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September 07, 2008
Bug on Ripening Fig, Borneo, Indonesia, 1997
Photograph by Tim Laman

A bug feeds on a ripening tropical fig in Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. The rain forest contains many varieties of these strangler fig trees, and their fruit is a critical food source for numerous rain forest dwellers, including monkeys, civets, butterflies, and ants.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Borneo’s Strangler Fig Trees," April 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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September 08, 2008
Farm and Floodwaters, Bangladesh, 1993

Photograph by James P. Blair

Raging rivers in Bangladesh create arable islands of silt, called chars, then slowly scrape away at their shorelines until eventually they disappear. More than 60 percent of Bangladeshis work in the agriculture sector.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bangladesh: When the Water Comes," June 1993, National Geographic magazine)

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September 09, 2008
Gulliver's Travels Theme Park, Japan, 2002
Photograph by Karen Kasmauski

A Lilliputian-like worker scrubs the giant head of Gulliver at Japan's now defunct Gulliver's Travels theme park in the shadow of Mount Fuji. Surrounded by the amusing and the mundane, Fuji—Japan's most sacred summit—manages to rise above it all.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Japan's Sacred Summit," August 2002, National Geographic magazine)

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September 10, 2008
Prayer Candles, Lhasa, Tibet, 2003
Photograph by Galen Rowell

Built in 1416, the Drepung Monastery outside Lhasa, Tibet, was once the largest monastery in the world, housing up to 10,000 monks. Here, candles illuminate one of the giant building's chanting halls.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "275 Miles on Foot Through the Remote Chang Tang," April 2003, National Geographic magazine)

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September 11, 2008
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York, 2000
Photograph by Theo Westenberger

May 24, 2008, marked the 125th anniversary of the opening of New York's Brooklyn Bridge. The elegant structure slung over the East River took more than 13 years to build and was at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world. With its stocky towers and delicate webs of steel cables, the bridge is still regarded as an architectural marvel.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Manhattan: The New York That New Yorkers Love," November/December 2000, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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September 12, 2008
Vapor Trails, Jordan, 1984
Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Vapor trails stretch behind a Royal Jordanian Falcons plane during an air show over Jordan's Wadi Rum mountains. Formed in 1976, the Falcons have performed throughout the world and have earned a reputation for their precision and professionalism.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Jordan: Kingdom in the Middle," February 1984, National Geographic magazine)