 - Italy, Venice Carnival, 1994
- 2002-02-01作者：：Sam Abell 点击：11 评论：0
- "Panache goes on parade during Venice's Carnival. Today's pageantry lasts only ten days—a shadow of the two-month-long bacchanals of the 1700s."
—From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic m
 - Washington, D.C., Brain Specimen, 1992
- 2002-02-02作者：：Bruce Dale 点击：13 评论：0
- "A scientist to the end, [U.S. geologist, ethnologist, and Civil War officer John Wesley] Powell willed researchers his brain—which now rests in a preservative at the Smithsonian Institution."
—From "John Wesley Powell: V
 - Provo, Utah, Football Game, 1993
- 2002-02-03作者：：James P. Blair 点击：9 评论：0
- At the Brigham Young University football stadium, 65,000 Cougar fans cheer as the Wasatch Range looms in the distance.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah," January 1996, National Geographic magazine)
 - Madagascar, Sapphire Mining, 1998
- 2002-02-04作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：13 评论：0
- "Get rich quick—that's the fantasy of fortune hunters who in recent years have swarmed into the Ankarana Nature Reserve in search of sapphires. Besides hunting lemurs and other endangered species to feed themselves, these miners have strip
 - Vermont, Vermont Frosted Window, 1998
- 2002-02-05作者：：Michael S. Yamashita 点击：10 评论：0
- "Sunlit frost paints a windowpane in the [writer Edward Hoagland's] empty house. There's no electricity, no central heat, and, for much of the year, no one to notice."
—From "Vermont: Suite of Seasons," September 1998, Nat
 - Maine, Cranberry Picking, 1999
- 2002-02-06作者：：Amy Toensing 点击：12 评论：0
- "Picking only the darkest cranberries for their Thanksgiving feast, Winnie Murdock and son Kyle forage on Manana, a deserted isle a skiff ride away that helps form Monhegan's harbor."
—From "Welcome to Monhegan Island, Maine. N
 - Canada, Great Sail Peak, 1998
- 2002-02-07作者：：Gordon Wiltsie 点击：18 评论：0
- "Gleaming in pale northern light, the mist-wreathed upper reaches of Great Sail Peak offer [article author and climber] Greg Child only the narrowest seam in which to insert pitons and hang rope ladders."
—From "Hitting the Wal
 - Kaibab Paiute Man, 1993
- 2002-02-08作者：：Bruce Dale 点击：12 评论：0
- "Fresh from the sweat lodge, Kaibab Paiute spiritual leader Benn Pikyavit recalls tribal elders trading stories about [U.S. geologist and ethnologist John Wesley] Powell, a student of native cultures who moved freely among western tribes without
 - Pakistan, Karakoram Range, 1996
- 2002-02-09作者：：Ed Kashi 点击：12 评论：0
- "Otherworldly terrain of the Karakoram Range makes for uplifting scenery, but the region's political landscape poses a dispiriting thicket of claims and counterclaims. Fifty years ago the area was part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.
 - Afghanistan, Herat Bazaar Portrait, 1933
- 2002-02-10作者：：Maynard Owen Williams 点击：12 评论：0
- "From such a group may have come the three wise men of the East: Weird streaks of light, only half dispelling the gloom of a warehouse in the Herat bazaar, re-create a scene from the past. Though the photographer could speak no word of their lan
 - Zambia, Lukulu Drummers, 1996
- 2002-02-11作者：：Chris Johns 点击：10 评论：0
- "Newly circumcised boys greet dawn with traditional song and drumming in Lukulu, Zambia. Unless they work in a town downriver, the boys will probably go through life seeing few outsiders other than missionaries and the odd sportfisherman."
 - Arizona, Toroweap Overlook, 1993
- 2002-02-12作者：：Bruce Dale 点击：17 评论：0
- "Sunrise tints the sandstone face of Arizona's Toroweap Overlook, 3,000 feet [914 meters] above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon."
—From "John Wesley Powell: Vision for the West," April 1994, National Geographic maga
 - Netherlands, Swans Alight, 1997
- 2002-02-13作者：：Lynn Johnson 点击：12 评论：0
- "'Sorrowful yet always rejoicing,' Vincent van Gogh, who grew up walking the Dutch countryside, traveled through life seeking the eternal 'Light that rises in the darkness'—like these swans readying for flight south of Amsterdam."
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 - Botswana, Elephant Hug, 2000
- 2002-02-14作者：：Chris Johns 点击：10 评论：0
- Social creatures, elephants sometimes "hug" by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection or, as in this case, play.
 - Ecuador, Galápagos Marine Iguana, 1998
- 2002-02-15作者：：David Doubilet 点击：12 评论：0
- "The local dragon, a marine iguana, grazes on green algae. But in warm water the plants become stunted and overgrown by brown algae, which the iguanas cannot digest. Many will die, their stomachs bloated like children of famine."
—F
 - South Africa, Transkei Family, 1976
- 2002-02-16作者：：James P. Blair 点击：10 评论：0
- "A life apart is endured by millions of black women, such as these in a Transkei village. The only man in the house is their retired father, left; their miner husbands live far away. The men send home a meager $12 [U.S.] a month. When they retur
 - Petra, Jordan, Bedouin Smoking, 1998
- 2002-02-17作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：10 评论：0
- "Meeting forebears of the Bedouin who live here today [pictured], [Swiss scholar Johann] Burckhardt recognized the ruined city [in 1812] as the Petra of ancient lore, which vanished from most maps in the seventh century."
—From &quo
 - Roswell, New Mexico, Rocket Science, 1940
- 2002-02-18作者：：B. Anthony Stewart 点击：12 评论：0
- "Fedoras firmly planted, technicians from Robert H. Goddard's Roswell, New Mexico, workshop transport pieces of a rocket to its launch site in January 1940. Geographic staff writer McFall Kerbey carries the nose cone."
—From "F
 - United Kingdom, Wales Car Ride, 1992
- 2002-02-19作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "They still border fields and highways like this road near Robin Pickering's home in Wales, but hedgerows are in decline after centuries of service."
—From "Britian's Hedgerows," September 1993, National Geographic magazin
 - Papua New Guinea, Kimbe Bay Anemonefish, 1996
- 2002-02-20作者：：David Doubilet 点击：14 评论：0
- "As corals return, so do species such as the spine-cheek anemonefish. Rivaling rain forests in diversity of life, coral reefs are at risk from overfishing, pollution, and disease."
—From "Coral in Peril," January 1999, Nati
 - Mentone, Texas, Dog Pickup, 2000
- 2002-02-21作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：11 评论：0
- "Willie [half Rhodesian ridgeback, half West Texas whatever] loves to ride out to the oil fields at 80 miles [128 kilometers] an hour in the back of Bryan Gray's pickup. 'I can't con people to ride with me all day, but I've got him,' says Bryan.
 - Lisse, Netherlands, Living Rainbow, 1999
- 2002-02-22作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：11 评论：0
- "A man helps tend six million tulips at Keukenhof in the Netherlands. 'We are the display window of the bulb industry,' says designer Henk Koster."
—From "Flower Trade," April 2001, National Geographic magazine
 - Milky Way, Star Bright, 1998
- 2002-02-23作者：：Don F. Figer (UCLA) and NASA 点击：12 评论：0
- "The 'Pistol Star' may be the brightest star in the Milky Way. It glows 10 million times brighter than the sun. Astronomers using [the] Hubble [telescope] discovered it."
—From "What an Eye-Opener!" April 1998, World magazi
 - Pittsford, New York, Sword Play, 1998
- 2002-02-24作者：：Christopher Little 点击：12 评论：0
- "In a multiple-exposure photograph fencer Jessica Burke of Pittsford, New York, lunges on the attack. Jessica competes in épée, a kind of fencing that uses a dueling sword made safe with blunted edges and tip."
—From &
 - London, England, Cabbie Calculation, 1996
- 2002-02-25作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：14 评论：0
- "Driving taxis can make your brain bigger, say researchers at University College London. Brain scans of the city's cabdrivers show that the part of the hippocampus associated with navigational skills is larger than in the average Londoner. Why?
 - Gabon, Orphan Gorilla, 1998
- 2002-02-26作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：19 评论：0
- "Nestled once more in the heart of the forest after two years in a zoo, an infant gorilla, whose mother was killed by poachers, feasts on leaves in Gabon. A pioneering project is sending such orphans back to their natural homes."
—F
 - Alaska, Kodiak Brown Bear, 1992
- 2002-02-27作者：：George F. Mobley 点击：18 评论：0
- On Kodiak nearly everyone fishes, including the island's huge brown bears, which roam a renowned wildlife refuge. This subspecies—among the world's largest bears—is unique to the Kodiak archipelago. Males may tower ten feet [three meters]
 - Kyoto, Japan, Tenju-An Temple, 1998
- 2002-02-28作者：：Sam Abell 点击：32 评论：0
- Garden consciousness is at the center of spiritual life in Kyoto. For a thousand years the Imperial Palace was situated here. Around it grew an array of temples, subtemples, shrines, schools, and detached palaces, each with its own gardens and often,
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