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With the opening of the Panama Canal on October 10, 1913, one of the greatest engineering feats in history was officially completed. The waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were joined when President Woodrow Wilson pushed a button in Washington, exploding dynamite that destroyed the final barrier between the two bodies of water.
The achievement fulfilled a century’s old dream of reducing the 7000 mile long voyage around Cape Horn. After the explorer Balboa crossed the width of Panama in 1513 and discovered that only a 50 mile wide strip of land separated the Atlantic from the Pacific, the...
