Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Kristen Stewart at the 82nd Academy Awards

Photo: Kristen Stewart of Twilight Saga fame at 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood on 7 March 2010, photo by Sgt. Michael Connors, U.S. Army

American actress Kristen Stewart (born April 9, 1990), though was in several films since she started acting in 1999, received much attention and appreciation for her performance in “Panic Room” in 2002. It was followed by creditable performances in several films before she became an international craze with her performance as Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga series.

Stewart has also acted in a number of successful films other than the Twilight franchise and has won many coveted awards. Vanity Fair listed her as the highest-earning actress in the Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010. She also appeared in Forbes' List of Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck in 2011, and Forbes also named her the highest paid actress in 2012.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus at children's party

Public Domain Photo: Members of the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) committee aboard USS Bataan enact Santa Claus, Mrs. Santa Claus and their elves at the children's holiday party held at Haygood Skating Center - Virginia Beach, Va. (4 Dec 2007), U.S. Navy photo by Stephen Oleksiak

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

HSV-X1 Joint Venture of US Navy

The multi-service high speed vessel, HSV-X1 Joint Venture pulls into the port of Souda Bay, Crete, on Apr 3, 2002. The 315-foot-long experimental craft is a wave-piercing catamaran capable of 45 knots and is currently being operated by joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy personnel. Joint Venture’s naval employments include replenishment and re-supply at sea, special operations insertion and redeployment, reconnaissance, command and control, anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare, humanitarian assistance and evacuation, surface warfare and force protection. This ship has served a deployment in Operation Enduring Freedom, spending time around the Horn of Africa, the region containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Author: U.S. Navy photo by Paul Farley.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

$1 currency note series of 1917 of the United States

$1 currency note series of 1917 of the United States

This is a public domain image of $1 currency note series of 1917 of the United States. Image dimension 640 × 279 pixels, file size: 62.3 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg, a unit of currency issued by the United States of America. It is solely a work of the United States government, is ineligible for copyright, and is therefore in the public domain. Fraudulent use of this image is punishable under applicable counterfeiting laws. Both one-dollar coins and notes are issued currently. But the note form is more common. In the past, paper money was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s).