Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of National Geographic. Since we shared photos of ...

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

The "Afghan Girl" with piercing green eyes who gained worldwide recognition after appearing on a 1985 National Geographic cover has fled her home country and arrived in Rome. The Italian ...

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