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  • The mysterious Nazca lines form a monkey in the desert of southern Peru. Other animals and geometric shapes are best seen from the air. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. They were made with light-colored sand when the top foot of rock was removed by an ancient culture.
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  • Animal figures as well as geometric shapes are part of the mysterious Nazca lines best seen from the air in the Peruvian desert.  The figures--as well as triangles, rectangles and straight lines--run for several kilometers across the dry barren land. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form strange two-footed animal figures in the desert of Peru. Many creatures as well as geometric shapes run for miles and are best seen from the air. They were made by exposing lighter colored soil when sun-baked stones were moved and piled up. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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  • The mysterious Nazca lines form a spider, one of many animal and geometric shapes best seen in the air in Peru's southern desert.  Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. They were made with light-colored sand when the top foot of rock was removed by an ancient culture.
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  • House with swan flower planter sits on a post above a wagon wheel in front yard that marks the driveway.
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  • Andrea the Crocodile, built in 1987 by vocational students.
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  • This seal made of clay depicting a bull would have been used like a credit card .  In the streets of the excavation site broken ones are found (like a cut-up c ard and whole ones are found in houses.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form animal and geometric figures seen from the air.  A hummingbird shape as well as perfect geometric designs like triangles, rectangles and straight lines run for several kilometers across the desert. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below.
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  • A petroglyph of a horned animal carved onto a rock face. Significant late prehistoric archeological sites in the desert Southwest are preserved in Agua Fria National Monument that measures 71,100-acres in Arizona.
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  • Elk with radio collars activate this flashing sign when herd nears it.
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  • A large sculpture of a fish against a cloud-filled sky.
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  • A necklace of gold turtles from the fifth century B.C.
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  • Bronze Age war ax adorned with a horse from the Black Sea region.
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  • Bracelet of gold adorned with ram's heads from the fifth century B.C.
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  • A clay seal with images of zebu and characters as of yet undeciphered. Acording to archeologist Mark Kenoyer, seals such as this one were used somewhat like m odern credit cards.
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  • At sunset, a cowgirl drives her pick up back to the ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl dons her black hat as ranchers prepare to brand and castrate calves in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl laughs with ranch hands as they prepare to brand and castrate calves at a ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • People play in the surf along the beach during soft summer light in La Serena, Chile's premier beach resort. La Serena enjoys a transitional climate between the arid northern desert of the Atacama and the pleasant Mediterranean climate of the central coast.
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  • A Navajo woman lets her goats out to graze in Canyon De Chelly National Monument, a vast park in northeastern Arizona, on Navajo tribal lands. Its prominent features include Spider Rock spire, about 800-feet tall, and towering sandstone cliffs surrounding a verdant canyon. Inhabited by several Native American peoples for millennia, the area is dotted with prehistoric rock art.
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  • A moai and dog at Plaza Hatumatua in downtown Hanga Roa.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form geometric shapes in the desert that are best seen from the air. Besides animals forms, there are more than 800 straight lines on the coastal plain, some of which are 30 miles Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture, which began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700.
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  • The Biltmore Estate is one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s finest landscapes and includes a six-acre lagoon that reflects the majestic house that is located near Asheville, North Carolina. In the late 1800s, George W. Vanderbilt sought the advice of Olmsted, the country’s preeminent landscape designer, to help him with an appropriate design to complement the French Renaissance-style château he was building in the Blue Ridge Mountains.<br />
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Olmsted sited the house and created a lagoon, woodlands, gardens and the resulting Biltmore Estate that is considered a masterpiece and presently is enjoyed by nearly one million visitors each year.<br />
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Here, frail and nearing 70 nears old, he wrote to a friend, “I have raised my calling from the rank of a trade . . . (to) an Art, an Art of design.”
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  • Animal sacrifice under the medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • A nun carries the beloved cat through the Convent of Saint John in Mustair, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Benedictine nuns in Switzerland since the 12th Century.
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  • Men bring their camels to a saint's tomb to have their camels healed.
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