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Four Centuries at Jamestown, Virginia
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Published May 14, 2007
On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and laborers made landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, establishing the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.
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Salt Ponds, Botswana
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Published May 13, 2007
This detailed astronaut photograph shows the salt ponds of one of Africa’s major producers of soda ash (sodium carbonate) and salt. Soda ash is used for making glass, in metallurgy, in the detergent industry, and in chemical manufacture. The image shows a small part of the great salt flats of central Botswana known as the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans.
Algeria
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Published May 12, 2007
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Bugaboo Fire Rages in Georgia and Florida
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Fire on Santa Catalina Island
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Published May 11, 2007
Ham Lake Fire, Minnesota and Ontario
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Smoke from fires in Georgia and Florida
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Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes
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A distance of about 80 kilometers (50 miles) separates Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Despite this distance, however, the two acted in unison on April 26, 2007.
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