Photo Essay
Namibia’s Sand Castle Kingdom
Enterprising Germans wanting their own slice of the good life flocked to Kolmanskop, and soon this far-flung desert outpost became one of the richest towns in the world.
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Frontier Empire II: Ascension Island
Spending any amount of time on Ascension, one gets used to hearing the phrase "it's a working island" a lot.
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Frontier Empire I: Saint Helena
Midway between Africa and South America in the lonely South Atlantic, St Helena wears its status as one of the world’s most remote inhabited places as a mark of pride.
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Midnight Latitudes
In the town of Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, one rarely goes more than a day without hearing the boast "world's northernmost".
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Firework Hymns
Of the not-insignificant number of events around the world billing themselves as "the greatest show on Earth", the Rio Carnival has a thicker-fingered hold on the title than most.
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The Road to Kabul
Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified war hub second.
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Combat Close-Out
For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada's largest operation in Afghanistan remains the comparatively unheralded Mission Transition Task Force (MTTF).
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Basic Warrior Training
Increasingly prized by the NATO-led international military campaign as their ticket out of Afghanistan, the eight-year-old ANA has swelled in numbers and is projected to reach 250,000 by 2015.
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Flightline I: Afghan Air Power
The newly reactivated Afghan Air Force has a long way to go before it catches up with its brother and sister divisions in the country's domestic security forces.
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