From Venezuela to China to NATO, Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy is upending U.S. alliances and global ...
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How the Panama Canal lifts a million tons of ships every day, locks, water pressure, and gravity doing the heavy work
The Panama Canal does not raise ships with cranes, it raises the water around them using lock chambers, sluices, and simple hydrostatics. This breaks down why the gates are angled, how lock staircases ...
The Americanization of Greenland transcended brute imperial force in the Russian mold. Two years earlier, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s showy military ouster of Venezuela’s leader, ...
Iraq taught the U.S. that removing the strongman is the easy part. What comes after is where empires go to exhaust themselves ...
The turbocharged events of the last week - and the new US National Security Strategy - raise pressing questions about the new ...
The US dramatically escalated its confrontation with Venezuela on January 3, moving from sanctions and targeted strikes on ...
Road trips between the notoriously narrow country's Pacific and Caribbean coasts, reveal secret villages, untouched isles, and new-wave retreats.
The Chinese Communist Party has begun playing hardball in negotiations over future control of the Panama Canal as United States intervention in Venezuela threatens to further disrupt Chinese economic ...
First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, began excavating a channel through Central America in 1881. Drawing huge ...
Expanding its breadth and appeal in the Caribbean and Panama Canal, Princess Cruises has revealed its largest and most diverse Caribbean program, with 31 ports sailing from five homeports for the ...
Princess Cruises is debuting its most extensive and varied collection of Caribbean and Panama Canal itineraries for the 2027-28 season, and, on November 1, 2026, the line will unveil calls at ...
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Panama Canal: How It "Lifts" Massive Ships
In this video, we investigate how the Panama Canal Locks are used to raise millions of tons of ships up 87ft, from sea level to the height of Gatun Lake. We will also find out how water-saving basins ...
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