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Bahama Islands, 1986
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Crabbers hunt for their quarry by torchlight on the Bahamas' Samana Cay. Many historians think that the island's Lucayan Indians using the same hunting technique may have been the lights "like a small wax candle" that Christopher Columbus wrote about in his diary before his fleet found land here in October of 1492.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Where Columbus Found the New World," November 1986, National Geographic magazine)
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Mexico, 1999
Photograph by Jonathan Tourtellot
Ornate metal balusters color the view from a hotel balcony in Batopilas, Mexico. This history-rich town, located in the depths of Batopilas Canyon, arose in the 1800s with the region's silver boom. By 1900, the mines were closed, but some residents stayed on. It's now a tourist stop for visitors to Mexico's picturesque Copper Canyons region.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Two Faces of Tourism," July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Marshall Islands, 1996
Photograph by Emory Kristof
An orange crab taken from the waters near the Marshall Islands?Rongelap Atoll bears no outward evidence of the radioactive compounds that pollute its habitat.
In the 1940s and ?0s, the United States conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Bikini Atoll, a ring of Pacific islands. Radioactive fallout still pollutes Rongelap Atoll, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the east, but recent studies have found no long-term impact on marine life there.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, 揟esting the Waters of Rongelap,?April 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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Niland, California, 2005
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig
An irrigation canal reflects dawn-stained skies over Imperial Valley, a fertile farming region just north of Baja California.
The canal brings Colorado River water to the dry Salton Sea watershed, which, with an average of three inches (seven centimeters) of rainfall a year, would otherwise revert to desert. The Imperial Valley’s half million acres (202,343 hectares) of croplands soak up more water than Los Angeles and Las Vegas combined.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Salton Sea,” February 2005, National Geographic magazine)
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Tuscany, Italy, 2002
Photograph by William Albert Allard
Sunflowers bloom under a brilliant blue sky between the towns of Siena and San Gimignano in Italy's Tuscany region. In the Tuscan countryside people start their day quite early, just before dawn, but wind down in the early afternoon for siesta. Shops reopen in late afternoon and dinner usually isn't served until 9 p.m.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Siena: Italy's Very Own Magic Kingdom," September 2003, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Nara, Japan, 1976
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A harvester walks amid undulating waves of tea plants in the mountainous Nara Prefecture in central Japan.
Located 23 miles (37 kilometers) south of Kyoto, Nara was Japan’s first real capital city, where artists, scholars, and statesmen began to develop an artistically and religiously rich civilization.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Kyoto and Nara: Keepers of Japan’s Past,” June 1976, National Geographic magazine)
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India, 1996
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
Clad in shades of pink and white, celebrants of the Indian festival of Holi gather to watch a play in Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
The play, performed throughout India during Holi, recounts the love story of Hindu god Krishna and the common cowherd Radha. For Hindus, the fable represents human longing for the divine.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Quest for Color,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Venice, Italy, 1994
Photograph by Sam Abell
An ornate stage prop makes a dramatic exit through the window of Venice’s La Fenice Opera House.
Built on wooden pilings sunk in the ooze of a backwater lagoon, Venice rose over a millennium to become a city-state of dazzling power. By the 15th century, it was the envy of Europe.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Venice: More Than a Dream,” February 1995, National Geographic magazine)
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Angola, Louisiana, 1999
Photograph by William Albert Allard
Picking cotton at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola (one of the few places in the U.S. where cotton is still picked by hand), these convicts evoke blues music's ancestry. The roots of the blues are in the cotton fields of the South where slaves would sing to keep the blue devils at bay. The cadence of those field songs later came to shape the musical structure of today's blues.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Traveling the Blues Highway," April 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Mexico, 1999
Photograph by Jonathan Tourtellot
Colorful shawls worn by Tarahumara Indian women dry on a line in Mexico's Copper Canyons.
Until recently, the remoteness of the Tarahumara's homeland—the canyons' deep, rock-lined gorges—has allowed these intensely shy people to preserve much of their native culture. But a decade of government-promoted tourism in the region is bringing the outside world to their doorstep.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Two Faces of Tourism," July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Hiroshima, Japan, 1997
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
Young fans cheer for their home team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, in a 32,000-seat stadium built within striking distance of the Aioi Bridge—the target of the world's first atomic bomb. The bomb was detonated by the United States of America on August 6, 1945.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiroshima: Up From Ground Zero," August 1995, National Geographic magazine)
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United Kingdom, 1981
Photograph by Steve Raymer
An adult cheetah rests in the grass at a Jersey zoo. Founded on this English Channel island in 1959 by zoologist Gerald Durrell, the Jersey Trust Zoo (now called Durrell Wildlife) protects and breeds more than 100 endangered species, including birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. Despite its somewhat remote location, some 750,000 tourists visit the facility every year.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Wild Cargo: the Business of Smuggling Animals," March 1981, National Geographic magazine)
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Razgrad, Bulgaria, 1962
Photograph by James P. Blair
On his journey through the lands traversed by 11th-century Crusaders in pursuit of control of the Holy Land, photographer James P. Blair encountered a patchwork of fire-cleared fields south of Razgrad, Bulgaria.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In the Crusaders' Footsteps," June 1962, National Geographic magazine)
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Portugal, 1957
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson
A column of black ash and steam rises over the village of Capelo on the Azores island of Faial. The source of this 1957 eruption, an undersea volcano just off Faial's southern shore called Ilha Nova, sent car-sized boulders into the air, covered Capelo in ash, and created a new island that eventually connected with Faial and lengthened the island by more than half a mile (0.8 kilometers).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A New Volcano Bursts From the Atlantic," June 1958, National Geographic magazine)
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Alberobello, Italy, 1979
Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta
An aerial view shows the famous cone-shaped, limestone-slab roofs of Alberobello, Italy.
The peculiar rooflines of these cottages, called trulli, help move rainwater to aquifers, and their extremely thick, stuccoed walls help keep the homes cool. Earlier trulli were built without stucco, supposedly to allow residents to dismantle them easily when tax collectors approached and avoid property taxes.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Ancient Appian Way," June 1981, National Geographic magazine)
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Yangon, Myanmar, 2003
Photograph by Maria Stenzel
Worshippers' candles illuminate the Shwedagon Paya, a gilded Buddhist pagoda that rises almost 330 feet (100 meters) in central Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma).
The temple, with its glittering spires and stupas, was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his Letters from the East.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Blood, Sweat, and Toil Along the Burma Road, " November 2003, National Geographic magazine)
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Hawaii, 2005
Photograph by Susan Seubert
Suntanned patrons at the patio bar of Halekulani Hotel’s House Without a Key restaurant enjoy stunning sunset views and a hula show on Oahu Island’s Waikiki Beach.
The swaying hips and undulating arm movements of a hula dancer imitate the waves that wash over Hawaii’s shores. Hula went underground for about 60 years in the early 19th century after Christian missionaries persuaded rulers to ban the provocative dance. It is enjoying a resurgence today.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Aloha Again, " January/February 2005, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Peru, 1981
Photograph by Steve Raymer
Three vicuñas graze in tall grass in Peru's Pampa Galeras Reserve.
Prized for their soft, fine wool, vicuñas had been hunted to near-extinction by the late 1960s. Government protections in Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, and international trade restrictions on vicuña wool have helped the species rebound. Despite a continued threat from poachers, they are now considered at low risk for extinction.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Wild Cargo: the Business of Smuggling Animals," March 1981, National Geographic magazine)
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Mexico, 1999
Photograph by Jonathan Tourtellot
A large stone cross welcomes visitors to the San Ignacio Mission church near Creel, Mexico.
The church, built by Jesuits in the 1700s, is often used by the region's Tarahumara Indians as a gathering place and a market to sell their handicrafts to tourists.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Two Faces of Tourism," July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, 1999
Photograph by Sisse Brimberg
Campers await the start of a raucous national day festival in the town of Vestmannaeyjar on Iceland's Heimaey Island.
Held every year on the first weekend in August, this three-day outdoor festival began in 1874, when bad weather kept residents from traveling to the mainland to celebrate Iceland's new status as a republic. They held a celebration of their own, and the rest is history.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In Search of Vikings," May 2000, National Geographic magazine)
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