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The building of the Panama Canal started on this day in 1904. This man-made waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and was built by the United States. Why was the Panama Canal built? The Panama Canal was built to provide a more direct route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, saving time and money […]
A pandemic and a maritime accident teach us the same lessons: humility, fragility and ultimately human ingenuity. Risk is impossible to predict, except that we know it always exists.
An experimental television show on France’s Canal+ relies more on sounds than images to scare the daylights out of people
VENICE — The delicate balance between preserving the beauty of a place and allowing a fruitful tourist business is particularly tricky when it comes to the question of cruise ships in Venice. The Italian government has announced that beginning in 2015, large cruise ships (those weighing more than 96,000 tons) will be banned from St. […]
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 U.S. SUSPECTED IN N. KOREA WEB OUTAGEInternet access has been partly restored in North Korea after the country found itself without any service for more than nine hours. It’s unclear whether it was the result of a coincidental glitch or of a cyber attack, though it comes just days after President […]