This man credited the genesis for his second great venture to a land survey completed by eccentric sea captain, George Peacock, who had invented an early life jacket and a sailboat that delighted rail passengers by looking like a swan. This man’s “hopes of a miracle” led to the financial ruin of a half-million of his countrymen according to Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt argued that, before the Dreyfus affair, modern antisemitism emerged in the wake of a (*) scandal in which Jewish middlemen facilitated this man and his son’s bribes to government ministers. (10[1])This man was forced to sell off one of his companies to the (-5[1])US (10[1])despite already hiring Gustave Eiffel after realizing (10[1])the folly (10[1])of his plans to build a structure at sea level. (10[1])For 10 points, the Panama scandals disgraced (10[1])what builder (10[1])of the Suez Canal? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])