The Ambassadors Magazine - July 2010

SELECTED PHOTOS

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

Queen Elizabeth II rides in a carriage with Prince Philip during the celebrations of her 84th birthday in London. (AP Photo/ Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire).

60 dancers from the English National Ballet walk pose for photographers during a photocall to promote the opening of 'Swan Lake in-the-round', which coincides with the company's 60th anniversary, outside the Royal Albert Hall in west London on Tuesday. (Photo: AFP).

Participants in a Chinese New Year parade in Vancouver streets on 14 February 2010, celebrating the Year of the Tiger (Charla Jones/Globe & Mail).

Pakistan's former cricket captain Shoaib Malik, left, and Indian tennis star Sania Mirza pose during their controversial marriage ceremony in Hyderabad, India, a union that gripped the two nations (Mohammed Abdul Haq, Mirza family/Associated Press)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband welcoming American President Barack Obama and his wife in London during the G20 meeting of leading economic powers.

Over the past 4 years Amanda Tanos, a cake decorator has been adding tattoos of her favorite childhood treats on her left forearm to create a full sleeve.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eats maple taffy with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada during the G8 foreign ministers’ meeting in Gatineau, Quebec, in March 2010 (REUTERS).

Nikita Khrushchev bear hugging Fidel Castro at the United Nations in Washington, D.C. in 1960. (Photo by Marty Lederhandler)

Couples celebrating in a mass wedding organized by the Reunification Church at a sprawling exhibition center north of Seoul in February. About 7,000 South Korean and oversees couples tied the knot (Segye Times--AFP).

Official Congo government portrait of Patrice Lumumba as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1960.

Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine in Guys and Dolls (1955).

Zuma dances with the third first lady of the republic Tobeeka Madiba in a colourful Zulu ceremony in his rural town 40km north of Durban.

Minister of State for Sport Gary Lunn embraces a polar bear at the opening of Northern House in downtown Vancouver in January 2010 before the Olympic Games (Jonathan Hayward/CP).

A football fan displays a special message to Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo during the World Cup in South Africa 2010. (Photo: AP)

Charlie Chaplin's movie poster for The Thief Catcher of 1914. (Photo: Everett Collection)

Ethan Hirschfeld (2 years old) drags a bundle of balloons behind him in Edmonton. He kept these balloons from his birthday four months prior (David Bloom: Globe and Mail).

Haitians stand in line for food and a portable radio in Port-au-Prince amid tight security on January 23, 2010 following a deadly earthquake that devastated the country (Nikki Kahn-Washington Post).

Australia's first female prime minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, takes the oath in June 2010 (Photo: REUTERS/Mick Tsikas).

US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to some Women Airfoce Service Pilots during the Second World War (AP)

Governor General Michaelle Jean hugs Maile Alphonse Tuesday March 9, 2010 in Jacmel, Haiti. Alphonse lost her mother Magali in the earthquake who was the godmother of Jean's daughter Marie-Eden. (Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

President Nelson Mandela, 91, with his wife Graca Machel at the opening of the South African parliament in Cape Town on February 11, 2010 as thousands chanted "Viva, Nelson Mandela, Viva!" (Reuters).

The Indian Founder of transcendental meditation and spiritual guru to the Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, after a lecture in London in August, 1967.

Leaders of the G20 nations in Toronto, Canada in June 201 (Crown copyright).

The prime architect of the Vietnam Robert McNamara is seen in the Oval office with president John F. Kennedy in 1961. Decades later, and after more than 16,000 Americans were killed in Southeast Asia, McNamara had the courage to admit he was wrong.

Britain's Helen Sharman (center), flanked by Russian flight Sergei Krikalev (left) and commander Anatoli Artsebarsky strike a pose in front of their national flags in commemoration of their space expedition on board spaceship Soyuz TM-12 on May 18, 1991 in Baikonur, Russia

Louis Holmes, the Canadian hockey player who kept his Olympic gold medal won in Oslo 1952 a top his television set (Holmes Family Photo).

BROTHERHOOD: Egyptian President Hosni Moubarak speaks with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika during the 25th Africa-France summit on May 31, 2010 in Nice, France. This was their first meeting following the clashes that took place between both countries in the qualifications to the FIFA World Cup.

Wedding ceremony in Stockholm Cathedral between Crown Princess Victoria and her personal trainer Daniel Westling, now Prince, last June, after an 8-year-long love story. (Source: Stella Pictures).

Raymond Moriyama, 80, the greatest architect recounts the epic tale that carried him from being a Japanese ghetto in Vancouver to receiving the prestigious Sakura Award for contributions to Japanese culture in Canada and abroad.

Spoony Singh is seen touching up a wax figure of Marlyn Monroe in his Hollywood Wax Museum while wearing the turban and full beard of an observant Sikh. The museum which opened its doors to a half-mile lineup in January 1965, featured lifelike wax statues of presidents and movie starts, historical figures and religious leader. Favorite among the visitors was a tableau depicting Leonardi Da Vinci's Last Supper.

Talking to her hand: former VP candidate Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, last February, uses notes written on her palms during her presentation.

The great inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, with his grandchildren at the family estate in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1908.

Steinthor Jonasson, who recently emigrated from Iceland, poses near a Viking statue in Gimli, Manitoba in January 2010 (Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail)

In November 2007, Quatchi the sasquatch, Mega the seabear and Sumi the Thunderbird, all inspired my aboriginal mythical figures, were unveiled as the mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In this photo, Quatchi gets a royal visit from Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles.

Darlene Poole, the widow of Jack Poole who dreamt of the day he would bring the Olympic torch to British Columbia, and became the CEO of the Vancouver 2010 organizing committee but died last October before witnessing it. His wife holds the torch with her husband's picture taped to it in his hometown of Saskatoon (Troy Fleece, Leader-Post).

Dr. Dorothy Height, the President of the National Council of Negro Woman (1957-1997) who received the President Medal of Freedom in 1994 from former US President Bill Clinton, as she listens to Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I have a dream" speech in Washington (AP Photo).

The Penny Black, the world's first stamp, depicting Queen Victoria was among "Her Majesty's Stamps" exhibit on display at the Museum of Civilizations in Quebec until January 2010.

Governor General Michelle Jean holds a sample of tulip breed named after her. The flowers were presented at Rideau Hall last May during a visit by Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, who was born in Ottawa during WWII.

Britain's new prime minister, David Cameron, embraces his wife, Samantha, in front of 10 Downing Street in London (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe).

A pair of Chinese newly weds cavort for their wedding photographer at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing last May (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen).

Prince William plays the 'vuvuzela' during a visit to a soccer charity in Maun, Botswana before the FIFA World Cup in South Africa last June.

Guy Lonechild is Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, the body that administers the First Nations University of Canada.

Le roi Farouk en 1943 au Palais d'Abdine. A rare photo of King Farouk (Egypt) in his Abdine Palace, Cairo, taken by the photographer John Phillips in 1943.

Netherland's Queen Beatrix and WWII veteran Harry Watts, from Kitchener, Ontario attending a ceremony last May at the Canadian War Cemetery in honour of soldiers who died during the liberation of Netherland in 1945.

Thousands of anti-abortion activists march down Ottawa's Elgin Street last May calling for an end to abortion. (Photo: Darren Brown/CP).

Parents, Walter Dolski and Jennifer Martins, watch as Dr. Yashu Coe examined their baby, heart transplant patient Xander, at Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton in February 2006.

Lawyer, Purdy Crawford, was named an Honorary Chief of the Membertou First Nation, during during a special convocation held by Cape Breton University in Membertou on the creation of the Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies at the university last June (Source: Cape Breton University).

Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran who helped Americans escape during the US Embassy hostage crisis in 1979, receivng the Congressional Gold Medal in 1981 from US President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Barry Thumma/AP).

Acrobats Kelsey Weins and Preston Jamieson of Cirque de Soleil perform on the 86th floor observation deck of New York's Empire State building last May. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images).

Zakumi, the FIFA 2010 World Cup mascot, is a leopard, with green hair wearing a shirt saying South Africa 2010. Zakumi's green and gold colors represents South African national sports' teams colors. His name comes from "ZA", the code for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means "ten" in various African languages.