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English: NASA time-lapse video shows the rate of Dubai's artificial islands growth at one frame per year from 2000 through 2011. In the false-color satellite images making up the video, bare desert is tan, plant-covered land is red, water is black and urban areas are silver.
New Year celebrations [67] and the opening celebration of the Dubai Shopping Festival [68] cancelled in solidarity with Gaza. 29 March: Chechen Yamadayev murdered in Dubai. [20] Dubai Mall, the world's largest shopping mall, inaugurated. 1 June: FlyDubai commences operations. September: Red Line (Dubai Metro) begins operating. [1] Almas Tower ...
Al Fahidi Fort in Dubai in the late 1950s, built in 1787 Al Fahidi Fort today. Al Fahidi Fort is the oldest existing building in Dubai.. The Umayyads introduced Islam to the area in the 7th century [13] and sparked the vitalization of the area, opening up trade routes supported by fishing and pearl diving to eastern regions such as modern-day Pakistan and India, with reports of ships ...
"United Arab Emirates Time Line", Atlas of the Middle East, Washington DC: US Central Intelligence Agency, 1993 – via University of Texas, Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection
Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours, the ...
The city of Dubai is the second most prosperous emirate of the United Arab Emirates, after Abu Dhabi, and with a cosmopolitan population of 1.6 million. Dubai shares a range of characteristics with other tiger economies including a sustained double-digit GDP growth rate since 1994. In 2004 Dubai's GDP grew 17%, mostly in the non-oil sectors. [1]
Twenty-three years since the day that changed everything. Since that impossibly blue sky on a crisp autumn morning. Since the first plane. Then the second plane.
A 10-year time-lapse of the sun was released by NASA The Solar Dynamics Observatory has watched the sun for over 10 years taking 425 million high-resolution images every 0.75 seconds in its orbit ...