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TROPIC OF CANCER WITH SIMON REEVE - Programme Five: Bangladesh, N.E. India and Burma.
Author and TV presenter Simon Reeve continues his epic 6-part journey around the Tropic of Cancer, the northern border of the tropics region. On this fifth leg of the journey he travels from western Bangladesh across the Indian states of Tripura and Mizoram, and on into Burma.
Simon's photograph shows villagers on a boat taking them across a lake in a remote area of Tripura, north eastern India.
This Tropic of Cancer series is Simon's third trip exploring the Tropics - the region of the planet with both the richest natural biodiversity, and the greatest concentration of human suffering. During 2006 and 2008 he travelled around the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn for the acclaimed BBC series of the same name.
Photograph © Simon Reeve. More information: www.simonreeve.co.uk
There aren't actually five corners here anymore, but for a time there were. 12th Street (foreground) used to continue past the intersection with Broadway, and University Drive made up the fifth "corner". Even though the streets have been realigned, the name stuck.
Five Django guys with five shots of Lithuanian liquor. (And nothing bad happened after this photo, which was a small miracle.)
National AIDS & STIs Control Program (NASCOP) Director Dr. Nicholas Muraguri (left) chats with Francis Oduor.
Francis is among the 30,492 men who have decided to get the cut at 124 different centers spread throughout Nyanza, west of Kenya. NASCOP statistics report that 84 per cent of Kenyan male is circumcised and the remaining 16 per cent will have undergone the cut within the next five years.
Photo: Suleiman Mbatiah
The Pancha Rathas of Mahabalipuram (also called Mamallapuram) consist of five monolithic rock-cut shrines carved in the late 7th century and are one of the most important features of the ancient archaeological site of Mahabalipuram.
The five rock-hewn shrines are a stunning sight and vary in size from larger temples to small shrines in Pallava style. Additionally further rocks were sculpted to form large statues of an elephant, a lion and a Nandi bull.
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A crab jumps way into the air to give his gull friend an epic high five.
I think that's what was happening here...I don't remember.
Ooooo, Works, likes my D50, has scratches on the front element that my D50 can't see. I'm gonna fill the scratches with India ink and shoot the lens....
N.Italy high five-ing everyone in the escalators. This was done a lot during the convention, by a lot of different people.
Title: Five Trumpeters photograph
Date: unknown
Description: This photograph shows five trumpet players from the marching band.
Image ID: 13-17-Marching Band 2
Copyright 2008, Iowa State University Library, University Archives
For Reproductions: www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html
The Oregon Zoo was founded in 1888, making it the oldest North American zoo west of the Mississippi.[2] It all began with two grizzly bears purchased by Richard Knight.
A former seaman turned pharmacist, Knight began collecting animals from his seafaring friends. He kept his collection in the back of his drug store on Third & Morrison streets. When caring for the animals became too large a responsibility he sought to sell them to the city of Portland. Instead of buying the animals, the city offered to give Knight two circus cages and allowed him to place the caged bears on the grounds of City Park (now called Washington Park).
Care and feeding of the bears, however, still fell to the Knight family and friends. It wasn't long before Knight addressed the city council again regarding the bears. Just five months later, he offered to donate the young grizzly, along with its cage (it is unclear what happened to the second bear) to the city. Portland City Council accepted his offer on November 7, 1888, and began the Portland Zoo.
By 1894 there were over 300 animals in the zoo’s collection. In 1925, the zoo moved to the site of the present Portland Japanese Garden, and moved again in 1959 to its current site, designed by Lawrence, Tucker & Wallmann.[7] The zoo was renamed the Portland Zoological Gardens in 1959.[2] At this time, Washington Park and Zoo Railway was constructed to connect the zoo to its former site, and the other attractions in Washington Park.
The zoo became popular locally in 1953, when Rosy the Asian elephant was acquired. The zoo became world-famous in 1962 when the Asian elephant "Packy" was born. He was the first elephant born in the western hemisphere in 44 years and is (as of 2010) the tallest Asian elephant in the United States at 10.5 ft (3.2 m) tall. A total of 28 more calves have been born at the Oregon Zoo, including seven sired by Packy (two of which still live with him), making it the most successful zoo elephant breeding program in the world. On August 23, 2008, Rose-Tu, the granddaughter of the zoo's first elephant Rosy, gave birth to a son named Samudra. This makes Samudra the first third generation captive born elephant in North America.[8]
In 1971, management was given to Metro, which continues expansion projects, aided by donors, sponsors and volunteers.[2] The zoo was renamed in 1976 as the Washington Park Zoo after a naming contest.[2] The Metro Council changed the zoo's name from the Washington Park Zoo to the Oregon Zoo in April 1998.[3] In September of that year, the zoo became accessible by the region's MAX light rail system, with the opening of a Westside MAX line featuring an underground Washington Park station.[9] In 2003, the zoo began participation in a California condor recovery program started by San Diego Wild Animal Park and Los Angeles Zoo. The program is designed to breed California condors to be released into the wild and save them from extinction.[10]
In November 2008 regional voters approved a $125 million bond measure to improve infrastructure, enhance older exhibits and increase access to conservation education and the degree of sustainability.[11] Attendance at the zoo reached a record 1.6 million visitors for their 2008 to 2009 year.[6] The record was due in part to the birth of another baby elephant.[6] A new record was set the following year with 1,612,359 people visiting the zoo.[12]
For more: www.oregonzoo.org/AboutZoo/history.htm