About Anne Martin
Since the mid 1970s, producer/host, Anne Martin, has been bringing stories to life through the medium of television. She thrives on tracking down the unusual and her work has encompassed history, geology, heritage and a positive outlook on the world around us. Read more about Anne Martin.
Tag Archives: Africa
Cuba: The Taste of Travel
We combine our archival footage of Cuba with input from Julie’s Cuban restaurant in Toronto to reveal the intriguing multicultural cuisine of the island. … Continue reading
Caribbean: Barbados – The Crop Over Festival
July is a hot time in Barbados for more reasons than one. It’s Crop Over and people come from all over the world to … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Afro-Barbadians, Barbados, Bridgetown, Britain, Calypso, Caribbean, colonialism, Crop Over, festival, Kadooment, sugar cane harvest, tourism, water sports
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Islands of Malta: The Temple Culture
Descendants of cave dwellers live in isolation on the Islands of Malta and develop prehistoric stone temples and complex megalithic structures older than the … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, archaeology, Asia, burials, cave dwellers, coralline limestone, elephants, Europe, fauna, fossils, Ggantija, Ghar Dalam, Gozo, Hagar Qim, hippopotamus, Hypogeum, ice age, Islands, limestone, Malta, Maya, Mediterranean, Megalithic sanctuaries, Mnajera, monoliths, Mother Earth, Oracle, pottery, prehistoric, rituals, Sicily, temple culture, temples, wells
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Islands of Malta: Prehistoric Discoveries
“The Caves of Darkness”, discovered by an amateur archaeologist reveal evidence of pigmy elephants and stoneage man supporting beliefs that the Maltese archipelago was … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, archaeology, Asia, cave dwellers, Cominho, elephants, Europe, fauna, Filfla, fossils, Ghar Dalam, Gozo, hippopotamus, ice age, Inland Sea, Islands, limestone, Malta, Mediterranean, prehistoric, pygmy elephants, pyramids, scuba-diving, Sicily, stalactites, stalagmites, wells
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Argentina: Talampaya and Gondwana
The existence of the continent of Gondwana is still a hotly debated hypothesis by geologists and in Talampaya in the Province of La Rioja … Continue reading
Malta – The Island Fortress
The archipelago of Malta lies midway between North Africa and Sicily, a location that gave the islands great strategic importance and resulted in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Allied operations, American, Arabs, architecture, armour, Australia, baroque, Battle of Allamein, British, Canadian, Clyde, Crusaders, Eye of Osiris, Germans, Ghar Dalam, glass, Gozo, Grand Harbour, Hagar Qim, Halifax, Hypogeum, Italians, Knights of Malta, lace, Lascaris War Rooms, luzzus, Malta, Marsaxlokk, Mdina, medieval, Mediterranean, megalithic temples, New Zealand, Phoenicians, pigmy elephants, pre-historic temple culture, pyramids, Romans, St. John’s Co-Cathedral, tapestries, Texas, Valletta, world war 2
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Israel – an introduction to the country
Geographically, Israel is a long, narrow stretch of land at the south-eastern corner of the Mediterranean, situated between Africa and Asia and on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acre, Africa, Akko, aquiducts, Arab, archaeology, artifacts, Asia, Bar Mitzvah, bazaar, Bet She’an, British protectorate, Ceasarea, Church of Holy Sepulchre, Crusader Capital, Dead Sea, desert, Dome of the Rock, Egypt, Ein Gedi, Herod the Great, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish zealots, Jordan, Judaism, Kibbutz, Masada, Mediterranean, mud baths, pilgrimage, Roman, spa, Turkey, Via Dolorosa, Western Wall
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