View allAll Photos Tagged Geographies
Selected and published by NG in their recently released "National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America." It appears in the Guide's section on House Wrens, p.157.
The bird jar is a reproduction of jars that were found during excavations at the James Geddy House (circa. 1762), Williamsburg, Virginia. At first archeologists did not know how early colonists used the jars. The tab on the lower lip was what led them to believe they were used to attract nesting birds. A small branch can be placed in the hole to provide a pearch. This House Wren picked my jar to raise a family as one did in 2006. I wonder what species of birds used them in 1762?
*
"Globe School" is located in a small village somewhere in Northern Italy. We were surprised to discover a totally untouched classroom in this abandoned elementary school. As it seems everything was left behind here. "Wow", was our first thought. "This room looks just perfect!" But maybe a bit too perfect... Since all the other classrooms aren't as tidy as this one, or even completely empty, we guess that this room was arranged like that. Some other urbex photographers were probably collecting different objects from the other rooms of this school, in order to stage a small class.
Watch this documentary to see and learn more of Globe School: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-tFPzMzXU
Wow, finally after working on my Portraits of Arthropod for almost two years. I got a major feature on the Asian Geographic Magazine. Here is the screen capture of the web site at:
www.asiangeo.com/smallworld.html
I was so excited to see it on print and 10 pages of text and photographs. Wow, exhilerating.
Burkina Faso and Mali have among the highest rates of malnutrition in West Africa and the world. This map shows the levels of stunted growth in children in comparison to the levels of access to markets and infrastructure based on road quality and town size.
For any form of publication, please include the link to this page:
This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Emmanuelle Bournay, Philippe Rekacewicz
Les Cascades Vosgiennes -
Creusegoutte (Vosges) Version normale
Merci pour vos passages sur les vues, favoris et commentaires .
Thanks all for the views, favs and comments, very appreciated.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. provides remarks before a discussion about NASA's journey to Mars and the film "The Martian," Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, in Grosvenor Auditorium at the National Geographic Society Headquarters in Washington. NASA scientists and engineers served as technical consultants on the film. The movie portrays a realistic view of the climate and topography of Mars, based on NASA data, and some of the challenges NASA faces as we prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
National Geographic Minnesota Recreation Atlas at the map section of REI. I eventually bought this for our Autumn Road Trip.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Wednesday afternoon 29 September 2021
"Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything
About the World" by Tim Marshall -- updated to April 2025
One of Tim Marshall's chapters tells us China is leveraging
its secure land borders and economic strength to overcome historical geographical constraints like limited coastline access.
Helsinki, Finland (Suomi): culturally and geographically, Finland is a Nordic state but not -- in the narrowest sense -- a part of Scandinavia, which is a region defined by linguistic affinities (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese are closely related Germanic languages). Finnish, along with Hungarian, Estonian, and Sami -- spoken by the reindeer-herding Lapps -- belongs to the Uralic language family, thought to have originated in the Ural mountains. Genomic and archaeological studies suggest that modern Finns show continuity with ancient (prehistoric, post-Pleistocene) people of Northern Europe. A small percentage of Finns in southern Finland speak Swedish, reflecting Sweden's historic hegemony, (25 August, 2019)
Get you fave doll and do a magazine cover.
Tagged By Palix, Always Vogue, and zezanprince.
This is an importat magazine because all the person in the worl need knowledge about how save our world.
And The best part. Whit BARBIE !!!
Our teacher told us one day he would leave
And sail across a warm blue sea
To places he had only known from maps,
And all his life had longed to be.
The house he lived in was narrow and grey
But in his mind's eye he could see
Sweet-scented jasmine clinging to the walls,
And green leaves burning on an orange tree.
He spoke of the lands he longed to visit,
Where it was never drab or cold.
I couldn't understand why he never left,
And shook off the school's stranglehold.
Then halfway through his final term
He took ill and never returned,
And he never got to that place on the map
Where the green leaves of the orange trees burned.
The maps were redrawn on the classroom wall;
His name was forgotten, it faded away.
But a lesson he never knew he taught
Is with me to this day.
I travel to where the green leaves burn
To where the ocean's glass-clear and blue,
To all those places my teacher taught me to love
But which he never knew.