1345. "In the 19th century Bavarian royalty built homes in this region out of fondness for its scenery and its placid rural ways. Even today life for the farmer has not changed greatly here梙orses may still draw a covered wagon on a lonely grey-white lane."
　　—From the National Geographic book The Alps, 1973
　　

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　1344. The Western Wall (shown), as befits the holiest spot of Judaism, is visited daily by the faithful. A sea of men in black suits and white prayer shawls congregate there, praying loudly and piously bowing their heads; women pray quietly in a separate section.?
　　
　　(Text from The Three Faces of Jerusalem,?April 1996, National Geographic magazine

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　1343. A dancer prepares before a performance at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The festival has been held in the late spring every year since 1970. It showcases not only jazz music but also food and crafts.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Traveling the Blues Highway," April 1999, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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1342. A handful of freshly picked chili peppers may look harmless. But some varieties of chilies, like the habanero, have registered over 300,000 units on the Scoville scale, a system used to evaluate the heat of chili peppers.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "21st-Century Slaves," September 2003, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1341.The yellow golden trumpet plant, a fast-growing climber plant native to South America, has made its way as far as the island of Hawaii, where it is shown here in full bloom near Rainbow Falls.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kamehameha—Hawaii‘s Warrior King," November 1983, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1339. A man fishes a calm estuary near Eden, New South Wales, Australia. Eden was famous for its whaling activity in the 1800s.
　　(Text adapted from the National Geographic book Wild Shores of Australia, 1996)
　　
　　

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1338. Winter moves in early on the Adirondack Mountains. Cross-country skiers may find a pre-Thanksgiving snowscape to trek across.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Adirondack High," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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　1337. A Nenets brigade, or herding group, makes ready to follow their reindeer to summer pastureland. The journey to the treeless tundra within the Arctic Circle is one of some 200 miles (322 kilometers).
　　(Text adapted from "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)
　　
　　

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　1336. The island of Kastellorizon lies two miles (3.2 kilometers) off the Turkish coast. Since antiquity it has known many reversals of fortune. In the 1930s it prospered as a stopover for seaplanes. By 1979 many islanders had moved to Australia and scores of houses stood vacant.
　　(Text adapted from "Greece," March 1980, National Geographic magazine)
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greece," March 1980, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1335. "The [Shaker] dwelling-house bathroom at Canterbury bespeaks communal life. The rocking chairs were placed in front of sinks perhaps on a whim by the sister who lives there."
　　—From "The Shakers‘ Brief Eternity," September 1989, National Geographic magazine
　　

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