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  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Al-Burgan Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_095_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
    USA_AG_CRPD_22_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_25_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.
    USA_AG_CRPD_09_xs.jpg
  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
    USA_071229_021.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_26_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_25_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Napa, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_19_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_07_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Boxes of the defoliant Paraquat, which is sprayed on cotton prior to harvest in Kern County, California, USA, by crop dusters.
    USA_AG_CRPD_04_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_01_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_12_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. After spraying cotton in Kern County, California, USA, washing out the airplane's hopper at the end of day.
    USA_AG_CRPD_10_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA..
    USA_AG_CRPD_06_xs.jpg
  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Magwa Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. They walked over the entire country searching for unexploded munitions and land mines. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_098_xs.jpg
  • Kuwait: Ahmadi Moslem graveyard; British explosive ordnance disposal team loading Iraqi arms/ordnance.
    KUW_085_xs.jpg
  • In Kuwait on July 3, 1991, a Boots and Coots oil well firefighting specialist guides a stinger that will pump drilling mud into the damaged well. A stinger is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them difficult and dangerous. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_028_xs.jpg
  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
    USA_071229_024.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA.  Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_32_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_30_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.  The worker holding the flag (known as a "flagger") marks the row where the duster needs to spray next. Flagman at the end of rice field, with seeder plane approaching.
    USA_AG_CRPD_27_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Napa Valley, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_21_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Dusting wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_20_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
    USA_AG_CRPD_17_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_13_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_12_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.
    USA_AG_CRPD_08_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_05_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_30_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California. The worker holding the flag (known as a "flagger") marks the row where the duster needs to spray next. Flagman at the end of rice field, with seeder plane approaching.
    USA_AG_CRPD_27_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_23_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Napa Valley, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_21_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Napa, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_19_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_18_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
    USA_AG_CRPD_17_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_15_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_07_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_05_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_01_xs.jpg
  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Magwa Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_094_xs.jpg
  • An unexploded landmine in the Manageesh Oil Fields in Kuwait near the Saudi border. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert.
    KUW_082_xs.jpg
  • An unexploded landmine in the Manageesh Oil Fields in Kuwaitnear the Saudi border. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert.
    KUW_081_xs.jpg
  • British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team in the Magwa oil field, in an ammo bunker booby trapped with hand grenades. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert.
    KUW_079_xs.jpg
  • British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team in an Ahmadi Moslem graveyard loading artillery shells on a truck for disposal. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February, 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert.
    KUW_078_xs.jpg
  • A member of the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team, mine clearing and bomb disposal troops, picking up a mine on the beach in Kuwait. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991.
    KUW_077_xs.jpg
  • A member of the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team, mine-clearing and bomb disposal troops, points out a mine on the beach in Kuwait. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991.
    KUW_076_xs.jpg
  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
    USA_071229_016.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_33_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_29_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_24_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_23_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_18_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_15_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_11_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. After spraying cotton in Kern County, California, USA, washing out the airplane's hopper at the end of day.
    USA_AG_CRPD_10_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.
    USA_AG_CRPD_09_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_06_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_03_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_02_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_33_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA.  Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_32_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_29_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_26_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_24_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Dusting wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_20_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
    USA_AG_CRPD_22_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_11_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.
    USA_AG_CRPD_08_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Boxes of the defoliant Paraquat, which is sprayed on cotton prior to harvest in Kern County, California, USA, by crop dusters.
    USA_AG_CRPD_04_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_03_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_02_xs.jpg
  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Al-Burgan Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. .
    KUW_088_xs.jpg
  • Pioneers in blue flak jackets and helmets probing for landmines uncover a small hockey puck size landmine near a new training camp for 229 volunteers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_54_xs.jpg
  • Pioneers in blue flak jackets and helmets probing for landmines near a new training camp for 229 volunteers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_51_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_13_xs.jpg
  • Kuwait: Magwa oil field, British explosive ordnance disposal, Rockeye submunition..
    KUW_083_xs.jpg
  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA.
    USA_AG_FLWR_35_xs.jpg
  • Ghost mining Town, Cerro Gordo, California - now a state historic park. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
    USA_CA_ES_20_xs.jpg
  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA. The Lompoc Valley is said to have the most consistent temperate climate in the world, which is a critical factor in the cultivation of flowers.  The valley has been a flower seed-producing region for nearly 100 years. In the early 1980's, Lompoc Valley was producing one-third of the world's flower seeds.  Lompoc is a 12-mile-long, and 3-mile-wide valley, which lies just inland from the coast of California, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. There are 1600 acres of 600 varieties of flowers from which they harvest approximately 400 tons of seeds each year. Crop dusting of flower fields (spraying pesticides).
    USA_AG_FLWR_35_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_09_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_07_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906. The earthquake left parts of San Francisco without power for four days; at least 27 fires broke out across the city, a four-foot tsunami wave traveled from Santa Cruz (which also suffered considerable damage to its downtown structures) to Monterey, and in Oakland parts of the Cypress Structure freeway collapsed onto each other.
    USA_CA_EQ_06_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_02_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. [[At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_01_xs.jpg
  • Old transformer turned into a suggestion and payments box for the power company on the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Dead brown tree snakes are draped on it..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. Hungry egg-eating tree snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. These snakes were electrocuted causing a power outage from 1 to 7 AM on May 19.
    GUM_05_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_13_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Oakland, California. The highest concentration of fatalities, 42, occurred in the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where a double-decker portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_12_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Oakland, California. The highest concentration of fatalities, 42, occurred in the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where a double-decker portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_11_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Oakland, California. The highest concentration of fatalities, 42, occurred in the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where a double-decker portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_10_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_08_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906. The earthquake left parts of San Francisco without power for four days; at least 27 fires broke out across the city, a four-foot tsunami wave traveled from Santa Cruz (which also suffered considerable damage to its downtown structures) to Monterey, and in Oakland parts of the Cypress Structure freeway collapsed onto each other.
    USA_CA_EQ_05_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_04_xs.jpg
  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, San Francisco, California. Damage in the Marina District of San Francisco resulting from the earthquake that occurred at 5:04 PM and lasted 15 seconds. [[At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
    USA_CA_EQ_03_xs.jpg
  • When the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania (no steam rising from the abandoned cooling towers on the left) failed catastrophically in 1979, the intense radioactivity in the plant prevented its owners from surveying and repairing the damage. Four years later, with conditions still unknown, Carnegie Mellon engineer William L. "Red" Whittaker designed several remote-controlled robots that were able to venture into the radioactive plant. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 140.
    USA_rs_477_qxxs.jpg
  • Route 103 in Peru over the Andes snakes down into the lowland jungles near the Alta Urubamba River in Peru. The road was traveled during the rainy season and there were many washouts and landslides. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Per_meb_91_xs.jpg
  • Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California. Designed by Simon Rodia 1921-1955. Untrained as an architect, engineer, or builder, Simon Rodia created a complex of towers that rose over one hundred feet tall. Composed of structural steel rods and circular hoops connected by spokes, the towers incorporate a sparkling mosaic of found materials including pottery, seashells, and glass. Rodia's house, destroyed by fire in 1957, resided within the complex..Declared hazardous by the city of Los Angeles, the towers were threatened with demolition until an engineer's stress test proved them structurally sound. They have since been designated a cultural monument. USA.
    USA_ART_08_xs.jpg
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