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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 ...
National Geographic Kids Video 51912 Really Wild Animals: Secret Weapons and Great Escapes National Geographic Kids Video 51916 Animal Holiday 1997 - 30 0-7922-5216-0 National Geographic Kids Video 51936 World's Last Great Places: Everglades: Secrets of the Swamp 51978 Video Classics: Save the Panda 1983 1995 60 0-7922-2999-1
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 ...
May 1, 2017. ( 2017-05-01) Origins: The Journey of Humankind is an American documentary television series that premiered on the National Geographic channel on March 6, 2017. [2] Hosted by Jason Silva, with narration from Mark Monroe, the series uses re-enactments to showcase major inventions and events in the history of human evolution that ...
National Geographic logo National Geographic is an American magazine that is noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography . [1] [2] [3] Throughout the 1980s National Geographic's cover stories showcased historical events such as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens [4] and the effects of the weather phenomenon known as El Niño . [5]
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 ...
American. Occupation (s) Photographer, Chief Editor of National Geographic Magazine (2005-2014) Chris Johns (born April 15, 1951) [1] is a photographer and former editor-in-chief for National Geographic Magazine, a role he held from January 2005 to April 2014. After an internal reorganization at the organization, in April 2014, Johns was named ...