PD Photo: Woman wearing long Afro-textured hair styled in twists; an image of the character Violet Parr of the movie ‘The Incredibles’.
Afro-textured hair (also often referred to as kinky hair, nappy hair, or spiraled hair) is a term referring to the typical texture of Black African hair that has not been altered by hot combs, flat irons or chemicals by perming, relaxing or straightening.
PD Photo: Angelina Jolie and Condoleezza Rice during the World Refugee Day at the National Geographic Society on 15 June 2005.
PD Image: The Carioca (1882), oil on canvas painting by Brazilian painter Pedro Américo (1843-1903), dimensions 205 cm x 135 cm (80.71 x 53.15 inches), located at Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
PD Photo: Beyoncé Knowles performs "Listen" during "The Beyoncé Experience" in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 7 May 2007, photo by Jen Keys
PD Photo: Beyonce Knowles sings "America the Beautiful" at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2009, during the inaugural opening ceremonies. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform provided military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration. Photo dated 18 January 2009, by Donna Lou Morgan, U.S. Navy.
PD Photo: British pop and R&B singer-songwriter Leona Lewis signs her last autograph before being whisked away for photos at the Flushed Away London premiere, photo dated 23 November 2006 by Steven Braganza. Flushed Away is a 2006 computer animated British film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell, a partnership between Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame, and DreamWorks Animation, and is Aardman's first completely computer-animated feature as opposed to the usual stop-motion.
PD Image: A rabequista árabe (The Arabic fiddler), 1884 oil on canvas painting by Brazilian academic painter, writer and teacher Pedro Américo (1843-1903), dimensions 87.6 cm x 60 cm (34.49 x 23.62 inches), currently located at Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro.
PD Photo: The Cardrona Bra Fence, a controversial tourist attraction in Central Otago, New Zealand, photo taken on 24 March, 2006 by Adam Buczynski
The Cardrona Bra Fence was a controversial tourist attraction in Central Otago, New Zealand, where passers-by started to hang bras on a rural fence. The Bra Fence had its origin on a day between Christmas and New Year 1999, when four women's bras were found hanging to the wire fence. As news spread, more bras began to appear, but the bras were removed anonymously. This attracted more people, and by October 2000, the number of bras was about 200, and in early 2006, the number of bras attached to the fence was about 800. As the fence rested on a public road reserve, the local Council determined the bra fence was a traffic hazard and an eyesore and ordered the bras on the fence to be removed. It seems that the Bra Fence is a piece of history now, but there are thousands of photos of the Bra Fence on the worldwide web for posterity.
PD Photo: Indian Peafowl (Peacock), white mutation, photographed at Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
The photo shows a white mutant Indian Peafowl (Peacock) maintained by inbreeding in many parks worldwide such as this one at the Jardin des Plantes, the main botanical garden in France.
The Indian Peafowl or Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a large brightly coloured pheasant native to South Asia, but introduced in many other parts of the world. The commonly used name for the bird is peacock for the male and peahen for the female bird. The Latin genus name Pavo and the Anglo-Saxon Pawe, from which the word Peacock is derived, are echoic in their origin and based on the usual call of the bird. The earliest usage of the word in written English is from around 1300 and the spelling variants include pecok, pokok, pokokke, poocok, pekok, pecokk, peacocke, peocock, pyckock, poucock, pocok, etc. The Greek word for Peacock was taos and was related to the Persian ‘tavus’, as in Takht-i-Tâvus for the famous Peacock Throne. The Hebrew words tuk/ tukkiyim have been derived from the Tamil word tokei but sometimes traced to the Egyptian word tekh.
PD Photo: Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), photographed on August 30, 2007 by Dick Mudde in Diergaarde Blijdorp (Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde, Foundation Royal Zoo of Rotterdam, one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands).
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), a subspecies of tigers found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, have unique genetic markers, which isolate Sumatran tigers from all other mainland subspecies of tigers. The Sumatran tiger is only found naturally in Sumatra, a large island in western Indonesia. The smallest of all surviving tiger subspecies, the male Sumatran Tiger has average 204 cm (6 feet 8 inches) length and weigh about 136 kg (300 lb) and tigresses of this subspecies average 198 cm (6 feet 6 inches) in length weighing about 91 kg (200 lb). They have webbing between their toes that help Sumatran tigers swim very fast.
PD Image: DIGNITY & RESPECT (2001), a U.S. Army training guide on the homosexual conduct policy
The guide titled “DIGNITY & RESPECT” was issued in 2001 to deal with homosexual conduct, evidence gathering, credible witnesses, admission of guilt, harassment and additional army resources. Source: Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Dept. of the Army. Libraries that have a copy in their holdings: Pritzger Military Library and Michigan State University, online copy of the entire guide available at www.ep.tc/problems/38/cvr.html
PD Image: A page from the U.S. Army training guide on the homosexual conduct policy dealing with the definition of homosexuality.
The U.S. Army (Army Regulation 600-20, Army Command Policy, Chapter 4-19) defines homosexual conduct as an act or a statement that demonstrates a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts, the solicitation of another to engage in homosexual act or acts, or a homosexual marriage or attempted marriage.
Licensing: As an original work of the U.S. federal government, these images are in the public domain.
