Illustration - Haute-Corse - France

Illustration - Haute-Corse - France

FRANCE. HAUTE-CORSE (2B) CORSICAN RAILWAY. AMG TRAIN, BETWEEN THE VILLAGES OF VIVARIO AND VENACO. CROSSING THE EIFFEL BRIDGE. BUILT BETWEEN 1890 AND 1892 BY THE FAMOUS GUSTAVE EIFFEL, IT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER VECCHIO. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. Photo by Stephane Frances/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Haute-Corse - France

Illustration - Haute-Corse - France

FRANCE. HAUTE-CORSE (2B) CORSICAN RAILWAY. AMG TRAIN, BETWEEN THE VILLAGES OF VIVARIO AND VENACO. CROSSING THE EIFFEL BRIDGE. BUILT BETWEEN 1890 AND 1892 BY THE FAMOUS GUSTAVE EIFFEL, IT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER VECCHIO. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. Photo by Stephane Frances/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Haute-Corse - France

Illustration - Haute-Corse - France

FRANCE. HAUTE-CORSE (2B) CORSICAN RAILWAY. NEW AMG TRAIN, BETWEEN THE VILLAGES OF VIVARIO AND VENACO. CROSSING THE EIFFEL BRIDGE. BUILT BETWEEN 1890 AND 1892 BY THE FAMOUS GUSTAVE EIFFEL, IT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER VECCHIO. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. Photo by Stephane Frances/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Corse du Sud - France

Illustration - Corse du Sud - France

FRANCE. HAUTE-CORSE (2B) CORSICAN RAILWAY. NEW AMG TRAIN, BETWEEN THE VILLAGES OF VIVARIO AND VENACO. CROSSING THE EIFFEL BRIDGE. BUILT BETWEEN 1890 AND 1892 BY THE FAMOUS GUSTAVE EIFFEL, IT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER VECCHIO. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. Photo by Stephane Frances/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Loire Valley

Illustration - Loire Valley

FRANCE - LOIRE VALLEY - MAINE ET LOIRE (49) - CASTLE OF BRISSAC : THEATER. ABANDONED FOR 50 YEARS, IT WAS BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THE MARQUISE DE BRISSAC, BORN JEANNE SAY, HAD IT ARRANGED BECAUSE IT WAS A GREAT PASSIONATE OPERA AND A TALENTED INTERPRETER BUT ITS TITLE AND RANK FORBADE ANY REPRESENTATION IN PUBLIC. THE 200-SEAT THEATER WAS INAUGURATED IN 1890. ACCOMPANIED BY HER MUSIC LOVERS, SHE PERFORMED WORKS BY WAGNER, GOUNOD, MASSENET, SAINT-SAENS, DONIZETTI AND OFFENBACH. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Economy

Illustration - Economy

FRANCE. HAUTE-CORSE (2B) CORSICAN RAILWAY. U TRINICHELLU, THE AMG TRAIN, BETWEEN THE VILLAGES OF VIVARIO AND VENACO. CROSSING THE EIFFEL BRIDGE. BUILT BETWEEN 1890 AND 1892 BY THE FAMOUS GUSTAVE EIFFEL, IT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER VECCHIO. IT IS 170.96 M LONG AND 84 M HIGH. Photo by Stephane Frances/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Japan crown prince, crown princess in Turkey

Japan crown prince, crown princess in Turkey

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko attend an exhibition on the Ertugrul Frigate, an Ottoman Empire military ship that sank off Japan in 1890, in the Naval Museum in Istanbul on Dec. 6, 2024. (Pool photo)

Japan crown prince, crown princess in Turkey

Japan crown prince, crown princess in Turkey

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (2nd from R) and Crown Princess Kiko attend an exhibition on the Ertugrul Frigate, an Ottoman Empire military ship that sank off Japan in 1890, in the Naval Museum in Istanbul on Dec. 6, 2024. (Pool photo)

Japan crown prince, crown princess in Turkey

Japan crown prince, crown princess in Turkey

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko attend an exhibition on the Ertugrul Frigate, an Ottoman Empire military ship that sank off Japan in 1890, in the Naval Museum in Istanbul on Dec. 6, 2024. (Pool photo)

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

Schonborn Palace in Zakarpattia Region

KARPATY, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 - The Palace of Counts Schonborn, an architectural monument of national importance built in 1890-1895, hosts the Karpaty Sanatorium, Karpaty village, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine.

Special Turkish Airlines plane lands in Japan to commemorate friendship

Special Turkish Airlines plane lands in Japan to commemorate friendship

NARITA, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo - Kushimoto Mayor Katsumasa Tashima makes a speech at a ceremony in Narita airport, east of Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2015, to mark the release of a movie depicting the friendship between Turkey and Japan. The Turkish Airlines jet, seen in the background, was named "KUSHIMOTO" after the Japanese coastal town where an Ottoman frigate sank in 1890 due to a typhoon. Of the 587 people aboard the warship, 69 survived due to rescue efforts by local people.

Turkish warship Gediz arrives in Tokyo

Turkish warship Gediz arrives in Tokyo

TOKYO, June 5 Kyodo - Sailors and representatives stand in front of the Turkish frigate Gediz for commemorative photos at Tokyo's Harumi Pier on June 5, 2015. Before sailing to Tokyo to mark the 125th anniversary of the friendship between Turkey and Japan, Gediz stopped at Kushimoto town in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, for a commemorative ceremony for the victims of the Ottoman warship that sank due to a typhoon in 1890.

Lafcadio Hearn gallery opens in Greece

Lafcadio Hearn gallery opens in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Visitors examine the exhibits at a gallery commemorating Lafcadio Hearn, a writer who devoted his life to introducing Japan to the West in the 19th century, on the Greek island of Lefkada on July 4, 2014. Launched on the 110th anniversary of the writer's death, the gallery opened at the birthplace of Hearn, who was born to an Irish father and a Greek mother in 1850 and worked as a journalist in the United States before going to Japan in 1890. He became a naturalized Japanese before he died in 1904.

Turkish prime minister in Japan

Turkish prime minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) receives a gift from Katsumasa Tashima, mayor of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2014. When the Ottoman Navy frigate Ertugrul sank off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, in September 1890, people from the coastal town of Kushimoto rescued 69 sailors, while 587 died, in an incident described by Erdogan as the one that serves as the most important event in the two countries' shared history.

Lafcadio Hearn's lamp stand

Lafcadio Hearn's lamp stand

MATSUE, Japan - Photo shows a lamp stand at the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum dedicated to naturalized Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Yakumo Koizumi, in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2012. The museum was recently given the lamp, which was originally a gift from Hearn to Kenjiro Ume, a jurist. Born to an Irish father and Greek mother, Hearn arrived in Japan in 1890 and married a Japanese woman in Matsue, where he lived for a while. He introduced Japan's traditional culture to the world before passing away at the age of 54.

Japan-Turkey citizen exchange

Japan-Turkey citizen exchange

MERSIN, Turkey - Wakayama Gov. Yoshinobu Nisaka (C) plants a tree at a memorial ceremony for the victims of the Ottoman Empire navy ship accident held at Mersin, Turkey on Sept. 2, 2010. The Erturul Frigate sank off Wakayama Prefecture in September 1890 due to a violent typhoon.

Ataturk statue unveiled in western Japan town

Ataturk statue unveiled in western Japan town

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A bronze statue of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is unveiled during a ceremony in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on June 3, 2010, as part of events to mark the 120th anniversary of friendship between Japan and Turkey. The 4.2-meter-high, 4-ton statue was installed on May 20 near a lighthouse overlooking the wreck site of the Ertugrul, a Turkish warship that sank near the Pacific coast town in western Japan in 1890.

Commemoration of Turkish warship sinking

Commemoration of Turkish warship sinking

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Turkish Ambassador to Japan Sermet Atacanli (R) throws flowers to the Pacific Ocean in a ceremony to commemorate the fatal sinking in 1890 of a Turkish warship, held aboard a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on June 3, 2010. The surviving crew of the Ertugrul received hospitality from local residents.

Turkish leader pays tribute to victims of sunken Turkish warship

Turkish leader pays tribute to victims of sunken Turkish warship

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Turkish President Abdullah Gul offers flowers during a memorial ceremony in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on June 7 for the crew of a Turkish warship that sank in 1890 off the Wakayama town. The Ertugrul Firkateyni traveled to Japan for a reciprocal visit following a trip to Istanbul by Japanese Prince and Princess Komatsu in 1887. The warship was caught in a typhoon while returning home and sank off the coast of Kushimoto. Of about 650 people on board, only 69 survived and returned home after local residents rescued them.

Turkish leader pays tribute to victims of sunken Turkish warship

Turkish leader pays tribute to victims of sunken Turkish warship

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his wife Hayrunisa attend a memorial ceremony in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on June 7 for the crew of a Turkish warship that sank in 1890 off the Wakayama town. The Ertugrul Firkateyni traveled to Japan for a reciprocal visit following a trip to Istanbul by Japanese Prince and Princess Komatsu in 1887. The warship was caught in a typhoon while returning home and sank off the coast of Kushimoto. Of about 650 people on board, only 69 survived and returned home after local residents rescued them.

Turkish president gives emperor model of sunken Turkish warship

Turkish president gives emperor model of sunken Turkish warship

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) talks with visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul (3rd from L) while Empress Michiko (R) talks with Gul's wife Hayrunnisa (3rd from R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 5. The Turkish president gave the emperor a model of an Ottoman warship that sank off Japan's Kii Peninsula in 1890. (Pool photo)

Geminid meteor shower 2022

Geminid meteor shower 2022

A Geminid meteor streaks across the sky above the equestrian statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in Kushimoto, Wakayama Pref., in western Japan on Dec. 14, 2022. The statue is a token of friendship between Japan and Turkey after Japan transported home the surviving sailors of the Turkish frigate Ertugrul which sank in the 1890 crash off the Japanese town.

Geminid meteor shower 2022

Geminid meteor shower 2022

A Geminid meteor streaks across the sky above the equestrian statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, in western Japan on Dec. 14, 2022. The statue is a token of friendship between Japan and Turkey after Japan transported home the surviving sailors of the Turkish frigate Ertugrul which sank in the 1890 crash off the Japanese town.

Work begins to retrieve effects from Turkish warship

Work begins to retrieve effects from Turkish warship

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Melike Aykut, 81, shows a picture of her grandfather Mehmet Ali Huseyin, who was a noncommissioned officer aboard the Ottoman Empire warship Ertugrul Firkateyni that sank off Wakayama Prefecture on Sept. 16, 1890, at her home in Istanbul on Jan. 28.

Stage actor Takizawa dies at 93

Stage actor Takizawa dies at 93

TOKYO, Japan - Acclaimed stage actor Osamu Takizawa died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on June 22, hospital sources said June 23. He was 93. After joining ''Tsukiji Shogekijo'' (Tsukiji Mini Theater) in 1924, Takizawa played many leading roles in modern European plays. This undated file photo shows Takizawa playing the role of painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) in ''Honoo-no-Hito'' (Man of Flame).

A glimpse of Mumbai's open-air laundry

STORY: A glimpse of Mumbai's open-air laundry DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:14 LOCATION: MUMBAI, India CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of washermen working at the open-air laundry STORYLINE: The Indian city of Mumbai, the capital of the state of Maharashtra, is a major draw for tourists. One of the attractions is the city's open-air laundries, locally known as "dhobi ghat." A distinctive feature of Mumbai, these laundries provide employment to thousands of washermen, called "dhobis" in the local language. Dhobi Ghat, a famous open-air laundry place in Mumbai's southern area, was built in 1890. Clothes from hotels, hospitals and other places are being washed here. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Mumbai, China. (XHTV)

Turkish leader pays tribute to victims of sunken Turkish warship

Turkish leader pays tribute to victims of sunken Turkish warship

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his wife Hayrunisa attend a memorial ceremony in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on June 7 for the crew of a Turkish warship that sank in 1890 off the Wakayama town. The Ertugrul Firkateyni traveled to Japan for a reciprocal visit following a trip to Istanbul by Japanese Prince and Princess Komatsu in 1887. The warship was caught in a typhoon while returning home and sank off the coast of Kushimoto. Of about 650 people on board, only 69 survived and returned home after local residents rescued them. (Kyodo)

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan circa 1890

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan circa 1890

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Wells, Market Place 1890

Wells, Market Place 1890

Wells, Market Place 1890 Date: 1890

Truro, King Harry Passage 1890

Truro, King Harry Passage 1890

Truro, King Harry Passage 1890 Date: 1890

Richmond, the Bridge 1890

Richmond, the Bridge 1890

Richmond, the Bridge 1890 Date: 1890

Newton Abbot, Ogwell Mill 1890

Newton Abbot, Ogwell Mill 1890

Newton Abbot, Ogwell Mill 1890 Date: 1890

Woodchester, Church 1890

Woodchester, Church 1890

Woodchester, Church 1890 Date: 1890

Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890

Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890

Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890 Date: 1890

Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890

Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890

Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890 Date: 1890

Lincoln, the Jew's House 1890

Lincoln, the Jew's House 1890

Lincoln, the Jew's House 1890 Date: 1890

Malpas, 1890

Malpas, 1890

Malpas, 1890 Date: 1890

Malpas, 1890

Malpas, 1890

Malpas, 1890 Date: 1890

Scarborough, the Castle 1890

Scarborough, the Castle 1890

Scarborough, the Castle 1890 Date: 1890

Richmond, the Bridge 1890

Richmond, the Bridge 1890

Richmond, the Bridge 1890 Date: 1890

Lincoln, Cathedral 1890

Lincoln, Cathedral 1890

Lincoln, Cathedral 1890 Date: 1890