Fishermen are lifted out from the water by a crane in La Libertad, El Salvador, 35 km south of San Salvador on May 29, 2008. The Salvadorean goverment declared a green alert warning for tropical storm Alma which is affecting the Pacific coast of four Central American countries.
Fishermen rest beside their boats in La Libertad, El Salvador, 35 km south of San Salvador on May 29, 2008. The Salvadorean goverment declared a green alert warning for tropical storm Alma which is affecting the Pacific coast of four Central American countries.
RView of houses which were flooded by the Parritas River during heavy rains in Parritas town, some 150 kilometers southeast of San Jose, on May 29, 2008. The Costa Rican goverment declared red alert in the South Pacific and Central Valley for Tropical Storm Alma which is already hitting four Central American countries with heavy rains.
A Costa Rican Red Cross ambulance crosses the bridge over Parritas River looking for people to be taken to a shelter during heavy rains in Parritas, some 150 kilometers southeast of San Jose on May 29, 2008. The Costa Rican goverment declared red alert in the South Pacific and Central Valley for Tropical Storm Alma which is already hitting four Central American countries with heavy rains.
A motorcyclist crosses a bridge over "Quebrada Seca" river under heavy rain in Belen de Heredia, on May 29, 2008 some 20 km North of San Jose. Costa Rican goverment declared a red alert in the South Pacific and Central Valley for Tropical Storm Alma which is already hitting four Central American countries with heavy rains.
This image released Thursday, May 29, 2008 by Survival International, shows uncontacted Indians of the Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River, in the Brazilian state of Acre, close to the border with Peru, photographed during a flight in May 2008.
This image released Thursday, May 29, 2008 by Survival International, shows uncontacted Indians of the Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira river, in the Brazilian state of Acre, close to the border with Peru, photographed during a flight in May 2008.
This image released Thursday, May 29, 2008 by Survival International, shows uncontacted Indians of the Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River, in the Brazilian state of Acre, close to the border with Peru, photographed during a flight in May 2008.
An aerial view of the gas emission from the crater of a mud volcano in Porong, East Java province May 29, 2008. Two years after a mud volcano started erupting on Indonesia's Java island, thousands of people who lost their homes are still living in squalid makeshift shelters with no signs the flow of sludge is about to stop soon.
An aerial view of the gas emission from the crater of a mud volcano in Porong, East Java province May 29, 2008. Two years after a mud volcano started erupting on Indonesia's Java island, thousands of people who lost their homes are still living in squalid makeshift shelters with no signs the flow of sludge is about to stop soon.
An aerial view of houses flooded by hot mud from the crater of a mud volcano in Porong, East Java province May 29, 2008. Two years after a mud volcano started erupting on Indonesia's Java island, thousands of people who lost their homes are still living in squalid makeshift shelters with no signs the flow of sludge is about to stop soon.
Villagers who lost their homes pray for the mud and gas to stop flowing near the crater of a mud volcano in Porong, East Java province May 29, 2008. Two years after a mud volcano started erupting on Indonesia's Java island, thousands of people who lost their homes are still living in squalid makeshift shelters with no signs the flow of sludge is about to stop soon.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a landslide near the Tangjiashan earthquake-induced lake blows up dust in Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The lake is at risk of bursting and threatens thousands of people downstream. Some 30 excavators are working non-stop to dig a diversion channel to drain the lake, which is expected to complete within 5 to 7 days if weather permits, Xinhua said.
Earthquake survivors walk their home in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
Earthquake survivors walk their home in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
Soldiers clean up the rubble from a collapsed building in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
A young earthquake survivor sits next to the rubble of a house collapsed by May 12 earthquake in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
A woman sorts out shoes she dug out from the rubble as she waits for customers at Jiulong in the city of Mianzhu in China's Sichuan province on Wednesday May 28, 2008. A massive quake struck the country's southwest region on May 12.
In this May 19, 2008 file photo, an earthquake survivor washes his clothes next to a collapsed buildings in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Few among the 28 million people living in the Belgium-sized disaster area in Sichuan province have life or property insurance, a lack that will drive up the cost of recovery and make survivors dependent upon government assistance.
A teacher carries a sick student to a first aid post after the boy fell sick during a ceremony to start classes at a temporary primary school in earthquake-hit Qingchuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan province Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Chinese earthquake survivors look down on the destroyed city of Beichuan as they evacuate the area in China's Sichuan province Wednesday, May 28, 2008. More than 150,000 people have been evacuated and dozens of villages emptied in case the newly formed Tangjiashan lake, located about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) above the devastated town of Beichuan, bursts before soldiers and engineers can drain it, state media said Wednesday.
A huge mound of earth from a landslide caused by the May 12 earthquake blocks the river inside the destroyed city of Beichuan in China's Sichuan province Wednesday, May 28, 2008. More than 150,000 people have been evacuated and dozens of villages emptied in case the newly formed Tangjiashan lake, located about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) above the devastated town of Beichuan, bursts before soldiers and engineers can drain it, state media said Wednesday.
Emanuel C. Perlman of Baltimore portrays Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten during the 14th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference Friday, May 2, 2008 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Speakers at the conference, which examines each year the illnesses or deaths of a different historical figure, discussed the strange feminine appearance of Akhenaten.
This Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007 file photo shows a limestone relief "Part of a Balustrade Depicting the Aten, Akhenaten, and his Family" at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. A Yale University doctor who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has concluded that Akhenaten's female form was due to a genetic mutation that caused his body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed.
Art Institute of Chicago. A Yale University doctor who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has concluded that Akhenaten's female form was due to a genetic mutation that caused his body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed.
In this Wednesday, July 12, 2000 file photo, a statue of Akhenaten guards the entrance to the Pharaohs of the Sun exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. A Yale University doctor who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has concluded that Akhenaten's female form was due to a genetic mutation that caused his body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed.
This undated handout photo from the Discovery Channel shows Egyptologist Dr. Joann Fletcher studying the mummy believed to be Nefertiti in a side chamber of royal tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings. The Discovery Channel announced in June 2003 the possible discovery by Egyptologist Dr. Joann Fletcher of the long-lost co-regent of Pharaoh Akhenaten from the late XVII dynasty, about 3,000 years ago. As part of the cable network's new initiative Discovery Channel Quest, Fletcher and a team of experts used state-of-the-art digital technology to reconstruct the mummy's face.
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320Hist&Civ/chapters/10AKHEN.htm
http://www.lost-civilizations.net/ancient-egypt-egiptian-pharaoh-akhenaten-nefertiti.html
http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/cairo%20museum/cm,%20akhenaten/pages/akhenaten.htm
Visitors look at "Elizabeth Beaufoy" (R) by Thomas Gainsborough in the18th-century British portraits gallery, at the Huntington Art Gallery in Pasadena, California, May 28, 2008. The Huntington Art Gallery reopens to the Public and visitors can see two masterpieces, ÒPinkieÓ by Thomas Lawrence and ÒThe Blue BoyÓ by Thomas Gainsborough, for the first time in their lavishly refurbished home.
Visitors looks at ÒPinkieÓ by Thomas Lawrence in the 18th-century British portraits gallery, at the Huntington Art Gallery in Pasadena, California, on May 28, 2008. The Huntington Art Gallery reopens to the public today and visitors can see two masterpieces, ÒPinkieÓ by Thomas Lawrence and ÒThe Blue BoyÓ by Thomas Gainsborough, for the first time in their lavishly refurbished home.
A visitor looks at "Diana the Huntress" a 1782's bronze by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Huntington Art Gallery in Pasadena, California, May 28, 2008. The Huntington Art Gallery reopens to the Public and visitors can see two masterpieces, ÒPinkieÓ by Thomas Lawrence and ÒThe Blue BoyÓ by Thomas Gainsborough, for the first time in their lavishly refurbished home.
Visitors look at ÒThe Blue BoyÓ (C) and "Elizabeth Beaufoy" (R) by Thomas Gainsborough and "Diana, Viscountess Crosbie" (L) by Joshua Reynolds in the18th-century British portraits gallery, at the Huntington Art Gallery in Pasadena, California, May 28, 2008. The Huntington Art Gallery reopens to the Public and visitors can see two masterpieces, ÒPinkieÓ by Thomas Lawrence and ÒThe Blue BoyÓ by Thomas Gainsborough, for the first time in their lavishly refurbished home.
People visit the18th-century British portraits gallery, at the Huntington Art Gallery in Pasadena, California, May 28, 2008. The Huntington Art Gallery reopens to the Public and visitors can see two masterpieces, ÒPinkieÓ by Thomas Lawrence and ÒThe Blue BoyÓ by Thomas Gainsborough, for the first time in their lavishly refurbished home.
People walk near a canal crammed with garbage in Mumbai May 20, 2008. The city, which dreams of becoming a global financial centre, spends about 1 billion rupees ($25 million) each year on bracing itself for monsoon downpours, the municipal authority said. Picture taken May 20, 2008.
An excavator picks up garbage from a canal in Mumbai May 20, 2008. The city, which dreams of becoming a global financial centre, spends about 1 billion rupees ($25 million) each year on bracing itself for monsoon downpours, the municipal authority said. Picture taken May 20, 2008.
Children play near an excavator as it clears garbage from a canal in Mumbai May 20, 2008. The city, which dreams of becoming a global financial centre, spends about 1 billion rupees ($25 million) each year on bracing itself for monsoon downpours, the municipal authority said. Picture taken May 20, 2008.
Children watch as an excavator picks up a pile of garbage from a canal in Mumbai May 20, 2008. The city, which dreams of becoming a global financial centre, spends about 1 billion rupees ($25 million) each year on bracing itself for monsoon downpours, the municipal authority said. Picture taken May 20, 2008.
Children play in a canal crammed with garbage in Mumbai May 20, 2008. The city, which dreams of becoming a global financial centre, spends about 1 billion rupees ($25 million) each year on bracing itself for monsoon downpours, the municipal authority said. Picture taken May 20, 2008.
This combo of handout satellite colour-enhanced images provided by Taiwan's National Space Organisation (NSPO) on May 27, 2008 shows the progression of a swelling lake created by the devastating Sichuan earthquake, caused by a landslide that blocked the Jian river in Beichuan county. The top and middle two images were taken on May 14, 2008 showing the river after the earthquake and then swelling from 19.2 hectares to 40.9 and then a third image (bottom) taken on May 19, 2008 swelling to 85.4 hectares (211 acres). Troops armed with dynamite are scrambling to blast through a huge wall of debris that is damming the rising "quake lake" in southwest China and putting more than a million people at risk.
A gerenal view of the earthquake-hit city of Beichuan following the massive quake with a magnitude of 8.0 on May 12, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 27, 2008. Troops armed with dynamite scrambled on May 27 to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people.
A man points at Tangjiashan lake which is holding 130 million cubic metres (4.6 billion cubic feet) of water created when the quake triggered a landslide that blocked the Jian river near the earthquake-hit city of Beichuan following the massive quake with a magnitude of 8.0 on May 12, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 27, 2008. Troops armed with dynamite scrambled on May 27 to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people.
A general view of the earthquake-hit city of Beichuan following the massive quake with a magnitude of 8.0 on May 12, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 27, 2008. Troops armed with dynamite scrambled on May 27 to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people.
A lake (top) is seen near Beichuan county, one of worst earthquake-hit cities following the massive quake with a magnitude of 8.0 on May 12, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 27, 2008. Troops armed with dynamite scrambled on May 27 to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people.
Smoke and ash rise from Chaiten volcano, located some 1220 km (758 miles) south of Santiago May 24, 2008. Chaiten was declared off-limits for three months, on May 11, until it is no longer threatened by a cloud of hot ash from the erupting Chaiten volcano. Picture taken May 24, 2008.
An aerial view after the flooded Chaiten town in southern Chile May 24, 2008. Chaiten was declared off-limits for three months, on May 11, until it is no longer threatened by a cloud of hot ash from the erupting Chaiten volcano.Picture taken May 24, 2008.
An aerial view after the flooded Chaiten town in southern Chile May 24, 2008. Chaiten was declared off-limits for three months, on May 11, until it is no longer threatened by a cloud of hot ash from the erupting Chaiten volcano.Picture taken May 24, 2008.
An aerial view after the flooded Chaiten town in southern Chile May 24, 2008. Chaiten was declared off-limits for three months, on May 11, until it is no longer threatened by a cloud of hot ash from the erupting Chaiten volcano.Picture taken May 24, 2008.
A view of a street after the Rio Blanco flooded an area in Chaiten town May 12, 2008. Volcanic ash raining down from the Chilean volcano Chaiten may cause long-term environmental damage and harm the health of people and animals in picturesque Patagonia, scientists say. Picture taken May 12, 2008.
