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On August 15, 1914, the US Ancon, an American cargo and passenger ship, became the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal, which more than one hundred years later is still widely considered the greatest engineering achievement in history. The Canal’s opening was the culmination of eleven years of difficult construction work at a […]
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Flags, known to have been in use as early as 1000 BCE on the Indian subcontinent and across China, were used to identify leaders, armies and other groups of the era. The first national flags were adapted during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance periods, with many leaders of these periods adopting the flag of […]
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