EditorialIndia: A frieze depicting Nusserwanjee (Nesserwanjee) Maneckjee Petit (1827-1891), Nesserwanjee M. Petit Charitable Dispensary, founded in 1893 in Nanubhai Desai Road, Bombay (Mumbai)
EditorialSociety of Salome, Summer Whites Picnic at Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath as heatwave weather ends., Hampstead Heath, London, UK - 04 Aug 2024
EditorialIndia: Parsi businessman and philanthropist Sorabjee Shapurjee Bengalee (1831 - 1893), Madame Cama Road by the Oval Maidan, Mumbai. Bengalee was feted for his support of the education for girls
EditorialIndia: A statue of Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), a Zoroastrian (Parsi, Parsee) Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer, Dadabhai Naoroji (D.N.) Road, Mumbai
EditorialGreece: Vasilios Chalis (1785 - 1846), a Cretan leader in the 1821 Great War of Independence (Greek Revolution), 1866 Square, Chania (Hania), Crete
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EditorialMedardo Rosso’s “La Portinaia (The Concierge),” 1890-1893, on display in the exhibit “Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917,” at the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, March 14, 2022. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
EditorialIndonesia: The 5th century Ciaruteun inscription stone, Ciaruteun River, Cibungbulang District, Bogor Regency, West Java. Photo by Isidore van Kinsbergen (1821 - 1905), late 19th century
EditorialIndia: Varaha, the man-boar avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, with the earth goddess (Prithvi) hanging from his tusk. Found in the Gupta period (4th century CE to late 6th century CE) Varaha Temple, Eran, Madhya Pradesh (Photo by Henry Cousens, 1893)
EditorialChina: Song Qingling (1892-1981), first female Chairman and President of the People's Republic of China, together with her future husband, Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), founder of the Chinese Republic (1912)
EditorialMedardo Rosso’s “La Portinaia (The Concierge),” 1890-1893, on display in the exhibit “Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917,” at the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, March 14, 2022. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
EditorialA silver and enamel coffee pot by Tiffany & Co. (1893) exhibited by the S.J. Shrubsole gallery at the Winter Show in New York, March 31, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)