“Boy, how it makes you wish, looking at them, that you could hear the music of the instant,” Mr. Bamberger said. “Bill’s photos are of performance art captured through the lens of another art,” that of writing critical reviews. Mr. Gottlieb began work at the Washington Post as an advertising agent and later started a [...]
The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition [...]
Climate The city of Dubai is situated on a coastal strip bordered by desert and gets very hot. It is dry on the hottest days and humid during the cooler days in the summer. Cooler, more pleasant weather lasts from the end of September to beginning of May (although note that pleasant is relative, with [...]
Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE, developing at an unbelievable pace in the tourist and trade sectors especially. [edit]Districts Satwa — One of Dubai’s Little India and Little Manila, [...]
Witnesses to the locust invasion that befell Jerusalem and the nearby Syrian region in 1915 agreed that they had seen nothing to equal it in their life-times. It was truly a natural disaster of biblical proportions. Members and employees of the American Colony were active in complying with official eradication efforts during the plague. They [...]
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