Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Photo of the Day 488
Photograph by Gordon W. Gahan Statues look down on the rebuilt inner city of Dresden from atop City Hall. The medieval city lost tens of thousands of citizens and nearly every building to heavy Anglo-American bombing near the end of World War II. The restored Church of the Cross stands at left of center. (Photo shot on assignment for "East Germany—The Struggle to Succeed," September 1974, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 485
Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta These intertwined velvet worms, or onychophorans, are living fossils, holdovers of the Cambrian explosion of life-forms that occurred about 530 million years ago. Velvet worms became land dwellers some 250 million years ago but survive today only in dark, moist habitats such as the leaf litter in Costa Rican forests. These worms were photographed at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo shot on assignment for "Explosion of Life: The Cambrian Period,” October 1993, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 335
Photograph by James L. Amos A copy of the Bible translated from Greek to German by religious reformer Martin Luther in 1521 lies open to the New Testament in a dimly lit room in Wartburg Castle in Eisenach, Germany. Luther lived incognito at the castle for nearly a year after he was declared an outlaw by the Roman emperor for refusing to recant his Reformation writings. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The World of Luther," October 1983, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 57
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett Found buried in a hill in the town of Nebra in 1600 B.C., this 3,600-year-old sky disk reflects cloud-strewn skies in central Germany. The disk, which tracks the sun's movements along the horizon, contains the oldest known depiction of the night sky and may have served as an agricultural and spiritual calendar. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Star Search," January 2004, National Geographic magazine)
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