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Old 11-18-2008, 03:52 PM
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More than 5,600 men died while building the Panama Canal. Today, it takes more than 8,000 workers to run and maintain the canal. It takes a ship an average of 33 hours to travel the length of the canal.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Well which one is it Hemi???

Are you saying that of those 25,000, only 5,600 were men?
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