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    Firetti Contemporary Dubai takes a Grand Tour of historical photographs

    04 Sep 2022

    Attendees can enjoy the views of “must-see” tour destinations in famous cities such as Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Palermo, Taormina, among others.

    'Mudlarks' unearth the past on London's riverbanks

    21 Sep 2019

    "Mudlarks" have scoured the foreshores of London's rivers for centuries, searching out lost or discarded items to sell, and the tradition lives on today in a small band of devotees.

    VIDEO: The story behind the design of the UAE flag

    31 Oct 2019

    "On this glorious national occasion, all our institutions, ministries, bodies and schools are invited to raise the flag on the UAE Flag Day at 11:00am," tweets Sheikh Mohammed.

    Hundreds gather as Reenactors recreate slave uprising

    09 Nov 2019

    Across the street, Claudine Ory, came out of her house to see what was going on and cried. Making people think — that's the goal for performance artist Dread Scott, who conceived of this reenactment eight years ago.

    We are living in historic times

    17 Jun 2019

    If we are living through historic events, would we know? In 1965, Arthur Danto, a philosopher at Columbia University, argued that it is impossible to tell, when you’re in the midst of things, whether an event is going to be deemed “historic” by future historians. If something happens – Russia successfully reclaims Crimea, for example, or Pete Buttigieg

    Ghana draws African-American tourists with 'Year of Return'

    22 Aug 2019

    African-American visitors are flocking to Ghana as it marks the "Year of Return" to remember the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia.

    500 years ago, European explorers discover the world

    05 Aug 2019

    Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.

    Napoleon's boots could sell for up to 80,000 euros

    11 Nov 2019

    The boots were gifted by the son of sculptor Carlo Marochetti to the French politician Paul Le Roux, a minister under the Second Empire of Bonaparte's nephew, Napoleon III.

    SAF set to host March Meeting and Spring 2022 exhibitions

    27 Jan 2022

    The Spring 2022 programme also includes major solo exhibitions of work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Khalil Rabah, CAMP, Aref El Rayess and Gerald Annan-Forson.

    India's Chettinad mansions a testament to past glory

    03 Feb 2022

    Chettinad's residents belonged to a caste of Tamil merchants, and the location was an ideal staging post for a maritime merchant empire.

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