A few months ago Jack Johnston was asked to film a series of lapse time shots of the Cherry Blossom trees in Japan for a BBC Springwatch Special. After months of testing and working out the kinks in the process, this is a selection of shots that featured in the final show.
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Patrick Barden has been walking the route with the help of a frame.
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High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses
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Marc Peter Keane in an American landscape architect who spent almost 20 years in Kyoto practicing landscape design. In fact, he was the first foreigner to receive a working visa as a landscape architect. Now back stateside, Keane maintains an office in upstate New York where he designs Japanese gardens for both public and private spaces. It’s hard to think of a better person to serve as a personal guide through 100 of Japan’s Finest Gardens.
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At the age of 42, Taylor Peirce was ancient by Army standards. Nearly three years of campaigning and picket duty, from the rifle pits of Mississippi to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, had exacted great physical costs.
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For more than the obvious reasons, Civil War soldiers in both armies despised military prisons….Andersonville, the infamous Georgia prison, was the ultimate abattoir; during the summer of 1864 nearly one in three Union inmates died.
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Today Americans almost universally regard Abraham Lincoln as our greatest president. And yet he was not always the revered figure that he has become.
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As John Wilkes Booth stepped into President Lincoln’s booth at Ford’s Theater…Union prisoners of war were heading home…. 2,100 of those soldiers, many sick, many barefoot, boarded the wooden side-wheeler steamboat Sultana….
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It seemed all of Washington had gone to the theater on April 14, 1865 – Good Friday – to hail the imminent end of the war.
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On Feb. 19, 1867, the American gunboat Swatara returned to the Washington Navy Yard after a months-long trip to the Middle East. Out stepped a young man in a bizarre, filthy uniform and shackles. His name was John Harrison Surratt, and he was the most wanted man in the entire world.
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