The famous Suez Canal often receives worldwide recognition but Europe's version is no less impressive. The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of engineering, history ...

Egypt was home to one of the world's most important transportation systems: the Suez ... a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. The series follows the history of ...

In 1956, a brilliant diplomat named Lester B. Pearson led Canada into middle power respectability when he pulled the world back from the brink of war in the Middle East. In 1956, the first large ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project ... The greatest engineering project in the history of the world had been dwarfed by the totality of World War I.