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Waves Hit Navarre Pier Hard During Hurricane Ivan's Approach
Hurricane Ivan was the strongest hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic storm season. It made landfall on the U.S. mainland in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on September 16 as a Category 3 storm. The 2004 storm season was especially active, with six landfalls, including four in Florida alone. Ivan greatly affected the coastal cities and smaller communities of the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, and Mississippi. This dynamic image of Ivan’s landfall in Navarre Beach, Florida, illustrates the force of the tidal surge and winds that destroyed miles of roads and highways ...
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State Library and Archives of Florida
The Beach and the Sea, Blankenberghe, Belgium
This photochrome print of the beach and sea in Blankenberghe, Belgium, is part of “Views of Architecture and Other Sites in Belgium” from the catalog of the Detroit Publishing Company (1905). Blankenberghe was known in the late 19th century as a seaside resort. Baedeker’s Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (1905) noted: “As a sea-bathing resort, Blankenberghe has become a rival of Ostend, being visited by 35,000 persons annually, half of whom are Germans.” The wheeled beach cabins lining the shore were an innovation adopted from ...
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Library of Congress
Sultan Bin Zayed I Mosque
This 1960s photograph shows the Shaykh Sultan bin Zayed I Mosque in Al-Bateen, a neighborhood of the city of Abu Dhabi. In the foreground are mahāmil, a type of fishing boat used in the Arabian Gulf. The photograph is from the Colonel Edward "Tug" Bearby Wilson Collection in the National Library, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, and was taken by Wilson. Colonel Tug Wilson (1921–2009) was a British army officer who, in the 1960s, was seconded to the government of Abu Dhabi to help build the national ...
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Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage