July 16, 2005
Tasmania, Australia
1996
Sam Abell
Despite the calm waters in front of this boat shed, the island of Tasmania is known for treacherous seas. Since the wreck of the Sydney Cove in 1797 there have been around a thousand ships lost in the area.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land, 1999)
July 17, 2005
Space
Date Unknown
NASA/CXC/John P. Hughes, Rutgers University
"A star explodes. Debris and energy blast out and glow as brightly as billions of suns. A supernova remnant is born."
—From "Super X-ray Vision," December 2002, National Geographic magazine
July 18, 2005
Montana
1997
Robb Kendrick
"A fleet of hired combines cuts 80 bushels of wheat an acre from Walter Mehmke's Montana farm. 'When I was in high school, if we cut 30 bushels an acre, that was an excellent crop,' recalled Mehmke."
—From "Special Issue: Best of America," September 2002, National Geographic magazine
July 19, 2005
Puget Sound, Washington
1971
Bates Littlehales
"The splendors of the depths are known to a fortunate few, like this biologist tagging a giant Pacific octopus in Washington's Puget Sound."
—From "Special Issue: Best of America", September 2002, National Geographic magazine
July 20, 2005
United Kingdom
1992
Sam Abell
Hot water bottles lie across a hedge. There are anywhere from a dozen to 50 or more types of hedges in Britain. Each type is as distinctive and as historic as the county in which it stands.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hedgerows," September 1992, National Geographic magazine)
July 21, 2005
Wadi Ramm, Jordan
1982
Jodi Cobb
"Acrobats of the desert skies, the Royal Jordanian Falcons trail ribbons of smoke above desolate Wadi Ramm. Sponsored by Alia, the Royal Jordanian Airline, the Falcons fly their Pitts Special biplanes to entertain small desert villages as well as air-show crowds in Europe and North America."
From "Jordan: Kingdom in the Middle," February 1984, National Geographic magazine
July 22, 2005
Assateague Island, Virginia or Maryland
1975
James L. Stanfield
Two wild ponies stand at the edge of Assateague Island National Seashore. Each year thousands of people come here to watch wild horses swim to nearby Chincoteague Island, where many of them are auctioned off. Proceeds from the auctions support the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book The Wild Ponies of Assateague Island, 1975)
July 23, 2005
India
Circa 1920
Maynard Owen Williams
"The caption on the back of this picture from our archives is short and cold: 'India. Watering a man without breaking caste rules.' For an Untouchable, a member of the lowest Hindu social class, the rules are many, with prohibitions on everything from physical contact with higher castes to drinking from central village wells."
July 24, 2005
Ouray, Colorado, United States
Unknown
Donald J. Crump
A male American bighorn sheep allows the presence of a younger male among his herd (pictured here). Order among males is established in horn-splintering clashes, in which the frequent winner gains leadership of the herd, and pick of the breeding females.
Text adapted from "Last Stand for the Bighorn," September 1973, National Geographic magazine
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