 - Maine, Watering Hole, 2000
- 2002-03-01作者：：Amy Toensing 点击：17 评论：0
- "At day's end lobstermen head for Sherman D. Stanley's fish house, used as a workshop and watering hole by five generations. 'If someone doesn't show,' says one regular, 'we all start looking.'"
—From "Welcome to Monhegan Islan
 - Somerset, England, Misty Horses, 1992
- 2002-03-02作者：：Sam Abell 点击：17 评论：0
- "'Uncheckt shadows of green brown and gray,' poet John Clare wrote of the moors, land that 'never felt the rage of blundering plough.' On Exmoor, hedge banks faintly trace the far hill. Supporters hope they won't vanish over the horizon of time.
 - Mentone, Texas, Trampoline Jump, 2000
- 2002-03-03作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：12 评论：0
- "The big game in town, a trampoline, is a thrill ride for the county's kids"
—From "ZipUSA: Mentone, Texas," September 2000, National Geographic magazine
 - Mexico, Colossal Head, 1939
- 2002-03-04作者：：Richard H. Stewart 点击：13 评论：0
- "First prize for the expedition's shovels was this prehistoric 'Doughboy': The Colossal Head, being measured by Matthew W. Stirling, leader of the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition, is about 6 [1.8 meters] feet high
 - New Mexico, Gunfighter Shadow, 1989
- 2002-03-05作者：：Bruce Dale 点击：11 评论：0
- "Image from the past, a gunfighter's shadow recalls the Wild West along the 900-mile [1,448-kilometer] Santa Fe Trail, which was used by settlers moving west."
—From "Along the Santa Fe Trail," March 1991, National Geograph
 - Formosa, Formosa Push Car, 1950
- 2002-03-06作者：：J. Baylor Roberts 点击：12 评论：0
- "'Many people get killed on this railroad?' 'Not so many,' Said the pushers. Such questions elicited fatalistic replies. On the 14-mile [22.5 kilometer] round trip to Chiaopanshan, this car bearing the [article's] author and his companions jumpe
 - Marrakesh, Morocco, Jardin Majorelle, 1998
- 2002-03-07作者：：Sam Abell 点击：10 评论：0
- "Originally built by the Art Nouveau ceramist Louis Majorelle, the garden is the opposite of the austere Medersa [in Marrakesh]. In his bold plantings and brilliant colors, Majorelle seems to have taken strength from the desert itself, confident
 - Vatican City, Pope John Paul II, 1991
- 2002-03-08作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：10 评论：0
- "Pope John Paul II spends a quiet moment in his private chapel."
—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991
 - California, Flower Trade, 1999
- 2002-03-09作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：13 评论：0
- "Until the past decade cut-flower production worldwide has been carried on mostly as family business, the same farms cultivating the same flowers for generations. But Americans alone spend nearly 15 billion [U.S.] dollars a year on flowers and p
 - Petra, Jordan, Nabataean Tombs, 1998
- 2002-03-10作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：11 评论：0
- Tourists explore tombs in the ancient city of Petra.
(Photograph taken on assignment for, but not published in, “Petra: Ancient City of Stone,” December 1998, National Geographic magazine)
 - Zambia, Zambezi River Raft, 1996
- 2002-03-11作者：：Chris Johns 点击：11 评论：0
- "'Tourists overboard!' One of the ferocious Class V rapids below Victoria Falls flips a raft; passengers are assured beforehand that hippos and crocodiles usually steer clear of fast water. A proposed dam would drown 15 miles [24 kilometers] of
 - Australia, Fraser Island Zen Garden, 1995
- 2002-03-12作者：：Sam Abell 点击：10 评论：0
- "My Australian friend Kerry Trapnell and I called this secluded, silent place on Fraser Island the 'Zen Garden' because of its almost empty, austere beauty.
"We camped here several days trying to render, photographically, the power of the
 - Afghanistan, Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1931
- 2002-03-13作者：：Maynard Owen Williams 点击：13 评论：0
- "The walls of Farah loom through a haze of Afghan dust: Here both troops and civilians turned out to welcome the Trans-Asiatic Expedition. Once a prosperous city, Farah felt the wrath of Genghis Khan and of Persia's Nadir Shah. Now it has few in
 - North Carolina, New River Flowers, 1996
- 2002-03-14作者：：Susie Post Rust 点击：10 评论：0
- "Where summer decorates riverbanks with joe-pye weed and yellow wingstem, New River robber barons and their industrial descendants saw profits waiting to be extracted. Today, from North Carolina's highlands to West Virginia's hollows, lifelong r
 - Afghanistan-Pakistan border (left) and Pakistan (right), Afghan Girl Before and
- 2002-03-15作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：8 评论：0
- In 1984 photographer Steve McCurry immortalized the haunted eyes of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee in a camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Her image (left)—first published on the cover of a 1985 National Geographic—became a symbol of
 - Maine, Fish Beach, 1999
- 2002-03-16作者：：Amy Toensing 点击：7 评论：0
- "Fish Beach welcomes lobsterman Dan Murdock and his specially designed Monhegan skiff; his larger boat is moored in the harbor. Fishing December into June, the island's 16 lobstermen, like their boats, seem built for rough water."
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 - Ireland, Irish Headlands, 1993
- 2002-03-17作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "Kindred headlands called The Three Sisters look to sea near Smerwick on the Dingle Peninsula. For the ambitious, country lanes lead past sheep paddocks to cities already bursting with job seekers."
—From "Ireland On Fast-Forwa
 - China, Leshan Buddha, 1982
- 2002-03-18作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：13 评论：0
- "A 231-foot [70-meter] sitting Buddha, the world's largest, overlooks the convergence of three rivers at Leshan. The statue was carved out of a cliff in the eighth century in the hope that its benign influence would protect boatmen from the dang
 - Western Australia, Balgo Hills, 1990
- 2002-03-19作者：：Sam Abell 点击：12 评论：0
- "To my eye the landscape of the Balgo Hills was blistering. I'd never seen a dry landscape so hot and bright that it shone.
"To the Aborigines accompanying me, it looked different. They saw the green stream of vegetation draining into the
 - India, Bathing Tigress, 1996
- 2002-03-20作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：17 评论：0
- "With feline grace abandoned, Bachhi takes her picture by breaking an infrared beam at an unmanned remote-camera in Bandhavgarh. Sweltering in 120-degree [49°C] heat, she seeks relief in a pool, despite its fetid brew of rotting leaves and m
 - Naples, Italy, Rose Peddler, 1996
- 2002-03-21作者：：David Alan Harvey 点击：23 评论：0
- "For soulless efficiency, go north to Milan, sneer proud Neapolitans. But for the 'real' Italy of street smarts, passion, and arrangiarsi—the art of making do—come south to the clamorous world of Naples. In this gritty labyrinth of a
 - Petra, Jordan, Byzantine Tiles, 1998
- 2002-03-22作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：14 评论：0
- "Petra's heyday ended when the Romans rerouted trade in the second century A.D., sending the city into a long decline. In a fifth-century Byzantine church archaeologists found detailed mosaics."
—From "Petra: Ancient City of St
 - Naples, Italy, Italian Fisherman, 1996
- 2002-03-23作者：：David Alan Harvey 点击：14 评论：0
- "Romancing the sea, a fisherman waits to haul in his net off the city coast. On a good day the depleted waters yield only fistfuls of octopus and squid. The Mediterranean has fed Neapolitans since 600 B.C., when Greeks founded Neapolis, 'new cit
 - Mentone, Texas, Boot Track Burgers, 2000
- 2002-03-24作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：10 评论：0
- "Charles Derrick grills cheeseburgers at the Boot Track Cafe."
—From "ZipUSA: Mentone, Texas," September 2000, National Geographic magazine
 - Vatican City, Pope Shoes, 1985
- 2002-03-25作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：14 评论：0
- "Gilded and jeweled trappings of Pope Pius XII, on display in the Vatican's Liturgical Treasury, attest to the pageantry of the papacy."
—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991
 - Marrakesh, Morocco, Medersa ben Youssef, 1998
- 2002-03-26作者：：Sam Abell 点击：15 评论：0
- "The word 'paradise' comes from Arabian culture and so probably does our idea of enclosing nature with walls. And in arid Morocco, as in the rest of the Arab world, the nature worth enclosing begins with water.
In the case of the Medersa ben Y
 - California, Channel Islands Anemone, 1996
- 2002-03-27作者：：David Doubilet 点击：23 评论：0
- "Creatures as tiny as tentacled green anemones and as massive as blue whales thrive in the rich broth of sanctuary waters, a blend of warm southern and cold northern currents."
—From "Blue Refuges: U.S. National Marine Sanctuar
 - Kashmir, India, Dal Lake Sunset, 1998
- 2002-03-28作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：16 评论：0
- "A 16th-century fortress looms over the dawn-burnished waters of Dal Lake in the Vale of Kashmir. India controls this densely populated, predominantly Muslim area. Pakistan depends on rivers flowing out of Kashmir—the Jhelum, the Chenab, a
 - Afghanistan, Bulunkul Lake, 1932
- 2002-03-29作者：：Maynard Owen Williams 点击：22 评论：0
- "As in ages past, camels still provide dependable transportation for inner Asia: skirting the waters of Bulunkul Lake. To carry ... supplies and equipment required a large number of pack animals. Camels, yaks, and ponies were used. Generally spe
 - California, Floral Nuptials, 1999
- 2002-03-30作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：24 评论：0
- "A bouquet of Charles Austin roses complements Kathryn Storke's serene gaze at her sister Abigail Paulsen's wedding in California."
—From "Flower Trade," April 2001, National Geographic magazine
 - Vatican City, Pope on Easter Sunday, 1991
- 2002-03-31作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：43 评论：0
- "In St. Peter's Square, flowers from the Netherlands frame the Pope [John Paul II] on Easter Sunday."
—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991
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