1896 Africa Expedition
Hand colored glass lantern slide images from The Field Museum Library, Chicago, Illinois.
Expedition participants: D.G. Elliot and Carl Akeley
Purpose or aims: Zoology Mammals
Young cheetah growling at camera, teeth bared; Hand-colored glass lantern slide
Location: Africa, Somalia
(image at flickr)
Camp, three tents with expedition members inside. 1896.
Africa, Somalia, Laferuk
(image at flickr)
Malta, view of city. 1896.
(image at flickr)
Toad Suck Daze (Days), Conway, Arkansas, May 5, 2007
1000 words #11
Pulaski County Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge aka Big Dam Bridge
April 28, 2007, upstream of Little Rock, Arkansas.
1000 words #10
Home, April 26, 2007 – Hummingbird approaching feeder.
1000 words #9
Grand View Rim Trail, Canyondlands National Park, Utah, September 25, 2011
The photo was used in the following video. (It can also be viewed on YouTube.)
Messenger or postman delivering the mail clasped in the end of a split bamboo pole. Japan, around 1868-1895.
[translated part of info at flickr using Google Translator: Circa 1868-1874. Photo, hand colored, of a series of 42 prints in the collection of Spaarnestad Photo, written by Felice Beato, Kusakabe Kimbei or Baron Raimund von Stillfried.]
Image from the National Archive, Netherlands (image at flickr)
Hikyaku – were couriers or messengers active in the medieval and early modern periods, who transported currency, letters, packages, and the like.
Settlement at the Dee River crossing, Mount Morgan district, ca.1895; Dee River crossing situated between Mount Morgan and the mine. Photo by Jens Hansen Lundager; Lundager’s Album of Postcards, hand coloured; postcard in collection at John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
The wharf, Naples, Italy; ca. 1890 – 1900; photomechanical print : photochrom, color; Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Library of Congress Photochrom print collection image.
Canadian Geese – Lake Dardanelle State Park, Arkansas, April 16, 2007
1000 words #8
Tonight’s dire weather related story on the evening news was on the fires in the west. Brian Williams on NBC made it sound like this year’s fires are worse than normal.
However, like so many things recently, it ain’t quite as bad as it seems. In fact, the acreage burned this year, so far, is less than 1/3 of the year-to-date average over the last 10 years.
Yes, it’s tragic for those affected, directly and indirectly, by the fires. However, like so many other stories, it seems that subtle exaggeration is used to make the story more interesting and scary — cuz when you tell interesting and scary stories, more people are gonna watch, more people will see the ads, and the ratings will…
In 2007, we delayed traveling to western Wyoming and Montana because of the fire situation. This fire year is nothing compared to 2007… or 2008, 2009, 2010, or, the worst in the last 10 years, 2011.
Current national wildland fire information and forecasts are available online in places like the website of the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
By the year-to-date statistics, 2013 is, so far, a below normal year in both the number of fires and the acreage burned. In fact, it’s the lowest year in the 10 year record:
| 2013 (1/1/13 – 6/19/13) | Fires: 20,180 | Acres: 538,884 |
| 10-year average (Jan 1 to June 19): | ||
| 2004-2013 | Fires: 34,206 | Acres: 1,695,900 |
Current Fire Season Outlook
In its first 2013 fire outlook that extends through the summer months, the National Interagency Fire Center’s (NIFC) Predictive Services unit is forecasting above normal potential for significant fire activity in the West Coast states, the Southwest, and portions of Idaho and Montana. The potential in most of the rest of the country is expected to be normal or, in the case of much of the South, below normal.
