by Bob Walsh
In 1778 Captain Cook "discovered" the Hawaiian islands, and named them the Sandwich Islands, after the First Lord of the Admiralty. Actually they had been discovered a long time before, by the people who lived there.
In 1902, the Isthmus Canal Commission shifted its focus on a site for the canal from Nicaragua to Panama. (Roughly 50 years ago the U. S. seriously considered using atomic explosives to blast a sea level canal at the Nicaragua site. Eventually somebody decided that would be not such a great idea.)
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