HAWAII "ORGANIZED" AS A U.S. TERRITORY, April 30, 1900

HAWAII 

"ORGANIZED" ("ANNEXED") 

AS A U.S. TERRITORY 

April 30, 1900 

SUNSET 

ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU 

FRANCESCO BARTOLOMEO RASTRELLI d. April 29, 1771

FRANCESCO BARTOLOMEO 

RASTRELLI

b. Florence, 1770 -

d. St. Petersburg, April 29, 1771

ST. ANREW'S CHURCH

KIEV (KYIV), UKRAINE

Designed by

FRANCESCO BARTOLOMEO 

RASTRELLI

Photographed 1984

Back in the USSR

"HERE BE GIANTS"

JAMES A. BAKER, III, b. April 28, 1930

JAMES A. BAKER, III

TURNS EIGHTY

JAMES ADDISON BAKER, III

Attorney, friend, and friendly competitor

to George Herbert Walker Bush.

Chief of staff and then

Secretary of the Treasury to Ronald Reagan;

Secretary of State to the first president Bush;

major player in securing the election of

the second when it went to the Supreme Court.

Photographed in the White House

XIA ZHENGNONG: ANOTHER FAVORITE PORTRAIT

ANOTHER FAVORITE

PORTRAIT

XIA ZHENGNONG

BEIJING, CHINA, 2002

HERE BE GIANTS

FANFARE FOR ... THE BUSHES: MEMOIRS BY LAURA & GEORGE W. COMING

FANFARE FOR ...

THE BUSHES

LAURA & GEORGE W. BUSH

PROMENADE

TO DINNER

AT THE PETERHOF PALACE

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 2006

Coming:

MEMOIRS

By LAURA & GEORGE W. BUSH

LADIES FIRST

(May 4 Hers, November 9 His)

VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY b. April 25, 1946: "STRONG HANDS" OF RUSSIA? I

"STRONG HANDS" OF RUSSIA? I

VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY

b. April 25, 1946

Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party

Photographed in Moscow

in the Winter of 1993

when he seemed to

strike fear into the hearts of

the political establishments of

Russia and the "West" alike

JUST 'CAUSE: READING IS FUN. READING IS FUNDAMENTAL. LIBRARIES ARE BEING CLOSED.

JUST 'CAUSE

"READING IS FUN."

"READING IS FUNDAMENTAL."

LIBRARIES ARE BEING CLOSED.

BORIS YELTSIN DIES, April 23, 2007

BORIS YELTSIN

FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA

DIES APRIL 23, 2007

(BORN FEBRUARY 1, 1931)

BORIS YELTSIN PHOTOGRAPHED

IN AN OIL RIG CABIN

OFF THE COAST OF SAKHALIN, RUSSIA, USSR (1990)

THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST EARTH DAY (April 20, 1970)

IN HONOR OF EARTH DAY

FIRST CELEBRATED

APRIL 22, 1970

A PIECE OF THE EARTH

THAT DISAPPEARED

A SAND DUNE

NEAR TRURO, MASSACHUSETTS

(CAPE COD)

TWILIGHT ON THE CANAL ... OFF NEVSKY PROSPEKT

TWILIGHT ON THE CANAL

OFF NEVSKY PROSPEKT

LENINGRAD, USSR 1984

(NOW ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA)

ALEKSANDR LEBED b. April 20, 1950

ALEXANDER LEBED

b. April 20, 1950

ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH LEBED

d. April 28, 2002

from

THE PHOENIX

(Winter 1999)

"Aleksandr Lebed promises a firm hand with a vengeance.

The former general positions himself as the anti-corruption

outsider, but seems to have no stable political orientation.

His brief stint as national security adviser was his only

civilian government post. He is finally getting political

executive experience, having been elected governor of

Krasnoyarsk Krai this past spring; whether he will make a

success of the endeavor is still an open question. He prides

himself on his independence, and his unpredictability

worries the Russian political establishment. But there are

rumors that famed oligarch Boris Berezovsky helped fund

his campaign. And sometimes he is suspected by Russian

of being the American candidate, or at least, the American

favorite."

-- whatever future Lebed might have had in Russian politics

was cut short by a helicopter crash in April 2002 -- and the

dynamics had been altered by the election of Vladimir Putin,

another "firm hand," as president in March 2000 -- still --

COUPLES, CONTINUED: SVERDLOVSK (NOW YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA)

COUPLES

(CONTINUED)

SVERDLOVSK, USSR

(NOW YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA)

AT THE DACHA

HERE BE GIANTS

FIERY SUN TOUCHES BLUE ICE ON BEIJING TRIP

FIERY SUN TOUCHES BLUE ICE

FROM THE AIR

ON BEIJING TRIP

STAYING IN PERU: HONOR GUARD AT THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE, LIMA

STAYING IN PERU...

HONOR GUARD

AT THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE

LIMA, PERU

PERU SCENES

A FAVORITE INFORMAL PORTRAIT (LIMA, PERU)

A FAVORITE

INFORMAL PORTRAIT

PERUVIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

AT THE 2008 APEC MEETING

LIMA, PERU

PERU SCENES

CHINA THEN AND NOW: FACTORY CONDITIONS

CHINA THEN AND NOW

FACTORY CONDITIONS

FACTORY HANDS

YAN'AN, CHINA, 1981

One in a Series

THIS WEEK, ACCUSATIONS OF

"UNDERPAID TEEN LABOR"

BROUGHT AGAINST MICROSOFT

HERE BE GIANTS

IN HONOR OF EMILY ELIZABETH MacARTHUR STEWART

IN HONOR OF

EMILY ELIZABETH MacARTHUR

STEWART

whose birthday was April 14

SHOWN WITH HER SONS

ROBERT (L)

&

WILLIAM (R)

THREE GENERATIONS AT HOME KAIFENG, CHINA, 1981 One of a Series CHINA THEN & NOW

CHINA THEN & NOW

THREE GENERATIONS

AT HOME

KAIFENG, CHINA, 1981

One of a Series

HERE BE GIANTS

IN HONOR OF POLAND, AND OF COAL MINERS

IN HONOR OF POLAND, 

AND OF COAL MINERS

COAL MINER

KATOWICE, POLAND, 1981

IN THE FIRST SOLIDARITY ERA

THE U.S. & CHINA ON THE EVE OF HU JINTAO'S VISIT, AND CHINA IN THE EARLY DAYS OF "OPENING UP"

THE U.S. & CHINA

ON THE EVE OF

HU JINTAO'S VISIT

THE SHANGHAI BUND

IN THE EARLY DAYS OF

CHINA'S OPENING --

ALMOST THREE DECADES AGO

"Central bank governor Zhou Xiaoquan said Beijing

still followed three-decade-old policy guidance

'to keep a low profile' on foreign affairs."

"Setbacks lead China

to tone down anti-US rhetoric,"

says the AP headline.

THE PRESIDENT OF POLAND, LECH KACZYNSKI, AND OTHER PROMINENT POLES, DIE IN A PLANE CRASH

THE PRESIDENT OF POLAND,

LECH KACZYNSKI,

AND OTHER PROMINENT POLES,

DIE IN A PLANE CRASH ON

THE WAY TO COMMEMORATE KATYN

TOMB OF

THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

WARSAW, POLAND, 1981

THE COUNTRY MOURNS

A COAL-FIRED AMERICA?

A COAL-FIRED AMERICA?

AN ELECTRIC PLANT

OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, D.C.

THE RUSSIAN SHERLOCK HOLMES: VASILY LIVANOV

THE SOVIET 

SHERLOCK HOLMES 

IN RUSSIAN 

SHERLOCK HOLMES 

PORTRAYED ON SOVIET TELEVISION, 1984 

INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE 

VASILY LIVANOV PLAYS HOLMES