Dec. 4th, 2002

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Photo of The West Fjords, a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of the country's total coastline.

Pictures of the earth beamed back by satellite are an important tool for the military, but the Library of Congress says they can also be art. Images from Landsat7 are on show in an exhibit called 'Earth as Art,' at the Geography and Map Division until July, 2003.


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Photo of the city of Al-Basra, Iraq - which borders Iran, a former wetland has been drained and walled off. Now littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it is a staging area for military exercises.


Satellite Photos Depict 'Earth As Art'

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photo of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, an ecological preserve in Namibia's vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet in height.

300 метров дюна! это в два раза выше гз!

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South Koreans pass by an anti-U.S. banner at a restaurant in Seoul in November 2002. Anti-Americanism is sweeping South Korea after two U.S. soldiers in a vehicle struck and killed two South Korean girls on June 13. The two U.S. Army soldiers left South Korea on Wednesday after being acquitted.

и ведь будут помнить всегда... внесут в летописи и будут помнить... и не с июня по уже декабрь, а всегда...

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Photographers and television cameramen try to get a look at United Nations weapons inspectors after they entered the Al-Sajoud palace, one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces in Baghdad.

тяжелая жизнь папарациев...

ps: delay в фамилии сразу начинает косить за De Lay...

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Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about centralasian yet...

вот так всегда :( заходите попозже...

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"дверь, если подумать, вовсе не является чем-то вполне реальным... стоит вам за таковое её принять, и с вами будут происходить странные недоразумения. так, если, понаблюдав за дверью, вы придёте к выводу, что она создаёт сквозняки, то, направлясь в пустыню, вы прихватите её с собой для прохлады." - жак лакан, психоанализ и кибернетика, или о природе языка.

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A policeman guards the entrance to an IKEA warehouse in Delft, December 4, 2002.

Police were searching 10 IKEA home furnishing stores in the Netherlands for bombs after explosive devices were found at branches of the world's biggest furniture retailer.


вы не поверите, но именно сегодня мы собирались в икею... и как же удачно я разболелся :(

хотя нас бы, конечно, никуда бы и не пустили...

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