Not The Panama Canal?
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you can try the following:\nwakepedia,cascoantiguo,panamalavieja,boquete.\nall start with www.\nalso you can read.\nwww.thepanamanews.com in english.\nthis should give you a head start in your reserach.\n\npanama,panama.
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I know the one for Brazil, but not Peru.
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Not in America... Elsewhere could be/
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The Sea. The sea can make a ship float but not a pin.
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The company in Dubai that wanted to buy the ports from Great Britain own ports around the world. They are a reputable company, and I am sure it all boiled down to the all mighty dollar, or pound sterling as the case may be. You have to remember that it was not the government of Great Britain selling the ports, but a company based in Great Britain. I am sure we have many corporations and business in America that do business that the government would not approve of.
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Neither -- It is the flag of Great Britain...technically the "naval jack"
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no. don't know where that is. google it
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I dont fish in canals. You will only get bottom feeders and Mexicans in the Cal Aquaduct. If I wanted a striper, I would get it out of the San Luis Res. TOOOOOO many mexicans at the canal for me.
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If you mean other countries owning shipping ports in our country, my personal opinion is no.  Why should another country have that kind of free access to our information and ports?  They shouldn't, just like we shouldn't have access to theirs.
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there is none. look at the world map and see where's china and where's carribean. Chinese participation in world trade might have boosted the Panama Canal traffic, but that's about it.
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no, i wouldn't include China either
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_canal is your friend.
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A. Various diseases hampered the construction project because many people died.  Yellow fever and Malaria were the most deadly of them, because before the cause of them was discovered (mosquitoes) they didn't know how to treat the disease.\n\nAlso the original French plan called for a sea level canal like Suez.  Unfortunately for the French the Panamanian landscape didn't allow them to dig so easily as they did in Suez, and the technology they were using in Panama was the same one as they used in Suez, which was all wrong.\n\nWhen the US got the rights to build the canal arising from the Hay - Buneau Varilla treat of 1903, they reengineered the plans and decided to go for a lock type canal, rather than a sea level canal.  They based this on a prior study from a French engineer.  They also brought new technology with them, for example Concrete.  Remember we're talking about 1903 here.\n\nAlso the US got a hold of the research that a Cuban medic called Carlos Finlay did on Yellow Fever where he discovered that mosquitoes were the vectors causing the disease, and the incubation time needed for the mosquitoes to transfer the disease.\n\nWith that the US drained swamps, and they fumigated the entire Canal Zone, along with the Panamanian Cities of Cristobal, Colon and Panama to get rid of the mosquitoes.\n\nB. Actually it wasn't a big deal when the Canal opened in 1914.  It was the smallest story on the front page news.  Remember WWI just broke out in Europe, so the news from the battlefront were more interesting than the first transit of the canal.  By the way it was done by the Steamship Ancon.\n\nNow regarding commerce and the military advantage it gave the US, it was a big deal.  Ships could now shorten the time it took them to go around the Cape of Horns in South America, and also for those ships that had to cross the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.  The US military could complement their fleets just crossing some vessels through the Canal.  Think about all the savings it brought to commerce, and the possibilites to the military strategists at that time.\n\nAlso until 1977 the Panama Canal was controlled by the US Military, not the US Federal Government as some still think.  The office handling the Panama Canal affairs was in the Pentagon, not the Secretary of Commerce.  After 1977 with the new Panama Canal Treaties (they were 3 treaties in one single body) The Neutrality Treaty declared the Panama Canal neutral in all times of wars and crisis, therefore now any ship couldn't be denied the right to go through the Panama Canal.  Although I don't believe that prior to 1977 the US actually denied transit except in WWII for obvious reasons.
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Hawaii maybe but not alaska
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This is simple: It's not.
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I don't think their is any law on international water. You are on your own bring lots of shotguns if you plan to go there. That is why there are pirates and things.
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WTF? The Gulf of Mexico is a gulf...of Mexico...