National Geographic, 1972 “Young Lovers in Paris” by Gordon W. Gahan

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Blue waves produced by bioluminescent phytoplankton: Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives, Florida Everglades, and Lakshadweep Islands off India.

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At London’s Kensington Gardens, every Sunday morning in 1953 marked departure time for the Empress of Britain—in miniature. Modelmaker (and weekday bus driver) Alfred Kidd based his 93-pound steam-powered ship on the namesake Canadian ocean liner sunk by a Nazi torpedo in 1940. The vessel took Kidd four years to build, working an average of three hours a day. “While other folks are wrapped up in scarves and overcoats against the cold winds,” say notes accompanying the photograph, “Alfred Kidd, coatless, is active and happy as any schoolboy as he sets the course for his model and runs round to meet it on the other side of the Round Pond.” 

(April’s copy is back on form; gemstone DNA and K2 and African tribal masks and ghostwalking the Titanic and flamingoes and “minds are like parachutes, they only function when they’re open” etc etc etc)

Horses, Mongolian Steppe photograph by Mark Leong for National Geographic

An ocean of green, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with just under three million people in a landmass larger than Alaska. Mongolian culture—physical, mobile, self-reliant, and free—developed out here on the steppe. “When people move to Ulaanbaatar, they bring that mentality with them,” says Baabar, a well-known publisher and historian.

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Hawaii, November 1977

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A farmer and his donkey in Zamora Province haul flowering nabiza, turnip plants, to feed his cattle or to be pressed for vegetable oil. Spain, March 1978

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Guilin, China, October 1979

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Walruses, Alaska, October 1979

‘Puppies pull a play sledge for the amusement of supply officer George Black during Richard E. Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition. They were the offspring of the 94 dogs originally brought along for transport on the journey’

‘Sulfur and algae turn hot springs into pools of living colour’, Africa’s Afar depression

Inlaid flowers across Sheikh Zayed mosque’s 183,000-square-foot marble courtyard, photograph by Dave Yoder for National Geographic

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National Geographic, June  1981

National Geographic 1970

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A sulfur miner stands inside the crater of the Kawah Ijen volcano at night, holding a torch, looking towards a flow of liquid sulfur which has caught fire and burns with an eerie blue flame. (by Olivier Grunewald)

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