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"It is not the critic who counts, not the person who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where in fact the doer of deeds could did them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the world; whose face is marred by particles and sweat and blood..." - Theodore Roosevelt A lot of people have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Old World, but without as much have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, those who have know that the Panama Canal is known as one of them. In a world where few natural waterways carved out over eons of time reach a amount of more than 50 mls, the idea a band of men could carve a canal of this length appeared impossible. Actually, many thought it could not be achieved. On the other hand, there was a tremendous determination to try, because if a canal could be effectively minimize across Central America to hook up the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, it would minimize weeks off the time necessary to bring goods by sea from the well-established East Coastline of america to the burgeoning Western Coast. Moreover, touring around the end of SOUTH USA was fraught with risk, and European explorers and settlers had proposed building a canal in Panama or Nicaragua several centuries prior to the Panama Canal was actually built. With the late 19th hundred years, the France actually tried to build such a canal, and then fail after significant amounts of resources were placed into building and after personnel perished of malaria and other diseases. At the switch of the 20th hundred years, not only was the necessity for a canal still there, but the right man was at the White House.
