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Dec 2, 2008

Playful Dolphin, Waimanalo, Hawaii, 2001

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

A bottlenose dolphin plays in a lagoon in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Located just a half hour's drive from Honolulu, Waimanalo stretches out lazily along the coast like a sleeping hound. Its long, curving white-sand beach was once used as a backdrop for the television series Baywatch Hawai'i.

Dec 3, 2008

High-Rise Construction, India, 1997

Photograph by Steve McCurry

Workers perch on the scaffolding of a high-rise development in India. Massive population growth since independence in 1947 has provoked a boom in infrastructure. India now holds 950 million people, one-sixth of the world’s total. An increasing number are middle-class residents of such “concrete colonies.”

Dec 4, 2008

Steaming Laundry, India, 2003

Photograph by William Albert Allard

Untouchables work for a pittance washing clothes at dawn. The Hindu caste system forces 15 percent of India’s population to do jobs deemed “unclean”—anything that involves contact with bodily fluids, such as leatherwork and laundry or burying the dead. Untouchables suffer greatly from discrimination and violence.

Dec 5, 2008

Fungus on a Fly, Location Unknown, 2000

Photograph by Darlyne A. Murawski

Looking like delicate seeds, the spiky spores of a tiny parasitic fungus produce fruit on the back of a fly. These fungi are found throughout the world but will only live on certain insects.

Dec 6, 2008

Man on Camel, Giza, Egypt, 1966

Photograph by Dean Conger

Sporting a kaffiyeh and robes, National Geographic photographer Dean Conger poses atop a camel near the pyramids of Giza, Egypt. Conger joined National Geographic as a staff photographer in 1959 and worked on assignments all over Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Dec 7, 2008

U.S. Warplanes, Near Midway Atoll, Pacific Ocean, 1999

Photograph by David Doubilet

A trio of World War II-era U.S. Navy warplanes recalls the Battle of Midway. An Avenger torpedo bomber (middle) is flanked by a Dauntless dive-bomber (top) and a Wildcat fighter.

Dec 8, 2008

St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia, 2000

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

A light snowfall dusts St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square. Ivan the Terrible commissioned the iconic building in the mid-16th century. It houses nine distinct chapels, each with its own unique dome.

Dec 9, 2008

Gold Smelting, Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), 1984

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

A goldsmith smelts bars of donated gold for use in the famed Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma). The 2,500-year-old shrine is said to house several strands of the Buddha's hair, among other sacred relics.

Dec 10, 2008

Trango Tower Expedition, Karakoram Range, Pakistan, 1996

Photograph by Bill Hatcher

A team en route to Trango Tower in the Himalaya's Karakoram Range hikes along a riverbed in Pakistan. The 1996 expedition lasted nearly two months and culminated in a successful free-climb to the summit of the 20,469-foot (6,239-meter) granite spire's unforgiving East Face.

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Petroglyphs, Aïr Mountains Mountains, Niger, 1999