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Presents several photographs and excerpts from the February,1925, issue of "National Geographic," which presented one article chronicling a 5,000-mile journey across Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. Observation that the American public was largely unfamiliar with Africa in 1925, and the writer, Felix Shay, was not very objective or sensitive to other cultures.

Presents photographs and captions from the article "Back to Afghanistan," by Maynard Owen Williams and published in 1946. Photograph of Ghanzi, a fortress in Afghanistan; Depiction of the Bamain Buddha, a stone carving; Images of a coppersmith in Kabul; Photograph of a movie poster in Kabul.

Reports that a computer-generate mosaic depicting the topography around Sarajevo became an exhibit at the United Nations (UN) war crimes tribunal at The Hague in the Netherlands. The mosaic as originally being featured in a June 1996 `National Geographic' magazine article about the Bosnian conflict; How the picture was created by Autometric Inc.

Reports on images sent by the Galileo spacecraft that depict the presence of rocks from beneath the moon's crust. Composition of the rocks; Area on the moon where the rocks have been cited; Theory suggested for the presence of these underlying rocks on the moon's surface.