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A very unusual method of fishing, operated from the shore. They are fixed land installations, which are used for a very unique and unusual method of fishing. Operated from the shore, these nets are set up on bamboo and teak poles and held horizontally by huge mechanisms, which lower them into the sea. They look somewhat like hammocks and are counter-weighed by large stones tied to ropes.

The entire structure of the Chinese fishing nets is about 10 meters in height. Each fishing net spreads to about 20 meters over the water body and is operated by a team of some six fishermen. Each net has a limited operating depth. Due to this, an individual net cannot be repeatedly operated in tidal waters. The nets are operated by a very clever system of weights and pulleys. The net is lowered into the water by one or two men walking on the wooden planks, with the planks gliding down like a seesaw. The net is left in the water for a few minutes, then hauled up using a series of ropes with rocks attached to them. Each net requires 4-6 fishermen to pull it up.

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Name    : Nelson Mandela (Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela)
Born    : July 18, 1918
Country : born Tembu, the Republic of South Africa
Lives   : the Republic of South Africa

Nelson Mandela was born on the 18th of July, 1918 as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Nelson Mandela’s father (Hendry Mphakanyiswa Gadla) was the chief of a village next to the Mbashe River. When Mandela was seven years old, he attended a school, becoming the first member of his family to do so.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela  was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections, serving from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was convicted for crimes that occurred while he was spearheading the struggle against apartheid. He spent 27 years in prison for this, with many of those years being spent on Robben Island.

In South Africa and internationally, Mandela became a symbol of freedom and equality for his opposition to apartheid, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

If you have an objective in life, then you want to concentrate on that and not engage in infighting with your enemies. You want to create an atmosphere where you can move everybody towards the goal you have set for yourself - as well as the collective for which you work.

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Photograph by Willard R. Culver

“Two women model Firestone’s entrée into the world of fashion: undergarments made with Controlastic, an elastic yarn made of rubber (”Our Most Versatile Vegetable Product,” said National Geographic in a February 1940 story). The tire company debuted the rubber product, no longer used in today’s stretch fabrics, at the 1939-1940 World’s Fair with a promise that it would fulfull ‘that very much formfitting desire that is paramount today in so much of women’s wear.’”

—From Flashback, January 2003, National Geographic magazine

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On a sunny November afternoon, young children in traditional dress stroll the grounds of the Meiji Shrine. The circa-1920 shrine is dedicated to Japanese Emperor Meiji, who died in 1912.
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Photograph by Justin Guariglia
Source: National Geographic

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A cross on South Georgia Island stands in honor of Ernest Shackleton, leader in an epic early 20th-century tale of Antarctic survival. Members of his expedition—not a man was lost—erected the monument after their rescue.
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Photograph by Maria Stenzel
Source: National Geographic

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