Tuesday March 1, Our World In Pictures
NEW YORK — Teacher Promotes Sport: Ice climber Don Mellor climbs Pitchoff Quarry in Keene on Feb. 10. Mellor began ice climbing in the make-your-own tools era and has since introduced the sport to generations of students at a Lake Placid prep school where he is a teacher and counselor. He wrote the book, literally, on ice climbing in this rugged region.
SOUTH KOREA — Country Celebrates Independence: A woman wearing a traditional “Hanbok” walks by national flags hanging on a tree to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul on Tuesday.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.