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The Big Dig Nearly 28,000 laborers died building the Panama Canal — one of ASCE’s ‘Seven Wonders of the Modern World.’
The Panama Canal ‘connected the acknowledged strengths of the United States in medicine, technology, and industry to expansionist aims and in this way helped make Americans more comfortable with their new role as a world power.’