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May 22, 2004

Ariaal Warriors

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Where: Kenya, Africa

When: 1998

Photographer: Maria Stenzel

"Around the world it's the same story but with different faces: age-old cultures besieged by modern pressures. ... In Kenya, Ariaal warriors cling to a nomadic existence." —From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine

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May 23, 2004

Greeting Prairie Dogs

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Where: Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

When: 1997

Photographer: Raymond Gehman

Two Utah prairie dogs touch teeth in what is believed by researchers to be a ritual of recognition.

(Text adapted from "The Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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May 24, 2004

Smoking Bee Hives

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Where: Eagle Bend, Minnesota

When: 1992

Photographer: Maria Stenzel

"[Beekeeper] Jeff Anderson smokes his bees to quiet them during the honey harvest in Minnesota." —From "America’s Beekeepers: Hives for Hire," May 1993, National Geographic magazine

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May 25, 2004

Thingvellir, Iceland

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Where: Thingvellir, Iceland

When: 1999

Photographer: Sisse Brimberg

"Iceland's democracy began in this rocky breach at Thingvellir when the Althing, ancestor of today's parliament, met in 930. Viking chieftain-priests gathered here to proclaim laws and settle disputes. 'Icelanders have no other king than the laws,' wrote an 11th-century German cleric."

—From "In Search of Vikings," May 2000, National Geographic magazine

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May 26, 2004

Wallowing Buffalo

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Where: Ivindo National Park, Gabon, Africa

When: 2002

Photographer: Michael Nichols

"Perched on the edge of the Congo Basin, Gabon's forests support some of the greatest numbers of species on the continent. Ungulates like the ... forest buffalo have declined in many areas but gather at Langou?Bai for its rich grasses and cooling mud."

—From "Saving Africa's Eden," September 2003, National Geographic magazine

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May 27, 2004

Kids on Dock

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Where: Lower Ausable Lake, Adirondack Mountains, New York

When: 1996

Photographer: Maria Stenzel

Children dive off a swim float in privately owned Lower Ausable Lake. Author Samuel H. Hammond wrote nearly 150 years ago that he would go to the Adirondacks to recapture his youth. (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Adirondack High," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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May 28, 2004

Window in Norway

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Where: Vettismorki, Norway

When: 1999

Photographer: Daniel R. Westergren

"Peaks of the Jotunheimen Mountains, home to the giant troll, Jotun, and Norway’s tallest waterfall, fill the windows of a Norwegian Mountain Touring Association trail hut at Vettismorki, a stream-fed plateau. These loftiest mountains in Norway are laced with well-maintained hiking trails that even families with young children can negotiate."

—From "Norway Hut to Hut," May/June 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine

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May 29, 2004

Poppy Sap.

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Where: Afghanistan

When: 1933

Photographer: Maynard Owen Williams

"Hand workers gather poppy sap in the plain of the Hari River: Although the narcotic has been produced in America and Europe, the cost of collecting the juice there is prohibitive. As medicine it spread across Asia with Islam, but by 1729 the Emperor Yung Cheng had prohibited the smoking of it. Seizure and burning of $10,000,000 worth of it by the Chinese at Canton brought on the Opium War. Few Afghanistan natives are addicts of the pipe, and Turkey is as prominent in the control of the drug as in the culture of the plant." —From "Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly," December 1933, National Geographic magazine

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May 30, 2004

Gelada Grooming a Tail

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Where: Simen Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, Africa

When: 2002

Photographer: Michael Nichols

A female Theropithecus gelada monkey picks clean her mate's tail. Mutual grooming helps cement gelada family bonds.

—Text adapted from "Kings of the Hill?," November 2002, National Geographic magazine

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May 31, 2004

Wasatch Range, Utah

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Where: Near Mount Pleasant, Utah

When: 1993

Photographer: James P. Blair

On Memorial Day in the shadows of the Wasatch Range, sprinklers water farmland and flags flap in the memory of fallen U.S. soldiers. (Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah: Land of Promise, Kingdom of Stone," January 1996, National Geographic magazine)

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June 1, 2004

Penan Man by Fire

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Where: Sarawak state, Borneo, Malaysia When: 1998 Photographer: Maria Stenzel

Asik, the headman of a nomadic band of the Penan people, stokes the fire at his family group's temporary home. Of the approximately 7,000 Penan, fewer than 300 are nomadic today.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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June 2, 2004

Lofoten, Norway

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Where: Lofoten, Norway

When: 1992

Photographer: Sisse Brimberg

"A fierce gravity energizes Norway, a force that seems as palpable as wind or fire or ice. You can feel it as you drive from Bergen, on a road chiseled into sheer cliffsides, to the Sogne Fjord. You can feel it especially in spring, when melting snowfields become torrential streams that thunder into waterfalls and the water in the deep ragged ocean inlets seems to pull, as if the gravity had bottomed out and pivoted to the horizontal. Suddenly it's clear why generati##被过滤## of Norwegians have found release—and relief—on the broad, open sea.

—From "In Search of Vikings," May 2000, National Geographic magazine

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June 3, 2004

Sparring Elephants

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Where: Ivindo National Park, Gabon, Africa

When: 2002

Photographer: Michael Nichols

"While young male elephants spar in Langoué Bai, Gabonese researchers ... [sketch] each animal's distinctive ear for future identification. C##被过滤##ervationists say the [newly established Gabon national] parks will produce more jobs as tourism grows, giving the Gabonese a vested interest in park protection."

—From "Saving Africa's Eden," September 2003, National Geographic magazine

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June 4, 2004

Japanese Tourists

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Where: Tokyo, Japan

When: 2003

Photographer: Justin Guariglia

On an overcast morning, tourists from the Japanese countryside traverse the grounds of the Imperial Palace, the "city's biggest green space and greatest monument," according to National Geographic Traveler magazine editor Keith Bellows, who wrote about Tokyo in the magazine's May/June 2004 issue.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in "Found in Translation," May/June 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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June 5, 2004

Playing Seal Pups

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Where: Cormorant Island, Antarctica

When: 1988

Photographer: George F. Mobley

Playing at fighting, two juvenile southern elephant seals arch their backs on the shore.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Antarctica," April 1990, National Geographic magazine)