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1、Riga, Latvia 2004 Alexandra Avakian Members of the National Ballet of Latvia wait for their cues in a performance of Swan Lake at the National Opera House in Riga. Tickets start at around $4culture in Riga is for everyone, says photographer Alexandra Avakian. From A Baltic Masterpiece Born Again, Oc

2、tober 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine Ballerinas for national ballet.Kenya, Africa 1999 Ariaal warriors and beaded girls prepare for a wedding by applying a makeup of red ocher and sheep fat.Vanishing Cultures, August 1999, National Geographic magazine Very red photo, people in beadsGrin

3、davik, Iceland 1998 Sisse Brimberg Attracted by its purported healing properties, people from around the world come to take a dip in the waters of the Blue Lagoon. （Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, In Search of the Vikings, May 2000, National Geographic magazine） PoolWilsons

4、Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia 1995 Sam Abell Kangaroos enjoy the grassland in Wilsons Promontory National Park, located at the southernmost point of Australias mainland. This granite peninsula is 125 miles （200 kilometers） southeast of Melbourne. （Text adapted from the National Geogr

5、aphic book Wild Shores of Australia, 1996.） Kangaroos 1 in the foregroundSerendipity Peak, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada Without safety ropes, hikers climb the jagged spine of Serendipity Peak. At some points, the fin they walk atop is only 5 to 10 feet （1.5 to 3 meters） wide. Mountain

6、, people barely visableYar Sale, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia By law, Nenets children spend much of the year in boarding school, while their families move with their reindeer herds. Once they are educated and bilingual in Nenets and Russian, children must make a decision between rejoining their

7、nomadic roots or entering the Russian mainstream. Children at schoolMoldavia 1982 James L. Stanfield Teaching scripture with art, the 15th-century monastery church of Voronet bears frescoes inside and out that illustrate Romanian folklore and stories from the Bible. Once teaching aids for the illite

8、rate, the remarkably preserved painted churches of Moldavia represent a striking regional adaptation of Byzantine art.The Byzantine Empire: Rome of the East, December 1983, National Geographic magazine Church with mistChipaya, Bolivia A Chipaya Indian helps his daughter with her math homework inside

9、 their patuca, a sod shelter used by Chipaya when they are out tending their sheep. January 1999, National Geographic magazine） Man with blue tuqueMountain View, Arkansas Brooks Walker The Turners, a local gospel-bluegrass band, perform on the grounds of the tax assessors office in Mountain View, Ar

10、kansas. The Long Run: Best of the Heartland, September 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine） Little boy dancingSarawak state, Borneo, Malaysia A Penan woman weaves inside a shelter in a government settlement camp. As logging on Borneo island decimates the forests, the nomadic Penan drift towa

11、rd settlement camps. August 1999, National Geographic magazine） Naked babyLfini Faunal Reserve, Republic of the Congo, Africa Michael Nichols Rehabilitator Despina Chronopoulos works with a young female gorilla in the field. This interaction is part of the process that the conservation group Project

12、 Protection des Gorilles is using to encourage the gorillas to form their own social groups under the leadership of dominant males. The hope is that the gorillas will eventually be returned to their natural environment as a group. Lowland Gorillas, February 2002, National Geographic magazine） Female

13、 and gorillaThessaloniki, Greece Massimo Bassano Outside of the Agia Sophia, two young boys play soccer, Greeces most popular sport.48 Hours: Thessaloniki, Greece, July/August 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine Boy and soccer ballIn this undated photo released by the Australian Antarctic Di

14、vision, two Adele penguins are seen in the Antarctics Cape Royds. （AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, HO）remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarcticas McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three s

15、cience stations, a New Zealand official said Tuesday. The iceberg, known as B15A, measures about 3,000 square kilometres, said Lou Sanson, chief executive of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand. He called it the largest floating thing on the planet right now and said U.S. researc

16、hers estimate it contains enough water to supply Egypts Nile River complex for 80 years. PenguinsJerusalem, Israel 1984 “The Western Wall （shown）, as befits the holiest spot of Judaism, is visited daily by the faithful. A sea of men in black suits and white prayer shawls congregate there, praying lo

17、udly and piously bowing their heads; women pray quietly in a separate section.” （Text from “The Three Faces of Jerusalem,” April 1996, National Geographic magazine） Women at the wallDes Moines, Iowa 1993 Not snow, nor heat, nor gloom of night but a rain-induced sewer backup stayed delivery of some 3

18、0,000 pieces of Des Moines mail. I think we bought every clothespin in town, says postal worker Lora Yahnke, who helped sort and dry the wet mail in a garage. Such jury-rigging kept most city services afloat.Riding Out the Worst of Times, January 1994, National Geographic magazine Man with many lett

19、ersPlateaux Batk National Park, Gabon, Africa 2002 Hunters killed their parents for meat; now orphan gorillas relearn forest survival skills with help from . the Gorilla Protection Project in Plateaux Bat National Park.Saving Africas Eden, September 2003, National Geographic magazine GorillasGhent,

20、Belgium Joe Patronite A couple takes a break at t Vosken, one of the citys many inviting, inexpensive, linger-as-long-as-you-like cafs.The Gift of Ghent,Get the worlds most widely read travel magazine. Order National Geographic Traveler now CafHeli-hikers huddle as their ride touches down. Hikers ar

21、e ferried between alpine trails in matters of minutes, whizzing across terrain that would take full days of hard hiking to cover on foot. （Photograph from Wilderness by Air, July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine） HelicopterSydney, Australia Catherine Karnow Locals Ellen Mary Smith

22、（left） and Jessica Wong wade through shallow waters on Bondi Beach after a surfing lesson with Lets Go Surfing Bondi. Insiders Sydney, July/August 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine）SurfersLower Ausable Lake, Adirondack Mountains, New York A hiking couple witnesses the convergence of privat

23、e lake and public mountain. Adirondack State Park is a patchwork of property57 percent privately owned, the rest controlled by the state. Text adapted from Adirondack High, June 1998, National Geographic magazine Mountains and a lakeMinnesota, United States 1992 At a beeyard in Minnesota, Joe Tweedy

24、 and his men suit up and pull off supersframe-filled boxes where the bees stash their surplus honey.Americas Beekeepers: Hives for Hire, May 1993, National Geographic magazine Cornwall, England James C. Richardson Abandoned at the onset of World War I, the Lost Gardens of Heligan were restored in the 1990s to their Victorian roots. The Mud Maid was designed just as she appears here. From Lost in Cornwall,s most widely read Kodiak National Wildlife Re