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Ash plume at Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland, 07.04.2010 [Nasa Earth Observatory]

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A British Lancaster bomber over Kaafjord, Norway during the Operation Paravane raid on the German Battleship Tirpitz. Notice the heavy smoke curtain launched to hide the vessel. September 15, 1943. Tirpitz would be eventually sinked in On November 12, 1944 (IWM C 4873).

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Pigeon Project, WWII. Bird in Working Position, Facing Target.
During World War II, “Project Pigeon”, leaded by American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's, was an attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile. The project was cancelled in 1944.

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Nose cone of NIST glide bomb showing the three-pigeon guidance system.
During World War II, “Project Pigeon”, leaded by American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's, was an attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile. After several tests, they decided 3 different pigeons, trained to peck a target, would guide the missile. The project was cancelled in 1944 and resumed by the americam navy in 1948 as “Project Orcon” (Organic Control”, to be abandoned in 1953 with the arrival of new electronic guidance systems.

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Screenshot of film showing pigeon pecking the image of target (vessel). “Project Orcon”, c. 1948-53.
During World War II, “Project Pigeon”, leaded by American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's,
was an attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile. After several tests, they decided 3 different pigeons, trained to peck a target, would guide the missile. The project was cancelled in 1944 and resumed by the americam navy in 1948 as “Project Orcon” (Organic Control”, to be abandoned in 1953 with the arrival of new electronic guidance systems.

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Aerial view of Jerusalem on 23 November 1917 [Matson Photographic Collection, Library of Congress]

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The Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine was a multi-year survey of the region’s ancient remains as well as its contemporary peoples. Here, a surveyor and local assistant measure distances from a fixed point (1925, Palestine Exploration Fund)

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Phoenix, Arizona, This image of Phoenix was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+), flying aboard the Landsat 7 satellite, on May 11, 2002.

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View of Arizona taken during ISS Expedition 16, 1 March 2008 [Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]

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An aerial view of the Mauthausen area, 1943-45 [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of NARA, College Park]

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