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The capital of Argentina's northernmost province, where the Argentine flag was first shown to the public in 1813, and where Andean indigenous culture meets colonial history on streets still anchored by a cathedral with an 18th-century cedar pulpit.
https://qualla.com/san-salvador-de-jujuy/
#Cities
Where Poland's royal capital survived the wars that destroyed Warsaw, where the Main Square is Europe's largest, where history lives in every stone.
https://qualla.com/krakow/
#Poland #RoyalCapital #MainSquare
White Lady, Brandberg, Namibia
A 2,000-year-old San rock painting hidden deep in Namibia's Brandberg Mountain, once used by colonial authorities to deny African artistic achievement, now recognized as a masterwork of indigenous art.
https://qualla.com/the-white-lady-namibia/
#Namibia #RockArt #Archaeology
Albereni Pacific Nummer 2 auf der SteamExpo 86 in Vancouver
A heritage railway powered by a 1929 Baldwin steam locomotive that spent six years in the repair shop before returning to haul passengers along the Port Alberni waterfront to a historic sawmill.
https://qualla.com/alberni-pacific-railway/
#HeritageRailways #IndustrialHistory #BritishColumbia
The Taj and the Yamuna River from the ramparts of Agra Fort.
Where the Taj Mahal stands as love's monument in white marble, where Mughal emperors ruled India from red sandstone forts, where one building eclipses the city that holds it.
https://qualla.com/agra/
#India #TajMahal #Mughal
Davis Mountains., Texas, USA.
A volcanic sky island in West Texas where ancient forests cling to peaks above the desert, and where America's darkest skies reveal the cosmos from one of the highest roads in the state.
https://qualla.com/davis-mountains/
#Mountain ranges of Texas #Landforms of Jeff Davis County, Texas
State Fair of Texas 2008, at Fair Park, Dallas, Texas: Big Tex
Born as a 49-foot Santa Claus in the small town of Kerens, rebuilt as a 52-foot cowboy for the State Fair of Texas, burned to his iron skeleton on his 60th birthday, and resurrected the following year -- Big Tex has had more lives than most Texans.
https://qualla.com/big-tex/
#Landmarks
Full size it is 17.000 x 2500 pixels so maybe you need to see it larger. On the left you can see the national congress and the river and skyscrappers far in the back of the panorama. Made from several shots stitched to make a 42 megapixels final image.
Where tango was born in the brothels and bars, where European immigrants built a Paris of the South, where economic crisis and cultural brilliance define the Argentine capital.
https://qualla.com/buenos-aires/
#Argentina #Tango #European
Photo of east side of Cedros Island, Baja California
A fog-shrouded island off Baja California where 11,000-year-old fishhooks suggest some of the earliest Americans arrived by boat, and where endemic species evolved in isolation.
https://qualla.com/cedros-island/
#Cedros Island #Islands of Ensenada Municipality #California chaparral and woodlands
MAN BATHING IN PAGOSA HOT SPRING, COLORADO - NARA - 524321.jpg
The world's deepest known geothermal hot springs, where 9,000 years of human history bubble up from volcanic depths that scientists still cannot measure.
https://qualla.com/pagosa-hot-springs/
#HotSprings #Geology #IndigenousHistory
Downtown Tucson, Arizona taken from Sentinel Peak.
The desert city surrounded by saguaro cacti, where the Mission San Xavier del Bac has stood since 1797, and where Pima and Spanish and Mexican and American layers create the authentic Old West.
https://qualla.com/tucson/
#Arizona #Tucson #Desert
Chaparral 2E on display on the Petroleum Basin Museum
Where oil derricks meet race cars: a West Texas museum celebrating the industry that shaped a region and the speed machines born from its wealth.
https://qualla.com/permian-basin-petroleum-museum/
#Museum #PetroleumIndustry #Motorsport
Panoramic view of Punta Arenas, Chile
The windswept capital of Chilean Patagonia - a city of grand 19th-century mansions on the Strait of Magellan where Shackleton resupplied, penguins waddle on nearby beaches, and the road to Cape Horn begins.
https://qualla.com/punta-arenas/
#Chile #Patagonia #StraitOfMagellan
Courtyard and fountain, Mission San Buenaventura
The ninth and final mission founded by Junipero Serra, San Buenaventura has endured fires, earthquakes, pirates, and wars across nearly 250 years of continuous worship.
https://qualla.com/mission-san-buenaventura/
#Spanish missions in California #1782 in The Californias
Copped from Apollo-Soyuz Test Project photo AST-01-039 to show Aituctaki Atoll in the Cook Islands. North is up and slightly to the right.
Hawaii before the hotels - fifteen Polynesian islands scattered across two million square kilometers of Pacific, where lagoons glow impossible turquoise and more Cook Islanders live in New Zealand than at home.
https://qualla.com/cook-islands/
#Polynesia #Pacific #Islands
Downtown Tucson, Arizona taken from Sentinel Peak.
Arizona's oldest incorporated city began as a Spanish presidio, became a Confederate capital for ten months, and is now America's first UNESCO City of Gastronomy -- a desert metropolis where five mountain ranges frame 4,000 years of continuous human habitation.
https://qualla.com/tucson-arizona/
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles (CA-135) firing a SSM-N-8 Regulus I missile, on 7 August 1957. The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) is visible in the right background, the missile test ship USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) is visible behind the crane. Original caption: "West Coast Cruisers Capable of Nuclear Assault -- A Regulus I boils white smoke from booster charges as it roars away from its launcher aboard the heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles off San Diego. The launch, a routine evaluation 'shoot', was conducted during the time that 600 members of the Institute of Aeronautical Science were embarked aboard the attack carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), right. The demonstration, which included a 'Terrier' guided missile interception of the Regulus, power exhibition, carrier operations, and a HUK exercise, was highlighted by the Regulus launching. The Terrier was fired at the Regulus from the USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), background, on August 7." (Text quoted from the original photo caption, which was released by Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, on 9 August 1957.)
A Baltimore-class heavy cruiser that served as Admiral Arleigh Burke's flagship during the Korean War, now remembered through preserved remnants at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.
https://qualla.com/uss-los-angeles-ca-135/
#BaltimoreClass cruisers #Korean War cruisers of the United States
Aerial view of Crystal Springs Reservoir (and behind it, San Andreas Lake) in February 2018
The world's oldest mass concrete dam sits just 1,100 feet from the San Andreas Fault, having survived both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes that devastated the region around it.
https://qualla.com/crystal-springs-dam/
#Buildings and structures in San Mateo County, California #Dams in California
Imágenes paisajísticas
Nestled in the Andean foothills where glacial lakes mirror snow-capped peaks, Argentina's chocolate capital blends Swiss alpine charm with world-class skiing, craft breweries, and gateway access to Patagonian wilderness.
https://qualla.com/san-carlos-de-bariloche/
#Outdoors #Skiing #FoodAndDrink
In the foreground are the hoodoos of the Chiricahua Natinal Monument (see below for another view of these geological structures). In the distance is the caldera of the Turkey Creek volcano, which erupted 27 million years ago. An information placque says, "The eruption of the Turkey Creek Caldera was 1,000 times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. It spewed more than 100 cubic miles of magma, in the form of incandescent ash and pumice, into the atmosphere and buried a region of at least 1,200 square miles. This thick blanket of ash and pumice fusd to form the rhyolite tuff we see today. Tn places it is 2,000 feet thick. The ash clouds circled the globe, affecting weather for years afterward.
A forest of stone pinnacles born from volcanic fury 25 million years ago, rising from the desert like a fever dream of geological possibility.
https://qualla.com/chiricahua-national-monument/
#National monuments #Protected areas of Arizona #Sky islands
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
The largest great house in Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito was the center of the Ancestral Puebloan world for nearly three centuries, an 800-room complex whose alignment to solar and lunar cycles reveals a civilization of extraordinary sophistication.
https://qualla.com/pueblo-bonito/
Panorama image of the Harrahs Reno Health Club 5th floor
The birthplace of America's largest casino empire stands silent now, its towers awaiting transformation into apartments after 83 years of neon-lit history.
https://qualla.com/harrah-s-reno/
#Casinos #Hotels #Nevada
Memorial to members of the Coast Miwok, Patwin, Wappo, and Pomo tribes, Mission San Francisco Solano, Sonoma, California
The 21st and final California mission, built after Mexican independence as a strategic bulwark against Russian expansion.
https://qualla.com/mission-san-francisco-solano/
#Spanish missions in California #California Historical Landmarks #History of Sonoma County
Petroglyphs at Orongo, Easter Island, Make Make god.
The most isolated inhabited island on Earth, where nearly a thousand giant stone statues stand guard over a cautionary tale of civilization and collapse.
https://qualla.com/easter-island/
#Islands #Archaeology #Unesco
The mouth of the Aliso/Wood Canyons Regional Park with the Pacific Ocean beyond.
A wilderness preserve where Ice Age geology meets suburban Orange County, sheltering bobcats, bald eagles, and Miocene fossils within view of five cities.
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#Parks in Orange County, California #Regional parks in California #San Joaquin Hills
The peeks and valleys surrounding Machu Picchu like a wreath are almost more beautiful and awing than the site itself. It is lush and rugged terrain with the Urubamba River weaving drunkenly through. From Machu Picchu Mountain you can really get a sense of the high protected plateau Machu Picchu was built on and how remote and inaccessible the site is. It is simply gorgeous country.
The 'Lost City of the Incas' perches on a mountain saddle 8,000 feet above sea level, its dry-stone temples and terraces overlooking the Urubamba River in Peru's Sacred Valley.
https://qualla.com/machu-picchu/
#Unesco #Peru #Inca
Iran — 437 stories on Qualla
437 stories to explore in Iran.
Ancient Persia: Isfahan, Persepolis, the Zagros Mountains, and Persian gardens.
https://qualla.com/iran/
A Kentucky-born drifter who became the self-proclaimed 'Law West of the Pecos,' holding court in a Texas saloon where fines settled every case, the jail was an oak tree with a chain, and the judge kept all the money.
https://qualla.com/roy-bean/
#FrontierJustice #ColorfulCharacters #Texas
Part zoo, part botanical garden, part living laboratory, this Tucson institution has spent seven decades proving that the desert is the lushest landscape most people never knew existed.
https://qualla.com/arizona-sonora-desert-museum/
#Zoos in Arizona #Sonoran Desert
A confederation of seven Native American peoples forced together by federal policy, now united by shared survival and resilience in a remote northern California valley.
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#Cahto