ITR4756209: Le canal du Midi - Relais de Pigasse. At 60 years old, under Louis XIV, engineer Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. Photography 2005 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4660846: Tokyo night view - Tokyo at Night - Tokyo night view from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 5, 2008. The green blue colour of urban lighting is due to the use of mercury vapour lamps. This nighttime photograph of Tokyo, Japan, was taken by an International Space Station astronaut on February 5, 2008. The heart of the city is brightest, with ribbons of lights radiating outward from the center along streets and railways. The regularly spaced bright spots along one of the ribbons heading almost due west out of the downtown area are probably train stations along a public transit route. The lights of Tokyo are a cooler blue - green color than many other world cities. The color results from the more widespread use of mercury vapor lighting as opposed to sodium vapor lighting, which produces an orange - yellow light / Bridgeman Images
PIX4661018: Aral Sea view from 1973 to 2000 - Aral sea 1973 to 2000 - Northern part of the Aral Sea observed by Landsat satellites from 1973 to 2000. In 30 years, 60% of this lake has disappeared. Left, May 29, 1973, middle, August 19, 1987, right, July 29, 2000. The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake, a body of fresh water. In the last 30 years, more than 60 percent of the lake has disappeared. The sequence of images, acquired by Landsat satellites, shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000. Left is an image taken on May 29 1973, middle is an image taken on August 19 1987, right is an image taken on July 29 2000 / Bridgeman Images
MDA4661102: Gare du Nord to Paris 75010. Construction 1861-1865, architect Jakob Hittorff (1792-1867), renovation of amenagement 2008-2010, Jean Marie Duthilleul. The third station in the world after Tokyo (Japan) and Chicago (Illinois, USA), the station welcomes 500,000 passengers every day., Duthilleul, Jean Marie (b.1952) / Bridgeman Images
MDA4661143: Gare du Nord to Paris 75010. Construction 1861-1865, architect Jakob Hittorff (1792-1867), renovation of amenagement 2008-2010, Jean Marie Duthilleul. The third station in the world after Tokyo (Japan) and Chicago (Illinois, USA), the station welcomes 500,000 passengers every day., Duthilleul, Jean Marie (b.1952) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4661339: Hotel Latitude 43 in Saint Tropez (Var). Architect Georges Henri Pingusson (1894-1978), 1931-1933. Long white concrete bar, this 110-room old hotel dominates the city. Since 1998, this very symbolic place of the modern movement has become a co-ownership of individual accommodations. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4661776: Estemmenosuchus mirabilis - Artist's view of an Estemmenosuchus mirabilis 255 million years ago in Russia. These disappeared animals were not dinosaurs but herbivorous mammalian reptiles (Therapsides) living in Permian. An Estemmenosuchus mirabilis stands before a lake 255 million years ago in what is today the Perm region of Russia near the Ural Mountains. An ungainly plant-eater, it was the largest animal of its day and is known for its distinctive horns. Maybe not the most handsome of beasts, Estemmenosuchus mirabilis was an early ancestor of today's mammals. In this image it stands among several varieties of fern while cycads known as Bjuvia simplex populate the far side of the lake / Bridgeman Images
PIX4661960: Cryolophosaur - Cryolophosaurus - Cryolophosaur is the first dinosaur found in Antarctica by paleontologists. About 7 metres long, this carnivore lived at the beginning of the Jurassic about 190 million years ago. Over 20 feet long and weighing as much as a ton, Cryolophosaurus is the first dinosaur to have been unearthed by paleontologists in Antarctica. This formidable predator hunted 190 million years ago during the Early Jurassic period. While the Earth was warmer and Antarctica closer to the equator during Cryolophosaurus' time, the continent was still far enough south for the climate to be temperate rather than tropical. Much of Antarctica was likely covered by dense forests, at least near the coasts. Cryolophosaurus 'remains were found on a mountain range that would have placed it at an altitude of about 10,000 feet and 1,000 miles from the South Pole during its reign / Bridgeman Images