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Title: Musical Moments at Miami's Seaquarium - Miami
Date of film: ca. 1975
Physical descrip: color; sound; original length: 7:47
Local call number: BA434; S. 828
General note: In this film, a synthesized musical soundtrack accompanies footage of the dolphin, whale and seal shows at the Miami Seaquarium theme park.
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Title: Florida Santa
Date of film: December 19, 1963
Physical descrip: b&w; silent; original length: 1:16
Local call number: V-234; S. 828
General note: A Florida Santa presents gifts to two young girls and their mother near a palm tree in Cypress Gardens. He then departs in a small boat loaded with presents. Produced by the Florida Development Commission.
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Title: Reflections of the Good Life
Date of film: ca. 1970
Physical descrip: color; sound; original length: 13:31
Local call number: V-67 CA139; S. 828
General note: This film shows the good life in Palm Beach, including all the fun in the sun activities, as well as a giant slide, lawn bowling, ice skating, hockey, roller derby, the pari-mutuels, baseball spring training and polo. Viewers see electronics industries, a research submarine, agriculture, cattle, horses, commercial growing, churches, shopping and Flagler Museum. There are shots of a dune buggy at the beginning and end. The film also shows Lion Country Safari, Norton Gallery of Art and an airboat. Produced by Prout Film Productions; sponsored by the Palm Beach County Development Board.
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Local call number: FP83182A
Title: Girls competing in a watermelon eating contest on July 4th: White Springs, Florida
Date: July 4, 1983
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.
Series Title: Folklife Collection
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Local call number: TD00839C
Title: Beth Brown kissing Marine Corporal Travis Taylor goodbye at the train in Tallahassee
Date: July 1960
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 60 mm.
Series Title: Tallahassee Democrat Collection
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Matson Photo Service,, photographer.
[Cedars of Lebanon in snow and skier]
1946 March.
1 negative : safety ; 35 mm.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Title from photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946], misidentifies scene as "Skier rounding a corner at high speed."
Date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946].
Negative is a frame from roll of film.
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Subjects:
Lebanon.
Format: Safety film negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection," hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.258.mats
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Matson photograph collection (DLC) 2005676184
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Call Number: LC-M315- R2-13456-A-25
Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer.
Coming out of post office at Hermiston, Oregon
1941 Sept.
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
United States--Oregon--Hermiston.
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
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Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960
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Call Number: LC-USF33- 013171-M1
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Local call number: C031950
Title: Jeanette Hand and Lee Lee Arnold pose with Florida advertisements - Tallahassee
Date: February 1960
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
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Subject (TGM): Leaves; Appliances; Sewing equipment & supplies; Sewing machine industry; Sewing machines; Appliances;
Dans son autobiographie, La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali, l’auteur explique qu’un soir, ayant fini son repas par un camembert coulant, il s’est intéressé «aux problèmes posés par le «super mou»
Dali annule la fonction première d’une montre qui est d’indiquer l’heure et de voir l’écoulement du temps.
Elles symbolisent donc l’inutilité de mesurer le temps.
Dali suggère de se libérer des contraintes matérielles et de la rigidité du monde en se libérant du temps qui passe.
Sans montre, le temps devient éternel et tout devient possible
comme dans les rêves.
This is my mother. I´m trying to push myself to use different people in my photographs, something that can be rather scary when you´re used to having all the control yourself. I think the hardest part is to direct the model, but with this I had the picture clear in my head, and that always makes it much easier.
Digital ID: 1206548. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) -- Photographer
Notes: Identified as 'Mother and her two daughters from Zuid-Beveland, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands' in Peter Mesenholler 'Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920' (c1905) p.57.
Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.
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O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer.
Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho.
[United States], 1874.
1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen.
Notes:
Original negative number: 92.
Title from item.
Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.
Published in: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan / Toby Jurovics, Carol M. Johnson, Glenn Willumson, and William F. Stapp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, p. 220.
Subjects:
Waterfalls--Idaho--1870-1880.
Shoshone Falls (Idaho)--1870-1880.
Snake River (Wyo.-Wash.)--1870-1880.
Format: Expedition photographs--1870-1880.
Stereographs--1870-1880.
Albumen prints--1870-1880.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
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Call Number: LOT 3427-4, no. 39 [item]
Persistent snow during summer in the Pyrénées (Port Vieux de Sallent / Col de Peyrelue).
This photo has been shared for the #TwitterTuesday #Patterns [Jan. 20th, 2015].
Technical Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM
Exposure: 70 second
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 34 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Filter: B+W ND110
Processing Tool: CS5 + Silver Efex Pro
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Title: Silversides the Tarpon
Date of film: ca. 1958
Physical descrip: color; sound; original length: 8:30
Local call number: V-43 BA008; S. 828
General note: This film shows tarpon fishing near Islamorada from a small outboard boat. The fish are magnificent. The editing is rough and the narration by the filmmaker is "home movie" style. It has wonderful photography, including a glimpse of a great white shark. Produced by E.W. Dutton.
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Subject (TGM): Animals in human situations; Amphibians; Frogs; Firearms; Handguns; Picture frames; Pictures;
The Red Sea (alternatively Arabian Gulf[1] or Gulf of Arabia[2][3]) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion. The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley.
The Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km² (169,100 mi²).[4][5] It is about 2250 km (1398 mi) long and, at its widest point, 355 km (220.6 mi) wide. It has a maximum depth of 2211 m (7254 ft) in the central median trench, and an average depth of 490 m (1,608 ft). However, there are also extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species, and 200 soft and hard corals. It is the world's northernmost tropical sea.
Extent
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Red Sea as follows:[6]
On the North. The Southern limits of the Gulfs of Suez [A line running from Ràs Muhammed (27°43'N) to the South point of Shadwan Island (34°02'E) and thence Westward on a parallel (27°27'N) to the coast of Africa] and Aqaba [A line running from Ràs al Fasma Southwesterly to Requin Island (
27°57′N 34°36′E) through Tiran Island to the Southwest point thereof and thence Westward on a parallel (27°54'N) to the coast of the Sinaï Peninsula].
On the South. A line joining Husn Murad (
12°40′N 43°30′E) and Ras Siyan (
12°29′N 43°20′E).
Name
Red Sea is a direct translation of the Greek Erythra Thalassa (Ερυθρὰ Θάλασσα) and Latin Mare Rubrum (alternatively Sinus Arabicus, literally "Arabian Gulf"), Arabic Al-Baḥr Al-Aḥmar (البحر الأحمر) or Baḥr Al-Qalzam(بحر القلزم), Somali Badda Cas and Tigrinya Qeyyiḥ bāḥrī (ቀይሕ ባሕሪ). The name of the sea may signify the seasonal blooms of the red-coloured Trichodesmium erythraeum near the water's surface.[7] A theory favored by some modern scholars[who?] is that the name red is referring to the direction South, just as the Black Sea's name may refer to North. The basis of this theory is that some Asiatic languages used color words to refer to the cardinal directions.[8] Herodotus on one occasion uses Red Sea and Southern Sea interchangeably.[9]
The association of the Red Sea with the Biblical account of the Israelite Crossing the Red Sea is ancient, and was made explicit in the Septuagint translation of the Book of Exodus from Hebrew to Koine Greek in approximately the third century B.C. In that version, the Hebrew Yam Suph (ים סוף) is translated as Erythra Thalassa (Red Sea). (See also the more recent suggestion that the Yam Suph of the Exodus refers to a Sea of Reeds). The Red Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color terms — the others being the Black Sea, the White Sea and the Yellow Sea. The direct rendition of the Greek Erythra thalassa in Latin as Mare Erythraeum refers to the north-western part of the Indian Ocean, and also to a region on Mars.
History
The earliest known exploration of the Red Sea was conducted by Ancient Egyptians, as they attempted to establish commercial routes to Punt. One such expedition took place around 2500 BC, and another around 1500 BC ( by Hatshepsut ). Both involved long voyages down the Red Sea.[10] The Biblical Book of Exodus tells the story of the Israelites' miraculous crossing of a body of water, which the Hebrew text calls Yam Suph. Yam Suph is traditionally identified as the Red Sea. The account is part of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt. Yam Suph can also been translated as Sea of Reeds.
In the 6th century BC, Darius the Great of Persia sent reconnaissance missions to the Red Sea, improving and extending navigation by locating many hazardous rocks and currents. A canal was built between the Nile and the northern end of the Red Sea at Suez. In the late 4th century BC, Alexander the Great sent Greek naval expeditions down the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. Greek navigators continued to explore and compile data on the Red Sea. Agatharchides collected information about the sea in the 2nd century BC. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea ("Periplus of the Red Sea"), a Greek periplus written by an unknown author around the 1st century AD, contain a detailed description of the Red Sea's ports and sea routes.[11] The Periplus also describes how Hippalus first discovered the direct route from the Red Sea to India.
The Red Sea was favored for Roman trade with India starting with the reign of Augustus, when the Roman Empire gained control over the Mediterranean, Egypt, and the northern Red Sea. The route had been used by previous states but grew in the volume of traffic under the Romans. From Indian ports goods from China were introduced to the Roman world. Contact between Rome and China depended on the Red Sea, but the route was broken by the Aksumite Empire around the 3rd century AD.[12]
During the Middle Ages, the Red Sea was an important part of the Spice trade route. In 1513, trying to secure that channel to Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque laid siege to Aden.[13] but was forced to retreat. They cruised the Red Sea inside the Bab al-Mandab, as the first European fleet to have sailed this waters.
In 1798, France ordered General Bonaparte to invade Egypt and take control of the Red Sea. Although he failed in his mission, the engineer Jean-Baptiste Lepère, who took part in it, revitalised the plan for a canal which had been envisaged during the reign of the Pharaohs. Several canals were built in ancient times from the Nile to the Red Sea along or near the line of the present Sweet Water Canal, but none lasted for long. The Suez Canal was opened in November 1869. At the time, the British, French, and Italians shared the trading posts. The posts were gradually dismantled following the First World War. After the Second World War, the Americans and Soviets exerted their influence whilst the volume of oil tanker traffic intensified. However, the Six Day War culminated in the closure of the Suez Canal from 1967 to 1975. Today, in spite of patrols by the major maritime fleets in the waters of the Red Sea, the Suez Canal has never recovered its supremacy over the Cape route, which is believed to be less vulnerable.
Oceanography
The Red Sea lies between arid land, desert and semi-desert. The main reasons for the better development of reef systems along the Red Sea is because of its greater depths and an efficient water circulation pattern, The Red Sea water mass exchanges its water with the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden. These physical factors reduce the effect of high salinity caused by evaporation water in the north and relatively hot water in the south.
The climate of the Red Sea is the result of two distinct monsoon seasons; a northeasterly monsoon and a southwesterly monsoon. Monsoon winds occur because of the differential heating between the land surface and sea. Very high surface temperatures coupled with high salinities makes this one of the hottest and saltiest bodies of seawater in the world. The average surface water temperature of the Red Sea during the summer is about 26 °C (79 °F) in the north and 30 °C (86 °F) in the south, with only about 2 °C (3.6 °F) variation during the winter months. The overall average water temperature is 22 °C (72 °F). Today surface water temperatures remain relatively constant at 21–25 °C (70–77 °F). Temperature and visibility remain good to around 200 m (656 ft). The sea is known for its strong winds and unpredictable local currents.
The rainfall over the Red Sea and its coasts is extremely low, averaging 0.06 m (2.36 in) per year. The rain is mostly in the form of showers of short spells, often associated with thunderstorms and occasionally with dust storms. The scarcity of rainfall and no major source of fresh water to the Red Sea result in the excess evaporation as high as 205 cm (81 in) per year and high salinity with minimal seasonal variation. A recent underwater expedition to the Red Sea offshore from Sudan and Eritrea[14] found surface water temperatures 28 °C in winter and up to 34 °C in the summer, but despite that extreme heat the coral was healthy with much fish life with very little sign of coral bleaching, and there were plans to use samples of these corals' apparently heat-adapted commensal algae to salvage bleached coral elsewhere.
Salinity
The Red Sea is one of the most saline bodies of water in the world, due to high evaporation. Salinity ranges from between ~36 ‰ in the southern part due to the effect of the Gulf of Aden water and reaches 41 ‰ in the northern part, due mainly to the Gulf of Suez water and the high evaporation. The average salinity is 40 ‰. (Average salinity for the world's seawater is ~35 ‰ on the Practical Salinity Scale, or PPS; that translates to 3.5 % actual dissolved salts.)
In terms of salinity, the Red Sea is greater than the world average, approximately 4 percent. This is due to several factors:
1.High rate of evaporation and very little precipitation.
2.Lack of significant rivers or streams draining into the sea.
3.Limited connection with the Indian Ocean, which has lower water salinity.
Tidal range
In general tide ranges between 0.6 m (2.0 ft) in the north, near the mouth of the Gulf of Suez and 0.9 m (3.0 ft) in the south near the Gulf of Aden but it fluctuates between 0.20 m (0.66 ft) and 0.30 m (0.98 ft) away from the nodal point. The central Red Sea (Jeddah area) is therefore almost tideless, and as such the annual water level changes are more significant. Because of the small tidal range the water during high tide inundates the coastal sabkhas as a thin sheet of water up to a few hundred metres rather than inundating the sabkhas through a network of channels. However, south of Jeddah in the Shoiaba area the water from the lagoon may cover the adjoining sabkhas as far as 3 km (2 mi) whereas, north of Jeddah in the Al-kharrar area the sabkhas are covered by a thin sheet of water as far as 2 km (1.2 mi). The prevailing north and northeastern winds influence the movement of water in the coastal inlets to the adjacent sabkhas, especially during storms. Winter mean sea level is 0.5 m (1.6 ft) higher than in summer. Tidal velocities passing through constrictions caused by reefs, sand bars and low islands commonly exceed 1–2 m/s (3–6.5 ft/s). Coral reefs in the Red Sea are near Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Sudan.
Current
In the Red Sea detailed current data is lacking, partially because they are weak and variable both spatially and temporally. Temporal and spatial currents variation is as low as 0.5 m (1.6 ft) and are governed all by wind. During the summer, NW winds drive surface water south for about four months at a velocity of 15–20 cm/s (6–8 in/s), whereas in winter the flow is reversed resulting in the inflow of water from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea. The net value of the latter predominates, resulting in an overall drift to the northern end of the Red Sea. Generally, the velocity of the tidal current is between 50–60 cm/s (20–23.6 in/s) with a maximum of 1 m/s (3.3 ft) at the mouth of the al-Kharrar Lagoon. However, the range of the north-northeast current along the Saudi coast is 8–29 cm/s (3–11.4 in/s).
Wind regime
With the exception of the northern part of the Red Sea, which is dominated by persistent north-west winds, with speeds ranging between 7 km/h (4.3 mph) and 12 km/h (7.5 mph), the rest of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are subjected to the influence of regular and seasonally reversible winds. The wind regime is characterized by both seasonal and regional variations in speed and direction with average speed generally increasing northward.
Wind is the driving force in the Red Sea for transporting the material either as suspension or as bedload. Wind induced currents play an important role in the Red Sea in initiating the process of resuspension of bottom sediments and transfer of materials from sites of dumping to sites of burial in quiescent environment of deposition. Wind generated current measurement is therefore important in order to determine the sediment dispersal pattern and its role in the erosion and accretion of the coastal rock exposure and the submerged coral beds.
Geology
The Red Sea was formed by Arabia splitting from Africa due to movement of the Red Sea Rift. This split started in the Eocene and accelerated during the Oligocene. The sea is still widening and it is considered that the sea will become an ocean in time (as proposed in the model of John Tuzo Wilson). In 1949, a deep water survey reported anomalously hot brines in the central portion of the Red Sea. Later work in the 1960s confirmed the presence of hot, 60 °C (140 °F), saline brines and associated metalliferous muds. The hot solutions were emanating from an active subseafloor rift. The highly saline character of the waters was not hospitable to living organisms.[15]
Sometimes during the Tertiary period the Bab el Mandeb closed and the Red Sea evaporated to an empty hot dry salt-floored sink. Effects causing this would be:
•A "race" between the Red Sea widening and Perim Island erupting filling the Bab el Mandeb with lava.
•The lowering of world sea level during the Ice Ages due to much water being locked up in the ice caps.
A number of volcanic islands rise from the center of the sea. Most are dormant, but in 2007 Jabal al-Tair island, in the Bab el Mandeb strait, erupted violently. An eruption among the nearby Zubair islands followed in 2011.[16]
Mineral resources
In terms of mineral resources the major constituents of the Red Sea sediments are as follows:
•Biogenic constituents:
Nanofossils, foraminifera, pteropods, siliceous fossils
•Volcanogenic constituents:
Tuffites, volcanic ash, montmorillonite, cristobalite, zeolites
•Terrigenous constituents:
Quartz, feldspars, rock fragments, mica, heavy minerals, clay minerals
•Authigenic minerals:
Sulfide minerals, aragonite, Mg-calcite, protodolomite, dolomite, quartz, chalcedony.
•Evaporite minerals:
Magnesite, gypsum, anhydrite, halite, polyhalite
•Brine precipitate:
Fe-montmorillonite, goethite, hematite, siderite, rhodochrosite, pyrite, sphalerite, anhydrite.
Living resources
The Red Sea is a rich and diverse ecosystem. More than 1200 species of fish[17] have been recorded in the Red Sea, and around 10% of these are found nowhere else.[18] This also includes 42 species of deepwater fish.[17]
The rich diversity is in part due to the 2,000 km (1,240 mi) of coral reef extending along its coastline; these fringing reefs are 5000–7000 years old and are largely formed of stony acropora and porites corals. The reefs form platforms and sometimes lagoons along the coast and occasional other features such as cylinders (such as the Blue Hole (Red Sea) at Dahab). These coastal reefs are also visited by pelagic species of red sea fish, including some of the 44 species of shark.
The Red Sea also contains many offshore reefs including several true atolls. Many of the unusual offshore reef formations defy classic (i.e., Darwinian) coral reef classification schemes, and are generally attributed to the high levels of tectonic activity that characterize the area.
The special biodiversity of the area is recognized by the Egyptian government, who set up the Ras Mohammed National Park in 1983. The rules and regulations governing this area protect local marine life, which has become a major draw for diving enthusiasts.
Divers and snorkellers should be aware that although most Red Sea species are innocuous, a few are hazardous to humans: see Red Sea species hazardous to humans.[19]
Other marine habitats include sea grass beds, salt pans, mangroves and salt marshes.
Desalination plants
There is extensive demand of desalinated water to meet the requirement of the population and the industries along the Red Sea.
There are at least 18 desalination plants along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia which discharge warm brine and treatment chemicals (chlorine and anti-scalants) that may cause bleaching and mortality of corals and diseases to the fish stocks. Although this is only a localized phenomenon, it may intensify with time and have a profound impact on the fishing industry.[20]
The water from the Red Sea is also utilized by oil refineries and cement factories for cooling purposes. Used water drained back into the coastal zones may cause harm to the nearshore environment of the Red Sea.
Security
The Red Sea is part of the sea roads between Europe, the Persian Gulf and East Asia, and as such has heavy shipping traffic. Piracy in Somalia occurs principally near the area of the Gulf of Aden south of the sea. Government-related bodies with responsibility to police the Red Sea area include the Port Said Port Authority, Suez Canal Authority and Red Sea Ports Authority of Egypt, Jordan Maritime Authority, Israel Port Authority, Saudi Ports Authority and Sea Ports Corporation of Sudan.
Facts and figures
•Length: ~2,250 km (1,398.1 mi) - 79% of the eastern Red Sea with numerous coastal inlets
•Maximum Width: ~ 306–355 km (190–220 mi)– Massawa (Eritrea)
•Minimum Width: ~ 26–29 km (16–18 mi)- Bab el Mandeb Strait (Yemen)
•Average Width: ~ 280 km (174.0 mi)
•Average Depth: ~ 490 m (1,607.6 ft)
•Maximum Depth: ~2,211 m (7,253.9 ft)
•Surface Area: 438-450 x 10² km² (16,900–17,400 sq mi)
•Volume: 215–251 x 10³ km³ (51,600–60,200 cu mi)
•Approximately 40% of the Red Sea is quite shallow (under 100 m/330 ft), and about 25% is under 50 m (164 ft) deep.
•About 15% of the Red Sea is over 1,000 m (3,300 ft) depth that forms the deep axial trough.
•Shelf breaks are marked by coral reefs
•Continental slope has an irregular profile (series of steps down to ~500 m/1,640 ft)
•Centre of Red Sea has a narrow trough (~ 1,000 m/3,281 ft; some deeps may exceed 2,500 m/8,202 ft)
Tourism
The sea is known for its spectacular recreational diving sites, such as Ras Mohammed, SS Thistlegorm (shipwreck), Elphinstone, The Brothers, Dolphin Reef and Rocky Island in Egypt and less known sites in Sudan such as Sanganeb, Abington, Angarosh and Shaab Rumi.
The Red Sea became known as a sought-after diving destination after the expeditions of Hans Hass in the 1950s, and later by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Popular tourist resorts include El Gouna, Hurghada, Safaga, Marsa Alam, on the western shore of the Red Sea, and Sharm-El-Sheikh, Dahab, and Taba on the Egyptian side of Sinaï, as well as Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat in Israel in an area known as the Red Sea Riviera.
The popular tourist beach of Sharm el-Sheikh was closed to all swimming in December 2010 due to several serious shark attacks, including one fatal one. As of December 2010, scientists are investigating the attacks and have identified, but not verified, several possible causes including over fishing which causes large sharks to hunt closer to shore, tourist boat operators who chum the waters just offshore to present shark-photo opportunities, and reports of passing ships throwing dead livestock overboard. Furthermore the geography of some parts of the Red Sea is such that large sharks can sometimes wander close to shore. This is due to the sea's narrow width, significant depth, and sharp drop-offs, all of which combine to form a geography where large deep-water sharks can roam in hundreds of meters of water, yet be within a hundred meters of swimming areas.
Bordering countries
The Red Sea may be geographically divided into three sections: the Red Sea proper, and in the north, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez. The six countries bordering the Red Sea proper are:
•Eastern shore:
o Saudi Arabia
o Yemen
•Western shore:
o Egypt
o Sudan
o Eritrea
o Djibouti
The Gulf of Suez is entirely bordered by Egypt. The Gulf of Aqaba borders Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
In addition to the standard geographical definition of the six countries bordering the Red Sea cited above, areas such as Somalia and Ethiopia are sometimes also described as Red Sea territories. This is primarily due to their proximity to and geological similarities with the nations facing the Red Sea and/or political ties with said areas.[21][22]
Towns and cities
Towns and cities on the Red Sea coast (including the coasts of the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez) include:
• Al Hudaydah (الحديدة)
• Al Lith (الليِّث)
• Al Qunfudhah (القنفذة)
• Al-Qusair (القصير)
• Al Wajh (الوجه)
• Aqaba (العقبة)
• Asseb (ዓሳብ)
• Dahab (دهب)
• Duba (ضباء)
• Eilat (אילת)
• El Gouna (الجونة)
• El Suweis (السويس)
• / Hala'ib (حلايب) (disputed)
• Haql (حقل)
• Hirgigo (ሕርጊጎ)
• Hurghada (الغردقة)
• Jeddah (جدة)
• Jazan (جازان)
• Marsa Alam (مرسى علم)
• Massawa (ምጽዋ)
• Nuweiba (نويبع)
• Port Safaga (ميناء سفاجا)
• Port Sudan (بورت سودان)
• Rabigh (رابغ)
• Sharm el Sheikh (شرم الشيخ)
• Soma Bay (سوما باي)
• Suakin (سواكن)
• Taba (طابا)
• Thuwal (ثول)
• Yanbu (ينبع)
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/71125
Local call number: C016814
Title: Three young women on the beach - Saint George Island
Date: July, 1952
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/323908
Title: Four Corners of the Earth
Date of film: 1983-1984
Physical descrip: color; sound; original length: 27:40
Local call number: FV-113
General note: This documentary was the result of the Seminole Video Project (1983-1984), a joint effort between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU -TV. The film profiles Seminole craftswoman and tribal representative Ethel Santiago and addresses issues such as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole Society; traditional Seminole foods, arts and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. Produced by Peggy A. Bulger and directed by Mike Dunn, with fieldwork assistance by folklorist Merri Belland and Blanton Owen. Financed by a grant from the Florida Endowment for the Humanities with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
To see full-length versions of this and other videos from the State Archives of Florida, visit www.floridamemory.com/video/.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
I have had no luck finding a plant growing out of a rock, it's too early for most plants here. So this is a weed growing between the concrete edgers of my garden.
ANSH #8
[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with American flag and state seal of Ohio]
[United States] : [Publisher not identified], [between 1861 and 1865]
1 print : woodcut on envelope ; sheet 8 x 14 cm.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Addressed to Jerome Hill Esq., Mannsville, Jefferson Co., New York ; postmarked Cincinnati, O., Nov. 7 ; bears 3 cent stamp. DLC
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (DLC/PP-2017:171-2, formerly deposit D074)
Purchased from: Don Tocher, U.S. Classics, Sunapee, New Hampshire, June 2018.
Subjects:
Columbia (Symbolic character)--1860-1870.
Flags--American--1860-1870.
State seals--Ohio--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Format: Patriotic envelopes--1860-1870.
Woodcuts--Color--1860-1870.
Correspondence--1860-1870.
Manuscripts--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.59988
Call Number: LOT 14043-6, no. 153
This shot is a shout out to CM Ultra and Mayor Paprika for their awesome ability to mix and match so many different toys together in their stories. Also a nod to Cooper Sky for allowing Action Man to settle in Coopers Town. This shot is an attempt to overcome my persistent Dolly OCD and the inability to mix and match my toy shots. 😃
Bain News Service,, publisher.
[Babe Ruth & John McGraw, New York NL (baseball)]
[1923 Oct. 23]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Ruth & McGraw.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.36424
Call Number: LC-B2- 6073-3
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/340888
Local call number: MSC4012
Title: Close-up view of nets at the rustic fishing village of Spring Creek
Date: ca. 1965
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Manuscript Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent freezing fog over the moors at Greenhow produced some spectacular effects such as rime icing and this fogbow. The temperature was minus 4 Celsius at 1.30pm.
Way down under the mud is a metal ring to which a strong rope is tied. This dog was trying to recover the rope producing a semi-circle of footprints in the process, his teeth must be strong!
Copyright Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/70607
Local call number: C015387
Title: Models at Lido Beach - Sarasota
Date: ca. 1951
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Fishermen with a corf for eel at Kungsbaden beach, Magdehem, in Scania.
Fiskare med ålsump vid Kungabaden, Magdehem.
Parish (socken): Östra Torp
Province (landskap): Skåne
Municipality (kommun): Trelleborg
County (län): Skåne
Photograph by: Carl Gustaf Rosenberg
Date: 1940s
Format: Film negative
Persistent URL: kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16001000022185
Brown Pelican (breeding)
Pelecanus occidentalis
Camp Del Mar Marina
Camp Pendleton, CA
13 March 2015
This was one of two or three Pelicans that had the Boat Basin/Marina all to themselves and were fishing away merrily in the morning. I watched them crash-dive after dive, catching fish after fish for about an hour before I had to get back to work.
Most of the leaves have dropped, now, but these three were still hanging on, almost in defiance of impending gray days.
Creator(s): Department of Commerce. Bureau of Fisheries. Division of Alaska Fisheries. 1913-7/1/1939
Series: Pribilof Islands Glass Plate Negatives, 1913 - 1921
Production Date: 1913 - 1921
Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted
Use Restriction(s):Unrestricted
Contact(s): National Archives at Seattle (RW-SE)
6125 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115-7999
Phone: 206-336-5115
Fax: 206-336-5112
Email: seattle.archives@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier: 23853877
Local Identifier: USBF 2-16
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/23853877
Margolies, John,, photographer.
Courthouse, Court Street, Visalia, California
2003.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Municipal courthouses; Main Street.
Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Courthouses--2000-2010.
United States--California--Visalia.
Format: Slides--2000-2010.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.03902
Call Number: LC-MA05- 3902
NASA image captured Jan. 29-31, 2011
An active region continued to blast a couple more solar storm events over three days (Jan. 29-31, 2011) and two of these events, as they did for the three earlier days as well, sent waves across much of the Sun. The region was out of sight of other spacecraft, but due to its position ahead of Earth the STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft could see it and capture it in extreme UV light. The largest event (shown in the still) sent a compression wave that raced down and to the left, leaving a dark area behind it. It will be interesting to see if that spot is still as active when it rotates back around to face Earth in about eight days.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/STEREO
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I have seen this tropical species in both 2017 and 2019 now at Clifton Gardens. This particular shot was taken in a ledge with a big moray (clipped in bottom right corner of shot) - perhaps the goby wasn't big enough to count as an entree? Note it's P nuchifasciata on FoA but WoRMS confirms P nuchfasciatus
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/245458
Local call number: JJS0502
Title: Mabel and Archie aboard the shantyboat "Lazy Bones"
General note: Reading about a snowstorm up North during a cruise from Fort Myers to Clewiston on the Caloosahatchee River, December 28, 1947 - January 6, 1948.
Date: January 1948
Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,3734
Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Grocery stores; Coffee cups; Food industry;
4/12
Tell me, Miss Human, what IS this book?
It's wonderful. It's 'Maddie On Things'!
A book about a dog... on... things? But, why? A cat would be vastly superior at Being On Things.
Yes, but for a dog to balance like Maddie does in some of those pictures, well, that's pretty impressive! Aren't you impressed?
No. Not particularly. Perhaps she's trying to impersonate a cat? Everybody wants to be a cat, so I've been told.
I think it's just meant to be a cute photo project, Elsie...
Hmm. Well, I can't say I see the point of it. Now, if you have a book of cats balancing on things, that would be delightful!
Elsie may be less than impressed by this book but I love it! I'm sure most of my Flickr friends will already have heard of the Maddie On Things project but for those who haven't - I'd absolutely recommend looking it up to anyone who likes dog photos. The images are lovely, Maddie's adorable and her balancing skills are very impressive :)
Elsie's a busy cat at the moment... She's taken up a new hobby and not got much time for posing for the camera - preferring to spend her days skulking about in the garden, terrorising small rodents and birds. I made the mistake of insulting her catness recently, happily telling my dad "Oh, Elsie's a rubbish hunter - in 7yrs she's only ever brought back a couple of dead animals." Apparently, you should never comment on a cat's ability (or lack of it) to hunt - they don't appreciate it!
Literally 2 days later, I heard persistent, proud mewing from downstairs. Elsie's usually quiet so I went to investigate and nearly trod on the dead bird placed neatly in the hallway for me to find :( A few days after that, I heard more meowing - this time, she'd braved torrential rain to bring me another gift - a poor little mouse this time. I'd always been really relieved Elsie wasn't a hunter but she now appears to be trying to prove me wrong! Gah, I love kitties but I wish it was easier to curb their hunting instincts - Elsie wears a bell but apparently it's not making much difference...