Throwback Thursday: Panama Canal in the works
We bet the folks building the Panama Canal in this Feb. 1, 1911 photo assumed the name would stick, but that’s up for debate these days. Fun fact: the Panama Canal took about 10 years to build, four years less than Boston’s Big Dig. (AP Photo)
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