Travel: Yellowstone
"When Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872, 
America was passionately absorbed in the conquest of a continent. At every turn, native culture and wild nature were being subdued, and natural resources were exploited and wasted at a phenomenal rate....Yellowstone has been one of the foremost laboratories in the world for learning how to manage not only wildlife but also wildlife habitat and wilderness landscapes." -- from the website. <http://www.pbs.org/>
America was passionately absorbed in the conquest of a continent. At every turn, native culture and wild nature were being subdued, and natural resources were exploited and wasted at a phenomenal rate....Yellowstone has been one of the foremost laboratories in the world for learning how to manage not only wildlife but also wildlife habitat and wilderness landscapes." -- from the website. <http://www.pbs.org/>
posted by John Gabree at 5/29/2006
position within Johannesburg, in relation to the national, African and south - south geographies....This 'map' determines its attitude to local and global debates, networks and partnerships with a view to the survival and sustainability of the visual arts industries....to produce in a cross-platform multidisciplinary way with artists, institutions and corporate brands and services....Current key processes investigate: urban regeneration through public art interventions; creativity as commodity through consultation processes and art and retail experiments; digital art development through digital network building; local industry strategies and development through relationships with cultural neighbours, similar contexts, international art networks and strategic global partnerships." -- from the website. 
Features include short essays about the art of writing poetry, information about new poetry anthologies, and a selection of poems submitted to the site. For example, currently "In the Spotlight" are a short study of Vasile Grigore Latis's poetry by Eva Acqui, news that poet and translator Richard Wilbur has won the 2006 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a look by Mary Arnold at the inspirations behind the work of Countee Cullen, and selection of poems published in the AIA Poetry Ezine since its 2001 launch. There are also brief biographical sketches of 20th century poets, a built-in search engine, an index of the subjects covered by the site, and links to companion sites on 
"re-sized according to the subject of interest," such as births, children, elderly, refugees, immigrants, total population, tourism, transportation, and 
imports and exports. The maps, produced by the University of Sheffield (in England), the University of Michigan (in Michigan) and other nice folks, are annotated with explanatory texts and can be printed as posters. <
Region shows the location of the national forests in California, with links to info on the individual stands, including news and updates on such topics as land management plans, forest land sales, wildflower viewing opportunities, weed control, and closures. <
a timeline, an annotated list (including instrumentation, length, and other details) of his works by genre, recommended recordings, upcoming performances, sketches of "Prokofievians" historical (Serge Koussevitzky, Jascha Heifetz, Emil Gilels) and contemporary (Neeme Jarvi, Andre Previn, Charles Dutoit, Anne-Sophie Mütter), and a collection of interviews that includes conversations with Sviatoslav Prokofiev (his oldest son) and biographers David Nice and Harlow Robinson. <
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providing documents about sun safety, sunscreens, tanning pills, tanning accelerators, sunless tanning booths, cosmetics, and related products, including tanning data from other government agencies. 
good-tasting, convenient, accurate recipes to the public. To ensure that our pasta recipes meet your high standards, each recipe is tested in our test kitchen. You can be assured that each recipe on this site was professionally tested and tastes great!" -- from the website. <
still have time to make the Vogalonga: thousands of traditional boats race across the Venetian lagoon; the Yasothon Rocket Festival: Thais launch huge home-made rockets in a misguided attempt to make it rain; Rock am Ring: Germany's biggest rock festival takes over the Nürburgring race track; and, in Memphis, the World Championship Barbecue-Cooking Contest: The Superbowl of Swine -- $60,000 in prize money and men dressed as porkers (see picture). <
a controversial subject....if pictures of men wearing socks with sandals offends then turn back now. You have been warned. It's not a pretty sight and there's a lot of it about. If you're not really sure..." - from the website. <
themes in African art and life using a wide variety of media: works of art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art's African collection, commentary from artists themselves, historical and cultural context, photography and music." -- from the website. <
Here is a collection of short pieces from the International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance, "an international association of belly dancers, belly dance instructors, choreographers and musicians," about the origins and history of belly dancing that includes articles on performers and stretching for belly dance. <
The Beeb has posted an online interface to its catalog of 946,614 radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years, searchable by category, cast and crew. <
of Leonardo's drawings, this site includes curator Carmen C. Bambach's introductory essay (da Vinci "stands as a supreme icon in Western consciousness -- the very embodiment of the universal Renaissance genius"), the artist's creations (which can be examined in close detail using a built-in zoom feature), audio commentary on specific images in the collection, an authoritative bibliography of scholarly references, and an essay exploring the artist's left-handedness. <
portal to the past"), has two new websites enabling search of newspaper articles about the 
electronic formats. The technical collection is the primary source for materials concerning general transportation, surface, and water transportation. Special topics include: bridges, driver studies, engineering (emphasis on civil), highways and highway safety, history of transportation, land utilization, marine engineering, mass transit, merchant marine, navigation (except air), oceanography, pipelines, railroads, ships and shipbuilding, statistics, traffic engineering, traffic surveys and forecasts, urban transportation, and waterways." -- from the website. <
The tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks account for almost a third of the air pollution in the United States. At this site, by the U.S. Environmetal Protection Agency, check your car's pollution index. <
