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 ...

Visiting congressmen review a map of the canal ... uniform on the isthmus. Goethals and President Taft, Courtesy: Library of Congress Often referred to as the "Czar of Panama," Goethals ...

The two oceans have been separated for some three million years, ever since the isthmus of Panama rose out of the water and split them. The canal cut a path through the continent, yet for decades ...

Main: A close-up of the Panama Canal on Google Maps. Johnson is expected to introduce ... it covers about 50 miles through the Isthmus of Panama. In a press conference Trump hosted on Tuesday ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US ... For generations, outsiders had considered the narrow isthmus to be the perfect spot for a trans-oceanic canal that would ...