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How a canal works: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.3; Canals operate by a series of locks that raise and lower water levels. In this animation, the boat enters the lock from downstream, where the water level is lower. The gate shuts behind it, and water...; Format: animation

Three irrigation canals pass through rice fields in different stages of growth: Three irrigation canals pass through rice fields in different stages of growth. The canals run parallel and vertically through the scene, bordered by low grassy dikes and flanked by rice fields to the left and right. Coconut palms and puffy white cluds are...; Format: image/photograph

Venetian Gondola and Gondolier: Transportation through one of Venice's 150 canals includes the option of a romantic excursion by gondola as seen here. Gondolas are long, asymmetrical, narrow boats made of one of only eight types of wood. The left side of the gondola is made longer to counterbalance...; Format: image/photograph

1853 map of North Carolina: Map titled "A new map of Nth. Carolina: with its canals, roads & distances from place to place, along the stage & steam boat routes." Shows North Carolina as it existed c. 1850.; Format: image/map

Ducks and rice: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 10; In many parts of Southeast Asia, farmers raise ducks and farm wet-rice fields in a mutually beneficial, or symbiotic, relationship. Duck droppings fertilize the water in which the rice grows. Ducks also eat the algae and other weeds that grow near the young...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Cement reinforced aquaduct channels water to Balinese rice fields: A cement-reinforced grey aquaduct channels water over a road to green Balinese rice fields. Flat wall rims and a few square platforms at the top of the aquaduct allow people access for repairs and a means to walk across when necessary. Farmers have been routing...; Format: image/photograph

Archibald Murphey: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.4; Archibald Debow Murphey (1777–1832) was a North Carolina state senator and later a Superior Court judge who fought for a comprehensive system of public education, construction of canals and roads, and other progressive reforms.; Format: biography

The Dismal Swamp Canal: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.2; Transportation in northeastern North Carolina was extremely difficult in the eighteenth century. The Dismal Swamp Canal, which opened in 1805, enabled passage between the Pasquotank River in North Carolina wih the Elizabeth River in Virginia. Over time the canal was rebuilt and expanded, and today it is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Dismal Swamp Canal: Taken behind the North Carolina welcome center on US Highway 17.; Format: image/photograph

Canal Grande - The Grand Canal: The Canal Grande (Grand Canal) of Venice is one of two major waterways winding around the city. It serves as a major transportation route where vaporetti, or water buses, and water taxis share the route with all other vessels providing a range of services...; Format: image/article

Piazza San Marco: The Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark's Square, is the principal square of Venice, Italy. Unlike other European square of its size, no motorized vehicles can be seen nor heard in or around the piazza since Venetian traffic is by foot or boat on one of its canals....; Format: image/photograph

Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

The Dismal Swamp Canal in Camden County, NC: Trees lean over the water of the Dismal Swamp Canal in Camden County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Map of the Dismap Swamp Canal, 1867: Map is titled "Dismal Swamp Canal connecting the Chesapeake Bay with Currituck, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and their tributary streams, by D. S. Walton, Civil Engineer, 1867." The "Proposed Southern Air Line" from Edenton to South Mill was a railroad line...; Format: image/map

A tree filled with woodpecker holes in the Great Dismal Swamp: This is a tree filled with woodpecker holes in the Great Dismal Swamp in Camden County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Five ducks by an irrigation canal are called home for the night: Five ducks by an irrigation canal look up as they are called home for the night. As sunset approaches (always by 6 p.m. in places near the equator), Balinese herd their livestock out of their grazing fields towards a barn near home. Here, a blurred figure...; Format: image/photograph

Ponte di Rialto: The Ponte di Rialto, or Rialto Bridge, is one of the largest bridges spanning the Canal Grande of Venice. It was built in three years in 1588 and was the only way to cross the Canal Grande until on foot until the Accademia Bridge was constructed in 1854. More...; Format: image/photograph

Ducks swim in canal near Mai Chau: Ducks swim in a canal near Mai Chau. These brown, white, and black ducks with yellow bills are a domesticated variety raised by local rice farmers. In many parts of Southeast Asia, farmers raise ducks and farm wet-rice fields in a mutually beneficial, or symbiotic,...; Format: image/photograph

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