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The famous Manhattan skyline seen across the water, its towers crowded along the tip of the island that was once New Amsterdam.

United States · north america

How New Amsterdam Became New York?
Crowds of early twentieth-century immigrants gathered outside the long brick reception hall of the Dirección General de Inmigración in Buenos Aires.

Argentina · south america

El Turco
A sweeping photograph of Antarctica's coastline — sheer ice cliffs meeting a calm, mirror-like sea under low polar light.

Antarctica · antarctica

The Unclaimed Continent
A panorama of London along the Thames, with Big Ben, the London Eye, and the city skyline under a grey sky.

United Kingdom · europe

Brand City London
A formal sepia photograph of Abu Bakr Effendi seated among several of his children in nineteenth-century dress.

South Africa · africa

Abu Bakr Effendi
A 19th-century painting of the Ertuğrul frigate battling a storm at night.

Japan · asia

The Sad Story of the Ertuğrul Frigate
A black-and-white photograph of soldiers practising with machine guns before the emu hunt, watched by a group of farmers.

Australia · australia

The Emu War
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.

United States · north america

How America Was Bought?
An Islamic miniature depicting the Andalusian Muslims' sea voyage toward Crete, a fleet of wooden ships on stylised waves.

Greece · europe

The Second Andalusia: The Emirate of Crete
A painting of the Swedish frigate Jarramas under full sail, its lines modelled on Ottoman warships.

Sweden · europe

Sweden's Ottoman Ships: Yaramaz and Yıldırım

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