Panama
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The Republic of Panama is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an isthmus, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation connecting the north and south part of America.
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- A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
- Well-known palindrome by Leigh Mercer, Notes and Queries, November 13, 1948.
- I took it.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Panama, address in California, 1911.
- A deadly spot the end of the world almost....There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal...; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words....the Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty.
- Edward VIII of Great Britain, quoted in "Around the World with the Prince of Wales", from Godfrey, 'Letters (31 March – 1 April 1920).
- Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.
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- Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!