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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai flow between the trains. By 2030 it is estimated that 60% (4.9 billion) worldwide will live in cities.
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  • Crowds in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Crowds watch fireworks in celebration of Australia Day, 1/26/04.
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  • Crowds in the infield are a long-standing tradition at the Kentucky Derby where it is standing room only to watch the horse races. The general admission attracts those to an area where the beer flows freely and many end up sunburned from having no shade.
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  • Homeward-bound farm families loaded with food and possessions, crowd into the flatbed of a pickup truck taxi as the open-air market in Xilitla draws to and end. In one of the largest ethnic Huastec Indian towns, each Sunday morning the narrow cobbled streets fill with stalls selling locally grown coffee, sugarcane, incense and corn tamales from the market.
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  • Fans crowd in Keeneland race track's paddock on race day while horses are saddles for the next race. Founded in 1935, Keeneland takes pride in maintaining racing traditions. It was the last track in North America to broadcast race calls over a public-address system, not doing so until 1997. Most of the racing scenes of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit were shot at Keeneland, because its appearance has changed relatively little in the last several decades. The Thoroughbred horse track was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
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  • A woman with a red flag is hoisted above a crowd at the Midi Festival.
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  • A crowd of photographers shooting.
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  • A crowd of people in a walkway.
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  • A crowd enjoying drinks at a bar.
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  • A crowd gathers on the black sand Karakum Beach.
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  • Motorists crowd into Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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  • Commuters in a crowded subway car.
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  • A photographer on assignment on a crowded train in Mumbai.
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  • Century Park on a crowded Sunday.
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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis. Many in this crowd are headed to a call to prayer at a Mosque near the Hindu Newspaper.
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  • Fans gather on the lawn under flowering trees at Keeneland race track on race day. Founded in 1935, Keeneland takes pride in maintaining racing traditions. It was the last track in North America to broadcast race calls over a public-address system, not doing so until 1997. Most of the racing scenes of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit were shot at Keeneland, because its appearance has changed relatively little in the last several decades. The Thoroughbred horse track was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
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  • Cowboy chic bar patrons crowd together under a red glow to watch dancing and mechanical bull riding. The bar scene is packed at midnight in Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city of 3 million, also the capital of Nuevo Leon. A modern, industrial city, Monterrey is described as most Americanized-where the pursuit of profit seems more American than Mexican.
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  • Guang Hui Plaza | Shanghai, China  in the west part of Shanghai–Xugiahui area. Public displays of affection are rare, but these two young people are comfortable sitting close to each other and watching the world go by.
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  • A member of a BBoy dance group passes the hat after performing on a plaza in Old Quito. A crowd gathered when they heard music and saw the young teens dancing in the street. The group are rewarded for their entertainment with enough money to divide between them.
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  • Xidan shopping area in downtown Beijing just off the side of Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city has been a commercial street crowded with shops since the Ming dynasty.
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  • Easter Procession in the town of Orosei on the island of Sardinia.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums congregate at their front door. These are the third largest slums in the world.  The world bank is trying to work out an arrangement where all of these squatters will get about twice the space they have now in new buildings, but it is complicated.
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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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  • Indian Muslims at the call to prayer on the roof of a Kolkata mosque.
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  • Overview of Kampala Uganda.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • The Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Aerial view of some of the 16,000 participants in the Ski Marathon as Nordic skiers trek across frozen upper Engadine valley. The winter event has been hosted since 1969 drawing athletes and tourists to mountain communities around Saint Moritz in the Alps.
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  • The current market and trading scene in Lahore.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • The old city area of Lahore.
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  • Over 5,000 meals of bluefin tuna are prepared at the Bonita Fesitiva in Spain.
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  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
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  • People bathing in the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
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  • Immigrant Indians at a Sikh festival in Barcelona.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis.
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  • A cross country ski marathon.
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  • A cross country ski marathon.
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  • A cross country ski marathon.
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  • Men in costume celebrating Schleicherlaufen.
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  • Men in costume celebrating Schleicherlaufen.
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  • Men in costume celebrating Schleicherlaufen.
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  • Trainers gather at the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame the night before a wild horse competition, Extreme Mustang Makeover. All dressed in white hats and shirts, they met for opening ceremonies and instructions for the next day.
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  • A brother and sister compete in a logging show wheelbarrow race. A throwback to the heyday of the logging industry, the competitions bring communities together for fun and games on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Slovenian townsfolk gather to watch the spring Carnival festival where  revelers are a spectacle wearing white fur suits with large hats as they parade silently except to ring cowbells.
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  • Xujiahui shopping area of Shanghai.
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  • A shopping mall courtyard.
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  • Luzinterruptus, an anonymous art collective in Madrid that creates installation art with plastic waste all over the world.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • Ruler of Alain arrives at the suq area of the camel beauty contest.
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  • Spectators overlook the camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Pedestrians in downtown Shanghai.
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  • Couples at the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Brides line up for the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Lined up at the start of a ski marathon, man competes dressed in a colorful feather headdress and costume depicting an native American Indian. The Engadine Valley event attracting over 16,000 skiers began in 1969.
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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • Underwater explorer Robert Ballard with scientists and  crew.
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  • The current market and trading scene in Lahore.
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  • The current market and trading scene in Lahore.
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  • The Camel festival outside of Harappa.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • Market scene in Harappa town.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • There is a reason Guangzhou was the first city in China to reach first world status (2008). Everyone in Guangzhou, aside from the migrant population, is making an average of $830 a month. Money has approximately four times more buying power in China than the U.S., so that $830 equals $3320 a month in our economy. That is the same buying power of average citizens in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
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  • A cocktail party celebration at an Evian spa.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Crowded social scene reflected in a mirrored column.
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  • Onlookers watch demonstration crowds on Istiklal street in Istanbul.
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  • A bar attracts crowds of tourists from the cruise ships.
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  • Washington Park is a picture of new harmony, drawing crowds for yoga and other alfresco events, although a few years ago, Over-the-Rhine ranked among the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country.
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  • A grouping of female mannequins.
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  • A man on horseback rides through downtown Hanga Roa.
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  • Summer rain does not dampen spirits of loyal Cincinnati Reds baseball fans.
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  • Cloud Gate or simply 'the bean' by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park.
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  • Cloud Gate or simply 'the bean' by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • From atop a distant hill, a rancher on horseback watches over his herd of sheep on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon.
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  • During October Festival of Bullfighting for the Lord of the Miracles, hundreds of spectators gather to critique the finesse of both red-caped matadors and bovine competitors. Plaza de Acho is Peru's oldest bull ring is located in a Lima suburb under the towering Cerro San Cristóbal mountain.
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. They do a courtship dance but this behavior can also be an aggressive or territorial show.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • A flock of cormorants on Lake Turkana.
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  • Mass weddings used to involve gold jewelry, but DeBeers initiated an advertising push to make diamonds synonymous with weddings. Couples sign their best wishes on a giant mirrored diamond outside the shopping mall before going to the park where 70 couples will be married.
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  • Police guard the streets in Quito while indigenous women look on.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle in a pen.
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  • Goldsmiths work in a one-room factory in Kolkata.
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  • A busy jewelry store in Chennai.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Feral cats lounge at a rescue center run by the community.
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  • Rescued feral cats lounge in between feeding times.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle.
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  • A herd of cattle in a pen.
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