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Modern Marvels
S01 E03 / THE PANAMA CANAL
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EP 01
GRAND COULEE DAM
EP 02
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
EP 03
THE PANAMA CANAL
EP 04
CRUISE SHIPS
EP 05
TRANSATLANTIC CABLE
EP 06
MT. RUSHMORE.
THE PANAMA CANALChronicles one of the most incredible engineering feats of all time: construction of the 51-mile canal that took 10 years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died of yellow fever, malaria, and other horrors. An earlier, 9-year attempt by the French ended in failure and cost 20,000 lives.
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