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Transportation is fundamentally about getting from point A to point B. It sounds simple, but throughout history, it has been one of the foremost human challenges. Movement through space is a malleable equation wherein the X factor is, inevitably, terrain. Traditionally, people or groups who were able to adapt a vehicle for specific terrain have excelled in their environment. Mongol armies stunned their opponents by moving quickly across wide rivers with the aid of inflated sheep bladders for flotation. On an altogether different front, Brazilian aviation pioneer and fin-de-siècle bon...

Saturday, December 22, 2007
by Zane Fischer and Kate Russell (Photographer) • Trend Magazine

At a time when sumptuous “celebrity mansions” and “McMansions” are everywhere, One Mansion Drive, the single story, Territorial style home of New Mexico’s Chief Executive, is relatively modest. Its predecessors, The Palace of the Governors, built in 1609-1610, and then the Governor’s Mansion, built in 1904 on the northwest grounds of the Capitol (today West DeVargas Street), were, in their time, more grandiose. The latter was designed in a classical style, of yellow brick, with tall white columns. It had five bedrooms and two “servant” rooms. By the 1940’s, then-Senator Edwin L. Mechem...

Friday, March 28, 2008
by Pat French and Kate Russell (Photographer) • SantaFe.com