SELECTED PHOTOS
In this section, The Ambassadors Magazine presents some of the most startling photos of our age that address or highlight issues affecting cultures and civilizations. We encourage photographers, both amateur and professional, to submit their work for publication in this section.
Chinese children dress-up as Colonel Sanders at a new Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) which opened last April in Beijing.
US President George W. Bush pulls Chinese President Hu Jintao to his place during a welcoming ceremony last April at the White House.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II having a migraine attack during the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada.
Migraines do not have class or gender boundaries.
The Superman actor, Christopher Reeve and his wife, the former actress Dana, at the A.C.E. Awards in Los Angeles in January 1991. Christopher was rendered quadriplegic by a riding accident in 1995. His widow died of cancer breast last March, though she had never smoked. She was named Mother of the Year by the American Cancer Society in early 2005, before her own illness was revealed.
Pope Benedict XVI meets with Canada's Governor-General Michelle Jean. He also blessed her daughter,
Marie-Eden Lafond, at the Vatican last February and offered her a papal medal.
US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice talks to Canada's Foreign Minister Peter MacKay
at the G8 Foreign Ministers Summit in Moscow (June 2006)
Stalin and Nazi foreign minister von Ribbentrop, just 22 months before their two countries were at war.
Four-year-old, Budhia Singh, runs in a marathon, and dubbed India's Forrest Gump, after running 65 kilometres. The Press Trust of India news agency reported that he would be included in the 2007 edition of Limca Book of Records.
Duchess of Cornwall, president of Britain's National Osteoporosis Society, samples plain yogurt.
Children with special needs or chronic illnesses selected from each province in Canada to represent the 17 million children treated by Children's Miracle Network hospitals in the USA and Canada. They met with national leaders before going to Walt Disney World to participate in the annual Children's Miracle Network Celebration.
In June 1979, Anglo-philic lawyer and mayor of Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada), Leonard Kitz, helping the Queen's Mother to turn the first spadeful of earth of a planned statue of Sir Winston Churchill - 7-foot tall bronze statue in front of the Halifax Public Library.
Thor Froslev is a Canadian bird lover. He is the founder of the Brackendale Art Gallery, the culture centre of the Squamish Valley in Vancouver. He is hoping to open the eagle hospital in order to help these birds.
Baillie North American rare stamps collection were put in Sotheby's May auction in New York.
Each of the 3-stamps shown here was sold for $50,000. Overall the auction is estimated to have sold stamps for $3 million US.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, kissing the belly of the 5-years-old boy, Nikita Konkin.
More than 11,000 people contacted the internet site Yandax asking about the "belly kiss"
Steven Fletcher, the first Canadian quadriplegic member of Parliament after the 2004, receives assistance as he signs his name upon being sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Health, Tony Clement during a ceremony on Parliament Hill last February.
Tolstoy's (1828-1910) novel, War and Peace, was not a success when it was first published.
It only gained recognition and popularity following his death.
Churchill arrives to the White House with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.
The deaf malformed 9-year-old Quebec City boy, Jeremy Gabriel, with Treacher-Collins Syndrome, met Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican, where he sang a hymn for the pontiff. Jeremy received a rosary as a present from the pope.
Protests against the Vietnam War in 1967 in Washington, DC and for peace, resonate with demonstrations against the
Iraq War in 2003 in the same city.
Ellen Hettasch teaches Inuit girls sewing near Christmastime in Nain, Labrador, Canada in 1930.
The double Oscar winner, Shelley Winters, shown in 1951, died last January at the age of 85 due to heart failure.
She won Academy Awards for roles in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue.
Nepalese dwarfs spin a prayer wheel: travels into the heartland of the country reveal a nation in trouble.
