... with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall," President Theodore Roosevelt said). A French adventurer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, and an American lawyer, Nelson Cromwell, conceived of the idea of creating the republic of Panama. They persuaded Roosevelt to support a Panama. Bunau-Varilla engineered a revolution and U.S. warships prevented Colombia from stopping Panama's attempt to break away. (In 1921, the U.S. ... engineers designed a system of locks capable of raising and lowering ships 64 feet, using the force of gravity and 40-horsepower motors to move the gates. One set of l...

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