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The Panama Canal was one of history's most chaotic engineering feats, and this episode tells the full messy story.
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In this episode
- How the Panama Canal actually got built against enormous odds
- The human and political chaos behind the construction
- Why this project pushed engineering to its absolute limits
- The real cost of cutting a path between two oceans
About this episode
This week! An even bigger ditch than before! Some would say it was a real sonuvab*tch! Here the chaotic story of creating the Panama Canal.
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