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Revision as of 17:55, 25 August 2007

August 2007

Pantanal and Paraguay River, near Brazil-Bolivia border

The Pantanal is considered by many to be the world’s largest, freshwater, wetland system.


Coat of arms of Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in the central part of southern Africa.


The gentle and pensive virgin has the power to tame the unicorn, in this fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, probably by Domenichino, ca 1602

The unicorn, a legendary creature usually depicted with the body of a horse, but with a single—usually spiral—horn growing out of its forehead, is one of the most revered mythical beasts of all time.


Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.


Aoraki/Mount Cook is the tallest mountain in New Zealand.

New Zealand is a nation made up of two large islands and a number of smaller islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

June 2007

Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze, 1851

The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s brightest laurels by Charles Cornwallis.


COA of Liberia

The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast.


Mouth of the Amazon River

The Amazon River of South America is the world's largest river and the lifeblood of the world's largest ecosystem, spanning two-fifths of an entire continent.


Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story.

July 2007

Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905 to March 6, 1982) was born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, in Russia and emigrated to the United States to become an outspoken champion of capitalism.


Henry Moore, Family Group (1950)

A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including adoption.


ASIMO is an anthropomorphic robot created in 2000 by Honda

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, natural, or supernatural phenomena.


Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a tallow-maker.

May 2007

Great Seal of the United States

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states and the District of Columbia located primarily in central North America.