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The photograph, entitled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her eyes staring directly into the camera, was named "the most recognized photograph" in the magazine's history, and the cover is one of National Geographic's best known.
Sharbat Gula ( Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. The portrait was shot at Nasir ...
Steve McCurry (born February 24, 1950) is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographic several times. McCurry has photographed many assignments for National Geographic and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986.
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) [1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, [2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. [3] Sometimes called " Sleeping Beauty ", hers was ...
The Blind Monkey. Blood Rivals: Lion vs. Buffalo. Blue Collar Dogs (2011) Bonecrusher Queens. Born In Africa. Born In Africa: Survivor School. Born In Africa: The Circle of Life. Born Wild. Borneo's Secret Kingdom.
Aletsch Glacier. Switzerland. The largest Alpine glacier is almost as big of a tourist draw as the nearby Matterhorn, and it holds a staggering 11 billion tons of ice. The region draws not just ...
A captive white tiger at the Singapore Zoo. The white tiger or bleached tiger is a leucistic pigmentation variant of the mainland Asian tiger.It is reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, in the Sunderbans region and especially in the former State of Rewa.
Ava Marie Clements and Leah Rose Clements [1] (born July 7, 2010), known as the Clements twins, are American models and social media personalities who are identical twins. When the twins were seven years old, their parents signed with two modelling agencies. [2] Several news outlets have referred to them as "the most beautiful twins in the ...