''The Fall of Man'', by {{Wiki|Hugo van der Goes}}<br>
painted between 1470-75<br>
As contrasting pairs the Fall and the Redemption of Man, death and life, a paradise flooded with light and a dark overcast horizon, find their formal counterpart in this stylistic and compositional realisation of the theme. The delicate and sharply contoured bodies of the first two human beings are quite different from the figures in the Lamentation, which are interpreted in a painterly fashion and set restlessly into the scene in a continuation of the tradition of Rogier van der Weyden’s expressive painting. This has led to the supposition that the two panels were painted at different points in time, rather far apart from one another. Goes, in his striking rendition of the “tempter” with the head of a woman, body of a salamander and feet of an aquatic bird, was falling back on an existing tradition that was occasionally found in Netherlandish (book) paintings. The work is mentioned in 1659 in the inventory of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm but attributed in error to Jan van Eyck. Later all knowledge was lost that the two panels of the diptych, which had meanwhile been separated, belonged together. The former outside panel has also been preserved (KHM, GG, Inv. No. 5822 B). They were not presented together again until 1884 and 1887, by that time attributed to van der Goes. Initially, Hugo van der Goes worked primarily in Ghent. His involvement in the decorations for the wedding of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to Margaret of York in Bruges in 1468, however, brought him more widespread fame, awakening the interest of the archduke and later emperor Maximilian. The latter visited the painter in 1477 during a stay in Ghent and Brussels on the occasion of his marriage to Mary of Burgundy. By then, Goes, who was already suffering from depression, had entered the quiet seclusion of a monastery.
Cupid and Pysche by Giulio Romano.
Painted between 1526 and 1528.
The painting depicts the story of the Greek deities Cupid and Pysche. Found in Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). The tale concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche and Cupid (Amor/Eros), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage. Although the only extended narrative from antiquity is that of Apuleius from 2nd century AD, Eros and Psyche appear in Greek art as early as the 4th century BC. The story's Neoplatonic elements and allusions to mystery religions accommodate multiple interpretations, and it has been analyzed as an allegory and in light of folktale, Märchen or fairy tale, and myth.
Diana and Calysto by Titian (Vienna version)
Painted c. 1566.
The painting depicts the moment in which the goddess Diana discovers that her maid Callisto has become pregnant by Jupiter.
The Fall of Man by Hugo van der Goes
Painted after 1479.
Depicts the moment Eve is tempted by the snake to eat the Apple, Adam is by her and they both taste the fruit and are tossed from the Garden of Eden.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Painted c. 1484–1486.
Depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The seashell she stands on was a symbol in classical antiquity for a woman's vulva. Thought to be based in part on the Venus de' Medici, an ancient Greek marble sculpture of Aphrodite.
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides by Peter Paul Rubens
Painted 1638.
Depicts the demi-god son of Zeus, Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides completing the eleventh of his labours, to steal a golden apple from the garden. He did this by tricking the Titan Atlas and walking away with the fruit.
Atalanta and Hippomenes by Guido Reni
The Judgement of Paris by
Le Triomphe de Bacchus by Charles de La Fosse.
Idun and the Apples by
Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros
Sixty-Four Squares
QUEEN ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND 1559
EMPEROR NAPOLEON I OF FRANCE 1812
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNITED STATES 1781
Passcode: 10352
Descendants
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT STRATEGIC MEETING. 1944
HARRY HOUDINI BEGINNING THE CHINESE WATER TORTURE CELL ESCAPE. 1913
GANDHI DURING THE SALT MARCH. 1930
Passcode: 14523
Infinite Knowledge
BURNING VIET CONG BASE CAMP, MY THO, VIETNAM. 1968
MEMBERS OF THE 2ND INFANTRY DIVISION ADVANCE UNDER MACHINE GUN FIRE INTO THE OUTSKIRTS OF BREST, FRANCE. 1944
UNION TROOPS IN FORMATION. BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1862.
THE FIRST PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF A GUN. 900
Passcode: 72114
Instruments of Power
The power they wielded cut down their enemies.
OTTO VON BISMARCK, GERMANY
PERSEUS, GREECE
ATTILA THE HUN, EURASIA
SAMSON, HEBREW
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, MACEDONIA
SIGMUND, NORSE
CHARLEMAGNE, EUROPE
KING ARTHUR, BRITANNIA
JOAN OF ARC, FRANCE
AENEAS, TROY
In their hands, the wise lean on a great force.
KING LOUIS XIV, FRANCE
EMPEROR SHUNZHI, CHINA
JOHN THE BAPTIST, JERUSALEM
ACHILLES, GREECE
AMENHOTEP III, EGYPT
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, MACEDONIA
KING FERDINAND AND QUEEN ISABELLA, SPAIN
SHABATAKA, EGYPT
PETER, JERUSALEM
MOSES, EGYPT
Passcode: 81492
Brothers
AND SATAN SAID UNTO CAIN: SWEAR UNTO ME THY THROAT, AND IF THOU TELL IT THOU SHALT DIE.
AND ALL THESE THINGS WERE DONE IN SECRET.
AND CAIN SAID: TRULY I AM MAHAN, THE MASTER OF THIS GREAT SECRET.
WHEREFORE CAIN WAS CALLED MASTER MAHAN, AND HE GLORIED IN HIS WICKEDNESS.
Keep On Seeking, And You Will Find
First plucked from a tree guarded by a snake, its powers perform miracles. Then, worn across the ages, torn asunder, hidden under the sea of red, reconstruct the timeline.
Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette by William Hogarth
Painted in 1743.
A satire regarding high society, the painting tells the story of the old earl who has died, so his son is now the new earl, and his wife is the countess. As was still the fashion at the time, the countess is holding a reception during her toilette, her grooming, in her bedroom, in imitation of this age-old custom of kings called a levee. The fact that Hogarth ridiculed this convocation of people in the bedroom of a noble during their "morning" grooming (often very late in the day) proves that such a convocation in such an intimate room was increasingly viewed as inappropriate and lewd.
Tre giovani ebrei condotti alla fornace by Matteo Rosselli
Painted between 1630 and 1640
Depicts the story of The Prayer of Azariah and the accompanying Song of the Three Young Men from the Book of Daniel and embellish the story of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, three young Jewish men who were bound and thrown into a fiery furnace for defying Nebuchadrezzar's order to worship an idol.
John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his Family by Johann Zohanny
Painted c. 1766
Depicts John Peyto-Verney, fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his wife, Lady Louisa North with their three children; John, Louisa and Henry.
A Peasant Family at Meal-time by Jan Steen
Painted c. 1665
Depicts a standard peasant family at meal-time. The painting is also known by other name, Grace before Meat. It is a family of four, the man of house and his wife with two children. A dog is present eating scraps and a toy boat is discarded on the floor.
A Surgeon Treating a Peasant's Foot by David Teniers the Younger
Painted c. 1640s
Depicts a barber-surgeon removing a plaster from a patient's foot while his female assistant heats a replacement bandage over hot coals. The presence of a crystal ball, suspended at the top of the painting, makes the moral message of this painting, quite literally, crystal clear. It symbolizes the empty vanity of man, with the surgeon an incompetent charlatan and the patient a gullible fool.
Peasant Family in an Interior by Le Nain
Painted c. 1642
Depicts three generations of a peasant family relaxing by the fireside round a table in the evening. Light coming from a window illuminates their faces and the folds of their simple clothes. By virtue of its size, quality and character it is considered one of the Le Nain's masterpieces.
Kitchen Interior by Dirck de Vries
Painted c. 1592
De Vries was one of many Netherlandish artists who left his war-torn homeland to come to Venice, where he painted Netherlandish subjects in a Venetian style. As in the Netherlandish tradition, the kitchen of this wealthy home is full of everyday details, such as meat hung to dry. The cook reaches for the roosters offered by the tradesman. In Dutch, plays on the word for "bird" can refer to sexual intercourse. In the lusty manner of Netherlandish paintings and popular prints of market folk, the man is propositioning the cook in front of her mistress, who does not understand peasant "body language." The lady's dress and platform shoes identify her and the setting as Venetian, and De Vries has adopted the broad brush strokes of his Venetian colleagues.
Kartoffelsetzen by Vincent van Gogh
Painted 1884
Part of van Gogh's Peasant Character Studies. Van Gogh had a particular interest in creating character studies of working men and women in the Netherlands and Belgium, such as farmers, weavers, and fishermen. Making up a large body of Van Gogh's work during this period, the character studies were an important, foundational component in his artistic development.His painting Potato Planting shows a man creating a furrow and the woman dropping the seed potato behind him. Van Gogh may have been inspired by the description of Jean-François Millet's biographer, Alfred Sensier of Potato Planting: "one of his [Millet's] most beautiful works" of a married couple "on a wide plain, at the edge of which is a village is lost in the luminous atmosphere; the man opens the ground and the woman drops in the seed potato."
Alboin and Rosamund by workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Painted 1615
Depicts the historical moment of the Lombard king Alboin (530s – 28 June 572) ordering to serve wine to Rosamund (fl. 567 - 572) in her father's skull, which he had previously killed. Her father, Cunimund (died 567) was king of the last king of the Gepids, falling in the Lombard–Gepid War (567). Alboin then proceeded to marry Rosamund, and in 572 Rosamund orchestrated his assassination with the assistance of the king's foster brother, Helmichis.
Fontainebleau Forest photographed by Eugène Cuvelier
Taken in early 1860s
In September 1856, at the age of nineteen, Eugène Cuvelier visited Barbizon. This small town on the edge of the ancient Forest of Fontainebleau served as home base for the pre-Impressionists who popularized the practice of plein-air painting. Three years later, he married Louise Ganne, daughter of the Barbizon innkeeper in whose auberge the painters gathered to eat, drink, and talk about art. Although the young couple settled in Arras, they returned often to Barbizon, where Cuvelier explored the village streets and nearby forest with his tripod and camera, just as his painter friends did with their easels and paintboxes.
Blessed with talent, early technical training, and the friendly mentoring of the naturalist painters, Cuvelier created some of the most lyrical and sensitive of all nineteenth-century landscape photographs. Wide-ranging in expression and subject, his sylvan views masterfully render the dappled light of the forest interior, the palpable atmosphere of a misty clearing in the wood, the muscular power of leafless oaks rising against a wintry sky, or the delicacy of a sapling in spring. Like the forest itself, Cuvelier's exquisite photographs invite us to escape momentarily from the modern urban world and to breathe the air of a place where nature impresses the senses and the soul.
Men working near a steam shovel in Duluth, Minnesota photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Taken in c. 1890
Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford photographed by Eadweard J. Muybridge
Taken in 1872
Early in a long, creative career distinguished by landmark studies of animal and human motion, Eadweard J. Muybridge created a remarkable group of photographs of Yosemite Valley in California. During his second journey there, lasting from June through November 1872, he made his most significant and extensive body of landscape photographs, many taken with mammoth glass plate negatives measuring 20 x 24 inches. This image of the valley from Rocky Ford is one of his most luminous and sublime views. Taken in early morning light, this carefully framed and dramatically lit photograph reveals Muybridge's interest in atmospheric conditions, shimmering reflections, and the movement of water.
Steel mill/blast furnace
c. 19th or 20th century
Children playing
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Employees of "Georges Bormann" working in St Petersburg
c. 1910
Workers of the Georges Bormann Association's chocolate-confectionery factory packing goods.
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury, Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes, honorary advisor to the U.K. Treasury at the inaugural meeting of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., March 8, 1946.
c. 1890s
Club parlor of the Jekyll Club.
Workers Party Meeting photographed by Viktor Bulla
c. 1920
The Chinese People's Republic celebrating its first anniversary, November 1950 credited to Sovfoto
The Chinese People's Republic celebrating its first anniversary, November 1950. Many of the 500,000 participants in the demonstration are holding placards bearing Stalin's likeness.
1928 silver series US dollar bill
Mount Washington Hotel in 2008 photographed by Wikipedia user MountainClimber2
Workers
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Bomb disposal robot photographed by Brian A. Jaques
21 November 2005
This improvised explosive devices detonator system provides troops with a safer ability to discharge improvised explosive devices. U. S. Marine Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Callahan discusses improvised explosive devices with U.S. Congressmen and Represenatives in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2005. The Congressmen are visiting Iraq to get a better idea of how Marines are protecting themselves from explosive attacks. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian A. Jaques
Code breaker, Bombe (credited to Granger NYC)
20th century
bombe code breaking machine used for the decryption of secret messages.
Can factory workers stamping out end discs (credited to Seattle Public Library)
1909
Female workers in an H. J. Heinz can factory stamping out end discs (the discs that fit on either end of each can). From the materials for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, held in Seattle.
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)
c. 1950s
The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory. Man at the console: ? Man at the paper tape machine: Richard Bianco.
Rows and Rows. Photographed by Steve Jurvetson
11 October 2005
Thousands of workers in this factory assembling and testing fiber optic systems. In many places of the Chinese economy, human labor replaces automation (in contrast to Japan, for example)
Barcelona bike & ped signal photographed by Scott Ehardt
22 May 2006
Bicycle and pedestrian crossing signal in Barcelona, Spain at the intersection of Carrer d'Ausias March and Carrer de Ribes.
Mounting a Ford Car at the Ford Motor Plant
c. 1914
Ford Model T Chassis outside Highland Park Plant.
A pair of BigDog military robots, photographed by Lance Cpl. M. L. Meier.
27 June 2006
BigDog robots trot around in the shadow of an MV-22 Osprey. BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.
Maschinenmensch "Robot"
January 1932
George the humanoid robot from the 1930s was constructed by motor engineer Alan Herbert Reffell and Captain W. H. Richards. Captain and journalist William H. Richards was secretary of the Exhibition of the Society of Model Engineers. The picture shows W. H. Richards and the Robot.
Polen, Funker mit Verschlüsselungsgerät "Enigma" (photographed by Wiesemann)
February 1941
A radio company in operation. The enemy is listening. Therefore the radio message is encrypted.
Computer connections?
???
Alan Turing and colleagues
1946
This photograph shows Alan Turing (on the bus steps) with other members of the Walton Athletic Club, an amateur club based in Walton, Surrey, an outer suburb of south-west London, not far from the National Physical Laboratory. The club members were probably on their way to a race meeting on a Saturday in 1946. The location is identifiable as Hersham Road, Walton. The figure at the front of the group, holding a piece of paper, is Ted Shepherd, a cross-country runner who was probably organising the transport for the meeting. Second from the right is his son Brian Shepherd, who would accompany Alan Turing to race meetings and pass him food at stages during long distance runs. This information comes from Mr Mike Saunders, who is Ted Shepherd's grandson, and recalls his grandfather speaking of Turing's high-carb training diet.
ITT Corporation former headquarters, photographed by Jim Henderson
13 December 2008
Looking northeast at southwestern corner door of 75 Broad Street at corner of South Williams Street, former headquarters of ITT Corporation, on a cloudy afternoon.
C-130 Culvert crash
28 August 1975
C-130E TC-62 of the Argentine Air Force was destroyed when a bomb placed by Montoneros exploded on the runway in front of the aircraft during take-off from Tucuman, Argentina. Six of 114 Gendarmes on board were killed. See Operativo Independencia for the background history.
Ford & Kissinger In Conversation. Photographed by Thomas O'Halloran
16 August 1975
President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, conversing, on the grounds of the White House, Washington DC.
Salvador Allende and Hector Cámpora
1973
On May 25, after the assumption of Cámpora, there was a clear change in ideological orientation since the president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and the president of Cuba, Osvaldo Dorticós, both exponents of the two, were in Buenos Aires at the change of command ceremony. socialist experiences of Latin America. Just three days later, the government resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba, interrupted by pressure from the United States, and also began to stimulate trade with Fidel's Cuba, with or without the US blockade.
CHILE: ELECTIONS. Photographed by James N. Wallace.
1964
Supporters of Popular Action Front candidate Salvador Allende marching in Santiago at the time of the Chilean presidential elections, 5 September 1964.
Lentes Salvador Allende, photographed by Richard Espinoza
January 2007
Optical glasses of the President of Chile Salvador Allende, found in the Palacio de la Moneda, after the bombing.
Augusto Pinochet. Photographed by Ben2.
1982.
Motorcade with President Augusto Pinochet along La Moneda on the 9th anniversary of his coup d'etat.
Mohammad Mosaddeq, Ahmadabad
c. 1965
Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882-1967), Iranian Prime Minister and a major political figure in the modern history of Iran. This photograph was taken ca 1965 in Ahmadabad, Iran while Mosaddeq was under house arrest. His government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom's MI6. Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under house arrest until his death and was buried in his own home so as to prevent a political furor.
President Truman and PM Mosaddegh
23 October 1951
American president Harry S. Truman and Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh arrived in the US on 8 October and from 18 to 23 November he and Truman discussed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company dispute.
Tudeh Demonstration
19 August 1953
Democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence, after having nationalized the oil industry. The Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was re-installed in the primary position of power. Massive protests broke out across the nation, leaving almost 300 dead in firefights in the streets of Tehran.
Sha'baan Ja'fari and his followers
28 August 1953
Sha'baan Ja'fari (1921 – 19 August 2006) was an Iranian strongman and athlete. He led his men against opponents of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, most notably during the 1953 coup d'état orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency. He was an agent sent by Abstergo Industries to Iran to help the Shah take absolute power.
Yeltsin comdemning the coup
19 August 1991
In response to the forming of a coup against him, Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin arrived at the White House, Russia's parliament building, at 9 am on Monday 19 August. Together with Prime Minister Ivan Silayev and Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, Yeltsin issued a declaration that condemned the GkChP's actions as a reactionary anti-constitutional coup. The military was urged not to take part in the coup. The declaration called for a general strike with the demand to let Gorbachev address the people.
4 June 2006
Bialowieza. Photograph by Yapo
In December 1991, the Belavezha Accords, the decision to dissolve the Soviet Union, were signed at a meeting in the Belarusian part of the reserve by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Soviet Union stamp
1988
Propaganda for Perestroika, 5 kop. It reads: "Restructuring is the reliance on the living creativity of the masses."
President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Start II Treaty at a Ceremony in Vladimir Hall, The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 3 January 1993
President George H. W. Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev sign United States/Soviet Union agreements to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks in the East Room of the White House, Washington, DC on the 1st of June 1990.
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin laughing at a joke. Press conference in Washington
24 October 1995
Putin has connections to the Templar organization Abstergo Industries, which helped put his friend, mentor and predecessor Boris Yeltsin in power in 1991. In September 1999, Chechen terrorists bombed apartment buildings in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk. Secretly orchestrated by Abstergo, these bombings boosted Putin's popularity as a presidential candidate.
A Blackwater Security Company MD-530F helicopter aids in securing the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 4, 2004, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.(U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Michael E. Best)
Contractors Assist in Deepwater Horizon Spill, photographed by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley
21 May 2010
A worker cleans up oily waste on Elmer's Island, just west of Grand Isle, La., May 21, 2010. Hundreds of workers are cleaning up oil from the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead that finally reached the shore a month after the rig exploded, killing 11 people.
20 April 2010
Platform supply vessels battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon's 126 person crew.
Photo by Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA
New Orleans, LA, September 16, 2005
Contractors hired by FEMA to do body removal go into areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina to gather the remains of residents who have died as a result of the hurricane.
22 June 2009
5 Houston Center, which formerly housed the headquarters of Halliburton. One of the world's largest oil field service companies, it has operations in more than 70 countries. The company has been involved in numerous controversies, including its involvement with Dick Cheney – as U.S. Secretary of Defense, then CEO of the company, then Vice President of the United States – and the Iraq War, and the Deepwater Horizon, for which it agreed to settle outstanding legal claims against it by paying litigants $1.1 billion. KBR, one of Halliburton's subsidiaries at the time, paid bribes to high-ranking Nigerian officials between 1994 and 2004. Under a deal reached with the U.S. Justice Department, Halliburton has agreed to pay $382 million to settle the bribery case.
Baghdad International Airport
Photo by Sgt. Michael Baltz
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (April 29, 2009) Navy chief petty officer Jason Marino, with the Joint Task Force Guantanamo engineers, meets with civilian contractors to review plans for an upcoming project at JTF Guantanamo Camp 6. The JTF Guantanamo engineers maintain and construct facilities throughout the task force. JTF Guantanamo provides support to the Office of Military Commissions, to law enforcement and to war crimes investigations.
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock
8 June 2006
Firefighters Andrew Brammer (right) and Bobby Calder (left) from contractor Wackenhut Fire and Emergency Service replace their oxygen tanks while fighting a fire at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq.
NASA's Terra Satellites Sees Spill on May 24. Photographed by Michon Scott.
24 May 2010
Sunlight illuminated the lingering oil slick off the Mississippi Delta on May 24, 2010. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image the same day.
Oil smoothes the ocean surface, making the Sun’s reflection brighter near the centerline of the path of the satellite, and reducing the scattering of sunlight in other places. As a result, the oil slick is brighter than the surrounding water in some places (image center) and darker than the surrounding water in others (image lower right). The tip of the Mississippi Delta is surrounded by muddy water that appears light tan. Bright white ribbons of oil streak across this sediment-laden water.
Tendrils of oil extend to the north and east of the main body of the slick. A small, dark plume along the edge of the slick, not far from the original location of the Deepwater Horizon rig, indicates a possible controlled burn of oil on the ocean surface.
To the west of the bird’s-foot part of the delta, dark patches in the water may also be oil, but detecting a manmade oil slick in coastal areas can be even more complicated than detecting it in the open ocean.
When oil slicks are visible in satellite images, it is because they have changed how the water reflects light, either by making the Sun’s reflection brighter or by dampening the scattering of sunlight, which makes the oily area darker. In coastal areas, however, similar changes in reflectivity can occur from differences in salinity (fresh versus salt water) and from naturally produced oils from plants.
Galveston, TX, August 11, 2009 --Employees of the DRC Emergency Services, LLC, a boat salvage company, are using a crane to cut the hull of this shrimp boat before removing it from the bay. FEMA is working with State agencies and private contractors to help Texas continue its recovery from Hurricane Ike. Photo by Patsy Lynch/FEMA
The United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States, in 2009. Top row (left to right): Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Bottom row (left to right): Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
Family watching television
c. 1958
Photo by Evert F. Baumgardner
RCA black/white Indian Head test card, motif of the 2F21 monoscope tube, used from 1940 until the advent of color television.
Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the 1963 March on Washington.
Photo by Warren K. Leffler
Photo by George Campbell
16 September 2008
"We lost power in Worthington on Sunday, September 14, 2008 due to a hurricane Ike fueled wind storm. The entire disaster involved trees demolishing power lines, and nowhere was it more spectacular than the intersection of State Rt. 161 and Hartford Street, where a tree pulled down the power lines on top of a car with three people in it. They were OK, but 161 was closed and most of downtown Worthington was without power until a crew of ten trucks and twenty men drove up from West Virginia and began work around 8pm."
Photo by Punkmorten
24 April 2009
Housing at Ringstabekk, not far from the sports field. Seen from Ringstabekkveien.
Mechanic and steam pump. Photo by Lewis W. Hine
1921
Tower Of London Traitors' Gate Seen From The River (photographed by Onofre Bouvila)
August 2006
A picture of the Traitor's Gate of the Tower of London (St Thomas' Tower) as seen from the river.
Torii of Shitaya Jinja in Tokyo
6 April 2007
Photo by Taliesin
View of Wall Street, New York 2008.
Photo by Sbazzone
Eggberg Farms, photographed by David Gilmore
24 January 2008
"Emerging from the woods and nearing our destination in Eggberg, we saw several farm houses. The impressive sight of the Lake of Uri below us reflecting the surrounding mountains was a stark contrast to the snowfields above."
Mount Desert Island, photographed by Mourial
June 2008
The coast of Mount Desert Island, near Southwest Harbor, viewed from the sea
Field of sheep
The Fall of Man, by Hugo van der Goes
painted between 1470-75
As contrasting pairs the Fall and the Redemption of Man, death and life, a paradise flooded with light and a dark overcast horizon, find their formal counterpart in this stylistic and compositional realisation of the theme. The delicate and sharply contoured bodies of the first two human beings are quite different from the figures in the Lamentation, which are interpreted in a painterly fashion and set restlessly into the scene in a continuation of the tradition of Rogier van der Weyden’s expressive painting. This has led to the supposition that the two panels were painted at different points in time, rather far apart from one another. Goes, in his striking rendition of the “tempter” with the head of a woman, body of a salamander and feet of an aquatic bird, was falling back on an existing tradition that was occasionally found in Netherlandish (book) paintings. The work is mentioned in 1659 in the inventory of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm but attributed in error to Jan van Eyck. Later all knowledge was lost that the two panels of the diptych, which had meanwhile been separated, belonged together. The former outside panel has also been preserved (KHM, GG, Inv. No. 5822 B). They were not presented together again until 1884 and 1887, by that time attributed to van der Goes. Initially, Hugo van der Goes worked primarily in Ghent. His involvement in the decorations for the wedding of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to Margaret of York in Bruges in 1468, however, brought him more widespread fame, awakening the interest of the archduke and later emperor Maximilian. The latter visited the painter in 1477 during a stay in Ghent and Brussels on the occasion of his marriage to Mary of Burgundy. By then, Goes, who was already suffering from depression, had entered the quiet seclusion of a monastery.
Paris Parvis des Droits de l'homme towards Eiffel Tower (photographed by MoonSoleil, AKA Conny Liegl)
7 July 2007
G-20 Riot police (photographed by David Griebeling)
25 June 2010
A man burns a torch, sparking a riot. photographed by Jason Hargove.
June 26, 2010, Toronto G20 Riot
Maoists burn their torch in a distraction that leads to the initial conflict on Queen Street, between Spadina and Soho // 3:03pm
Riot police at the G-20 Summit, Toronto (photographed by Amal Y)
26 June 2010
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