2903.08 Aggravated vehicular assault; vehicular assault. (A) No person, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall cause serious physical harm to another person or another's unborn in any of the following ways: (1)
August 15, 1914, marks the 100th anniversary of the official opening of the Panama Canal, the American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
In the ensuing centuries, various nations considered developing a Panamanian canal but a serious attempt wasnât made until the 1880s. In 1881, a French company headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, a former diplomat who developed Egyptâs Suez Canal, began digging a canal across Panama. The project was plagued by poor planning, engineering problems and tropical diseases that killed thousands of workers.