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Every continent on the map

Pick a part of the world and read the stories rooted there.

An Islamic miniature depicting the Andalusian Muslims' sea voyage toward Crete, a fleet of wooden ships on stylised waves.
3 stories Europe
A colour-tinted photograph of New York's Mulberry Street in 1900, packed with pushcarts, shoppers, and the tenement buildings of the Lower East Side.
2 stories North America
A formal sepia photograph of Abu Bakr Effendi seated among several of his children in nineteenth-century dress.
1 story Africa
A sweeping photograph of Antarctica's coastline — sheer ice cliffs meeting a calm, mirror-like sea under low polar light.
1 story Antarctica
A 19th-century painting of the Ertuğrul frigate battling a storm at night.
1 story Asia
A black-and-white photograph of soldiers practising with machine guns before the emu hunt, watched by a group of farmers.
1 story Australia
Crowds of early twentieth-century immigrants gathered outside the long brick reception hall of the Dirección General de Inmigración in Buenos Aires.
1 story South America