- from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy. [43:00]

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)