A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama disordered also with figures

also with figures

Wolsey (1475-1530) failed to obtain a quick annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon

Laurence Olivier on the set of 'The Devil's Disciple' in Tring Park

standing in profile

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama disordered also with figuresA lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80