PIX4660765: Mausolee de Omar Khayyam - Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam - Mausolee de Omar Khayyam, in Nichapur, Khorasan Province, Iran. Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam in the historic city of Nishapur in north east Iran. Khayyam was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer who lived in 11 - 12 century / Bridgeman Images

TEC4704251: A wing of the Cour Carree of the Musee du Louvre, Grand Louvre, Rue de Rivoli and quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Leoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, 1983-2001. Photography 1998. Carree Court Wing / Bridgeman Images

TEC4704352: View of Le Louvre, Grand Louvre from Place du Carrousel, Rue de Rivoli and quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Ieoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, 1983-2001. Photography 1989. Seen on the courtyard Napoleon and the Pyramid of the Louvre / Bridgeman Images

PIX4660984: Aral Sea view by shuttle 08/97 - The Aral Sea observed by shuttle STS-85 in August 1997. Part of the shuttle window is visible at the bottom of the image / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661036: Evaporation of the Aral Sea - Evaporation of the Aral Sea - Comparison of satellite images taken on 19 August 2000 (left) and 16 August 2009 (right) by the Terra satellite. In overprint, the shore of the Aral Sea in 1960. In the first half of the 20th century, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake. In the 1960s, the Sovietic Union began a massive irrigation project in what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, moving water from rivers that feed the Aral Sea to irrigate agricultural land. In August 2009, virtually nothing remains of the eastern lobe of the southern Aral Sea. In 2005, Kazakhstan built the Kok-Aral dam between the northern and southern parts of the lake to successfully preserve water levels in the north. The southern part of the Aral Sea is considered irrecuperable. Comparison of satellite images taken on August 19 2000 (left) and August 16 2009 (right) by satellite Terra. Approximate shoreline in 1960 has been added. The Aral Sea, is actually a lake rather than a sea. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union began a massive irrigation project in what are now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, diverting water from the rivers that feed the Aral Sea to irrigate farmland. Although the Northern Aral Sea (upper right) still appears healthy, the Southern Aral Sea consists of two isolated water bodies: an irregular oval shape directly southwest of the Northern Aral Sea, and the long, thin remainder of the Southern Aral Sea's far western lobe. Although the faintest glimmers of blue - green appear in the eastern lobe, earth tones predominate, surrounded by a ghostly film of pale beige. Lake sediments from this depleted water body have provided ample material for frequent dust storms. Much of what finally doomed the Southern Aral Sea was an attempt to save its neighbor to the north. In 2005, Kazakhstan built the Kok - Aral Dam between the lake's northern and southern p / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661111: Mount Everest by ISS 11/2003 - Mount Everest, Nepal, observed by the International Space Station on 26/11/2003 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661176: Mount Everest seen from space - Himalaya Mountains, Nepal March 1996 - Part of the Himalayan chain with Mount Everest (below the center, on the left), observed by the shuttle Atlantis in March 1996. At the top of the picture, the foggy plains of northern India, at the bottom the Tibetan plateau. The Himalaya Mountains provide a formidable physical barrier between the hazy environmental conditions of north central India (top) and Nepal (middle), and the clear atmosphere of the Tibetan Plateau (lower third of image). Elevation disparities in this region of the world are tremendous. For example the elevations on the Gangetic Plain in India averages about 300 feet (92 meters) above sea level, the foothills (dark - looking features that run laterally across the image) in Nepal average about 2500 feet (762 meters), and finally the snow capped Himalayas average around 24000 feet (7315 meters). Mt. Everest, highest mountain peak in the world at 29028 feet (8848 meters), is visible as an identifiable bright feature (slightly below and left of center). Several east - west aligned fault valleys (result of tectonic forces - collision of plate boundaries) are visible on the sparsely vegetated Tibetan Plateau (China) where the average valley elevation is 15000 feet (4572 meters) above sea level. A small section of the easterly draining Brahmaputra River can be discerned near the lower right corner of the image / Bridgeman Images

TEC4661437: Accommodation avenue Rapp in Paris 75007. Architect Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929), 1901. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661511: Tibet seen by shuttle 10/94 - Tibet, China, observed by shuttle STS-68 on 01/10/1994 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4681256: Depart of the Volunteers of 1792 or “” La Marseillaise””. Sculpture by Francois Rude (1784 - 1855). Top: The Funžrailles of General Marceau on September 20, 1796. L'Arc de Triomphe, Place Charles de Gaulle, Paris 75008. Architecture of Abel Blouet, Jean Francois Chalgrin and Jean-Nicolas L'Abbaye, 1806-1836. Napoleon 1st decided to build an arch to the glory of the Great Armee on the Place de l'Etoile and was inaugurated thirty years later by King Louis Philippe / Bridgeman Images

LBY4681308: The Arc de Triomphe, Paris (photo) / Bridgeman Images

OMG4681650: The house of Emile Zola in Medan, Yvelines, Ile de France, France. In 1878, Emile Zola acquired a small house which he expanded and beautified for eight years. He works there every day from spring to autumn for 24 years. The house has retained the charm and atmosphere of the 19th century: Dutch furniture from the 18th century, stained glass windows from the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries in the dining room and the billiard lounge / Bridgeman Images

TEC4681687: House of the writer Honore de Balzac, Paris 75016. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4681934: A detached house in the Val d'Oise, Ile de France (Ile-De-France), France. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4681943: A detached house in the Val d'Oise, Ile de France (Ile-De-France), France. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4665365: Megalithes - Pointe de La Torche (Brittany) - Megaliths - La Torche, Brittany - Megalithic covered alley erigee at the top of the Pointe de La Torche. The landscape is lit by the Moon, visible in the sky. October 2008. Editing 18 images. 6000 years old megaliths in moonlight at La Torche, Brittany, France. October 2008. Composite of 18 images / Bridgeman Images

TEC4665428: The Museum of Indigenous Cultures of Brasilia (Brazil). Photo 18/04/07. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4665442: The Church Dom Bosco in Brasilia (Brazil), built in 1980. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4665516: The Church Dom Bosco in Brasilia (Brazil), built in 1980. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4665520: Plaque de la rue Delambre in Paris - Street Plaque in Paris - Rue du 14eme arrondissement de Paris, in tribute to Jean - Baptiste Delambre (1749 - 1822). He measured with Pierre Mechain the Meridian arch between Dunkirk and Barcelona. Director of the Paris Observatory from 1804 to 1822. Rue Delambre, street sign. Astronomer and mathematician, Jean-Baptiste Delambre measured the meridian and was director of the Paris observatory / Bridgeman Images

TEC4665537: The Church Dom Bosco in Brasilia (Brazil), built in 1980. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4665686: First public clock of Paris - Paris oldest public clock - First public clock of Paris, commissioned in 1371 by Charles V, redone and decoree under Henri III. It is located on the Clock Tower, at the corner of Boulevard du Palais and Quai de l'Horloge. She's not working anymore and she's lost her needles. Paris 'first clock is on the wall of the Concierge and was built in 1370 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4665706: First public clock of Paris - Paris oldest public clock - First public clock of Paris, commissioned in 1371 by Charles V, redone and decoree under Henri III. It is located on the Clock Tower, at the corner of Boulevard du Palais and Quai de l'Horloge. She's not working anymore and she's lost her needles. Paris 'first clock is on the wall of the Concierge and was built in 1370 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4665762: Plaque de la rue La Condamine in Paris - Street Plaque in Paris - Rue du XVIII arrondissement de Paris, in tribute to Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701 - 1774), geodesian and naturalist. He was sent to Peru in 1735 by the Academy of Sciences to determine the length of a 1* Meridian arc on Ecuador, in order to determine whether the Earth is flattened to the Poles or to Ecuador (in comparison with Clairaut and Maupertuis's work in Lapland). Rue La Condamine, street sign. Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 - February 13, 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician / Bridgeman Images

PIX4666095: Icebergs - Greenland - West Greenland ice fjord - Icebergs on a fjord in western Greenland. West Greenland ice fjord in the morning / Bridgeman Images

PIX4666158: Ireland seen by satellite Terra - Ireland satellite view - Image obtained on 4 January 2003. True - color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image of Ireland taken from Terra satellite on January 4, 2003. The rugged cliffs that mark the island's west coast are showing their red - brown rocky surface, but the low - lying interior region is still wearing the island's signature green. The highest elevation in Ireland is Carrantuohill, located in the rugged terrain of the southwest tip. The bowl - like shape creates the network of lakes scattered across the island, and over time has produced peat bogs, which provide a source of fuel on the island, which is covered mostly by pasture and meadows. Ireland's largest city, Dublin, makes a purplish - gray patch peeking out from the clouds about halfway down the east coast. Belfast is more clearly visible on the coast in the northeast, due east of large Lake Neagh. One Ireland's few other large cities, Cork, is located at the mouth of the Lee River, at the mid - point of the southern shoreline / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644628: Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 1 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 8, in orbit around the Earth. Launched on August 28, 2002, it is a geostationary satellite located 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared. Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), is equipped with an extremely sophisticated imaging radiometer that can separate the incoming radiation into 12 (3 with the current Meteosat) different spectral bands. Each section, four of them in the visible and eight in the thermal infrared, delivers different information. They vary from visible images of weather systems during the day to cloud temperature at night; from surface temperature and water vapour to trace gas concentrations and dust particles in the atmosphere. MSG will deliver about twenty times as much information as its predecessor Meteosat, resulting in much more accurate short and medium - range forecasts / Bridgeman Images

TEC4680987: Place de la Concorde, Paris 75008, France. Designed by Jacques Ange Gabriel as a French garden, it is one of the most beautiful French squares. Inaugurated in 1763 as Place Louis XV, it became the place of the Revolution from 1792 to become the place of capital executions. Louis-Philippe will give it back its current name. In 1836, he called the architect Hittorf to redesign the square with the eight statues of the big cities of France and the fountains surrounding the Obelisque of Luksor. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4681266: L'Arc de Triomphe, Place Charles de Gaulle, Paris 75008. Architecture of Abel Blouet, Jean Francois Chalgrin and Jean-Nicolas L'Abbaye, 1806-1836. Napoleon 1st decided to build an arch to the glory of the Great Armee on the Place de l'Etoile and was inaugurated thirty years later by King Louis Philippe / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644960: Hubble Space Telescope: 2nd Maintenance Mission 02 - 1997 - View of astronaut Steven Smith and Hubble Space Telescope during the third extravehicular exit of this maintenance mission, 15 - 02 - 1997 / Bridgeman Images

OMG4645025: Facades d'immeubles Paris 75017. Photography 10/04/09. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645179: Hubble Space Telescope: 4th Maintenance Mission 03 - 2002 - Astronaut Michael J. Massimino (on the shuttle arm) is working on the Hubble Space Telescope. Second extravehicular exit of the mission. 5 March 200 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645256: Hubble space telescope: end of 4th maintenance mission 03 - 2002 - View of the Hubble space telescope deployed on March 9, 2002 after its fourth maintenance mission / Bridgeman Images

TEC4681827: Detached house in Clamart, Hauts de Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), Ile de France (Ile-De-France), France. Suburban pavilion. Photography 1998 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645313: Hubble space telescope: end of 4th maintenance mission. 03/2002 - Hubble space telescope: end of fourth repair mission. 03/2002 - Hubble space telescope over the Indian Ocean seen from Shuttle Columbia. The Hubble space telescope seen above Indian ocean after its deployment on march 9 2002 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645331: Metro station les Abbesses, Place des Abbesses, Paris 75018. Architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942). / Bridgeman Images