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Untitled and unfilled poster showing different views. On the bottom, a wrestling scene attended by people in Arab dresses; on the side French cavalry entering a gate and beneath Moorish and Crusaders carrying flags on their horses. In the upper part a French officer jumping over a barrier with his h ...
The photograph, taken from the sea, actually shows the Beit al Ajaib (House of Wonders), built in 1883 and restored after the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. The house was primarily the Sultan's residence and was the first building in Zanzibar to have electricity, as well as the first building in East A ...