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Source/Further reading:
History and engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/a-short-history-of-the-panama-canal
Conditions for workers: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-panama-canal-took-huge-toll-on-contract-workers-who-built-it-180968822/
Early Panama Canals: https://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/early.html
Panama history with Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Panama/Sports-and-recreation#ref41027
Thousand Days War: https://www.britannica.com/event/The-War-of-a-Thousand-Days
US role in Panama revolution: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/10/panama-canal-president-jp-morgan-tax-haven
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-declares-independence
Inaugural voyage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/panama_gallery_09.shtml
History of the Zone: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/06/story-cities-16-panama-canal-zone-history-us-run-divided-city
https://www.britannica.com/place/Canal-Zone
Vasco Nunez de Balboa: https://www.biography.com/explorer/vasco-nunez-de-balboa