- published: 22 Feb 2014
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Kahn is a German surname. Kahn is the German word that means, in informal contexts, small boat. It is also a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.
Albert may refer to:
The Middle East (also called the Mid East) is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia and Egypt. The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner. Formerly, the Eurocentric synonym Near East (as opposed to Far East) was commonly used. Arabs, Azeris, Kurds, Persians, and Turks constitute the largest ethnic groups in the region by population, while Armenians, Assyrians, Circassians, Copts, Druze, Jews, Maronites, Somalis, and other ethnic and ethno-religious groups form significant minorities.
The History of the Middle East dates back to ancient times, with the (geo-political) importance of the region being recognized for millennia. Several major religions have their origins in the Middle East, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; the Baha'i faith, Mandaeism, Unitarian Druze, and numerous other belief systems were also established within the region. The Middle East generally has a hot, arid climate, with several major rivers providing irrigation to support agriculture in limited areas such as the Nile Delta in Egypt, the Tigris and Euphrates watersheds of Mesopotamia, and most of what is known as the Fertile Crescent. Most of the countries that border the Persian Gulf have vast reserves of crude oil, with the dictatorships of the Arabian Peninsula in particular benefiting from petroleum exports. In modern times the Middle East remains a strategically, economically, politically, culturally and religiously sensitive region.
Full playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdum6Q8nXcA&list;=PLI2SnMXoDS-SemjP1e3kTelY3iuFS7LQm Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with the world's first colour camera system and dispatched them
Born in Alsace of a Jewish family, Albert Kahn moved to Paris when the province was annexed by Germany in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian war. Kahn made his vast fortune first in diamond mining and then as a banker in the world of international finance, most notably in loans in Japan, partly facilitated through connection with the Japanese royal family. But Kahn's claim on our attention these days is as the initiator of an early and grandiose project to make a coloured photographic record of the peoples and cultures of the world. To promote peace and understanding on a global scale. As a philanthropist, he financed this extraordinary project which sponsored photographers to travel to at least 50 countries from 1907 till the demise of his wealth in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 a...
Em 1908, o banqueiro e industrial francês Albert Kahn lançou o que é considerada a mais ambiciosa iniciativa na história da fotografia. Ele recrutou um time de fotógrafos e os enviou a todo o mundo para produzir fotos da vida humana na Terra. Aproveitando-se de sua imensa fortuna pessoal Kahn deu ao time a tecnologia mais avançada da época. Eles estavam equipados com autocromo o primeiro sistema prático do mundo, capaz de tirar fotos coloridas.
Middle East History from 1930-1955, how the borders were created (C) Albert Kahn http://4greenworlds.org
Profile of the architect Albert Kahn, 2012 Auto Hall of Fame Inductee
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Greater Clinton Township Historical Society Lecture - Albert Kahn and Henry Ford
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