Great Pics from National Geographic


	Great Pics from National Geographic
CrazyRedHead
6-9-2007 12:40 AM
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6-9-2007 2:51 AM
sl0wdjin
Wow. That picture of the woman wearing "the distinctive Omani burqa, or mask. | Saffron powder gives her face a yellow cast" looked for a moment like a character from the movie Alien vs. Predator. No, really...
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ab0c147-daea-4e73-8273-bf430f8375e8/43404674-0858-44CA-BBFB-8C9A91C3B02E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=11&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=11&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=11&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/0D5D4B07-715F-45F3-9FD4-6E0C26A03A6C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=11&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Baffin Island, Canada,
1999</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=11&year=01"><DIV> 
                          “For luck, the team strung prayer flags, a custom from Himalayan climbs.”
</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=20&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=20&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=20&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/618C0CCF-0830-4410-86E0-2AD3A15EA69E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=20&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Australia,
1999</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=20&year=01">A scarlet banksia blooms like fireworks in Australia’s southwest. </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=23&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=23&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=23&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/0872593D-5D00-41A9-9021-A79D771B69F7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=23&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Indonesia,
1999</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=23&year=01">A spine-cheek anemonefish swims over a field of purple-tipped anemone tentacles</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=29&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=29&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=29&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/E78A38CD-2DDB-4248-9EEC-E29D1E3C47F0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=29&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Yaloon, Oman,
1995</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=29&year=01">the distinctive Omani <I>burqa,</I> or mask. Saffron powder gives her face a yellow cast.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=08&day=02&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=08&day=02&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=08&day=02&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/4B25D3D7-1252-4AFE-A13C-D5F1B091A875" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=08&day=02&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Wyoming,
1998</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=08&day=02&year=01">Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Prismatic Spring steams at 199° Fahrenheit</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=06&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=06&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=06&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/0E720CCF-9CAB-4044-ADA9-5A96DCED2ED0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=06&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Near Willow City, Texas,
1999</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=07&day=06&year=01">nowhere else in Texas is the show of wildflowers, such as purple vervain and fiery Indian blanket, more profuse—and striking—than here.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=18&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=18&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=18&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/7C5A7E37-7F4D-4BFB-A73C-EC5F968B9EFF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=18&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Tadmur (Palmyra), Syria,
1991</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=18&year=01"><DIV class="pod-caption"> 
                          Reminders of Tadmur’s glory as a great crossroads of the Roman Empire, a monumental arch and colonnaded streets lie below the hilltop ruins of an Arab castle.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=14&year=01" href="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=14&year=01" style="font-size: 11px;">lava.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=14&year=01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lava.nationalgeographic.com/img/D68FA36D-B0B3-448D-8139-7CC4FFD709FC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=14&year=01"><DIV class="place-photographer"> 
                          Kabul, Afghanistan,
1968</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/PhotoOfTheDay.cgi?month=06&day=14&year=01">a woman of Kabul secludes herself in a sleeveless silk <I>chadri;</I> a pair of Old World goldfinches rides home from market on her head.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/43404674-0858-44CA-BBFB-8C9A91C3B02E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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