The doctor making remote house calls; the ‘Countess of Computing’
|  | Monday, March 21, 2022 | | | | |
| In today’s newsletter, for Ukraine’s dancers, the show goes on. Plus, the doctor who makes remote house calls by horseback; celebrating spring … and the ‘Countess of Computing’. | |
 | PHOTOGRAPHS BY MONIQUE JAQUES
| | A day before Vladimir Putin’s war machine thundered through Ukraine, the Kiev City Ballet company took off for what was supposed to be a two-week tour in France. They didn’t know that Ukrainian culture—museums, cinemas, artists—would be a key target of the Kremlin leader’s horror upon their nation.
And now the 38 dancers have no idea when—or if—they can return home. They are on an indefinite extended tour, with new performances this week in France and temporary homes in Paris. “We were totally unprepared for this,” a director of the company, Ekaterina Kozlova, tells Nat Geo.
French theaters are preparing to take in more artists and their families who are among the millions of Ukrainians who have fled their homeland in the last month. “Culture must be supported in these moments of great hardship, and artists from oppressed countries as well, in particular Ukraine, because they are the voice of resistance,” says Carine Rolland, a deputy mayor of Paris. “Those who can speak must do so wherever they are.”
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| At top, the dancers in a March 13 performance of The Nutcracker in France. Above, Julia Kuzmich and Volodymr Bukliev rehearse with other dancers last week.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY TOMER IFRAH | | | This doctor makes house calls: Irakli Khvedaguridze packs a knife, matches, rifle, and limited medical supplies before he mounts his horse, Bichola, to make his way through the mountainous villages of Tusheti, Georgia (pictured above). The only licensed doctor in a 386-square-mile remote region, Khvedaguridze, 80, is a lifeline in the brutal winter for a shrinking community of Tush people. If the snow is too high, he switches to skis. “Each time you step out, no matter the season or weather, you know that anything could happen,” he tells writer Nadia Beard. Read the story and see the photos. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ISMAIL FERDOUS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Welcome, spring! How do you celebrate the arrival of a new season? Hindus around the world marked spring with the colorful festival of Holi. The above photo is from a 2018 National Geographic story called "Building a New American Dream," which documented the ways South Asian Americans are creating a unique cultural identity. Here, women celebrate Holi in Richmond Hill, a neighborhood in Queens, New York.
Related: Why the equinox ushers in the arrival of spring
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 | | I don’t think an image has to be graphic to be powerful. I think an image has to be subtle, but it has to tell a story. We see so many images every single day that I don’t think people pay attention anymore, and that drives me even more. | | | | Lynsey Addario | Photojournalist documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Nat Geo Explorer
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 | IAN DAGNALL COMPUTING/ALAMY
| | Meet ‘the Countess of Computing’: Ada Lovelace had the mathematical rigor of her mother, Annabella Milbanke, and the imagination of her poet father, Lord Byron. When she was 12, Ada decided that she wanted to fly but instead of jumping off chairs, she took a more scientific approach. She studied birds, assessed materials for their likelihood to enable flight, and considered how to construct wings. By her late teens, her mother noted that she was more interested in talking to scientists and mathematicians than suitors. Ada (pictured above at age 20) would become the world’s first programmer in 1843.
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