Panama Canal Cruise / DSC_0811 - Water is now flowing into the lock from the next one upstream, raising any ships that reside there. Richard Erwin                                    The canal was finished in 1914 at a cost of about $600 million (about half to the French and half February 2015                                   to the U.S.) and at a cost of about 27,000 lives (about 22,000 during the French attempt and                                                           about 5,000 during the U.S. completion.)

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