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Tag: William Aspinwall

April 15: The Middletown Man Who Built the First Transcontinental Railroad – But in Another Country.

  Back when they taught such things in the classroom, many Connecticans learned this palindrome (a phrase that says the exact same thing read backwards or forwards) in geography class: ” A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama.”  What we were not taught, though, is that men made plans to make transportation across Panama a…

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