Historian and cartographer Anthony Acciavatti is Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

Varanasi on the Ganges thrived as a centre of silk weaving ... The steady flow of these rivers enabled the expansion of vast canal networks, which distributed water efficiently across agricultural ...

Dean Long is a frequent flyer. Yet the chief executive of the Australian Travel Industry Association, the peak body ...

They have paddled through Buckingham Canal, Ganges, Godavari and Kollidam rivers. They have also paddled from Puducherry to Kovalam, Marina to Injambakkam, and Marina to Kasimedu to highlight the ...

We crossed beneath an expressway, traversed an irrigation canal, bounced through fields of grapes, then turned down a narrow dirt road—actually a piece of antiquity—that cut a straight line ...

My repose was abruptly interrupted when the phone duty (orderly)—a young constable assigned to attend to calls—hurried in ...

In 1833, a steamboat service was established on the Ganges. Calcutta to Allahabad ... This, aided by the Suez Canal opening, and compound-engines halving coal consumption, ensured the prosperity of ...

In villages like Tandi and Tholang, drying springs and reduced snowfall have forced communities to rely on river-based lift ...

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The vehicle was found in the Pawtucket Canal between Lowell District Court on Jackson Street and the Appleton Mills. A body of a 65-year-old Lowell man was recovered from the vehicle, the ...