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Roosevelt was intrigued by the military and commercial possibilities of a canal across the isthmus, cutting 8,000 miles off a New York-San Francisco voyage.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The saying goes that almost every family here on the isthmus includes a person who identifies as muxe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The Chonhar bridge hit overnight is one of just a handful of access roads to Crimea, which is linked to the Ukrainian mainland by a narrow isthmus.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2023
The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
In the first place it was agreed that any canal to be constructed over any of the isthmuses was to be absolutely neutral, in time of war as well as of peace.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Fish, Carl Russell
Nay, we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighborhood of both isthmuses exist of such junction having existed, in what we are pleased to designate "barbarous" ages.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Marine isthmuses, cutting of, 517; its difficulties, 518; sometimes done by nature, 519.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
The pseudospores of Rœstelia are produced in strings or chaplets, as in Æcidium, with this difference, that instead of being contiguous they are separated by narrow isthmuses.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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