Images Dated 15th August 2007

Robertsons Minerve balloon, 1804

Robertson's Minerve balloon. Historical artwork of La Minerve, an extravagant balloon design proposed in 1804 by the French engineer E. G. Robertson. This massive balloon would have weighed 80 tonnes, and was intended to carry up to 60 scientists across the oceans on great voyages of discovery. The design included sleeping areas, a library, a church, laboratories, a separate ladies quarter (lower left), a huge storage barrel (bottom), a cannon, and several smaller balloons for scouting trips. The main vessel could be converted to a ship for a water landing. The design was never built. Artwork from Astra Castra (Hatton Turner, London, 1865)

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2007 Champ Car Hands on the Wheel campaign

15 August, 2007, Taylor, Michigan, USA
Champ Car driver Graham Rahal with Lyn St. James, Michigan State Police Lt. Monica Yesh, and David Higdon, Executive Vice President, Strategic Development and Communications with the Hands on the Wheel campaign pledge.
2007, Michael L. Levitt, USA
LAT Photographic

© 2007, Michael L. Levitt, USA

Cherry tomatoes and hot peppers are displayed for sale at the Food Projects Farmer's

Cherry tomatoes and hot peppers are displayed for sale at the Food Project's Farmer's Market in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, Massachusetts August 14, 2007. Each year, The Food Project hires 60 youths to grow food on their farms in Boston and Lincoln, Massachusetts, during which these teens harvest and distribute over 60,000 pounds of produce at a farmer's market in Dorchester and to hunger relief agencies in greater Boston. Picture taken August 14, 2007. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES) - GM1DVXYKZJAA