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The Legends Behind the Dragon Boat Festival
Celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, Duanwu Jie honors storied history with culinary treats
May 15, 2009 |
By Jeninne Lee-St. John
Steering Ships Through a Treacherous Waterway
Braving storms with high seas a group of elite ship pilots steers tankers and freighters through the Columbia River
February 2009 |
By Matt Jenkins
Spirit of the Sea
Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture's oceangoing past
September 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Raiders or Traders?
A replica Viking vessel sailing the North Sea has helped archaeologists figure out what the stalwart Norsemen were really up to
July 2008 |
By Andrew Curry
Abandoned Ship: the Mary Celeste
What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging
November 2007 |
By Jess Blumberg
Pay Dirt
When self-taught archaeologists dug up an 1850s steamboat, they brought to light a slice of American life
December 2006 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
R.I.P., Mighty O
A fabled aircraft carrier sunk deliberately off the coast of Florida is the world's largest artificial reef
November 2006 |
By Geoffrey Norman
Inventive Abe
In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
October 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Titanic Sank This Morning
An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
April 2004 |
By Owen Edwards
Hewed From History
In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner
April 2003 |
By T. Edward Nickens
Pieces of History
Raised from the deep, the Monitor's turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship's violent end
November 2002 |
By Wendy Mitman Clarke
Odd DUKW
On land and in the water, World War II's amphibian workhorse showed the skeptics a thing or two now it shows tourists the sights
August 2002 |
By Thomas B. Allen
Poling on the River
Batteaux were once the lifeblood of Virginia commerce; now locals celebrate those bygone days
June 2002 |
By T. Edward Nickens
