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Welcome to the Cool Links Section of Photofantasia.com! Welcome to the "Cool Links" Section of photofantasia.com. In this section several links of excellent quality and content will be noted for each category and area of interest within the photofantasia.com web site. Certainly this list will not be at all inclusive; if you discover a great link please "Contact Us" and we'll add it to this list. Virtual Tour of Tikal is a great site featuring QuickTime VR 360-degree views of the beautiful and powerful ruins of Tikal, Guatemala. This tour requires the QuickTime plug-in, available from the linked web site. (Most browsers already include this plug-in.) "The Science Museum of Minnesota presents Maya Adventure, a World-Wide Web site that highlights science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture. Maya Adventure includes images from the Science Museum's anthropological collections and activities developed by the Science Museum's education division. Featured in the project is information from two exhibits about the Maya developed by the Science Museum of Minnesota, Cenote of Sacrifice and Flowers, Saints and Toads." The Native American Ruins of Mesoamerica site is described as below: "Many cultures flourished in Mesoamerica before the arrival of the Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. . . . we will look in detail at the Maya ruins of Chichan Itza, and somewhat less in detail at Palenque and Uxmal; we shall then explore briefly the ruins of Teotihuacan and Monte Alban. Although the Europeans described the Americas as a "New World," clearly there were advanced civilizations here which dated back thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish." Maya Astronomy Page includes a description of the Mayan calendar (astronomically accurate and centuries ahead of the European versions). Also included here are extensive links to other Maya resources.Where better to start the portraits links than with the great Benny Carter's own web site? The media address of jazz certainly must be Downbeat Magazine! I had originally experienced much difficulty in the search for a link that features Cynthia MacAdams, the brilliant black and white infrared photographer that so inspired me in the creation of many of the Maya photographs. At first I had (with some frustration) included a rather nebulous link to one of her images used in a graduate thesis. Recently, however, a Cynthia MacAdams web site has appeared! I encourage you to visit this link, as her recent portrait photography also is inspirational. Hubble Space Telescope Images is subset of NASA's site (available as a link from Hubble's site); I wept when I first viewed the content of this site. The Hubble Space Telescope is simply the apex of human technological achievement, and its photographs are the most significant ever taken. The real-color photographs seen here are more "stylized" than the manipulated ones we are displaying on this web site. Nature is truly the most creative of all artists. If you visit no other link, go to Hubble now! Sky and Telescope Online is the Internet home of Sky and Telescope Magazine.

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