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  • Spectacular fireworks explode over Gasworks Park, witnessed by a large audience of boats in Union Bay, at dusk July 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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  • Low smoke from the fireworks of July 4, 2007 drifts over downtown Seattle and the Space Needle. Copyright © Tom Dempsey / Photoseek.com
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  • Spectacular fireworks explode over Gasworks Park, witnessed by a large audience of boats in Union Bay, at dusk July 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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  • Spectacular fireworks explode over Gasworks Park, witnessed by a large audience of boats in Union Bay, at dusk July 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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  • Spectacular fireworks explode over Gasworks Park, witnessed by a large audience of boats in Union Bay, at dusk July 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Spectacular fireworks explode over Gasworks Park, witnessed by a large audience of boats in Union Bay, at dusk July 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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  • Spectacular fireworks explode over Gasworks Park, witnessed by a large audience of boats in Union Bay, at dusk July 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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  • Irish River or Vaughan Creek #1 Covered Bridge was built in 1935 in picturesque St. Martins, in Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada. The lighthouse building was built in 1983 to display the lantern room from the 1883 Quaco Head Lighthouse and to serve as a Visitor Information Center in St. Martins. Climb to the lantern to view the harbour and two historic covered bridges. Observe the extreme tides of Bay of Fundy lifting fishing boats near the bridge. Drive through the covered bridge and go 7 km on Big Salmon River Road to reach the start of the Fundy Trail Parkway, a 16 kilometer auto route along the Fundy coast ending at Big Salmon River, a former lumbering center. Bay of Fundy has the highest tidal range in the world, due to a resonance of being just the right length (270 km) matching the gravitational pushing cycle of the Moon that causes the tides. Coincidentally, the time it takes a large wave to go from the mouth of the bay to the inner shore and back is practically the same as the time from one high tide to the next. (You can see the effect of resonance for yourself by steadily pushing a long pan of water back and forth: an optimal pushing frequency for a given pan length will build up a high wave of water which sloshes out; but pushing too fast or too slow won't build up the big wave.) Two high tides occur per day, one when the ocean side is nearest the Moon, and one on the side of the Earth most distant from the Moon, about 12 hours and 25 minutes from one high tide to the next. The Bay of Fundy is on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. St. Martins (2006 population: 386) is 40 km east of Saint John. St. Martins (originally known as Quaco) was founded by Loyalists in 1783. Its important 1800s shipbuilding center faded, leaving tourism as today's major industry.
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  • Prairie emigrants used covered farm wagons like this (but not heavy boat-shaped Conestoga wagons), on display at Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Bayard, Nebraska,  USA. At Chimney Rock, a slender rock spire rises 325 feet from a conical base, serving as an impressive natural landmark along the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, and the Mormon Trail during the mid-1800s. Modern travelers can see it along U.S. Route 26 and Nebraska Highway 92. At 4228 feet above sea level, the distinctive formation towers 480 feet above the adjacent North Platte River Valley. Its layers of volcanic ash and brule clay date to the Oligocene Age (34 million to 23 million years ago).
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  • Old rusting Flex-Track truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6132.jpg
  • An orange & red patina of rust & crackled paint at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6136.jpg
  • Old rusting truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6117.jpg
  • An orange & red patina of rust & crackled paint at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Old rusting blue car at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Old yellow gears at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Rusty hub cap. Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6081.jpg
  • High tide nearly touches the bottom of the covered bridge. Irish River or Vaughan Creek #1 Covered Bridge was built in 1935 in picturesque St. Martins, in Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada. The lighthouse building was built in 1983 to display the lantern room from the 1883 Quaco Head Lighthouse and to serve as a Visitor Information Center in St. Martins. Climb to the lantern to view the harbour and two historic covered bridges. Observe the extreme tides of Bay of Fundy lifting fishing boats near the bridge. Drive through the covered bridge and go 7 km on Big Salmon River Road to reach the start of the Fundy Trail Parkway, a 16 kilometer auto route along the Fundy coast ending at Big Salmon River, a former lumbering center. Bay of Fundy has the highest tidal range in the world, due to a resonance of being just the right length (270 km) matching the gravitational pushing cycle of the Moon that causes the tides. Coincidentally, the time it takes a large wave to go from the mouth of the bay to the inner shore and back is practically the same as the time from one high tide to the next. (You can see the effect of resonance for yourself by steadily pushing a long pan of water back and forth: an optimal pushing frequency for a given pan length will build up a high wave of water which sloshes out; but pushing too fast or too slow won't build up the big wave.) Two high tides occur per day, one when the ocean side is nearest the Moon, and one on the side of the Earth most distant from the Moon, about 12 hours and 25 minutes from one high tide to the next. The Bay of Fundy is on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. St. Martins (2006 population: 386) is 40 km east of Saint John. St. Martins (originally known as Quaco) was founded by Loyalists in 1783. Its important 1800s shipbuilding center faded, leaving tourism as today's major industry.
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  • Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) are a smaller white heron which can display a feather head plume. Assateague Island is within Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, USA, and can be reached by road from Chincoteague Island via a bridge over Assateague Channel.
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  • In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Recoleta Cemetery was built around Our Lady of Pilar (Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) convent and church, built in 1732 by monks of the Order of the Recoletos. Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The most visited tomb is that of Eva Perón. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
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  • Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The tomb of Eva Perón is the most-visited. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
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  • In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Recoleta Cemetery was built around Our Lady of Pilar (Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) convent and church, built in 1732 by monks of the Order of the Recoletos. Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The most visited tomb is that of Eva Perón. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
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  • La Virgen de Quito, on Panecillo hill, is an aluminum statue of the winged virgin (45 meters tall), inspired and enlarged from Bernardo de Lagarda's 1734 sculpture on display on the main altar in San Francisco Church, Quito, Ecuador, South America. This madonna was created in 1976 by Spanish artist Agustín de la Herrán Matorras. The virgin stands on top of a globe and is stepping on a snake. The wings are unusual in the tradition of madonna icons. Seen to the south of downtown Quito, the Panecillo hill looks like a “small bread roll” (its Spanish translation) and stands at about 3000m (9840 feet). Before the Spanish arrived, the Incas worship the sun on Shungoloma, or Hill of the Heart (present-day Panecillo).  Later, from 1812 to 1815, the Spanish constructed a fortress on the hill to control people below. Visit from Old Town via inexpensive taxi. See panoramic 360° views of Quito from here, best early in the morning (around 10:00 am), before the clouds form on nearby mountains. On a clear day, see Cotopaxi in the distance.  UNESCO honored City of Quito as a World Heritage Site in 1978. Quito was founded in 1534 on the ruins of an Inca city. Despite the 1917 earthquake, the city has the best-preserved, least altered historic center in Latin America.
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  • See historic Norwegian traditional dress and costumes on display at the Hardanger Folk Museum, founded in 1911 in Utne, Norway.
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  • A replica of the original cantilever drive-through barn at Tipton Place, at Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • The overhang in cantilever barns provided shelter for animals and farm equipment. Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • This old barn allows driving through the center in order to more easily transfer hay to the loft. Draft animals and milk cows were fed the hay in the stalls below during winter months. Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • Old wood fired stove in the Gregg-Cable house, at Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • John P. Cable Grist Mill, at Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church was organized June 16, 1827. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • Deer doe and fawn graze in Cades Cove beside John Oliver Cabin, which was built circa 1822, one of the oldest structures in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Oliver fit the log corners with half dovetail notches draining outwards to discourage rot. The cabin roof was fitted with 3,000 handmade shakes (wooden shingles). Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • In Cades Cove, John Oliver Cabin was built circa 1822, making it one of the oldest structures in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Oliver fit the log corners with half dovetail notches draining outwards to discourage rot. The cabin roof was fitted with 3,000 handmade shakes (wooden shingles). Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2175_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • Prairie emigrants used covered farm wagons like this (not heavy boat-shaped Conestoga wagons), on display at Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Bayard, Nebraska,  USA. At Chimney Rock, a slender rock spire rises 325 feet from a conical base, serving as an impressive natural landmark along the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, and the Mormon Trail during the mid-1800s. Modern travelers can see it along U.S. Route 26 and Nebraska Highway 92. At 4228 feet above sea level, the distinctive formation towers 480 feet above the adjacent North Platte River Valley. Its layers of volcanic ash and brule clay date to the Oligocene Age (34 million to 23 million years ago).
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  • Old rusting Flex-Track truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6130.jpg
  • An orange & yellow patina of rust and cracked paint at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6124.jpg
  • An orange & yellow patina of rust and cracked paint at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6125.jpg
  • Old rusting truck at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
    1906AKH-6114.jpg
  • Old wagon wheel. Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Toolshed. Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • The legend of St. George slaying a dragon was a brought back with the Crusaders. According to legend, St. George (who may have lived about AD 280-303) was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and officer in the Guard of Roman emperor Diocletian, who ordered his death for failing to recant his Christian faith. As a Christian martyr, he later became one of the most venerated saints in Christianity. This artwork is on display at the Museum of St. George's Abbey (Kloster Sankt Georgen), a Benedictine monastery which was founded around 1007 in Stein am Rhein village, on the banks of the Rhine at the western end of Lake Constance. The fascinating Klostermuseum is one of Switzerland's most important historic buildings from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, built in the 1300s to 1500s.
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  • A cat lounges on books on a display table in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dolomites, Italy, Europe. The ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo (Ladin: Anpëz, German: Hayden, at 1224 meters/4016 feet) is surrounded by the Dolomites (or Dolomiti, part of the Southern Limestone Alps) at the head of Valle del Boite, in the Province of Belluno, Veneto region, Italy. Cortina gained worldwide fame after hosting the 1956 Winter Olympics. UNESCO honored the Dolomites as a natural World Heritage Site in 2009.
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  • Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) are a smaller white heron which can display a feather head plume. Assateague Island is within Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, USA, and can be reached by road from Chincoteague Island via a bridge over Assateague Channel.
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  • Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The tomb of Eva Perón is the most-visited. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
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  • Tomb of Coronel Federico de Brandsen (left). Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The tomb of Eva Perón is the most-visited. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
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  • See historic Norwegian traditional dress and costumes on display at the Hardanger Folk Museum, founded in 1911 in Utne, Norway.
    11NOR-2111.jpg
  • An old wooden buggy at Tipton Place, at Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • A replica of the original cantilever barn at Tipton Place, at Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2241_Cades-Cove-cantilever-barn.jpg
  • A modern barn at Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2238_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • A modern barn at Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2236_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • Old farm equipment at Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2228_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • Old farm equipment at Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2227_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • The overhang in cantilever barns provided shelter for animals and farm equipment. Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2222_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • Old wooden wagon with iron tred, at Cable Mill Historic Area, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
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  • Cades Cove Methodist Church was first built in the 1820s, then rebuilt into the current structure in 1902. Cades Cove, once home to numerous settlers, is an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife.
    08TN-2195_Cades-Cove.jpg
  • Horses graze on a ranch preserved in Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife. Cades Cove is a type of valley known as a "limestone window," created by erosion that removed the older Precambrian sandstone, exposing the younger Paleozoic limestone beneath. The weathering of the limestone produced deep, fertile soil, making Cades Cove attractive to early farmers. More weather-resistant formations, such as the Cades sandstone which comprises Rich Mountain to the north and the Elkmont and Thunderhead sandstones which comprise the Smokies crest to the south have surrounded the cove, leaving it relatively isolated within the Great Smokies.
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  • Shooting Star flower in Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Dodecatheon is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the Primrose family, Primulaceae. The species have basal clumps of leaves and nodding flowers that are produced at the top of tall stems that rise from where the leaves join the crown. The genus is largely confined to North America and part of northeastern Siberia. Other common names are American Cowslip, Mosquito Bills, Mad Violets and Sailor-caps. A few species are grown in gardens for their showy and unique flower display. The stamens are thrust out with the sepals bent back. The flowers are pollinated by bees, which grab hold of the petals, buzz their wings, and vibrate pollen off the anthers (buzz pollination).
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  • Bent airplane propeller on an old engine at Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, 5553 Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. This quirky museum features a highway construction display, pioneer artifacts, trapper's cabin, vintage autos & machinery, a white moose, and more.
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  • Glass art in window display. Venice (Venezia) is the capital of Italy's Veneto region, named for the ancient Veneti people from the 10th century BC. The romantic "City of Canals" stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy, Europe. The Republic of Venice wielded major sea power during the Middle Ages, Crusades, and Renaissance. Riches from Venice's silk, grain, and spice trade in the 1200s to 1600s built elaborate architecture combining Gothic, Byzantine, and Arab styles. Venice and the Venetian Lagoon are honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
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  • "Helmets Recommended" for bicyclists sign in Cades Cove, an isolated valley located in the East Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Cades Cove was once home to numerous settlers. Today Cades Cove is the most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracting over two million visitors a year, due to its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife. Cades Cove is a type of valley known as a "limestone window," created by erosion that removed the older Precambrian sandstone, exposing the younger Paleozoic limestone beneath. The weathering of the limestone produced deep, fertile soil, making Cades Cove attractive to early farmers. More weather-resistant formations, such as the Cades sandstone which comprises Rich Mountain to the north and the Elkmont and Thunderhead sandstones which comprise the Smokies crest to the south have surrounded the cove, leaving it relatively isolated within the Great Smokies.
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  • Triglavski narodni park (TNP) sign, Slovenia. Tolmin gorges (Tolminska korita) are among the longest and deepest gorges in Slovenia and are the lowest point (180 meters elevation) in Triglav National Park (TNP). Walk a trail to the confluence of two gorges (Tolminka and Zadlascica rivers), then along Zadlascica river canyon (locally called Skakalce, "the jumps") up to a chock stone called the "Bear's Head" (Medvedova glava). Walk onwards to the scenic Devil's Bridge (Hudicev most, built 1907), which carries Tolmin-Cadrg road sixty meters above Tolminka River, then walk the loop back to the parking lot at the Triglavski narodni park (TNP) sign, near Zatolmin, Slovenia, Europe. (The Slovene letters sc in Zadla??ica may not display in some media.)
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  • Ripples on the water surface distorts this view of an orange and red sea anemone at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. At the Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, the Art Committee selected this 17x22 inch print for display in the Jones Pavilion Level 11 Orthopedic Inpatient unit art collection, 2011.
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  • Long wooden wagon displays flowers, in Mojstrana, Slovenia, Europe. In 1991, Slovenia declared full sovereignty from Yugoslavia. 80% of its 2 million people speak Slovene. In 2004, Slovenia joined NATO and the EU (European Union), and later adopted the Euro € currency. Slovenia is the richest Slavic nation per capita.
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  • Fadul Restaurant in Ushuaia (in Tierra del Fuego province, Argentina, South America) displays a wall sized picture of Mount Shuksan at Picture Lake, Washington, USA. For licensing options, please inquire.
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  • The fall squash harvest is displayed for sale at a farmer's market, Minnesota, USA.
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  • This bivalve displays blue stripes glowing under ultraviolet light, next to some white coral, at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington, USA.
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  • This animal art carving in wood was copied exactly from a wall of Urnes Stave Church and displayed at Borgund Stave Church visitor center in Lærdal municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. At Urnes Stave Church, Viking Age animal art meets Christian architecture..Urnes stavkirke (or stavkyrkje), the oldest Stave Church in Norway (built around 1135 AD), stands at Ornes farm on Lustrafjord in Luster municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. In 1979, Urnes Stave Church was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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  • The fall squash harvest is displayed for sale at a farmer's market, Minnesota, USA.
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  • A watermelon harvest is displayed for sale in wooden bins at a farmer's market, Minnesota, USA.
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  • A fall pumpkin harvest is displayed for sale at a farmer's market, Minnesota, USA.
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  • The fall squash harvest is displayed for sale at a farmer's market, Minnesota, USA.
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  • This bivalve displays blue stripes glowing under ultraviolet light, next to some coral, at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington, USA.
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  • 1900s schoolroom, installed in the 1750-1800 public laundry building #612 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Bern canton, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Some of the industrial and crafting buildings give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking, and farmyard animals are raised.
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  • Trapper George Johnston bought his dream car in 1928, a four cylinder Model AB Chevrolet sedan, shipped by steamer from Whitehorse several hundred miles via the Yukon and Teslin Rivers to Teslin village. The local Taylor & Drury store fueled it with naphtha. At first, his only road was 78 miles of frozen Taslin Lake. For his taxi service in Teslin, George Johnston built a 3- to 5-mile road, which later became part of the Alaska Highway. The car is now displayed in the George Johnston Museum, Alaska Highway, Teslin, Yukon, Canada. The Alaska Highway was built as a military road during World War II in just 9 months in 1942, to link existing airfields via Canada to the territory of Alaska. The ALCAN Highway (a military acronym for Alaska-Canada) opened to the public in 1948. It begins in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and runs via Whitehorse, Yukon to Delta Junction, Alaska. The "Alaskan Highway" is comprised of British Columbia Highway 97, Yukon Highway 1 and Alaska Route 2. While the ALCAN measured 2700 kilometers (1700 mi) upon completion in 1942, by 2012 it was rerouted and shortened to 2232 km (1387 mi). Once legendary for being a rough, challenging drive, the highway is now paved over its entire length. Delta Junction, at the end of the highway, claims "Historic Milepost 1422" where the Alaska Highway meets the Richardson Highway, which continues 96 mi (155 km) to the city of Fairbanks at Historic Milepost 1520, often (but unofficially) regarded as the northern portion of the Alaska Highway (although its Mileposts are measured from Valdez).
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  • Horns of Alpine ibex are displayed in the dining room of Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass (2120 m) in the Alpstein limestone mountain range, Appenzell Alps, Switzerland, Europe. The Alpine ibex or steinbock (Capra ibex, in the Bovidae family) is a wild goat of the European Alps. The larger males carry big curved horns. Alpine ibex tend to live in steep, rough terrain above the snow line. Four distinct social groups tend to form: adult male groups, female-offspring groups, groups of young individuals, and mixed sex groups; but Adult males and females segregate for most of the year, coming together only to mate. After being eliminated from most areas by the 1800s, the ibex was successfully reintroduced. Appenzell Innerrhoden is Switzerland's most traditional and smallest-population canton (second smallest by area).
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  • Colorful microbial mats coat terraces of Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Grand Prismatic is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, next to those in New Zealand. The sterile blue water in the pool’s center is too hot to support life (87 degrees Centigrade or 188 F). Pure water selectively absorbs red wavelengths of visible light, making the center deep blue. But in cooler water along the edges, microbial mats of thermophilic (heat-loving) cyano-bacteria and algae thrive. Yellow, orange, and red pigments are produced by the bacteria as a natural sunscreen. As a result, the pool displays a spectrum of colors from the bright blue water of the center to the orange, red, and brown algal mats along the edges. Summer mats tend to be orange and red, whereas winter mats become dark green. Yellowstone was the first national park in the world (1872), and UNESCO honored it as a World Heritage site in 1978.
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  • "In the Mind" art sculpture by Geoff McFetridge (born 1971 in Canada, see his current web site championdontstop.com), displayed at Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park Pavilion, Seattle, Washington, USA
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  • "In the Mind" art sculpture by Geoff McFetridge (born 1971 in Canada, see his current web site championdontstop.com), displayed at Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park Pavilion, Seattle, Washington, USA
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  • Old wooden wagon. Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Some of the industrial and crafting buildings give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking, and farmyard animals are raised.
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  • Antique stove and kitchen shelves. This 1675 farmhouse, originally from Therwil in Basel-Landschaft canton, is now building #131 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Bern canton, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
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  • This 1675 farmhouse, originally from Therwil in Basel-Landschaft canton, is now building #131 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Bern canton, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
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  • Horse drawn carriage ride. Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Some of the industrial and crafting buildings give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking, and farmyard animals are raised.
    22ALP-12272.jpg
  • An antique indoor sink drains under a window directly to the outside. Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Some of the industrial and crafting buildings give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking, and farmyard animals are raised.
    22ALP-12242.jpg
  • An antique indoor sink drains under a window directly to the outside. Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Some of the industrial and crafting buildings give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking, and farmyard animals are raised.
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  • 1800s bridal wagon at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Back in poorer times in rural Switzerland, this 1800s bridal wagon publicly paraded the proud newlywed couple's wealth in bedding and furniture.  Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
    22ALP-12232.jpg
  • This 1780 vintner's house with half-timbered walls filled with wattle & daub, was originally from Richterswil in Zurich canton and is now building #611 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Bern canton, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
    22ALP-12210.jpg
  • This 1780 vintner's house, originally from Richterswil in Zurich canton, is now building #611 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Bern canton, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
    22ALP-12178.jpg
  • Fresh baked bread at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
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  • 1760 granary from Ostermundigen, building #332 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
    22ALP-12143.jpg
  • Elaborately embroidered costume work detail at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
    22ALP-12114.jpg
  • 1700s Swiss folk costume at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Some of the industrial and crafting buildings give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking, and farmyard animals are raised.
    22ALP-12113.jpg
  • 1872 industrialist's villa, building #361 at Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, near Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe. Founded in 1978, Ballenberg displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country, making it a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Over 100 original buildings have been transported from their original sites. Farmyard animals are raised, and some of the  buildings give live demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques, and cheesemaking.
    22ALP-12094-Pano.jpg
  • In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stenciled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black.
    2002PAT-0532.jpg
  • In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stenciled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black.
    2002PAT-0506.jpg
  • In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stenciled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
    2002PAT-0477-482-Pano.jpg
  • In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stenciled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black.
    2002PAT-0458.jpg
  • In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stenciled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black.
    2002PAT-0457.jpg
  • In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stenciled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black.
    2002PAT-0423.jpg
  • Located in a scenic canyon of the Pinturas River, Cave of Hands is reached by remote paved and steep gravel roads, 169 km (105 miles) south of the town of Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the South American region of Patagonia. In Argentina, Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) displays some of the earliest known human art in the Americas. This striking artwork is honored on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dating to around 5000 BCE, the silhouette paintings of mostly left hands were sprayed using a bone pipe held in the right hand. The age of the paintings was calculated from pigments found in layers of charcoal from human fires and bone remains of the spraying pipes. The hunting scenes (mostly guanaco) and representations of animals and human life all date older than the stencilled hands, to around 7300 BCE. A favorite hunting tool was the bola, where interconnected cords with weights on either end were thrown to trap animal legs. The site was last inhabited around 700 CE, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. Cueva de las Manos was first explored by researchers in 1949, followed by more extensive studies done in the 1960s. Varying paint colors come from different mineral pigments: iron oxides for red and purple, kaolin for white, natrojarosite for yellow, and manganese oxide for black.
    2002PAT-0346.jpg
  • Frog hat (Xixch'i s'aaxw) from Sitka, Kiks.adi Clan, Sheet'ka Kwaan, Tlingit, displayed in Alaska State Museum, Juneau, USA. The City and Borough of Juneau is the capital city of Alaska and the second largest city in the USA by area (only Sitka is larger). This unified municipality lies on Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka. The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau. Isolated by rugged terrain on Alaska's mainland, Juneau can only be reached by plane or boat. Downtown Juneau sits at sea level under steep mountains up to 4000 feet high, topped by Juneau Icefield and 30 glaciers.
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