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50th Birthday for the Big Ditch
The Panama Canal marks its fiftieth birthday as an engineering feat linking the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. After decades of effort by 70 000 workers through jungle conditions the 51 mile waterway began operation on August 15 1914 shortening global sea travel by thousands of miles and days.
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Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific
Caribbean Sea
Pacific Ocean
Balboa
Balboa Marched Across the Isthmus
Great South Sea
Magellan
Cortes
Panama
Nicaragua
United States
California
Horn
Gaillard Cut