To listen to the photographer's voice-over narration, you'll need the Shockwave plu gin. The collection includes classic, historic shots from Iwo Jima, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs crisis, the fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as contemporary crime scenes, birth scenes, and moments of joy, reunion, misery, and death. Rosie the Riveter propaganda pieces, chemical cure-all advertisements, psychedelic concert announcements, Hitchcock film promotions.
Entries feature detailed artist biographies, historical context, and detailed close-ups.
The Degree Confluence Project Confluence means junction or coming together, and that's exactly what some like-minded individuals have done to create this ambitious, grassroots effort to document the real places where degrees of longitude and latitude meet in the world. So far, nearly 400 confluences, from Africa to Antarctica and from Ireland to Indonesia, have been recorded. Its a fun and educational site you'll want to bookmark and visit again and again. Deserts Nine diverse state and federal agencies have collaborated on this guide to the desert wilderness of California and southern Nevada. Modern visitors need not face the hazards and hardships that confronted early travelers in a ruggedly beautiful, landscape, but they should come prepared for a hostile environment.