Claude Monet paintings

Claude Monet paintings
Charles Chaplin paintings

Some 300 islands looking like a blurred vision of the planet's nations are slowly emerging from the waters of the Gulf, forming an exclusive and sandy world of their own just off the coast of Dubai.
Some 300 islands looking like a blurred vision of the planet's nations are slowly emerging from the waters of the Gulf, forming an exclusive and sandy world of their own just off the coast of Dubai. "The World" is one of the most ambitious projects yet launched by this tiny emirate, one of seven that make up the United Arab Emirates, and arguably the one developing at the most break-neck speed.Less than two years after work began, 60 percent of the islands have been raised from the sea floor, says James Wilson, CEO of Nakheel, the company behind the project.On a rare visit, the boat cuts through the waters between these momentarily desert islands with a maximum of 100 metres (320 feet) between them.