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Pongal Festival - Singapore

People paint on traditional clay pots used for Pongal Festival activities during a media preview of the Pongal Festival celebration held in Singapore's Indian Heritage Centre on Jan. 9, 2026. Pongal Festival is a tradition celebrated in south India. This year's festival is held from Jan. 14 to 17. Singapore's Indian Heritage Centre will be hosting a series of Pongal Festival activities on the two weekends on Jan 10, 11, 17 and 18. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Antwerp Belgium Protest in Solidarity with Gaza - Belgium

Two children sit on the steps holding a placard reading “Viva Palestina” and “From the river to the sea” during a protest in Antwerp, Belgium on August 11, 2025. For the fifth consecutive week, hundreds of Antwerp residents gathered at City Hall to protest the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Demonstrators used pots and pans to make noise, contrasting what they described as the silence of the Belgian government. They also called on the city council to remove the Israeli flag from the building’s facade, arguing it has no place there, but the council has so far refused. Photo by Bob Reijnders/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally To End The Blockade Of The Gaza - DC

Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2025, to demand an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators banged pots, held banners, and called on the U.S. government to push for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain at risk of famine. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinians Face Food Crisis Amid Shortages - Gaza

A barefoot young girl sits next to two pots of food as hungry dislocated Palestinians rush to food distribution kitchen and extend their empty containers to receive food in Gaza, Palestinian territories on May 7, 2025. United Nations has issued a "stark warning" after two months of Israel's nearly total blockade of Gaza, where food is scarce and "people are fighting over water amid relentless bombing". Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Flower festival in Hiroshima

The "flame of peace" burns on top of an 8-meter tower decorated with about 8,000 flower pots, as a two-day flower festival opens at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on June 10, 2023.

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Flower festival in Hiroshima

The "flame of peace" burns on top of an 8-meter tower decorated with about 8,000 flower pots, as a two-day flower festival opens at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on June 10, 2023.

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Flower festival in Hiroshima

The "flame of peace" burns on top of an 8-meter tower decorated with about 8,000 flower pots, as a two-day flower festival opens at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on June 10, 2023.

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EGYPT-SAQQARA-ARCHAEOLOGY-MUMMIFICATION WORKSHOPS AND TOMBS

(230527) -- CAIRO, May 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 27, 2023 shows clay pots used in mummification unearthed at the archaeological site in Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo, Egypt. Egypt announced on Saturday the discovery of two ancient embalming workshops for humans and animals along with two tombs and a collection of artifacts in Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

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Fukuda receives flowering plum bonsai from shrine's 'Plum Mission'

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda receives two pots of blossoming plum bonsai at the Prime Minister's Office on Feb. 6 from members of the ''Plum Mission'' of Tenmangu shrine in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

LONDON, Britain - Tamio Mori (R), mayor of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, a professor emeritus at Kokugakuin University, attend a ceremony to mark the exhibition of two ancient pots dating from Japan's Jomon era at the British Museum in London on Oct. 4, 2012. The pots are being exhibited for the first time outside Japan.

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Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

LONDON, Britain - Photo shows two ancient pots dating from Japan's Jomon era at the British Museum in London on Oct. 4, 2012. The museum began exhibiting the crown pot (L) and the flame pot (R) the same day for the first time outside Japan.

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'Princess Kiko' orchid in bloom after princess's pregnancy

NAGOYA, Japan - Orchid flowers called ''Princess Kiko,'' named after the wife of Emperor Akihito's second son Prince Akishino, bloom for the first time at an orchid hall in Nagoya immediately after the princess' pregnancy was revealed on Feb. 7. The orchids are in one of the two pots in which the prince planted orchids in May 2004 in commemoration of the couple's marriage.

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'Princess Kiko' orchid in bloom after princess's pregnancy

NAGOYA, Japan - Orchid flowers called ''Princess Kiko,'' named after the wife of Emperor Akihito's second son Prince Akishino, bloom for the first time at an orchid hall in Nagoya immediately after the princess' pregnancy was revealed on Feb. 7. The orchids are in one of the two pots in which the prince planted orchids in May 2004 in commemoration of the couple's marriage. (Kyodo)

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Fukuda receives flowering plum bonsai from shrine's 'Plum Missio

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda receives two pots of blossoming plum bonsai at the Prime Minister's Office on Feb. 6 from members of the ''Plum Mission'' of Tenmangu shrine in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture.(Kyodo)

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A general shop

Vendors in a shop sell similar household goods. The photograph captures a man in a cap and headband, apparently the owner, and a customer. Large fish baskets are hanging under the eaves of the two shops. The merchandise includes pails, cooking pots, and jars.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number83‐10‐0]

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A general shop

Two sales clerks wearing hachimaki headbands sell tubs for cooked rice, small and large drawers, cooking pots, pails and other products. The box on the left was used to hold sets of rice bowls. A large drum is visible on the right.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐91‐0]

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Hakone Shrine

This is a photo with the Second Torii Gate of Hakone Shrine and the palanquin men. Although the sign board is on the right side of the gate in the picture painted by Kiyochika Kobayashi in 1880, it is moved to the left of the gate. Two iron pots made during the Kamakura Period to thank gods (Designated Important Cultural Asset) were moved to the main hall of the shrine and not visible on this photo. Lake Ashinoko can be seen behind.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐53‐0]

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A flower vendor

Flower vendors. Flowers are placed in bamboo vases on all sides of the two platforms, and chrysanthemums are placed in the middle row. The vendor changed the flowers sold every season, and there were a variety among the vendors; those who sold pots, and flower seedlings.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number40‐43‐0]

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A teahouse

Two women sit on a stand in a tea house on the stand, and to the left a woman with a towel on her head holds a tray with tea cups in her left hand with tea cups. The shelf to the left has tea cups and pots on it.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number15‐8‐0]

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Women reading books

Two women sit facing each other with a table between them. The woman on the left reads a book, while the other looks at the book from the other side. On the tatami mat is a tobacco tray and a tray with a tea pot and cups, and on the table are books, tea pots and an ashtray.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐27‐0]