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PANAMA-CANAL-100TH ANNIVERSARY-FILE
(FILES) This 1908 file photo shows abandoned French machinery, including "Spigoty" train locomotives, at Empire, Panama, twenty years after the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique failed. In the eight years the company built the canal it spent some 287 million USD, removed 50 million cubic meters of earth, dug 11 miles (18kms) of canal and lost some 20,000 men. Next August 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal, considered to be one of the 20th century's marvels of engineering and through which five percent of the maritime world trade goes. Panama took control of the 80-km-long canal and the 1,426-square-km enclave that surrounds it at midnight on December 31, 1999 according to the 1977 handover treaty signed by then-presidents of the US, Jimmy Carter and Panama, Omar Torrijos. AFP PHOTO/US LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/FILES RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / US LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/FILES" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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Empire, PANAMA |
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10 August 2014 |
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