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Saturday, January 27, 2007
| Category: Panama Over at the Popular Mechanics site is a scanned article from their December 1913 issue about the Panama Canal. I found out about the scan while listening to the Popular Mechanics podcast the most recent of which is described thus: Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief Jim Meigs brings his father, A. James Meigs, to Panama to learn more about plans to expand the biggest engineering project in history. A. James Meigs grew up on on the canal: his father, Al Meigs, helped to build, and later operate, the Miraflores locks at the Pacific end of the canal.True or false: The Panama Canal flows from the Pacific in the East to the Atlantic in the West? Look on a map or type Panama Canal in to Google Earth! Also, while listening to the podcast I learnt a new term: panamax. In Australia it is a brand of paracetemol - not so in the shipping world. |
