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A plane flies under a thin layer cloud crossing the sun as Venus (R

A plane flies under a thin layer cloud crossing the sun as Venus (R) moves past the sun are seen through a coelostat at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012. The planet Venus made a slow transit across the face of the sun on Tuesday, the last such passing that will be visible from Earth for 105 years. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Zouaves In Bayonet Practice

Two Zouaves of the Union Army practice the use of bayonets with Ernst's Bayonet Guard as an officer looks on during the Civil War. In the background two other Zouaves talk and an American flag flies over a collection of military tents. Zouaves wore a distinctive uniform of baggy pants (usually red) and short jackets in imitation of French and Turkish units of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. (Image by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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The Christmas Camp on the Plateau, December 1908, (1909). Artist: Ernest Shackleton

The Christmas Camp on the Plateau. The figures from left to right are [Jameson] Adams, [Eric] Marshall and [Frank] Wild. The frost can be seen on the men's faces, December 1908, (1909). Expedition members stand in front of a pyramidal tent on a flat snow field. A loaded sledge stands next to the tent, a union jack flies from one flag pole. A theodolite stands on a tripod to one side, ice-axes stand in the snow. Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic. During the second expedition, 1907-1909, he and three companions established a new record, Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, or 180 km) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Members of his team also climbed Mount Erebus, the most active volcano in the Antarctic. Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII for these achievements. He died during his third and last oceanographic and sub-antarctic expedition, aged 47. Illustration from The Heart of the Antarctic, Vol. I, by E. H. Shackleton, C.V.O. [William Heinemann, London, 1909]

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