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Canals were the economic lifeblood of the industrial revolution, allowing heavy raw materials to be dragged slowly through man-made ditches by miserable mules…
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Venetian gondolas are legally required to be painted black due to a strict 16th-century sumptuary law passed to stop nobles from aggressively flexing their…
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Most major waterways require complicated gates to raise and lower massive ships, but the Suez just blasted a straight hole through the dirt. Because the…
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These famous romantic wooden vessels actually lean significantly to one distinct side when completely empty. This bizarre slanted architecture brilliantly…
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Humans literally carved a massive trench through entire continents just so massive cargo ships would not have to sail all the way around the bottom of the…
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Before L.T.C. Rolt came along, Britain’s historic inland waterways were practically viewed as inconveniently wet ditches waiting to be paved over. After WWII,…
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