Browse Items (774 total)

Among Zimbabwe's natural treasures, Victoria Falls is the brightest jewel. This mile-wide curtain of the Zambesi River, crashing 350 feet into a narrow gorge, was named for the British Queen by Scottish explorer David Livingston in 1855.

Canoes wait for their paddlers in the dawn mist at Bear Creek on the Big South Fork of Cumberland River in Kentucky.

An essay by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, produced for the special supplement to National Geographic on Poland, described Lech Walesa as a symbol of things which seem impossible becoming so by the sheer strength of the human spirit. 'Nothing is…

Pac-man is the latest video game to craze the nation.

Skeletons scattered around lava bed with buzzard in background.

This elderly woman at the Canterbury Nursing Home in Terre Haute, IN, casually reads the newspaper as rising flood waters outside force an immediate evacuation. The woman, along with her rolled up bedding, is waiting for a bus for transportation to…

An old woman prays as she sits in the ruins of her house which collapsed during an earthquake late Wednesday in Platees, Greece. The quake, which measured 6.2 on the Richter scale, was followed by another one Thursday measuring 5.8.

A Los Angeles City fire fighter, after giving an elderly woman his own breathing apparatus, carries the woman from her smoky, second-floor apartment after a fire damaged a building in Los Angeles' Chinatown Saturday night. Three residents of…

Girl in a burn center--her brother was killed in the fire that destroyed the family house.

Paul Rodriguez goes through painful daily skin dressing as a result of an arson fire which left him burned over 60 percent of his body.