Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Iran

Illustration - Iran

IRAN. CHIRAZ. THE FAMOUS STAINED GLASSES OF THE CHIITE MOSQUE OF NASIR-OL-MOLK (OR PINK MOSQUE) BUILT BY MIRZA HASAN ALI NASIR AL MOLK, LORD OF THE KADJAR DYNASTY, BETWEEN 1876 AND 1888. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Arles

Arles

FRANCE. PROVENCE. BOUCHES-DU-RHONE (13) ARLES. VAN GOGH FOUNDATION. INAUGURATED IN APRIL 2014, THE FOUNDATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF THE PAINTER VINCENT VAN GOGH. CAME TO SEEK THE LIGHT OF THE SOUTH, BETWEEN 1888 AND 1889, THE DUTCH PAINTER STAYED THERE FOR 15 MONTHS, AND PRODUCED MORE THAN 300 DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS. Photo by Thiery Grun/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Tunisia's national museum reopens after over 2-year closure

STORY: Tunisia's national museum reopens after over 2-year closure DATELINE: Sept. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:56 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Tunisia's Bardo National Museum STORYLINE: Tunisia's Bardo National Museum reopened on Thursday after more than two years of closure. The museum was closed on July 25, 2021, when Tunisian President Kais Saied shuttered the parliament and its adjacent building of the museum. However, Tunisian Culture Minister Hayat Guermazi confirmed Wednesday night during a ceremony that "the closure was due to the ministry's ongoing maintenance and restoration work on the historic building." The museum was hit by a terrorist attack in 2015, which killed more than 20 people in the building and its environs. Located in the capital Tunis, the national museum, founded in 1888, is the flagship of Tunisian heritage and hosts the second-largest collection of mosaics in the world. It used to receive 50,000 visitors worldwide every year before its closure. Xinhu

Century-old inaugural issue of local daily found

Century-old inaugural issue of local daily found

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A century-old copy of the inaugural issue of "Miyazaki Shimpo," the southwestern Japan prefecture's first local daily, dated March 15, 1888, is exhibited at a prefectural library on Oct. 1, 2014, after being found at a home in Kushima on the southern tip of the prefecture.

Group of firms in western Japan designs novelty gloves

Group of firms in western Japan designs novelty gloves

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Novelty "Kagawa gloves" with innovative designs produced by "1888 Tebukuro Lab," a consortium of 18 glove manufacturers in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, are shown in the western Japan city on Oct. 2, 2014. Higashikagawa is Japan's biggest producer of gloves.

Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Staff of the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo gather in front of the bust of Jose Rizal, their country's national hero, in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on June 19, 2011, the 150th anniversary of his birth. Rizal traveled to Japan in 1888 during the course of his peaceful revolt against the Spanish rulers of the Philippines.

Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

MANILA, Philippines - Photo taken June 16, 2011, at the Philippine National Library in Manila, shows a portrait on display there of Seiko Usui, more commonly known to Filipinos as O-Sei-san, the Japanese love interest of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal, who visited Japan from Feb. 28 to April 13, 1888. The Philippines celebrated the 150th anniversary of Rizal's birth on June 19, 2011.

Deities restored to quake-reinforced Imperial Palace shrines

Deities restored to quake-reinforced Imperial Palace shrines

TOKYO, Japan - Shinto priests and employees of the Imperial Household Agency dressed in Shinto costumes carry the deities of the imperial family back to the three earthquake-reinforced shrines from a makeshift shrine inside the Imperial Palace on March 25. The deities, in the form of sacred objects where the spirits of deities dwell, had been temporarily housed at the makeshift shrine during earthquake-reinforcement work at the imperial shrines. The shrines, built in 1888, are used by the emperor and empress and members of the imperial family in various imperial rites. (Pool photo)

Hirobumi Ito

Hirobumi Ito

Ito became Japan's first prime minister (1885-1888) under its modern cabinet system. Ito, who was the chief architect of Japan's first constitution, later served as the country's fifth (1892-1896), seventh (Jan. 12, 1898-June 30, 1898) and 10th (1900-1901) prime minister. Ito signed the Korean-Japanese Convention of 1905, which awarded Japan full control of Korea's foreign relations. Ito, who became the first Japanese resident general in Korea of 1906, was assassinated on Oct. 26 in 1909 in Harbin, Manchuria by Korean nationalist An Chung Gun. Born Sept. 2, 1841.

Bust of father of Japanese chemistry installed in Osaka

Bust of father of Japanese chemistry installed in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A bronze bust of Koenraad Wolter Gratama, a 19th-century Dutch chemist considered the father of Japanese chemistry, was installed in Osaka on Nov. 12. The bust of Gratama (1831-1888) was erected near the site where a state-run chemistry school was once located in Osaka's Chuo Ward as part of events to commemorate 400 years of ties between Japan and the Netherlands.

Japan - The Crown Prince (later Emperor) Taisho

Japan - The Crown Prince (later Emperor) Taisho

Japan - The Crown Prince (later Emperor) Taisho (1879-1926) - Crown Prince from 1888 and Emperor from 1912. Date: circa 1908

Admiral Sir Tom Phillips

Admiral Sir Tom Phillips

Admiral Sir Tom Phillips (1888 - 1941), who was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Fleet on 1 December 1941. He subsequently commanded 'Force Z' during the Japanese invasion of Malaya. He went down with his flagship H.M.S. Prince of Wales during the battle. Date: December 1941

Chester, the Cathedral Crypt 1888

Chester, the Cathedral Crypt 1888

Chester, the Cathedral Crypt 1888 Date: 1888

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Mill and Bridge, Jesmond Dene 1888

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Mill and Bridge, Jesmond Dene 1888

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Mill and Bridge, Jesmond Dene 1888 Date: 1888

Polperro, the Harbour 1888

Polperro, the Harbour 1888

Polperro, the Harbour 1888 Date: 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral 1888 Date: 1888

Torquay, from Waldon Hill 1888

Torquay, from Waldon Hill 1888

Torquay, from Waldon Hill 1888 Date: 1888

Torquay, Natural Arch 1888

Torquay, Natural Arch 1888

Torquay, Natural Arch 1888 Date: 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral, the Tomb of the Black Prince 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral, the Tomb of the Black Prince 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral, the Tomb of the Black Prince 1888 Date: 1888

Torquay, Beacon Terrace 1888

Torquay, Beacon Terrace 1888

Torquay, Beacon Terrace 1888 Date: 1888

Dorking, High Street 1888

Dorking, High Street 1888

Dorking, High Street 1888 Date: 1888

Looe, the Quays 1888

Looe, the Quays 1888

Looe, the Quays 1888 Date: 1888

Torquay, Fishermen 1888

Torquay, Fishermen 1888

Torquay, Fishermen 1888 Date: 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral, the Norman Crypt 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral, the Norman Crypt 1888

Canterbury, the Cathedral, the Norman Crypt 1888 Date: 1888

Fowey, Place House 1888

Fowey, Place House 1888

Fowey, Place House 1888 Date: 1888

Looe, Lifeboat House 1888

Looe, Lifeboat House 1888

Looe, Lifeboat House 1888 Date: 1888

Leatherhead, the Swan Hotel 1888

Leatherhead, the Swan Hotel 1888

Leatherhead, the Swan Hotel 1888 Date: 1888

Heysham, St Patrick's Chapel Ruins, Heysham Head 1888

Heysham, St Patrick's Chapel Ruins, Heysham Head 1888

Heysham, St Patrick's Chapel Ruins, Heysham Head 1888 Date: 1888

Torquay, from Waldon Hill 1888

Torquay, from Waldon Hill 1888

Torquay, from Waldon Hill 1888 Date: 1888

St Mawgan, Falcon Inn 1888

St Mawgan, Falcon Inn 1888

St Mawgan, Falcon Inn 1888 Date: 1888

Padstow, the 'Sunbeam' 1888

Padstow, the 'Sunbeam' 1888

Padstow, the 'Sunbeam' 1888 Date: 1888

Fowey, 1888

Fowey, 1888

Fowey, 1888 Date: 1888

Fowey, the Town Quay 1888

Fowey, the Town Quay 1888

Fowey, the Town Quay 1888 Date: 1888

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Park and Bandstand 1888

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Park and Bandstand 1888

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Park and Bandstand 1888 Date: 1888

Morecambe, the Esplanade 1888

Morecambe, the Esplanade 1888

Morecambe, the Esplanade 1888 Date: 1888

Bradford, Salt Monument 1888

Bradford, Salt Monument 1888

Bradford, Salt Monument 1888 Date: 1888

Padstow, the Harbour 1888

Padstow, the Harbour 1888

Padstow, the Harbour 1888 Date: 1888

Padstow, Prideaux Place, the Hall 1888

Padstow, Prideaux Place, the Hall 1888

Padstow, Prideaux Place, the Hall 1888 Date: 1888

Padstow, Prideaux Place, the Oak Room 1888

Padstow, Prideaux Place, the Oak Room 1888

Padstow, Prideaux Place, the Oak Room 1888 Date: 1888

Denbigh, from the North 1888

Denbigh, from the North 1888

Denbigh, from the North 1888 Date: 1888

Rye, West Street 1888

Rye, West Street 1888

Rye, West Street 1888 Date: 1888

Rye, West Cliff 1888

Rye, West Cliff 1888

Rye, West Cliff 1888 Date: 1888