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2 unusual facts about ''National Geographic''


National Geographic

National Geographic Society, an American non-profit scientific and educational institution

National Geographic Channel, a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society


10 Ways to End the World

The series is produced by Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) and was aired on Kunskapskanalen (in English: The Knowledge Channel) in December 2010 under the Swedish name Mänsklighetens sista dagar (Last days of Man) and on National Geographic and Arte in 2012.

Adventist Health Studies

These studies have been the subject of significant national media coverage on programs such as ABC News: World News Tonight, Good Morning America and in the National Geographic feature article "Longevity: The Secrets of a Long Life".

Andreas Troeger

He recently traveled to Cambodia as director of photography to shoot and edit a documentary about Robert Clark (National Geographic Photographer) using a Nokia cellphone camera to document Phnom Penh and Siam Reep (Angkor Wat).

Andrew Cockburn

Apart from his books he has written for National Geographic, Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, CounterPunch, Condé Nast Traveler, New York Times, and the Dungarvan Observer.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Art Cooley

Jonathan Cooley, Art's son from his previous marriage, is a paleontologist and expedition leader for National Geographic, as well as for family programs and camps.

Battle of Blackett Strait

In what National Geographic called a "poorly planned and badly coordinated" attack, 15 boats with 60 available torpedoes went into action.

Broghol

According to the National Geographic Genographic Project, Broghol Pass appears to be the route used by the ancestors of all modern Western Europeans to reach Europe.

Chiemsee Cauldron

In an interview with National Geographic, jeweler Maximillian Heiden opined that Gahr would have been the obvious choice of the Nazi Party for such a project.

CZ12

JC visits a man named Professor Guan, who had created 12 identical replicas for study purposes with his team of researchers, under the pretense that he is a reporter named Martin from National Geographic.

Dallol, Ethiopia

Dallol became more known in the West in 2004 when it was featured in the Channel 4/National Geographic documentary Going to Extremes.

Dan Cruickshank

In 2010, he embarked on a 3 part series on the history of the railways in Britain for National Geographic TV channel, including visits to Chester to examine the events surrounding the Dee bridge disaster of 1847, and Manchester for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830.

Don Ivan Punchatz

Don Ivan Punchatz (September 8, 1936 - October 22, 2009) was a science fiction and fantasy artist who drew illustrations for numerous books and publications, including magazines such as Heavy Metal, National Geographic, Playboy, and Time.

Donald A. Mackay

His illustrations appeared in Time, LIFE, The New Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and other publications.

Eastern Sierra Regional Airport

On March 13, 1974 a David L. Wolper Productions crew filming a National Geographic history of Australopithecus at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area was killed when the Convair 440 Sierra Pacific Airlines plane crashed shortly after take off from the airport killing all 35 on board including 31 Wolper crew members (but not Wolper himself).

Elemental Technologies

Media and entertainment companies using Elemental products include the BBC, Big Ten Network, CBS Interactive, Columbus Communications, Comcast, Deltatre, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Foxtel, HBO, MLB, National Geographic, NBA, NHK, PBS, QVC, Telefonica, Terra Networks, TF1, VMMA, Warner Bros., WRN Broadcast, Viacom and Vubiquity.

Feast of St. Anthony

National Geographic christened St. Anthony’s feast as “The feast of all feasts”.

Field guide

Specialist publishers such as Croom Helm, along with organisations like the Audubon Society, the RSPB, the Field Studies Council, National Geographic, HarperCollins, and many others all produce quality field guides.

Flame jet drill

The devices were featured in a National Geographic documentary "MegaStructures: Deep Earth Drillers" about geothermal energy.

Grassy Park

Neighboring Parkwood was featured in the National Geographic television series Taboo: Blood Bonds for its street gangs, particularly The Americans, Hard Living and Clever Kids.

Heinz Sielmann

During the collaboration on some National Geographic wildlife documentaries in the late 1960s he met Walon Green with whom he worked as additional photographer on the Academy Award-winning documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle about insects in 1971.

Ila Loetscher

Loetscher appeared in National Geographic documentaries and on numerous television shows, including the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, the Today Show, and Real People.

Inov-8

2008 - Won National Geographic Adventure Gear of the Year Award for Roclite 370

Joe Judge

Judge's son Joseph Judge became a writer and editor, most notably at National Geographic.

John Varty

In 2011, National Geographic made a second documentary called Tiger Man of Africa.

Joris Putman

He has developed his own programme for young people "Green Dream District" about new sustainable inventions which will show on "National Geographic" Youth from January 2009.

JP Aerospace

Since then, JP Aerospace has worked with a number of clients interested in launching cameras into the upper atmosphere via balloons, including The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Toshiba (for their 2009 television commercial Space Chair).

Kishor Parekh

Parekh's work appeared in numerous national and international publications including National Geographic, Paris Match, Sunday Times, Time magazine, Stern, Popular Photography and Asahi Graphic.

Lois H. Gresh

They have been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Science News, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, and US News and World Report, as well as by National Public Radio, the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, and other television and radio programs.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Besides writing, Bledsoe is a CD-ROM script writer for National Geographic and several other educational organizations, e.g. George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Marden House

Also known as "Fontinalis," it is named after Luis Marden (1913-2003), a writer, photographer, and explorer for National Geographic.

Marsel van Oosten

His images are used worldwide in advertising, design, and magazines such as National Geographic, GEO, Audubon and Science Illustrated.

Mêdog County

A modern journey by Ian Baker and his National Geographic-sponsored team to Pemakö received book-length treatment in his 1994 The Heart of the World.

Mercy Murugi

She has worked with National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC, amongst other global production houses and TV channels.

Northern Blue Entertainment

Working primarily in television, Northern Blue Entertainment has produced content for A&E, The Travel Channel, Sundance Channel, National Geographic, Lifetime, E! Entertainment, MTV, and WE: Women's Entertainment.

Parallax Film Productions Inc.

Parallax Film documentaries have aired on several networks including Discovery Channels (US, Canada and International), National Geographic Channels (US, Canada and International), History Channel (US), Channel 4 (UK), FIVE (UK), DMAX (Germany), RAI (Italy), TV Asahi (Japan), PBS NOVA and Nature and History Television (Canada).

Peahi, Hawaii

An article by Joel Achenbach on Jaws appeared in the November 1998 issue of National Geographic magazine, both photographed by Patrick McFeeley.

Poonjar

Raghubir Singh, the famed National Geographic photographer, has published photographs of this temple, nestled in the foothills of the high ranges of Kerala, in National Geographic.

Raymond Ameijide

Ameijide served as an illustrator a variety of clients, including Fortune, National Geographic, IBM, Pfizer, TV Guide, Chase Manhattan, Discover, Harcourt Brace and the United States Post Office (per his obituary January 12, 2000, TheJournalNews.com).

Shivang Mehta

He has conducted more than 100 field programs across forests of India, Africa and Sri Lanka in collaboration with brands like Canon, SanDisk, National Geographic - to name a few.

Tabango, Leyte

On January 17, 2008, Tabango Mayor Bernard Jonathan Remandaban opened (soft) the almost complete P 5.8 million modern, fully air-conditioned library: “It took us 6 years to construct our municipal library.” The library can accommodate 20,000 books, has 5 computer units with Internet access and a flat television set that only carries the National Geographic and Discovery Channels.

Tequan Richmond

He appeared in magazine ads such as Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Newsweek, and National Geographic, as well as a national Nestlé print ad.

The Adventure of Archaeology

The Adventure of Archaeology (ISBN 978-0-87044-603-0) is a 1985 book written by Dr. Brian M. Fagan, published by the National Geographic press publishing company.

Water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia

For example, according to an article by Tina Rosenberg for National Geographic, in the mountain-top village Foro in the Konso special woreda of southwestern Ethiopia women make three to five round trips per day to fetch dirty water from the Koiro river.

Wilber Moore Stilwell

This medal was created by Leonard Baskin (#42) and John Everett Benson, which was given to celebrate the National Gallery of Art's twenty-fifth anniversary and was reported by National Geographic.

Yankee Air Museum

The campaign has attracted national and international attention from media outlets that include National Public Radio, The History Channel magazine, National Geographic TV, The Guardian (UK), and the (UK) Daily Mail.

YUS Conservation Area

TKCP was supported by Conservation International, National Geographic, and BMU (German Ministry for Environment) through KfW (German Development Bank) as part of the International Climate Change Initiative.


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Angie Hobbs

She is a frequent contributor to TV and radio programmes, including contributions to television shows like BBC Two's Timewatch special "Atlantis: The Evidence" and the National Geographic Channel's "Finding Atlantis", and numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg.

Archaeogenetics of the Near East

In 2005, National Geographic launched The Genographic Project, led by 12 prominent scientists and researchers, to study and map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.

Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?

It goes on to state that the Boy Scouts of America will continue to work on marketing plans with National Geographic for "leveraging the show with Scouting audiences and audiences outside of scouting".

Arthur Demarest

Demarest's work with the Maya in Mesoamerica was featured in the "Last Days of the Maya", a 2005 documentary in the television series Explorer, aired on the National Geographic Channel.

Austal USA

The National Geographic Channel series MegaStructures featured an episode in September 2007 that detailed the construction, launch, and sea trials of the Alakai, the first catamaran Hawaii Superferry.

B4E Business for the Environment

The summit once again featured a recurring Youth Dialogue component to encourage students to engage in local environmental projects, with a separate workshop conducted by National Geographic wildlife presenter Hayden Turner.

Barton Seaver

In 2010, Seaver delivered a TED Talk on sustainable seafood aboard the National Geographic Endeavour as part of a conference-at-sea conceived by TED Prize winner and Mission Blue founder Dr. Sylvia Earle as part of the Mission Blue Voyage.

Bruce Kirkby

1999: Blue Nile Gorge; Forty five day descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft as part of National Geographic Expedition; marked by gunfights, hostage taking and crocodile attacks.

Clean Up the World

David de Rothschild - British adventurer, author and National Geographic Fellow

Codex Tchacos

National Geographic, which restored and conserved of the codex, has also created a two-hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, which aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006.

April D. DeConick (the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University) has published a book, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says, questioning both the National Geographic's handling of the Gospel of Judas' publication and the veracity of its translation.

Conversations with Maria Menounos

Rob Lowe's appearance was recorded on November 1st, 2013, and he spoke about his portrayal of presidential icon JFK in National Geographic's "Killing Kennedy", a role in which earned him a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Darius Arya

Since 2005 Rome: Engineering an Empire (History, winner of 2 Emmys), Darius has appeared in over 25 documentaries, including the series Ancients Behaving Badly (History) and When Rome Ruled (National Geographic).

Dirk Schulze-Makuch

It has been the subject of TV programs on the BBC, the National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, and of numerous articles in magazines such as New Scientist, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.

Emerald Web

In addition to recording their music and performing in concert, Emerald Web composed many television soundtracks, including National Geographic, PBS Nova, CNN, Apple Computers, NASA and Carl Sagan's documentary films, winning several Emmy Awards.

Firebase Phoenix

Firebase Phoenix was also featured in the National Geographic movie Restrepo focusing on the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in the Korangal Valley.

Genetic genealogy

Preliminary results from a study by Pierre Zalloua of the American University of Beirut and Spencer Wells were published in the October 2004 issue of National Geographic.

Genographic Project

Kim McKay, National Geographic Consultant and Genographic Legacy Fund committee member

Gerd Ludwig

Gerd Ludwig first photographed the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for National Geographic Magazine in 1993, and then later in 2005.

Graham Reilly

Seconds From Disaster - National Geographic Channel - Episode: Columbia's Last Flight won Gold World Medal 2006 New York Festivals.

One of the most known TV series, Reilly has composed the music for is the National Geographic TV series Seconds From Disaster which has been show in over 140 territories worldwide on the National Geographic network of channels.

Greenberg v. National Geographic

Since National Geographic's victory in the Second Circuit, several publications (including The New Yorker, Playboy, Atlantic Monthly, and Rolling Stone) have either produced or announced plans to produce complete reproductions of their prior paper magazines on DVD or a restricted website for subscribers.

An electronic edition "The Complete National Geographic on CD-ROM and DVD," consisting of over 108 years of an exact image-based reproduction of each and every page of each monthly paper issue of National Geographic magazine, has been tied up in copyright litigation for over ten years by a handful of prior photographers and contributors since shortly after the digital archive was issued in late 1997.

Henry Wetherbee Henshaw

While not working with the National Geographic, Henshaw lobbied, along with George Shiras, to pass the Weeks-McLean Act, otherwise known as the Migratory Bird Law.

Jon Bowermaster

The trips were funded primarily by grants from the National Geographic Expeditions Council and corporate sponsors including Mountain Hardwear, Timberland and others.

Juliett-class submarine

The Juliett unit K-77 while at a the maritime museum in Providence, Rhode Island, was slightly stage modified and used to act as the Hotel I SSBN K-19 in the National Geographic movie "K-19 Widowmaker" starring Harrison Ford.

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

On 19 September 2011, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Seconds From Disaster exploring the chain of events that had led up to the collision.

Mark W. Moffett

He has been compared to Jacques Cousteau and Jane Goodall, and National Geographic has called him “the Indiana Jones of Entomology”.

National Geographic Animal Jam

National Geographic Animal Jam is a massively multiplayer online game launched in 2010 by Smart Bomb Interactive, in partnership with the National Geographic Society.

National Geographic Kids

Shows they produced were Toot & Puddle, Geo Kids, Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies and videos from National Geographic Kids Video.

NGW

Nat Geo Wild, a TV channel focused on animal-related programming, sister network to the National Geographic Channel

Paterson Joseph

Joseph provided the narration for the National Geographic series Mega Cities from 2005 to 2011, and Wild Russia in 2009.

Photo manipulation

There were several cases since the National Geographic case of questionable photo manipulation, including editing a photo of Cher on the cover of Redbook to change her smile and her dress.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen worked as a historical consultant on the 2006 Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, and has appeared in 25 film documentaries including several National Geographic specials, the Discovery Channel, CNN, CNN International, Koch Television, British Broadcasting Corp, Sixty Minutes Australia, CBS, History Channel, ABC 20/20, ABC Primetime Live, ABC Good Morning America, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, TimeLine Films of London,Guatevision, and the Learning Channel.

Robert Madden

Robert W. Madden, staff photographer for National Geographic magazine

Strong City

Lord Our Righteousness Church, New Mexico, a religious community sometimes called Strong City, and the subject of the National Geographic documentary "Inside a Cult"

Thomas Abercrombie

Thomas J. Abercrombie (1930–2006), adventurer, photographer and writer for National Geographic

Tito Mukhopadhyay

He provides unique insights into the nature of his autism, and perhaps autism in general, according to Autism Speaks, the former Cure Autism Now, scientists who studied his case, such as distinguished neuroscientist Dr. Michael Merzenich, and doctors, journalists, and authors at many major media companies such as ABC, CBS, National Geographic, New York Times, Scientific American, PBS, and CNN.

Yurt

North American yurts and yurt derivations were pioneered by William Coperthwaite in the 1960s, after he was inspired to build them by a National Geographic article about Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas's visit to Mongolia.