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Grand Canyon National Park: Shoshone Point Rainbows 8362

Image by Grand Canyon NPS
Sunday, July 15, 2012. Summer Rainbow from Shoshone Point on the South Rim. NPS photo by Kim Besom.

The National Park Service offers a site on the South Rim of Grand Canyon for reservation by groups wishing to host a wedding, celebrate a birthday, conduct a memorial service, hold a family reunion, or any similar non-commercial event.

An unimproved dirt road leads to this isolated area with spectacular views of Grand Canyon. The site features a covered pavilion, picnic tables, grills, trash cans and a vault toilet. There is no water or electricity at the site.

Shoshone Point is the place for people who can be flexible with their planning and can deal with unpredictable Grand Canyon weather.

Learn more by downloading the Shoshone Point bulletin:
www.nps.gov/grca/parkmgmt/upload/ShoshonePoint0610.pdf

Grand Canyon National Park: Shoshone Point Rainbow 8366

Image by Grand Canyon NPS
Sunday, July 15, 2012. Summer Rainbow from Shoshone Point on the South Rim. NPS photo by Kim Besom.

The National Park Service offers a site on the South Rim of Grand Canyon for reservation by groups wishing to host a wedding, celebrate a birthday, conduct a memorial service, hold a family reunion, or any similar non-commercial event.

An unimproved dirt road leads to this isolated area with spectacular views of Grand Canyon. The site features a covered pavilion, picnic tables, grills, trash cans and a vault toilet. There is no water or electricity at the site.

Shoshone Point is the place for people who can be flexible with their planning and can deal with unpredictable Grand Canyon weather.

Learn more by downloading the Shoshone Point bulletin:
www.nps.gov/grca/parkmgmt/upload/ShoshonePoint0610.pdf

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Sea Shacks Monochrome Geiranger Norway #dailyshoot

Image by Leshaines123
Mono conversion of a colour composition, which in itself was a study in focus and depth of field. The focal point for this image was actually on the waters edge. Hand held but still pleased with the resolution and sharpness throught the picture.

Emerald Lake and Van Horn Range, British Columbia (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Detroit Photographic Co.

Emerald Lake and Van Horn Range, British Columbia

c1902.

1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.

Notes:
Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co.
Title from item.
Title on inventory list: Emerald Lake & Van Horn Range.
Captions for similiar images (LC-D4-14630) lists titles as: [Yoho Park Reserve, B.C., Canada, Van Horn Range & Emerald Lake] and Van Horn Range and Emerald Lake, British Columbia [i.e. Yoho Park Reserve].
Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54002".
Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection.

Subjects:
Mountains.
Lakes & ponds.
National parks & reserves.
Canada--British Columbia--Yoho National Park.

Format: Photochrom prints--Color.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18214

Call Number: LOT 13923, no. 406 [item]

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Your ’05 Faves (sorta)

Image by djwhelan
«1» footat «2» Meer Reflections «3» Roy G. Biv’s wife is one lucky lady «4» Oxford Door «5» Don’t Put Another Dime «6» Odd «7» After work, Florent «8» Tilt-a-Whirl «9» Hotel Corona Plaza «10» Subway rat «11» Don’t Fret «12» No comment «13» Cowgirl «14» Just Waxed «15» Queen of Venice «16» Israel is Closer to Heaven III «17» “Christo’s Dream,” by Becky Phillips, 18.5" x 14.5" «18» Seriously «19» All Star «20» Pastel LA

These were my 20 most favorited images posted in 2005, sans gratuitous breast shots, hence the “sorta.” Why do so many of these look so dark and forboding? 2006 will be much brighter and happier, I promise!

Created with the ubiquitous and amazing fd’s Flickr Toys Mosaic Maker.

Windmill Kinderdijk, Netherlands, UNESCO World Heritage Site - 3625 POTD

Image by HereIsTom
The Netherlands is famous for its windmills. Today there are still more than 1.000 mills. Nowhere in the world you will find as many windmills as near (the Dutch village) Kinderdijk. Around 1740 no less than 19 sturdy mills were built here. They have been well preserved to the present day.
Kinderdijk is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
POTD Photo Of The Day on Webshots 29-09-2012.
© www.tomjutte.tk

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'Steamy Bath', Iceland, Reykjavik, The Blue Lagoon

Image by WanderingtheWorld (www.LostManProject.com)
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Below is an excerpt from my travel blog. Cheers.

The Reykjavik Airport, or Keflavik International Airport sits on top of a lava field. The first smell is the pungent oder of sulfur dioxide emitting from the Earth. Just up the road is one of Iceland's most popular destinations, the Blue Lagoon. It's a bizarre, out-of-this-world place.

It's not recommended to go running through the lava field. Old geothermal areas still exist. The wrong step can mean death. The Icelandic people believe in mythical creatures. These stories helped explain the strange disappearance of people in lava fields. Strange stories for an amazingly strange place.

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Pachypodium namaquanum (Halfmens) flowering in habitat

Image by Martin_Heigan
A huge old Pachypodium namaquanum (Halfmens) flowering in habitat.

Richtersveld Transfrontier National Park (an UNESCO World Heritage Site),
Northern Cape, South Africa (September 2009).

Note: Pachypodium namaquanum only grows a few millimetres in a good year.

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NY - Hyde Park - Vanderbilt Mansion NHS - Vanderbilt Formal Gardens - Potting Shed

Image by wallyg
The Formal Gardens is just down the gravel path from the Vanderbilt Mansion, the centerpiece of the Vanderbilt National Historic Site in Hyde Park. The gardens were designed in the tradition of the Italian garden, which is characterized by terraces, fountains, pools and statues.

The first gardens on the estate were laid out in the early 1800's by Belgian landscape architect Andre Parmentier, when the land was owned by Dr. David Hosack. Walter Langdon, who owned the land after Hosack, continued to maintain them. Frederic W. Vanderbilt bought the propetty in 1895 and the estate was home for the Vanderbilts during the spring and fall seasons. Mr. Vanderbilt enlisted a series of landscape architects, most notably James L. Greenleaf, to radically revised and enlarged the gardens in 1902-3. Mr. Vanderbilt held a horticultural degree from Yale University and took a deep interest in the gardens. He and his garden staff were renowned at the Dutchess County Fair for their exhibits of flowers and vegetables.

The gardens thus represent several periods of development. They consist of three levels or tiers dedicated to specific types of plants. The top level, the greenhouse gardens, is the "annual" level. Most of the over 600 plants here do not survive winter and are replanted each spring. It consists of three separate parterre gardens within a rectangle framed on the west by the rose and palm houses and on the north by the toolhouse, carnation house, and gardener's cottage. The next level, the cherry walk and pool gardens, are located east and contain "perennials", which survive winter but bloom for just a few weeks a year, resulting in constantly changing colors. The lower level, the rose garden, still further east, has two terraces with rose panel beds. The rose garden was added by Frederick Vanderbilt, himself. It regularly contains over 1800 rose bushes. Many of them are considered "vintage" roses, which are old varieties which might have appeared in the original garden at the turn of the 20th century. There is a combination of tea roses, climbers and bush variety roses. Their best flowering is normally between mid-June and mid-July depending on the weather. All the beds are laid out in a formal, "Italian" style, referring to the symmetrical layout of the beds.

When Frederick W. Vanderbilt died in 1938, the Hyde Park estate, including the Vanderbilt Mansion was bequeathed to Mrs. James Van Alen, a niece of Mrs. Vanderbilt. Two years later, Mrs. Van Alen gave the estate to the Federal Government, and on December 18, 1940, it was designated a National Historic Site. The country soon went to war and there were no funds to maintain the gardens. Weeds and brush took over the garden beds and vines choked the arbors and crumbling walls. In 1974 the National Park Service began to restore the brick walls. A government grant in 1981 allowed the park service to complete the restoration of the walls and structures.

In 1984 the Frederick W. Vanderbilt Garden Association volunteer, not-for-profit organization, was founded for the purposing of restoring and maintaining the gardens.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site National Register #66000059 (1966)

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Philoe.

Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 88425. G. Lekegian & Cie. -- Photographer. 1860s-1920s

Notes: Title is written on the photograph, but is very difficult to read.

Source: [Photographs and prints of Egypt and Syria.] (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?88425

Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)

Outdoor stove

Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Two girls stood next to an old stove in amongst a group of caravans.

Accession: 944/1835

The images have been selected from the Arthur J Fenwick collection of circus material.
Arthur James Fenwick (1878-1957) was a director of Fenwick's Department Store. In his personal life he was extremely interested in fairs and circuses, collecting historical material about them and building personal relationships with showmen who visited Newcastle. He was made a life member of the Showmen's Guild in 1944.

(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk.

To purchase a hi-res copy please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk quoting the title and reference number.

Week-end de ski au Mt-Ruapehu

Image by Airflore
Il faut bien être dans l'hémisphère sud pour faire du ski au milieu du mois de juillet! Le Mt-Ruapehu est l'endroit idéal pour aller en week-end de ski dans l'île du nord de la Nouvelle-Zélande. A 4h de route de la capitale Wellington, on trouve deux sites: Whakapapa et Turoa. Les montagnes enneigées avec le soleil du sud qui reflètent sont magnifique. J'ai donc essayer d'immortaliser le tout en prenant quelques photos...

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Day 6: Desert Living Room

Image by The Knowles Gallery
You just never know what you are going to find in the desert.

A Photography Club that I belong to has a Photo assignment for this Month to shoot one picture a Day for 28 Days. It is a short month. I will be posting those Images here. They will all be added to a Set entitled 30 Day Project. This should be interesting.

[Temple.]

Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 88470. 1860s-1920s

Source: [Photographs and prints of Egypt and Syria.] (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?88470

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Fußball Wandbild in Hamburg Sankt Georg

Image by Markus Merz
Fußball Wandbild in Hamburg Sankt Georg. Lange Reihe, über Tausend Töpfe.

Artikel-Foto für: St. Georg, Kirche: Fest der Völker und Kulturen (Bericht und 7 Fotos)

Links: Flickr group Hamburg - Sankt Georg, News Site Hamburg Sankt Georg Information (Informations in German)

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The Butler is Out

Image by Skunkworks Photographic
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Zealandia, Karori Sanctuary, Wellington

Image by Airflore
Photo prise en février 2008, quelques jours après mon arrivée en Nouvelle-Zélande. Zealandia est un site de conservation, entouré d'une immense barrière qui forme le sanctuaire. On y trouve beaucoup d'oiseaux et des immenses forêts. Il y a des kilomètres de balades à faire.

Egypt: Philae

Image by Brooklyn Museum
Lantern Slide Collection: Views, Objects: Egypt. Philae. [selected images]. View 02: Egypt - Philae. Temple of Isis. Columns., n.d. Brooklyn Museum Archives (S10|08 Philae, image 9650).


This image was uploaded at high resolution and it helps us to know how our visitors work with our images, so if you use it, we'd love to know how! Drop us a line by leaving a comment here or email our archivist: library@brooklynmuseum.org

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Devrent Valley, Cappadocia

Image by dachalan
Best viewed big. I was testing out the panorama function on my camera, and the view was so worth it.

Image sharpened in Picture Project and replaced on 14 August 2006.

Hammock Frolic - Great American Backyard Campout

Image by ex_magician
I saw it posted on a calendar at work - Last night was the Great American Backyard Campout - a night to camp with your kids in your backyard, or in our case, our front yard.

online.nwf.org/site/PageNavigator/gabc_2010_home

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"Mater Matrix Mother and Medium" -- the performance

Image by mandymama
For more info, check out the blog matermatrixmother.wordpress.com

”Mater Matrix Mother and Medium” is process-based temporary public art project created by installation artist Mandy Greer. It combines community action, site-embedded installation and a performance produced in collaboration between myself, dancer Zoe Scofield and composer Morgan Henderson, Summer 2009 at Camp Long in Seattle, Wa.

On July 16, 2009, the culmination of the "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium " project was a hushed reflection on the subtle dynamics of a forest embedded in the urban environment, as organic as it is artificial. All three artists -- myself, Zoe and Morgan -- responded in our own way to the quirky overgrown tranquility of Camp Long's little pond. Our intent was to invite the audience to sit for a short time in quiet observation of the rhythms of this unusual site, heightening their focus through sound, movement, breath and site-responsive installation.

Commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs using the Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art Funds, as a way to celebrate and interpret the splendor of Seattle’s urban creeks and encourage community involvement in the stewardship of our essential watersheds.

mandygreer.wordpress.com

This project began with the creation of a 200+ foot fiber river, created in part through a series of over 30 community events all over Seattle during the spring of 2009. I taught anyone willing to learn how to crochet, with some contributing a few minutes of chain stitch and others sticking with me for a few hours.
I then took the fiber "pools" into the forest of Camp Long, and urban park in Seattle, and spent the next six weeks on a ladder crocheting and integrating the river into the trees.

The River is made up of thousands upon thousands of tiny moments and movements of individual citizens, integrated and interwoven into the natural environment. With the performance, held on July 16, 2009, the River enveloped Zoe Scofield in an exploration of how we ourselves are both literal and metaphoric manifestations of the living essence of water. Our experience of water is both one of intimacy and also of civic structure.

This artwork is a unique blend of community engagement and personal inquiry, of site-embedded installation and performance. It embodies the ancient human practice of acknowledging our own physicality rooted in the cycles of water and how this forms the very foundation of human community. Water, both mundane and miraculous, mirrors the everyday meeting of strangers and the tiny moments that begin to bond us together.

The "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium" installation will be traveling to the Agnes Scott College campus on Oct. 1, 2009

on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Mater-Matrix-Mother-and-Medium-by-...

more images found at :
www.flickr.com/photos/matermatrixmothermedium/

See more of Zoe's work at:
www.zoeandjuniper.com

photo by Juniper Shuey

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Site survey

Image by The U.S. Army
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Edward Winkowski, squad leader, sets his security team during a site survey in Shah Joy, Afghanistan, Aug. 20, 2011. Sergeant Winkowski is a member of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul's security force and is deployed from the Massachusetts National Guard. PRT Zabul's mission is to conduct civil-military operations in Zabul Province to extend the reach and legitimacy of the Government of Afghanistan. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras

Site survey

Image by The U.S. Army
1st Lt. Raymond Gobberg, front, and Staff Sgt. Sean Quigley conduct a canal site survey near Highway 1, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, Nov. 27. The canal is scheduled for cleaning and repairs in the next few months. U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson

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Grand Hall, Warwick Castle

Image by Cornell University Library
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00864

Title: Grand Hall, Warwick Castle

Building Date: ca. 1300-ca. 1499
Photograph date: ca. 1871-ca. 1895


Location: Europe: United Kingdom; Warwickshire, Warwick

Materials: albumen print

Image: 6 x 8 1/8 in.; 15.24 x 20.6375 cm

Provenance: Transfer from College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5sz8

There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.



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Center of the Ancient World Redux

Image by Sean Molin Photography
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This image has been included as part of my "Best of 2009" collection on Facebook.

This was originally in color, but after a couple years... I decided I liked it better in B&W.

Clouds & Trees at Sunset in Kentucky with Pink Sky 1680 x 1050

Image by ♥ Crystal Writer ♥
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Sunset sky I took at the end of a workday. These trees are in the parking lot behind my office, and I thought the coloration of sky and clouds was warm and comforting. I used the Irfanview plug-ins to color swap this one to come up with the hot pink sky and turquoise green sunset.

In honor of my grandmother and aunt, let the pink in this picture remind you to click to give at http://www.thebreastcancersite.com and yes, it really works. All you have to do is click and it will add funds to give women free mammograms. While you're there, you can also click to give at the other sites run by Greater Good Network: Animal Rescue, Hunger, Literacy, Rainforests, and Child Health.

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Lobster Fishing In Brittany (c.1910)

Image by postaletrice
62 La Pointe du Raz. - Petit Port de Bestrée. - Préparatifs pour la Pêche de Langoustes.

[Preparations for Spiny lobster fishing.]

Vintage photographic postcard, a c.1920 reprinting of a c.1910 picture, uncirculated, divided back, published by Lévy et Neurdein Réunis (originally by Neurdein frères), Paris, France.

© Casas-Rodríguez Collection, 2009. Some rights reserved.
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ScotiaBankHalfMarathon_RonSombilonGallery (31)

Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
SCOTIABANK VANCOUVER HALF MARATHON & 5K RUN

photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

www.CanadaRunningSeries.com
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Cradle of Humankind - Sunrise

Image by Martin_Heigan
A new day breaks in the "Cradle of Humankind" (a World Heritage Site in Kromdraai, Gauteng, South Africa).

"Mrs. Ples" (Australopithecus africanus) was found in this area in 1947, and is currently the oldest human fossil found to date. This gave rise to the idea that Africa is the "Cradle of Humankind".

In 2008 two fossilised skeletons of a new species of early human "Australopithecus sediba" were discovered.

Winter, June 2007.

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men at work 05

Image by byronv2
the now cleared old site of the Scottish & Newcastle Brewery is being built upon at last, this last phase should have started a while ago but as with many projects everywhere it went into stasis with the economy crash, now something being built here, don't know what yet. Shot from table outside pub by the cinema across the road from the site, which is itself constructed on what used to be another part of the massive former brewery, the cinema, restaurant, pub complex was the first development on that old industrial site, helped top open up that area of town very nicely. Shot this while sitting at table on pavement outside pub across the road from them - a very relaxing way to take photos!

BIG, bjarke ingels group, søfartsmuseet / Danish maritime museum, elsinore, denmark 2007-2012

Image by seier+seier
danmarks søfartsmuseum i helsingør / danish maritime museum, elsinore 2007-2012.
architects: BIG, bjarke ingels group, copenhagen.

construction site visit. inside the old dry dock.

main text on the project here.

the maritime museum on BIG's website.

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Visby Cathedral, Gotland, Sweden

Image by Swedish National Heritage Board
Visby Cathedral, Saint Mary.

Visby domkyrka, Sankta Maria.

Parish (socken): Visby
Province (landskap): Gotland
Municipality (kommun): Gotland
County (län): Gotland

Photograph by: Carl Curman
Date: 1893
Format: Albumen print

Persistent URL: www.kms.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000300029436

Read more about the photo database (in english): www.kms.raa.se/cocoon/bild/about.html

NSA (1971) ... NSA reveals its OWN embarrassing secrets (14 June 2013) ...item 2.. New York Times - VENONA AND THE COLD WAR (1999)

Image by marsmet472
The agency ran the the VENONA project - a long-running secret collaboration betwqeen the U.S and the U.K involving cryptanalysis of messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union.
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.....item 1).... NSA reveals its OWN embarrassing secrets: Fascinating archive photos show how spy agency held 'Miss NSA' pageants and committed shocking crimes against fashion (just don't tell Edward Snowden).

... Mail Online - Daily Mail ... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ ...

... Predecessor of the NSA was the Armed Forces Security Agency
... NSA was established on Nov. 4 1952 by then-President Harry Truman
... Creation allowed Defense Department to co-ordinate cryptologic information
... Agency began occupying buildings at Fort Meade in the late 1950s

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 05:20 EST, 14 June 2013 | UPDATED: 08:41 EST, 14 June 2013

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341569/Fascinating-pict...

At the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Mead Maryland, a memorial carved into a plaque reads: 'They Served in Silence.'

The motto is in stark contrast to this week's revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who has now become the most infamous agency employee in recent years.

But a candid NSA archive reveals the thousands of staffers who been quietly working on America's most sensitive secrets for over six decades.
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img code photo ... Strike a pose .. Think .. NO ADMITTANCE

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Strike a pose: The US Army Signal Intelligence Service posed in front of their vault in 1935

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img code photo ... Early days

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Early days: Cryptologists in Korea in the 1950s. The Army Security Agency (ASA) was responsible for supplying the Army's codes and ciphers

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img code photo ... Working around the clock

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Working around the clock: Cryptologists hard at work during the Second World War

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img code photo ... Determined

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Determined: Fleet Radio Unit Pacific (FRUPAC) in Hawaii working on JN-25, the principal Japanese Navy encryption system in 1945

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The series of photos document the significant changes the agency has gone through since it was established on Nov. 4 1952 by then-President Harry Truman.

The predecessor to the NSA was the Armed Forces Security Agency which was set up in 1949.

More...

... Britain issues global warning to airlines not to let CIA leaker Edward Snowden board a flight to the UK
... Whistleblower Edward Snowden smuggled out secrets with an everyday thumb drive banned from NSA offices
... Feds vow to hunt down NSA leaker as they fear he is attempting to defect to China with America's most sensitive secrets

But that agency did not have much power and lacked a central control centre.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Walter Bedell Smith sent a memo to James S. Lay, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council in 1951 that spurred the creation of the NSA.
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img code photo ... Mission

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Mission: U.S. Army Engineers conduct diving operations to recover Nazi cryptologic records from Lake Schlersee in Southern Germany at the end of the Second World War

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img code photo ... Intelligence

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Intelligence: NSA's SIGSALY, a secure speech system used in World War Two for the highest-level Allied communications

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img code photo ... A UNIVAC 9300 Peripheral Processor, 1966

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Equipment: A UNIVAC 9300 Peripheral Processor, left, a punch card computing data center from 1966, and a KY-8 Cryptologic Device, right

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img code photo ... KY-8 Cryptologic Device

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Equipment: A UNIVAC 9300 Peripheral Processor, left, a punch card computing data center from 1966, and a KY-8 Cryptologic Device, right

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img code photo ... M-138

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Intelligence gathering: M-138, a strip cipher device that allowed the use of multiple alphabets to encipher messages

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img code photo ... Tour

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Tour: GEN Eisenhower visits Arlington Hall, William Friedman is standing on the far left

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img code photo ... Beauty queens

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Beauty queens: Contestants in the Miss NSA Pageant held annually in the 1950s and early 1960s

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img code photo ... Hunting ...

MRBM Launch Site 1 .. San Cristobal, Cuba .. 23 October 1962

Nuclear Warhead Bunker Under Construction .. San Cristobal Site 1

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Hunting: Soviet strategic missile sites under construction in Cuba pictured in 1962

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img code photo ... Moving forward

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Moving forward: A UNIVAC system purchased by NSA in 1963

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img code photo ... Watching

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Watching: The direct communication link between Washington and Moscow at the Pentagon Building, as monitored by the NSA

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He observed recommended a survey of communications intelligence activities after observing 'control over, and coordination of, the collection and processing of Communications Intelligence had proved ineffective.'

Then-president President Harry S. Truman authorized the agency's creation in June 1952 - he understood the importance of a central spy body as America had become a dominant power on a global stage, facing global responsibilities and threats.

U.S. efforts had led to breaking German and Japanese codes in the Second World War, success against the German U-Boat threat in the North Atlantic, and victory in the Battle of Midway in the Pacific.

As war raged in Korea, the creation of NSA allowed the Defense Department to consolidate cryptologic support to military operations, and to meet challenges that the nation would face in the Cold War.

The agency ran the the VENONA project - a long-running secret collaboration betwqeen the U.S and the U.K involving cryptanalysis of messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union.
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img code photo ... Technology evolving

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Technology evolving: Staffers chat as they stand next to the NSA supercomputers in the 1970s

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img code photo ... America's sensitive secrets

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America's sensitive secrets: An NSA staffer at work in 1971 using a console at the agency

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img code photo ... Demonstration

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Demonstration: VADM Inman and Ms. Ann Caracristi listen to Hall of Honor Cryptologist Frank B. Rowlett describe the ENIGMA machine

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img code photo ... Growing agency

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Growing agency: The NSA continued to expand into the 1980s, as seen in this aerial headquarters of its headquarters

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In 1953, the VENONA project exposed a massive Soviet espionage effort that threatened national security.
The NSA moved to Ft. Meade in 1957- one reason the site was selected was because it was deemed far enough away from the capital in case of a nuclear strike.

In 1960 the agency was rocked after two employees William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, defected to the Soviet Union.

The alarming revelation prompted tighter personnel security measures.

The agency's signals intelligence (SIGINT) played a critical role in 1962 in defusing the Cuban Missle Criris, a saga which had the world's nations nervously holding their breath.

In the 1970s, Dr. Tordella was an early advocate of the use of computers in cryptology.
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img code photo ... Safe line

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Safe line: President H. W. Bush confers in confidence using a STU III device

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img code photo ... Gen Eisenhower visits Arlington Hall

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Tour: Gen Eisenhower visits Arlington Hall, William Friedman is standing on the far left

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VIP visit: President and Mrs. Reagan tour the new OPS2A and 2B Buildings with LTG Odom and Mrs. Odom on 26 September 1986

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img code photo ... Through the years

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Through the years: George Bush and Dick Cheney at the NSA offices in 2008

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Terror attacks: President George W. Bush speaking on the phone following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001

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img code photo ... Memories .. They Served In Silence

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Memories: NSA's Cryptologic Memorial Wall honors those 'who served in silence' since the Second World War

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img code photo ... Modern day

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Modern day: A view of the National Security Operations Center Floor last year

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The 1980s saw former NSA employee Ronald Pelton convicted of spying for and selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

He reportedly has a photographic memory as he passed no documents to the Soviets.

Petty Hohn Anthony Walker, Jr., a United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist was also convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985.

In the late 1980s President Reagan attended the dedication of the Operations 2A and 2B buildings.

In the 1990s the NSA provided key information for the Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Storm.

In 2001, the 9/11 terror attacks that killed 2,977 people reinforced the need for the NSA as America became a clear Al-Qaeda target.

In 2011, the NSA played a key role in the Special Forces - IC Team responsible for tracking down Osama bin Laden.

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.....item 2).... Venona Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

... New York Times on the Web ... www.nytimes.com/books/ ...

By JOHN EARL HAYNES and HARVEY KLEHR
Yale University Press

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VENONA AND THE COLD WAR

The Venona Project began because Carter Clarke did not trust Joseph Stalin. Colonel Clarke was chief of the U.S. Army's Special Branch, part of the War Department's Military Intelligence Division, and in 1943 its officers heard vague rumors of secret German-Soviet peace negotiations. With the vivid example of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact in mind, Clarke feared that a separate peace between Moscow and Berlin would allow Nazi Germany to concentrate its formidable war machine against the United States and Great Britain. Clarke thought he had a way to find out whether such negotiations were under way.

Clarke's Special Branch supervised the Signal Intelligence Service, the Army's elite group of code-breakers and the predecessor of the National Security Agency. In February 1943 Clarke ordered the service to establish a small program to examine ciphered Soviet diplomatic cablegrams. Since the beginning of World War II in 1939, the federal government had collected copies of international cables leaving and entering the United States. If the cipher used in the Soviet cables could be broken, Clarke believed, the private exchanges between Soviet diplomats in the United States and their superiors in Moscow would show whether Stalin was seriously pursuing a separate peace.

The coded Soviet cables, however, proved to be far more difficult to read than Clarke had expected. American code-breakers discovered that the Soviet Union was using a complex two-part ciphering system involving a "one-time pad" code that in theory was unbreakable. The Venona code-breakers, however, combined acute intellectual analysis with painstaking examination of thousands of coded telegraphic cables to spot a Soviet procedural error that opened the cipher to attack. But by the time they had rendered the first messages into readable text in 1946, the war was over and Clarke's initial goal was moot. Nor did the messages show evidence of a Soviet quest for a separate peace. What they did demonstrate, however, stunned American officials. Messages thought to be between Soviet diplomats at the Soviet consulate in New York and the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in Moscow turned out to be cables between professional intelligence field officers and Gen. Pavel Fitin, head of the foreign intelligence directorate of the KGB in Moscow. Espionage, not diplomacy, was the subject of these cables. One of the first cables rendered into coherent text was a 1944 message from KGB officers in New York showing that the Soviet Union had infiltrated America's most secret enterprise, the atomic bomb project.

By 1948 the accumulating evidence from other decoded Venona cables showed that the Soviets had recruited spies in virtually every major American government agency of military or diplomatic importance. American authorities learned that since 1942 the United States had been the target of a Soviet espionage onslaught involving dozens of professional Soviet intelligence officers and hundreds of Americans, many of whom were members of the American Communist party (CPUSA). The deciphered cables of the Venona Project identify 349 citizens, immigrants, and permanent residents of the United States who had had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence agencies (see appendix A). Further, American cryptanalysts in the Venona Project deciphered only a fraction of the Soviet intelligence traffic, so it was only logical to conclude that many additional agents were discussed in the thousands of unread messages. Some were identified from other sources, such as defectors' testimony and the confessions of Soviet spies (see appendix B).

The deciphered Venona messages also showed that a disturbing number of high-ranking U.S. government officials consciously maintained a clandestine relationship with Soviet intelligence agencies and had passed extraordinarily sensitive information to the Soviet Union that had seriously damaged American interests. Harry White--the second most powerful official in the U.S. Treasury Department, one of the most influential officials in the government, and part of the American delegation at the founding of the United Nations--had advised the KGB about how American diplomatic strategy could be frustrated. A trusted personal assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt, Lauchlin Currie, warned the KGB that the FBI had started an investigation of one of the Soviets' key American agents, Gregory Silvermaster. This warning allowed Silvermaster, who headed a highly productive espionage ring, to escape detection and continue spying. Maurice Halperin, the head of a research section of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), then America's chief intelligence arm, turned over hundreds of pages of secret American diplomatic cables to the KGB. William Perl, a brilliant young government aeronautical scientist, provided the Soviets with the results of the highly secret tests and design experiments for American jet engines and jet aircraft. His betrayal assisted the Soviet Union in quickly overcoming the American technological lead in the development of jets. In the Korean War, U.S. military leaders expected the Air Force to dominate the skies, on the assumption that the Soviet aircraft used by North Korea and Communist China would be no match for American aircraft. They were shocked when Soviet MiG-15 jet fighters not only flew rings around U.S. propeller-driven aircraft but were conspicuously superior to the first generation of American jets as well. Only the hurried deployment of America's newest jet fighter, the F-86 Saber, allowed the United States to match the technological capabilities of the MiG-15. The Air Force prevailed, owing more to the skill of American pilots than to the design of American aircraft.

And then there were the atomic spies. From within the Manhattan Project two physicists, Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, and one technician, David Greenglass, transmitted the complex formula for extracting bomb-grade uranium from ordinary uranium, the technical plans for production facilities, and the engineering principles for the "implosion" technique. The latter process made possible an atomic bomb using plutonium, a substance much easier to manufacture than bomb-grade uranium.

The betrayal of American atomic secrets to the Soviets allowed the Soviet Union to develop atomic weapons several years sooner and at a substantially lower cost than it otherwise would have. Joseph Stalin's knowledge that espionage assured the Soviet Union of quickly breaking the American atomic monopoly emboldened his diplomatic strategy in his early Cold War clashes with the United States. It is doubtful that Stalin, rarely a risk-taker, would have supplied the military wherewithal and authorized North Korea to invade South Korea in 1950 had the Soviet Union not exploded an atomic bomb in 1949. Otherwise Stalin might have feared that President Harry Truman would stanch any North Korean invasion by threatening to use atomic weapons. After all, as soon as the atomic bomb had been developed, Truman had not hesitated to use it twice to end the war with Japan. But in 1950, with Stalin in possession of the atomic bomb, Truman was deterred from using atomic weapons in Korea, even in the late summer when initially unprepared American forces were driven back into the tip of Korea and in danger of being pushed into the sea, and then again in the winter when Communist Chinese forces entered the war in massive numbers. The killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the war in Korea might have been averted had the Soviets not been able to parry the American atomic threat.

Early Soviet possession of the atomic bomb had an important psychological consequence. When the Soviet Union exploded a nuclear device in 1949, ordinary Americans as well as the nation's leaders realized that a cruel despot, Joseph Stalin, had just gained the power to destroy cities at will. This perception colored the early Cold War with the hues of apocalypse. Though the Cold War never lost the potential of becoming a civilization-destroying conflict, Stalin's death in March 1953 noticeably relaxed Soviet-American tensions. With less successful espionage, the Soviet Union might not have developed the bomb until after Stalin's death, and the early Cold War might have proceeded on a far less frightening path.

Venona decryptions identified most of the Soviet spies uncovered by American counterintelligence between 1948 and the mid-1950s. The skill and perseverance of the Venona code-breakers led the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British counterintelligence (MI5) to the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs. Venona documents unmistakably identified Julius Rosenberg as the head of a Soviet spy ring and David Greenglass, his brother-in-law, as a Soviet source at the secret atomic bomb facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Leads from decrypted telegrams exposed the senior British diplomat Donald Maclean as a major spy in the British embassy in Washington and precipitated his flight to the Soviet Union, along with his fellow diplomat and spy Guy Burgess. The arrest and prosecution of such spies as Judith Coplon, Robert Soblen, and Jack Soble was possible because American intelligence was able to read Soviet reports about their activities. The charges by the former Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley that several dozen mid-level government officials, mostly secret Communists, had assisted Soviet intelligence were corroborated in Venona documents and assured American authorities of her veracity.


(C) 1999 Yale University All rights reserved. ISBN: 0-300-07771-8


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I've chosen my best photos of Maranhão trip and published them in Maranhão, images of a Brazilian paradise, a visual recollection of the state of Maranhão, from the crumbling buildings of its capital, São Luís to the mesmerizing and unique landscapes of the Lençóis Maranhenses, through the fascinating celebration of the bumba-meu-boi festival .
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He seleccionado mis mejores fotos del Maranhão y las he publicado en Maranhão, imágenes de un paraíso brasileño un recuerdo visual del estado de Maranhão, desde los decrépitos edificios de su capital, São Luís a los fascinantes y únicos paisajes de los Lençóis Maranhenses, pasando por la increíble celebración del festival del bumba-meu-boi.

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For a better desciption of what this site is all about watch my buddy, Action Girl tell it like it is on her show Dating Gone Wrong.

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