The Panama Canal, a 51-mile maritime shortcut linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is a crucial artery of global trade and a longstanding focal point of international geopolitics. Since its ...
THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater, the ...
How a $3.1 Billion Expansion Collided With Reality. Leer en español. PANAMA CITY — On July 8, 2009, the champagne finally flowed. After an intense two-year competition, a consortium led by a Spanish ...
Of the 19 players on the Canal Winchester High School baseball roster to start the season, 16 have multiple positions listed next to their names. For several reasons, third-year coach Tyler Kuhn doesn ...
After about a decade of construction and a $5 billion price tag, a new, bigger canal has opened in Panama. It's been a source of national pride for Panamanians. Now it's time for our regular segment ...
A Chinese mega container ship has inaugurated a decade-long expansion of the Panama Canal. Panama hopes the expansion will lead to a boost in container traffic through the Atlantic-Pacific shortcut. A ...
In the Gettysburg campaign, one of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s objectives was to cut the Union’s communications and transportation lines to Washington. By June 27, 1863, strong elements of the Army of ...
Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, embarked from Buffalo, ...