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building of the Panama Canal  

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  • For four hundred years, European nations that wanted faster access to the land and riches of the Pacific Ocean dreamed of building a passage through Central America to unite the two great oceans. As early as 1529, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortés made a proposal to Charles V for the construction of an isthmian passage through Panama. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Panama Canal, Building of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-S4HTQ9Z9-J

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