Then Panama disease, a soil fungus, attacked banana plantations and the genetically enfeebled Gros Michel banana was virtually wiped out. |
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Men wore Panama hats and Italian spats, American suits and Chelsea boots, Oxford bags and Texan ties. |
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It began as an ambitious scheme to establish a Scottish colony in Panama, but ended in loss of life and financial ruin. |
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The ceriman is native to wet forests of southern Mexico, Guatemala and parts of Costa Rica and Panama. |
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So far, no word is out on where the show will be shot exactly, except that it will be somewhere near Panama. |
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They stocked up on supplies, including 20 kg of the famous Panama chillies, which are about the size of a small tomato. |
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At one remove, Andean food customs that had passed into general currency in Colombia were also common usage in Panama. |
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The best way to cross the isthmus by land is to ride the historic Panama Canal Railway from Panama City to Colon. |
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In terms of tonnage, about 30 per cent of the world's merchant fleet is registered in Panama or Liberia. |
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The genus Reseda has been introduced into Panama and is cultivated in gardens in the Boquete region. |
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In terms of geography, both Panama City and Port of Spain are almost at the centre of the American continent. |
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Phestilla sibogae occurs across the tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, probably from Panama to Africa, where it is restricted to coral reefs. |
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From there we stopped at the tiny islands of Providencia and San Andres, finally landing in the rain forests of Panama. |
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Burkett claims to have contracted meningoencephalitis while serving in Panama. |
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Police in Panama City, Florida, said last year they had seen two violent incidents linked to use of bath salts. |
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This artificial fairway built at the turn of the nineteenth century exceeds even the Panama Canal in number of ships passing. |
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The island's 3,700 acres of tropical rainforest are a biological reserve that also includes five surrounding peninsulas on the Panama mainland. |
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The U.S. dollar is the paper currency of Panama, and is also referred to as the Panama balboa. |
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Tens of thousands also marched in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama. |
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Perhaps influenced by Central American preoccupations with swine flu, the Panama Star said British MPs had succumbed to a worldwide disease. |
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The islands are part of Panama, but are primarily administered by the Cuna tribe. |
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If you're bound for the horse latitudes, L.L. Bean's Roll-Up Panama Hat sheds water and is as airy as a Bermuda veranda. |
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But I would really like to get a hold of some Acapulco Gold and Panama Red seeds too. |
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He narrowly escaped an arrest warrant in the US by taking flight to Panama with the help of church contacts. |
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The Kuna Indians of Panama consume up to five cups of cocoa a day and include cacao in many of their traditional recipes. |
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One is street fighting, which often degenerates, as it did in Panama, into house-to-house struggles without battle lines or safe areas. |
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I once managed to work my passage through both the Suez and Panama Canals on a container ship. |
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Just a few miles away, on the warm rocky shores and mudflats of the Bay of Panama, life-forms are markedly different. |
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The U.S. military left firing ranges in the Panama Canal Zone littered with thousands of unexploded rounds. |
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Born and raised in war-torn Nicaragua, Rebecca and her family fled to Panama as refugees in the early Eighties. |
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On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. |
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As word of Balboa's discovery spread, other Spaniards headed for the Gulf of Panama and returned with sackfuls of pearls. |
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These were sold to the United States in 1904, but it was not until 1914 that the Panama Canal was opened for navigation. |
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You'll never see him without his most favorite pieces, including his signature snapback, a wide-brim Panama hat, or a beanie. |
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Eventually, disease-resistant varieties came into common use and Panama disease is no longer a major commercial threat. |
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A good Panama hat, it is claimed, can be folded up and passed through a napkin ring, and it will then reshape itself perfectly for use. |
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The Panama Canal watershed boasts 560 bird species including the rufescent tiger heron and chestnut-mandibled toucan. |
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In August, two officials of the Cuban embassy in Argentina were kidnapped and Cubana airlines offices in Panama were bombed. |
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American protectorates in Cuba, Panama, Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic were modified or dismantled. |
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With a beam of 106 ft, the ships are the largest vessels that can fit through the Panama Canal. |
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Survivors of the burning of Panama City in 1671 rebuilt a walled bastion on a rocky promontory to the west. |
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Here, or further along the coast when on his way by ship from Lima to Panama, Masefield might have seen the sun rising over the mountains. |
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The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai. |
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On 21 November 1739 his forces stormed the fortress of Portobello in Panama. |
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The Panama Canal has fulfilled this function but is now saturated with cargo ships. |
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From Panama City there is only one road, the Pan-American Highway, which dead-ends in Yaviza. |
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In one species of harvestman in Panama it is the males, rather than the females, that take care of the young, a very rare phenomenon. |
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The first attempt to cut the Panama Canal was abandoned after thousands had died from yellow fever. |
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Until the Panama Canal was built in 1914, it used to be the main port of call for ships travelling to Cape Horn. |
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The surveyors and researchers worked, roomed, and boarded at the picturesque site along the edge of the Panama Canal. |
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He cofounded the Panama Paleontology Project in 1986, an international group of 30 scientists, to help support his isthmian research. |
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I have just returned from 10 days in Panama where my favorite birds were White-tipped sicklebill, Rufous-crested coquette, and Brown-billed scythebill. |
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A small, courtly man, agee was wearing a Panama hat and khaki suit, as if he had been scripted by Graham Greene. |
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Bodega Mi Amiga sells every kind of liquor you can imagine, or that is legally allowed to be imported into Panama. |
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Currently he is gearing up for a trek through the Panama Canal. |
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What would happen if the locks on the Panama Canal were destroyed? |
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In 1903, Panama and the United States signed a treaty by which the United States undertook to construct an interoceanic ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama. |
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In fact, beer prices in Panama are about 36 percent lower than anywhere else in Latin America. |
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President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias laid a calming hand on 1980s El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama. |
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Once there he meets the flotsam and jetsam who congregate at a roadhouse belonging to a white-suited gent nicknamed Panama because of his romantic tales of foreign adventure. |
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The two most dangerous diseases are Panama disease and Sigatoka. |
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But Casa Bruja remains the only independent brewer in Panama with a bottling and distribution plan. |
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The narrowest piece of land was at Panama, but it was covered in dense, mountainous jungle. |
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In 1650 a slave ship sailing from Panama to Lima was wrecked off Ecuador. |
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He recruits the services of a bespoke English tailor who has apparently made the leap from Saville Row to Panama to make suits for the rich and powerful. |
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When I visited my favorite hat shop, I looked at a shantung and a cheap Panama hat but decided that my head would look and feel better when crowned by a true Montecristi. |
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We collected green iguana eggs from the island of Curacao in the Caribbean, where green iguanas attain much smaller maximum body size compared to conspecifics in Panama. |
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One of the stores Pragnell is referring to is bodega Mi Amiga, a veritable institution on Via Porras in downtown Panama City. |
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Roland Kays, curator of mammals at New York State Museum in Albany, studied two nocturnal raccoon relatives, kinkajous and olingos, at STRI in Panama. |
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The Republic of Panama is a former Spanish colony in Central America with a mixed population of Creoles, mestizos, European immigrants, Africans, and indigenous Indians. |
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This little slice of anarchy is a 24-hour bus ride from Panama City, with plenty of rainforest-y scenery along the way. |
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Reports from Lloyds List of London today state that Panama has ordered the arrest of the Panama-flagged bulker Otterloo for international arms trafficking. |
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The refugees come from Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. |
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In the early part of the decade, Panama disease plagued the banana crops. |
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In April 2008, he was arrested for reckless driving involving alcohol in Panama City Beach. |
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Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Belize are all seeing an increase in Central Americans seeking asylum as well. |
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The school, which goes through 12th grade, has Kuna teachers but they are paid by the Panama government and are not allowed to teach the Kuna language or customs. |
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The next time all the presidents from North and South America meet will be at the Summit of the Americas in Panama in April. |
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The US purchased them in 1917 as part of a strategic passage to the Panama Canal and they are an unincorporated territory of the US, with a republican-style democracy. |
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The Panama hat came to signify secular Turkish citizenship and functions as a metonym for the transformation of the Oriental Ottoman to the Western Turk. |
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Both major banana companies ultimately overcame the problem of Panama disease by planting banana varieties that had been cultivated for centuries in Southeast Asia. |
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However, Panama was enormously important to Spain strategically because it was the easiest way to transship silver mined in Peru to Europe. |
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From 1903 to 1968, Panama was a constitutional democracy dominated by a commercially oriented oligarchy. |
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By 2000, Panama controlled the Panama Canal which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea to the North of the Pacific Ocean. |
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The central part of the river is dammed by the Gatun Dam and forms Gatun Lake, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal. |
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Temperatures are markedly cooler in the higher parts of the mountain ranges, and frosts occur in the Cordillera de Talamanca in western Panama. |
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The expansion project on the Panama Canal and the free trade agreement with the United States are expected. |
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However, Panama still cannot compare to the position held by Hong Kong or Singapore as financial centers in Asia. |
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Traffic in Panama moves on the right, and Panamanian law requires that drivers and passengers wear seat belts. |
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Currently, Panama City has modern buses known as Metrobuses, along with a Metro line. |
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Europe has become one of the key markets to promote Panama as a tourist destination. |
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Because of the tie to US dollars, Panama has traditionally had low inflation. |
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Most of Panama's largest cities are part of the Panama City Metropolitan Area. |
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Ethnic groups in Panama include Mestizo people, who have a mix of European and native ancestry. |
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The second wave of black people brought to Panama came from the Caribbean during the construction of the Panama Canal. |
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The culture of Panama derives from European music, art and traditions brought by the Spanish to Panama. |
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Outside Panama City, regional festivals take place throughout the year featuring local musicians and dancers. |
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An example of undisturbed, unique culture in Panama is that of the Guna who are known for molas. |
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The Christmas parade, known as El desfile de Navidad, is celebrated in the capital, Panama City. |
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Traditional clothing in Panama can be worn in parades, where the females and males do a traditional dance. |
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He returned to Panama to make arrangements, but the Governor refused to grant permission for the project. |
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In November 1524, the first of three expeditions left Panama for the conquest of Peru with about 80 men and 40 horses. |
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On 10 March 1526 Pizarro left Panama with two ships with 160 men and several horses, reaching as far as the Colombian San Juan River. |
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The conquistadors decided to return to Panama to prepare the final expedition of conquest with more recruits and provisions. |
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He was there joined by his brother Hernando and the remaining men in two vessels that would sail back to Panama. |
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De Almagro took part in the various expeditions that took place in the Gulf of Panama, taking part again in Espinosa's parties. |
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De Almagro remained as an early settler in the newly founded city of Panama. |
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In 1553 a ship carrying slaves from Panama to Peru was stranded on Esmeralda, and the 25 slaves on board managed to escape from their captors. |
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North America's only land connection to South America is at the Isthmus of Panama. |
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Roughly a century after the opening of the Panama Canal, the prospect of a Nicaraguan ecocanal remains a topic of interest. |
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Famous concrete structures include the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal, and the Roman Pantheon. |
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The behavior and ecology of Slaty Antshrikes on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. |
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Egyptian-owned MV Suez was sailing under flag of convenience of Panama in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor, when it was attacked. |
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In 1698, the Company of Scotland attempted project to secure a trading colony on the Isthmus of Panama. |
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Francisco Pizarro had accompanied Balboa in the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama. |
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Two years later they began a second expedition with reluctant permission from the Governor of Panama. |
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The new governor outright rejected a third expedition and ordered two ships to bring everyone back to Panama. |
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In Central America, English based creoles are spoken in on the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Panama. |
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He planned an attack on the Isthmus of Panama, known to the Spanish as Tierra Firme and the English as the Spanish Main. |
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However, the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 and the outbreak of the First World War drove many of them away from the city or back to Europe. |
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Paterson personally accompanied the disastrous Scottish expedition to Panama in 1698, where his wife and child died and he became seriously ill. |
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The region sits in the line of several major shipping routes with the Panama Canal connecting the western Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. |
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The duo remained close even after she retired to a Panama cattle farm with her husband. |
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After her retirement she spent all her time in Panama, and was close to her husband and his children from an earlier marriage. |
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In the April 2016 Panama Papers leak, the British Virgin Islands was the most commonly used tax haven by clients of Mossack Fonseca. |
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The military had been reticent over casualty figures during the slaughters of new militarist adventures in Grenada and Panama. |
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The Spanish did not hear of the Providence Island colony until 1635, when they captured some Englishmen in Portobelo, on the Isthmus of Panama. |
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Countries meeting none of these criteria, such as Panama, Vanuatu and Lebanon, would go on the blacklist. |
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Weber assisted journalists in reviewing information from the Panama Papers. |
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More than half were incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, others in Panama, the Bahamas, the Seychelles, Niue, and Samoa. |
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Most of the corporate clients were from Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Panama, and Cyprus. |
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By April 8, the government understood media reports were addressing tax evasion not attacking the country of Panama. |
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Political analyst Mario Rognoni said that Panama is most affected by the scandal, and the world perceives it as a tax haven. |
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Also as a result of the leak, France restored Panama to its list of tax havens, from which Panama had recently been removed. |
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The Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk also announced he would resign over Panama Papers leaks. |
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These companies were registered in Panama, according to the documents obtained from Panama Registry of Companies. |
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A screenshot showed that authorities had forced all websites to delete content about the Panama Papers. |
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The Panama Papers name Maryam as the joint owner with her brother Hussain of Coomber Group. |
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The Panama Papers include at least 780 names of individuals based in Thailand and another 50 companies based in Thailand. |
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The Panama Papers reveal that a former Supreme Court judge, Barbosa, bought an apartment in downtown Miami. |
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The Panama Papers uncovered a link between an American oil company's oil concessions and several powerful politicians in Angola. |
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The Panama Papers database lists more than 13,000 companies and trusts set up there. |
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He travelled to Cartagena to see if he could walk across the Panama Isthmus, but this proved too difficult. |
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In addition to Chile in Latin America, they settled in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. |
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Some other notable true de facto leaders have been Deng Xiaoping of the People's Republic of China and General Manuel Noriega of Panama. |
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Panama also has the Panama Canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, and is a key conduit for international trade. |
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In 2016, Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned after being implicated in the Panama Papers scandal. |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man behind the Suez Canal, started a Panama Canal Company in 1880 that went bankrupt in 1889 in a scandal. |
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The formation of the Isthmus of Panama also played a major role in biodiversity on the planet. |
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His mother was born in Panama, the daughter of Richard Augustus Packer and Gladys McGowan Campbell. |
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Asia and Africa are joined by the Isthmus of Suez, and North and South America by the Isthmus of Panama. |
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In Panama, breakfast is a heavy meal, especially in the interior of the country where hard labor requires it. |
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Other waterways, like the Panama Canal played an important role in the histories of many nations. |
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This regular scheduled route went from Panama City, Nicaragua and Mexico to and from San Francisco and Oregon. |
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Panama City was the Pacific terminus of the Isthmus of Panama trail across Panama. |
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Trips across the Isthmus of Panama or Nicaragua typically took about one week by native canoe and mule back. |
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The house sparrow now occurs from the Northwest Territories to southern Panama, and it is one of the most abundant birds in North America. |
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Central America is a part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from northern Guatemala through to central Panama. |
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In 1538, Spain established the Real Audiencia of Panama, which had jurisdiction over all land from the Strait of Magellan to the Gulf of Fonseca. |
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Beginning in 1543, Panama was administered as part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, along with all other Spanish possessions in South America. |
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After the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830, Panama became part of a successor state, the Republic of New Granada. |
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As part of the Republic of Colombia, Panama State was abolished and it became the Isthmus Department. |
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Only after that time did some begin to regard Panama as a North or Central American entity. |
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Almost half of the bird population of the Talamancan montane forests in Costa Rica and Panama are endemic to this region. |
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After breaking off relations with the Republic of China in 2017, Panama established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. |
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New members have since then joined including Panama and the Dominican Republic. |
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The Panama Isthmus is believed to have emerged due to the appearance of glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere. |
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Any species that reached Panama from either direction obviously had to be able to tolerate moist tropical conditions. |
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With the formation of the Isthmus of Panama 3 million years ago, it ultimately lost its connection to the Pacific. |
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He spent two months exploring the coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, before arriving in Almirante Bay in Panama on 16 October. |
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The cultures of Panama traded with both Mesoamerica and South America and can be considered transitional between those two cultural areas. |
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Only in transit of the Panama Canal and in Canada does the pilot have the full responsibility for the navigation of the vessel. |
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Ground sloths, huge glyptodonts, and armadillos came north with the formation of the Isthmus of Panama. |
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The Betancourt political families who influenced Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Bolivia and Panama have some French ancestry. |
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Plans have resurfaced for a canal which would connect the Andaman Sea to the Gulf of Thailand, analogous to the Suez and the Panama Canals. |
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It was revealed in the Panama Papers that The Bahamas is the jurisdiction with the most offshore entities or companies. |
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Until the Panama Canal opened in 1914, the Strait of Magellan was the main route for steamships traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. |
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Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. |
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Isla del Rey is the largest island in the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama. |
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It is easily larger than the other Pearl Islands combined, and is the second largest island in Panama, after Coiba. |
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Routes vary, either travelling through the Caribbean and then into the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal, or around Cape Horn. |
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It is a port of call for shipping and cruise lines running between Panama and San Francisco, California, United States. |
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Many modern tankers are too wide to fit through the Panama Canal, as are a few passenger ships and several aircraft carriers. |
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The career of Andagoya commenced in Panama, whose capital Panama City he founded in 1519 with 400 settlers. |
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The capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's 4 million people. |
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When Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada remained joined, eventually becoming the Republic of Colombia. |
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In 2015 Panama ranked 60th in the world in terms of the Human Development Index. |
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This is the official definition given in social studies textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education in Panama. |
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Before Europeans arrived Panama was widely settled by Chibchan, Chocoan, and Cueva peoples. |
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When Panama was colonized, the indigenous peoples fled into the forest and nearby islands. |
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Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed westward from Venezuela in 1501 in search of gold, and became the first European to explore the isthmus of Panama. |
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In 1538 the Real Audiencia of Panama was established, initially with jurisdiction from Nicaragua to Cape Horn, until the conquest of Peru. |
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Spanish authorities had little control over much of the territory of Panama. |
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And so it was, said or reporter, until the last hour or so when the Panama Jazzmen started to blow. |
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We are headed out for a nighttime blue-water scuba dive in search of salps off the Pacific coast of Panama. |
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However, Colorado's hopes have been hit by international call-ups for Jamaican striker Deshawn Brown and Panama forward Gabriel Torres. |
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Born and raised in Panama Canal Zone, she was the daughter of the late Stanley and Marion Yost. |
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But cobia that have seen them from Panama City to Pensacola might prefer a finfish like a croaker, tomtate or mullet. |
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Ecology and social behavior of the coati, Nasua nifica on Barro Colorado Island Panama. |
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Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Tuamotus islands in French Polynesia, Bora Bora, Samoa, Tonga. |
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These countries include the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Jordan, Panama, Japan, Argentina, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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That practical philosophy undergirds operations at Smurfit-Stone Container's Panama City, Florida, USA containerboard and market pulp mill. |
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Among the possessions stolen from their hire car was a video camera with footage of the blue cotinga and other rare birds seen in Panama. |
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The last notable action involving the Joint Board concerned a Panama Canal Zone submarine base. |
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Air France has been offering non-stop flights between Paris and Panama City since 25 November 2013, in addition to the daily KLM flight. |
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Many Panamanians have a working knowledge of English and many professional college-educated Panamanians in Panama City are bilingual. |
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Days later, Noriega fled to the Vatican embassy in Panama City. |
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In 2005, Istmo Brew Pub opened as the first of its kind in Panama City. |
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Tiny Streets, Big Stories Casco Viejo is the oldest area in Panama City. |
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Nesting density of Harpy Eagles in Darien with population size estimates for Panama. |
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Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panama. |
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England betrayed Europe's interests to America in a cowardly and shameful way over the Panama Canal question, so as to be left in 'peace' by the Yankees. |
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Silver cargoes were landed at Panama and then taken overland to Portobello or Nombre de Dios on the Caribbean side of the isthmus for further shipment. |
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Puerto Rico has recently Other sources sending in significant numbers of recent immigrants include Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, Venezuela, Spain, and Nigeria. |
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In 1695, the Parliament of Scotland granted a charter to the Company of Scotland, which established a settlement in 1698 on the Isthmus of Panama. |
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It was during this expedition that he climbed a high tree in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Panama and thus became the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean. |
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With the success of the Panama isthmus raid, in 1577 Elizabeth I of England sent Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. |
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In 1513, Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and led the first European expedition to see the Pacific Ocean from the West coast of the New World. |
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They decided then to return to Panama to prepare a final expedition. |
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With few resources and using information given by caciques, he journeyed across the Isthmus of Panama with 190 Spaniards, a few native guides, and a pack of dogs. |
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With one fireroom, one engine and one screw, the Ward limped all the way to Brooklyn Navy Yard via Ulithi, Guam, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, and the Panama Canal. |
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Furthermore, a large number of other natives were captured and transported to Panama and Peru between 1526 and 1540, where they were forced to perform slave labor. |
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It also includes smaller airlines that serve domestic routes, such as Aeroperlas in Panama, Islena in Honduras and Aerotaxis La Costena in Nicaragua. |
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In 1502, on his fourth voyage, Christopher Columbus became the first European known to have reached what is now Nicaragua as he sailed southeast toward the Isthmus of Panama. |
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He took an enormous amount of booty, as well as landing his privateers ashore and attacking land fortifications, including the sack of the city of Panama with only 1,400 crew. |
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Pizarro sailed from Panama for Spain in the spring of 1528, accompanied by Pedro de Candia, some natives and llamas, plus samples of fabric, gold and silver. |
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On their return towards Panama, Pizarro briefly stopped at Tumbes, where two of his men had decided to stay to learn the customs and language of the natives. |
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Soon Almagro sailed into the port laden with supplies and a reinforcement of at least eighty recruits who had arrived at Panama from Spain with an expeditionary spirit. |
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Fearing subsequent hostile encounters like the one the expedition endured at the Battle of Punta Quemada, Pizarro ended his first expedition and returned to Panama. |
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In 1524, while still in Panama, Pizarro formed a partnership with a priest, Hernando de Luque and a soldier, Diego de Almagro, to explore and conquer the South. |
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She was the first representative to compete for Panama in that sport. |
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Since Panama is a land bridge between two continents, it has a large variety of tropical fruits, vegetables and herbs that are used in native cooking. |
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During the 16th century, education in Panama was provided by Jesuits. |
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The Spanish spoken in Panama is known as Panamanian Spanish. |
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Panama still has a reputation worldwide for being a tax haven but has agreed to enhanced transparency, especially since the release in 2016 of the Panama Papers. |
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As a regional financial center, Panama exports some banking services, mainly to Central and Latin America, and plays an important role in the country's economy. |
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The Panamanian Public Forces are the national security forces of Panama. |
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Since the end of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship in 1989, Panama has successfully completed four peaceful transfers of power to opposing political factions. |
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The transcontinental railroads in North America, as well as the Panama Canal that opened in 1914 in Central America, led to the gradual decrease in use of the Horn for trade. |
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The voyage followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Panama Canal, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea route in a westerly direction. |
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What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. |
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Along with the narrow and sometimes treacherous Beagle Channel, these were the only three sea routes between these two oceans until the construction of the Panama Canal. |
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South America became linked to North America through the Isthmus of Panama, bringing a nearly complete end to South America's distinctive marsupial fauna. |
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The Panama destination connects Bogota, Cali, Medellin, Cartagena, Bucaramanga, Pereira and Barranquilla with Copa Airlines through the Hub of the Americas. |
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From there, the Central American land mass extends southeastward to the Isthmus of Panama, where it connects to the Pacific Lowlands in northwestern South America. |
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Panama was part of the Province of Tierra Firme from 1510 until 1538 when it came under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Audiencia Real de Panama. |
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The red pitaya is a cactaceous species native to the Americas, being found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. |
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Panama, situated in the southernmost part of Central America on the Isthmus of Panama, has for most of its history been culturally linked to South America. |
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By three million years ago, the continents of North America and South America were linked by the Isthmus of Panama, thereby forming the single landmass of the Americas. |
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Between the 1849 and 1869 when the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed across the United States about 800,000 travelers had used the Panama route. |
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Most used the Panama or Nicaragua route till 1855 when the completion of the Panama Railroad made the Panama Route much easier, faster and more reliable. |
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George Bush I invaded Panama, burning down entire neighborhoods of the capital and killing hundreds of people, to collar a single two-bit narcotrafficker. |
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Kearsarge was recommissioned on 15 May 1879 for four years of duty in the North Atlantic ranging from Newfoundland to the Caribbean Sea and the coast of Panama. |
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As pointed out in 1995 by a UN Technical Assistance Mission to Panama, the bombardments during the invasion caused the displacement of 20,000 people. |
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Therefore, the Canadian commercial marine transport industry does not anticipate the route as a viable alternative to the Panama Canal even within the next 10 to 20 years. |
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Fully loaded, Nordic Orion was too large to sail through the Panama Canal. |
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According to the Panama Papers, Zimplats Holdings, a large platinum mining concern, set up a shell company to pay the salaries of its senior managers. |
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The trial court prosecutor in Tunis ordered a judicial inquiry into the Panama Papers and Tunisian political figures suspected of hiring the firm. |
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According to the Panama Papers the owner of the company was Hatari Sekoko, who ran a number of real estate and hotel ventures such as the Marriott in Kigali. |
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In 2014, Colombia had placed Panama onto its blacklist of tax havens. |
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Five billionaires from Brazil, the sons of two Brazilian billionaires, and four former billionaire Brazilian families appear in the Panama Papers leak, according to Forbes. |
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Among the possessions stolen from the boot of their hire car was a video camera with footage of the blue cotinga and other rare birds they saw in Panama. |
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Among the possessions taken from the boot of their hire car was a video camera with footage of the blue cotinga and other rare birds they sawin Panama. |
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More than thirty Costa Rican law firms are mentioned in the Panama Papers as referring clients to Mossack Fonseca, resulting in the creation of more than 360 shell companies. |
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Ophiurans from the Gulf of Panama, California, and the Strait of Georgia. |
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The Panama Papers indicate he owns or owned eight shell companies. |
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Having served as Marshall's G-3 officer for a little more than a year, Andrews was directed to take command of air assets located within the Panama Canal Zone. |
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This year, according to the Panama City News Herald, more than 3,000 businesses were nominated, 8,000 readers participated, and more than 185,000 votes were cast. |
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Panama City Beach Mayor Gayle Oberst, Panama City Beach Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau members will attend the festive occasion. |
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Wyndham Hotels and Resorts LLC, a part of the Wyndham Worldwide group, has announced opening of the 104-room Wyndham Garden Hotel Panama City, in Panama City, Panama. |
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She initially denied this when her name appeared in the Panama Papers. |
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On April 6, 2016, Italy's Procura of Turin ordered the Guardia di Finanza to investigate the 800 Italians contained in the Panama Paper's documents. |
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Surfside Taxi of Destin serves Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Pensacola, and Panama City Airports with shuttle service to and from northwest florida airports. |
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Many senior EU figures have been implicated in the Panama Papers scandal. |
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He said various firms were monitored since late last year with a special supervision after the news events that have come to light, with the scandal called the Panama Papers. |
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He appeared to suggest that publication of the papers was an attack on Panama because of the high level of economic growth that the country had shown. |
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On April 8, President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela denounced France's proposal to return Panama to a list of countries that did not cooperate with information exchange. |
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On May 5, 2016, Mossack Fonseca sent a cease and desist letter to the ICIJ in an attempt to stop the ICIJ from releasing the leaked documents from the Panama Papers scandal. |
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When they refused, he tried again to persuade the governments of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic to establish a colony in Panama, but failed in both cases. |
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Molas are colorful layered textiles handsewn in Panama by Kuna women using the techniques of applique, reverse applique, embroidery, and other stitching methods. |
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This drama takes place over a complex polyrhythm typical to the accordion-led tipica music that listeners outside of Panama are likely unfamiliar with. |
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The ship's first call will be Ponta Delgada in the Azores on 23 January before she sails to the Caribbean, transits the Panama Canal and heads for Hawaii and Australia. |
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Panama issues a domestic currency, the balboa, but it circulates only as coins. |
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Panama inherited from Colombia a binary system of liberals versus conservatives, both of which agreed on opposition to the presence of the United States in the Canal Zone. |
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Only buy a panama hat with a sweatband, which helps keep your hat in place and prevents it from stretching out. |
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Panama is angling to be the next Costa Rica, with nearly 6,000 square miles of public lands and a wildlife population that'll make any tropical nation green with envy. |
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It would never fit again and he had to make do, most unwillingly, with a borrowed panama. |
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In several he looked like a 1970s football manager in his white panama hat and a sheepskin coat. |
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Perfect for the man on the go, this panama hat boasts a three-pleated blue hatband. |
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As aforementioned, genuine panama hats are made of toquilla straw, and the Ecuadorian weaving process is extremely laborious. |
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You can picture Eriksson in his tailored white suit and panama hat, travelling the continents and inspecting his crops. |
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Panama maintains armed police and security forces, and small air and maritime forces. |
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Panama was inhabited by several indigenous tribes prior to settlement by the Spanish in the 16th century. |
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Panama is located in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica. |
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Panama was the world's largest flag state for oil tankers, with 528 of the vessels in its registry. |
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Panama unified all social insurances in the 1970s and began a process of integration with the public sector that was later halted. |
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Panama is home to Tocumen International Airport, Central America's largest airport. |
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The sweat dribbled around the patent brim of his new white panama. |
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My wide-brimmed panama hat was chilling nicely in the boat's hat cooler. |
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But I guess I wasn't counting on the enduring shade of the panama hat. |
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