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After a few false alarms caused by jets leaving Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the crowd was finally rewarded with a view of the low-flying 747, piggybacking Space Shuttle Discovery, en route to a Smithsonian hangar. Cheers erupted through the jammed road and park in front of the White House. The carrier roared across…
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Posted by Anne Marie Houppert on November 22, 2011 The latest movie in the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn–Part 1, was just released with the 5th-best opening weekend ever, according to an Entertainment Weekly report. The saga follows the love triangle of a human girl, Bella, and the vampire (Edward) and werewolf (Jacob) who are in love with her. The characters live in the small…
By Patrick J. Kiger As horrifyingly deadly and destructive as the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were, it’s perhaps even more chilling to realize that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Kuwaiti Al Qaeda operative who has been indicted for planning the attacks, originally had something much bigger in mind. According to Mohammad’s 2008…
By Patrick J. Kiger Unfortunately, there’s no way to undo the tragedy of the September 11 attacks. But just as we wonder how history might have been different had Abraham Lincoln chosen not to go to Ford’s Theater on that fateful night in 1865, or what might have happened had U.S. Naval Intelligence gotten wind…
Chances are, you probably remember exactly what you were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001, at the moment when you first learned about the attack on the World Trade Center. And if you were one of the millions who stared in horror at the television images of smoke billowing from the crippled towers, you undoubtedly can recall the intense, excruciatingly painful surge of grief and anger and sadness that you felt.
National Geographic Bees Make D.C. a Little Sweeter
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on August 18, 2011 
The National Geographic Society picked up several hundred new employees this past week. They will work 24 hours a day, rain or shine, and will live on our rooftop. In turn, they will produce one of the most amazing substances known in the universe–it is honey; they are bees.
Growing Up Cousteau
Posted by Ford Cochran on October 19, 2010 Jean-Michel Cousteau, the first son of the red-capped captain who brought deep ocean exploration into living rooms worldwide, spoke earlier this month at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium about growing up with the renowned Jacques-Yves Cousteau. By Valentine Quadrat Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his father’s birth, this producer of more than 80 films and founder…
Hear Your Imagination: All Roads Festival Opens Tonight in D.C.
Posted by Ford Cochran on September 28, 2010 National Geographic’s 2010 All Roads Film Festival runs tonight through Sunday at the Society’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. By Ford Cochran All Roads debuted in 2004 to showcase the work of indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers and promote “knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader global audience.” Now the festival includes dozens of films, photo exhibitions,…
Tails to Toepads: Geckos Swarm National Geographic Museum
Posted by Ford Cochran on September 23, 2010 Geckos: Tails to Toepads, an exhibition featuring live geckos–some meek, some ferocious, and some just adorable–opens tomorrow at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. By Julie Crain As a longtime employee of National Geographic–clearly one of the more animal-savvy organizations around–I’m ashamed to admit that most of what I knew about geckos came from…
Posted by Ever since Pluto got voted off the island, most astronomers have defined a planet as a body orbiting a star—dead or alive—that is a) massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, b) not massive enough to ignite itself into starhood, and c) domineering enough to have swept its neighborhood clean of smaller planetary…
Photography Workshop: The National Mall
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 2, 2009 Saturday’s field assignment for the Weekend Photography Workshop, sequel to an afternoon in Dupont Circle, had us shooting on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. As luck would have it (night owl here) one of the best times to take photographs in daylight is just before and after dawn. That meant rising before 5 a.m.—yawn!—and…
Photography Workshop: Dupont Circle
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 1, 2009 I might not score a photo of the week in Nat Geo Traveler’s World in Focus Contest, but (as I mentioned I’d be doing in my last post) I spent Friday and the weekend in a National Geographic Photography Workshop with students from across the U.S., Canada, and as far away as Brazil. The experience?…
