“Not about bossing other nations around ... military installations on the isthmus over the course of the 20th century. As anti-colonial movements swept the world in the post-war period, a ...
Roosevelt bragged, “I took the Isthmus, started the canal and then ... of what Washington claimed was a pile of cocaine around the world. It turned out that the powder was cornmeal.
It’s astounding the things they leave lying around in Greece. Our ship has docked in ­Lavrio, southeast of Athens, and I’ve ...
In 2024, the canal’s revenue stood around $5 billion, contributing nearly 8% of the total annual GDP, according to a study from IDB Invest. If you want to see this manmade wonder of the world ...
“We’re the bridge of the world but also the heart of the universe, being such a small, central place and a place of international connection.” Around 820,000 visitors came to Miraflor ...
Panama's José Raúl Mulino announced that his country would not renew its agreement with China's Belt and Road Initiative ...
Researchers identified the fossil as Glyptodon reticulatus, a megafauna species from the Late Pleistocene epoch.
“It was a megaproject of engineering that changed the world with the help and the hands and the sweat and the blood of thousands of people of 97 nationalities that came together on this very small ...
Today, about 38 to 40 ships a day use the canal, including commercial container carriers, passenger liners and naval vessels – around 5 per cent of world maritime traffic ... Leaders had been eyeing ...
The 51-mile-long canal avoids the need for ships to make the much longer voyage around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. Considered one of the world ... across the Isthmus of Panama.
A nautical marvel, the four-mile waterway is located about 50 miles west of Athens and slices through the Isthmus of Corinth ... with the Aegean Sea and is the world's narrowest navigable canal ...