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  • Protest songs by two like-minded friends entertained picnic patrons on Kayford Mountain. Ken Hechler, left, represented West Virginia in the US House of Representatives for nearly 20 years and was Secretary of State from 1985-2001. He died in 2016 at age 102. George Daugherty, known as Earl of Elkview, a trial lawyer specializing in medical liability cases, was a regular on a televised statewide country music show and co-hosted NPR's Mountain Stage. He died in 2017 at age 86.
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  • Fire eater entertains at a festival in the Andes mountains.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.<br />
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their home countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Dressed in colorful traditional clothing, Tlingit tribe leaders celebrate after a ceremony involving six totem poles that were raised in a Native Alaskan local park.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • George Higgins plays the piano and sings at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • Women sing out 'Stop in the Name of Love' in the spot where Diana Ross recorded the song.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher looks out toward the ocean.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • Musicians play lively dance music on a small outdoor stage for a crowd.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the day.
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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their totem art depicting whales and bears.
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  • Students and a teacher dance at a high school prom.
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  • Street performers stand stationary like mannikins wearing costumes to attract a lunchtime crowd in downtown Santiago.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye on her child.
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  • A man and woman dance at a restaurant.
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  • Men watch a dancer at a bar.
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  • A dancer at a bar.
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  • Dancing in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Russian Dancers in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • A teenage girl plays piano for her family.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • A band practices punk in an old garage.
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  • A devout Muslim mendicant dances during a festival of lights,  in Lahore, Pakis tan.
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  • A ballerina takes a turn on the wooden stage at the Del Norte County Fair.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • Singer Tony Orlando performs on stage in Branson.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • These are spokes-models at a Johnny Walker event at Granvill Mall. This event had something to do with sponsoring a formula one racing car and hard alcohol—not a good mix by most standards, but, whatever. A camera club showed up to photograph the models and use all their brand new, expensive gear. Survey young, urban Chinese today, and you will find them drinking Starbucks, wearing Nikes and blogging obsessively. But you will detect little interest in demanding voting rights, let alone overthrowing the country’s communist rulers. “On their wish list,” says Hong Huang, a publisher of several lifestyle magazines, “a Nintendo Wii comes way ahead of democracy.”
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  • The Armani Club is in the Liu lin Road area attract a scene of young people.
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  • Are you going to heaven?
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  • The Second City, a cararet style improvisational comedy club.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • A pattern of light streaks across a young cowboy who competes in a horse show with his trained formerly wild mustang. Special competitions for trained wild horses draws interest in their abilities when adopted.
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  • A newly married couple dances on Mendenhall Glacier. They took a helicopter onto the icefield and celebrated after the ceremony. Although dressed in traditional wedding formal wear, they were careful to step over the melting ice in their crampons.
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  • After costumed revelers parade through the streets, the bachelor men enter homes to visit neighbors during Carnival. They sing songs and dance with a widow who came back to the village to enjoy the festivities.
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  • Musicians play instruments in the Pacific Ocean surf.
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  • Bar patrons dance among flashing red, blue and purple neon lights at a nightclub in Quito.
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  • Musicians fine tune their violin instruments and warm up backstage before a performance of the Quito opera.
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  • Costumed young dancers move to the beat of a young drummer who blends African and Peruvian rhythms in their living room. The family descended from slaves brought to work in the area's cotton plantations.
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  • A Zapotec Indian woman in traditional clothing serves food to wedding guests while others dance into the night. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. <br />
Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government. <br />
The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.  This party was complete with traditional food and dancing. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Women dance in a Petropavlovsk nightclub, Nebo Night Club. This club is possible in Yelizovo because the owner owns a fish processing plant and enjoys having his own club where young people like to congregate.
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  • Partygoers cheer as the groom searches for his bride's garter.<br />
He lifted the bride and carried her into the warm glowing heart. They danced  and the lights came up and the festivities continued with hands-free-garter-diving in a heart-shaped flaming border of love. It is a tradition in Kamchatka, Russia.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • The potential spending power of Chinese women could be enormous in the next decade. According to estimates from MasterCard International, the total purchasing power of young Chinese women living on their own or in married households with no children is likely to rise from US$180 billion in 2005 to $260 billion in 2015.<br />
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Young Chinese are the drivers and chief beneficiaries of the country’s current boom. According to a recent survey by Credit Suisse First Boston, the incomes of 20- to 29-year-olds grew 34% in the past three years, by far the biggest of any age group. And because of their self-interested, apolitical pragmatism, they could turn out to be the salvation of the ruling Communist Party—as long as it keeps delivering the economic goods.
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  • A model at the 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Models at a fashion show.
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  • Models at a fashion show.
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  • Fashion show model and waitress.
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  • A model having her hair done before a fashion show.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • Disco lights and dancing at a club in Shanghai.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a movie theater.
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  • A man and his daughter clowning around.
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  • Fixing eyelashes at the Shenzhen Fashion Show at a Convention Center.
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  • A model and a person in Cultural Revolution costumes at a car show.
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  • Kids posing with people in Cultural Revolution costumes at a car show.
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  • Models at the 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Models at the 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • The 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Salsa dancing class.
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  • A Pygmy church choir is led by a Bantu tribesman.<br />
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Pygmies have no land rights.  The colonizing Belgians assigned land rights to residing ethnic groups and this still holds. Because Pygmies are nomadic and had no chiefs, they did not receive land rights.  Pygmies are at the bottom of the social caste system—they have no power.  Strong ethnic groups still have strong land rights.
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  • A Pygmy choir sings and dances and is led by a Bantu tribesman at a Pentecost church in Epulu.
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  • Christians dressed in costume carry crosses through the streets on Holy Week. Night view of a passion play depicting Christ's death.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • Spectating cowboys sit on the top bar of the fence of a corral during a rodeo a t the Slope County Fair, which is the longest running consecutive fair in North Dakota--held more than 75 years. Slope County is the smallest county in the co untry to have a county fair--there is only one other town in the county besides Amidon.
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  • Wearing jeans and a ten-gallon hat, a visiting chiropractor treats a cowboy on an outdoor examination table before rodeo events at the Clay County fair.
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  • Stretch fabric protects newly-washed sheep from dirt prior to a livestock conte st being held at the Minnesota State Fair.
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  • Framed in blue shutters, a dog hangs out of an open window watching people walk by.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Found scene on the way to the Slope County Fair in Amidon, ND.
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  • A young woman hitches her 4H project to a fence outside the rodeo at the Slope County Fair in Amidon ND.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • Dancing in a Barcelona nightclub.
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  • A logger climbing a tree trunk during a logging show competition.
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  • Tailgaters watch a Lions game on TV, parked in the erstwhile Grand Michigan Theater.
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  • Friends dance and listen to music at the bar at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • Cocktails are shaken at the Frontera Grill.
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  • A young cowboy readies himself on his trained, former wild mustang while waiting to compete in a horse show.
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  • A newly married couple dances while wearing crampons and formal attire as they celebrate on Mendenhall Glacier. Many passengers arrive on cruise ships making tourism the fastest growing industry in Southeast Alaska.
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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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  • Excitement builds as young children gather backstage getting dressed and coiffed for a charity fashion show supporting a local hospital. Saint Moritz is renown as a glamorous resort town attracting stylish tourists.
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  • Children wearing sunglasses and designer outfits prepare back stage for a charity fashion show in the exclusive, glamorous resort town of St. Moritz. The ritzy, Alpine resort town is located in the Engadine in Switzerland.
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  • Young people dance to music at a bar in a district full of clubs that attract night life in Quito.
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