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Pretty Blue Planet Our beautiful planet seen by the eyes of satellites. South of the Iberia Peninsula. Sand Storm leaves Africa and Canary Islands Strait of Gibraltar Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa The Swiss Alps Different Maps The internet has led to a renaissance in mapmaking, with thousands of interactive, illustrated, informational, or just plain silly maps being published on a daily basis. We’ve done a number of other pieces on some of the web’s interesting and weird maps, but there’s thousands more out there, and it can be hard to keep up. So here’s another installment, with 36 new maps we haven’t posted before. 1.

Most complete Earth map published The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry. The images were taken by Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite. The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use. The Terra satellite, dedicated to Earth monitoring missions, has shed light on issues ranging from algal blooms to volcano eruptions.

1,200-year-old village with 17 residents - Lifestyle News 2011-10-21 17:35:39 GMT2011-10-22 01:35:39(Beijing Time) China Daily A village in Mengxian county, Yangquan city of North China's Shanxi province, has just 17 residents. The village is called Dapin by local residents. [Photo/CFP] Residents of Dapin village stand in front of a group of houses, Oct 15, 2011.

earthlights The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It is an absolutely awesome picture of the Earth taken from the Boeing built Space Station last November on a perfect night with no obscuring atmospheric conditions. It is a night photo with the lights clearly indicating the populated areas.

Geology Antique Maps, Old maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Atlases, Old Atlases, antique maps, old maps, vintage maps, antique atlases, old atlases, vintage atlases, antique charts, old charts, vintage charts, antique sea charts, old sea charts, vintage sea charts, an Middle East Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection Middle East Maps The PCL Map Collection includes more than 250,000 maps, yet less than 30% of the collection is currently online. A $5, $15, or $25 contribution will help us fund the cost of acquiring and digitizing more maps for free online access. Geographic.org Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900′s Posted Oct 21, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare58 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900′s.

1980's: How to Get the Look - PrivateIslandParty.com by Emily Neelandposted on 1/18/13 Heading to an 80′s party or just looking to infuse your wardrobe with inspirations from wild 80′s fashions? Then you’re probably also looking for some 80′s makeup, hair and style tips to stay one step ahead of the other Breakfast Club wannabes! The 80′s was a new dawn filled with neon rays of light. Everything was bigger, brighter, and in-your-face-er.

Films For Action Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves. Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover. From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible.