[pchristensen]

It's such a good book! Like any dad reading history, I have been annoying my family for years with fun facts I learned in that book. David McCullough's other books like The Great Bridge (about building the Brooklyn Bridge) are also great.

[Nifty3929]

You and I are the same person apparently. Let me tell you about malaria! Or the bends! Or tetanus! Please! Wait, where's everybody going?

[pchristensen]

Did you know that IBM got its start building the control center for the Panama Canal locks? Did you know that lobbying has been the same since at least the 19th century? That 10% of all of France's population invested in their canal company, but the company was too afraid to tell the people that Panama wasn't flat like the Suez Canal area? And... and... and...