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The Engineering That Built the World
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The Panama Canal
Season 1 · Episode 4
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.
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John Frank Stevens
Theodore Shonts
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