10 Pictures Take You Back to 1960s New York City

By: admin on 11:34 AM

The Jowers' collection of intimate and charming NYC images reside at the George Eastman House, a photography and film museum located in Rochester, N.Y. The museum has posted many of the photographs online, allowing Internet users to travel back in time from the comfort of behind their keyboard.
The Photographer James Jowers wandered the streets of Manhattan in the '60s, capturing shots of strangers going about their everyday activities.

1. East Second Avenue, 1967

2. Waverly Place, 1968

3. East First Avenue, 1967

4. East First Avenue, 1966

5. Fifth Avenue, 1969

6. Tompkins Square Park, 1967

7. Lower East Side, 1967

8. Washington Square Park, 1969

9. Lower East Side, 1966

10. Wall Street, 1969

IMAGE: JAMES JOWERS GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE

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Pictures .. Ten most polluted areas in the world

By: admin on 9:58 AM

The non-profit Environmental Institute, which is located in New York City "Blacksmith"  publish the list of the most polluted areas in the world in 2013, where they found the mostly in the areas belonging to the developing countries, industrial cities, e-waste processing centers and mining towns.

The chairman the institute, "Richard Fuller" in his statement, saying: Our estimates indicate that "the health of more than 200 million people at risk of pollution in the developing world."

According to the report, the World Health Organization estimated that 23% of deaths in the developing world can be attributed to environmental factors such as pollution.

The researchers explained that the areas were selected on the basis of the ten most dangerous to health, as examples of the different types of pollution throughout the world.

1 - "Oajabujblousha" in Ghana

The people burned wires and other electronics for copper and other metals, but this process will lead to the launch of toxic fumes in the waste dump site in the "Oajabujblousha" in Accra, Ghana.

2 - "Chernobyl" in Ukraine

Occurred worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in the world in 1986 were a hundred times more radiation from the radiation of atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

3 - "River Sitarom" in Indonesia

More than 500 thousand people affected directly and five million individual affected indirectly by chemical pollution in the "River Sitarom."

4 - "Dzerzhinsk" in Russia

In Encyclopedia "Guinness" for index numbers, The city of "Dzerzhinsk" is called as the most chemically polluted cities on earth, where until the end of the Cold War, the city was one of the main manufacturing sites in Russia's chemical weapons.

During the period between 1930 and 1998, was to get rid of about 300 thousand tons of chemical waste incorrectly them.

5 - "Hazaribagh" in Bangladesh

The city "Hazaribagh" includes up to 95% of the 270 Tanneries enrolled in Bangladesh, where the intervention of chemicals such as a known carcinogen hexavalent chromium into the water supply of these facilities for the processing of leather.

6 - "Kabwe" in Zimbabwe

In 2006,exceeded the levels of lead in the blood of children,in "Kabwe" exceeded the recommended levels of five to 10 times.

7 - "Kalimantan" in Indonesia

The gold miners in "Kalimantan" - such as the young man described in the previous picture -Exposed to high levels of mercury.

8 - "Matanza Raatchoulo" in Argentina

the river basin "Matanza Raatchoulo" was pollutted by chemicals such as zinc, lead, copper and nickel, which threatens more than 20 thousand people living in that region.

9 - "Niger Delta" in Nigeria

The extraction of oil in the Niger Delta resulted thousands of spills and groundwater contamination.

10 - "Norilsk" in Russia

Each year, about two million tons of sulfur dioxide emited in the air of the industrial city "Norilsk" Prussia.

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Photos from inside the world's finest libraries

By: admin on 6:59 AM

Dr. James Kamel from the University of Cambridge launched a book in which he included pictures of the largest and most important libraries from around the world.

Tommy epic book featuring distinctive images of the finest libraries from around the world, including the Tripitaka Koreana Library in Haeinsa temple in South Korea.

Library Grand Mafra Palace in Portugal.

Codrington Library at Oxford University.

The author of the book visited the greatest 20 libraries around the world, including the library Biblioteca Joinena, in Coimbra, Portugal.

Cultured's dream: six floors of books stored in the George Peabody Library, Baltimore.

Dr. Kamel mentioned in his book that the library Admont monastery in Austria, the largest monastery library in the world. And considers personally preferred choice.

Precious books been vandalized in the library of the Cathedral of Noyon, France.

Library Monastery Altinborg in  Austria is not just a library but is also considered works of art and historical sites.

Library of the Monastery of St. Gall, in St. Gallen, Switzerland, also is one of the libraries that its built is artwork.

National Library in Paris, France is an example of the most modern library building was completed and processed in 1996.

The National Library is very modern in Beijing, China.

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Pictures ..German artists innovate paintings on iron fences

By: admin on 9:39 AM

A number of German artists innovate in the formation of paintings on iron fences,that can be seen from looking at them from one side, these artists exploits the advantage of the spaces between the columns of iron fences to contribute the complement of paintings imaginary.

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See ..The Winning photos in the Competition "military photography"

By: admin on 10:46 PM

The British newspaper "DailyTelegraph" published an illustrated report on the winning shots in the contest "military photography" for the year 2013.

The pictures taken from within the U.S. military dominate the most of the first ranks in the annual competition, which only the photography enthusiasts of the military can participate.

 Appeared in the list,the picture taken of the warrior "Celtic" by Corporal Jimmy Peters, which shows a set of tattoos that cover his shoulder and hand, during clean his personal weapon, one of the checkpoints of the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.

And also the Corporal Jamie won an award with another image, which showed a group of explosives experts are helping 21 engineers at the beginning of construction of a building destroyed by a suicide attack in Afghanistan, and in other picture that shows a Welshman guard dog, who was taking a break from the heat of the sun under one of the umbrellas in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

And continued the winning photos from Afghanistan with the picture taken by "Chris Lloyd," during his speech in northern Helmand with the Afghan family was riding a motorcycle, where it appears the man's daughter was impatient of questions from the American soldier.

Also Capt. "Dave Skamil" won with a photo for the British Royal Artillery Regiment, and another picture during his watching to a sorties of British unmanned planes .

The Corporal "Dan Cavalra,,," won with the picture which he called "goodbye kiss", which the horse was directed to the soldier in the English army at Bates Holkam in county "Norfolk", before moving horse to another residence.

And other footage appeared like a Korean boxing match, and another picture of an Indian soldier wearing a traditional costume for the Indian military.

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