On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would cross ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez Canal ...

I recently took a stroll through a charming town in France that, because of its many canals and bridges — I was told it has 131 overpasses — is known as the Venice of the area. While some ...