1259. A Penan woman weaves inside a shelter in a government settlement camp. As logging on Borneo island decimates the forests, the nomadic Penan drift toward settlement camps.
　　
　　(Text adapted from "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)
　　
　　

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　1258. The reflection of Charlie "Bird" Parker, Kansas City‘s most famous jazz musician, is immortalized with a 17-foot [5.2-meter] bronze statue designed by internationally renowned sculptor Robert Graham. The statue resides in the Charlie Parker Memorial Plaza, on 17th Terrace and Paseo Boulevard, and is inscribed with the words "Bird Lives."
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Long Run: Best of the Heartland," September 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
　　

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　1257. "Few nations are as dependent on fishing as Iceland, where it accounts for 17 percent of the gross national product and 70 percent of export earnings."
　　(Text from "Iceland: Life Under the Glaciers," February 1987, National Geographic magazine
　　
　　

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1256. Trained for sport afield, pointers are known to be alert, intelligent, and agile. In the Missouri Breaks region this pointer waits to serve its duty as a hunting or "gun" dog.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Missouri Breaks," May 1999, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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1255. Compulsory boarding school for Nenets children began in the era of Soviet communism and is still the law today. Nenets culture has prevailed, though—these schoolchildren are singing traditional songs in front of a makeshift traditional chum (tent) inside their state school.
　　
　　(Text adapted from "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1254. "Haven from brigands and the siren world, the monasteries of Meteora in central Greece still uphold the Orthodox tradition of monasticism, once the chaste soul of a gilded Byzantium."
　　—From "The Byzantine Empire: Rome of the East," December 1983, National Geographic magazine
　　

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　1253. "If they could play cards and swig beer, they probably would. Instead, a gang of gelada bachelors lounge under ancient heath trees, flashing eyelids at a family male (not visible) that provokes them daily with aggressive postures. Like related females, all-male groups will defend and groom each other and huddle for warmth梜ind acts between future foes in the battle to reproduce."
　　—From "Kings of the Hill?," November 2002, National Geographic magazine
　　

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　　1252. "Moving out before winter moves in, Dave Hackenberg trucks his bees from Pennsylvania to Florida‘s citrus groves, where the bees will feed and multiply. Six months later he‘ll head north again to pollinate crops and make honey, earning a modest living. ‘How do I convince my boy in college to do this when he gets job offers for $35,000 a year?‘ he says."
　　
　　—From "America’s Beekeepers: Hives for Hire," May 1993, National Geographic magazine

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