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  • Young girls playing with silly string at a family reunion where it's all fun and games and great pitch in dinners.
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  • Some skiers are challenged by the flat but snowy slopes of the Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site.
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  • Some skiers are challenged by the slopes of the Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site. A young boy has wet trousers from all of his falls in the snow.
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  • Some skiers are challenged by the slopes of the Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site while others take photos with a camera while standing on the snow.
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  • A teenage girl plays piano for her family that gathers around to listen in their apartment.
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  • Young people are doused with water as men engage in a water fight at China Folk Culture Villages in Shenzhen.
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  • Young people are doused with water as men engage in a water fight at China Folk Culture Villages in Shenzhen.
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  • A young woman is doused with water as men engage in a water fight at China Folk Culture Villages in Shenzhen.
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  • Children dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to celebrate the first da of spring. The Primavera parade is also known as Friendship Day or Children’s Day.
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  • Circus performers dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to advertise the show in Pisco. Locals watch the parade as 20 performers from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile smile and wave as they ride around in a circus truck the first night in town.
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  • Circus performers dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to advertise the show in Pisco. 20 performers from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile smile and wave as they ride around in a circus truck the first night in town.
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  • Novices play ball in a courtyard during a short break from the strict everyday life in a cloistered convent at Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa, Peru. Older Catholic nuns allow this scheduled play to help the young nuns adjust more easily to the new rules and a routine: They are always silent, pray seven times a day, and never leave the grounds. Visitors to the convent can attend mass but never see life behind the walls where 23 women ranging in age from 15 to 93 make their home.
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  • Drivers compete on a mud bog course with all-terrain vehicles.
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  • Students at a party.
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  • Students dress up for a party.
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  • Kids play in a fountain in Washington Park in the Over the Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.
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  • Kayakers with paddles wait to embark on an ecotour.
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  • Cave jumpers play in high surf from Hurricane Issac.
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  • The bar scene buzzes at Michael Symon's Roast, a James Beard Award-winning restaurant.
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  • A fountain on the newly designed Riverwalk along the Detroit River.
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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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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • A visitor looks out from the lighthouse at Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • Poolside dining at the Clevelander Hotel, a popular nightspot.
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  • Waterfront Scotty's Landing offers alfresco dining with a local twist.
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  • Poolside dining at the Clevelander Hotel, a popular nightspot.
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  • A father and son skip rocks along Lake Michigan south of the Loop.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Cocktails are shaken at the Frontera Grill.
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  • The Second City, a cararet style improvisational comedy club.
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  • Kitty gentles and trains wild horses on her ranch in the high desert where the wild mustang trainer rides rides on trails with her children.
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  • Black hat and red bandana match the checkered shirt as this young, wide-eyed cowboy sheriff fantasizes on their western ranch.
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  • A young cowboy sheriff with a badge, black hat, red flannel shirt and belt buckle steadies his hand on his weapon ready for action in his living room on the ranch.
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  • A young cowboy plays dead on the living room floor in a dramatic western fantasy involving knives and guns and a stuffed horse ready for a quick get-away.
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  • A young, western cowgirl walks to the barn with her trusty steed on wheels to watch her mother train wild horses.
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  • Donning a straw hat, a young cowgirl heads to the barn to watch the horses.
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  • A young cowgirl sits atop a tall, tamed and trained, former mustang at the family ranch.
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  • Children playing in the snow on a hillside outside their home in Sylvester.
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  • A young girl in braids sits on a swing at the Caudill homestead during a weekend family reunion bringing relatives together.
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  • Students and a teacher dance at a high school prom.
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  • Children of market workers at a Quito day care center burst into laughter with joyous faces as they watch a magician, a clown, and ethnic dancers.
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  • Skateboarders show off their skills and moves in graffiti-lined tubes where families gather together to watch on a Sunday afternoon in a Quito city park.
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  • Graffiti lined tubes where families play and skateboarders show off their moves on a Sunday afternoon when people head to the parks in a Quito.
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  • A father skilled in BBoy dancing helps his son practice difficult move in a Quito park. A young, urban culture celebrates hip hop expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance.
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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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  • 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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  • Costumed revelers march on the Pan American highway in San Pedro Totolapán, Mexico, on Day of the Dead. They stop traffic to solicit handouts from drivers; if no pesos appear, the driver is generally treated to verbal abuse.
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  • American tourists don sombreros and sing with a mariachi band at a cantina bar in Nuevo Laredo, a quirky border town.
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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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  • A blurring of cultures as children dance in the street wearing Halloween masks in celebration of Day of the Dead. The American and Hispanic celebrations coincide involving masks and candy in the small Mexican town where families use burros and make mescal from agave plants.
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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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  • Water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • An all terrain vehicle rider covered in mud in St. Joe State Park.
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  • Boys swim in the algae filled water of Elyse Springs.
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  • Students play ball a at a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Boys climb a tower in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Turkana camel herders swim in Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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  • A bride and groom drive away in a vehicle decorated with balloons as party goers light sparklers to celebrate.
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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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  • Women dancing in a Petropavlovsk nightclub.
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  • Residents of Khailino, a remote village, ride a motorcycle with sidecar down the unpaved street under Soviet era communication towers.
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  • As the wedding approaches, a woman pretends she is a bride surrounded by her family.
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  • A family gulps water from an overflow tank during the monsoon.
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  • A silhouetted child runs on a rock studded beach at sunset.
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  • A young woman laughing on a street in the Chaoyang district.
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  • Father and son cross the Mexican border to celebrate a 21st birthday at a bar in a border town to Laredo, Texas.  The two laughed and sang with the Mariachi band with an accordion in the atmosphere among other tourists among the pinatas.
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  • People enjoying a riverboat cruise on the Ohio River.
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  • Friends dance and listen to music at the bar at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • Visitors under Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate Sculpture.
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  • A girl plays in the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • A young cowboy confidently rides a trained mustang in the corral of the family ranch. The wild horse competed in an Extreme Mustang Makeover, a national competition, and placed second with the his trainer.
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  • A family frolics in the surf on a beach with sea stacks.
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  • People play in the surf in La Serena, Chile's premier beach resort north of Santiago. The white sand beach is rain free nine months of the year and 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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  • Costumed revelers rest in the shade of a cantina while parading for Day of the Dead celebration in rural Mexico.
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  • Water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • Boys swim in the algae filled water of Elyse Springs.
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  • The grooms antics amuse the bride during a wedding reception in Khailino in Kamchatka, Russia. It is important to note that some of the theater of this wedding happened because it is Russian tradition. The community has endured great hardship and a people who have adjusted to being really kind to each other to all survive together.
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  • A dancer in green sparkles and fringe drapes a live snake over the shoulders of a male customer at the Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant in Beijing. <br />
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The dancers, wait staff, and performers are all migrant workers from Xinjiang Province in Northwest China. Migrant workers in China are mostly from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. <br />
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China has been experiencing the largest mass migration in history and people have left the countryside for the cities-perhaps 400 million people by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • A dancer in green sparkles and fringe performs with a live snake at the Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant in Beijing. <br />
<br />
The dancers, wait staff, and performers are all migrant workers from Xinjiang Province in Northwest China. Migrant workers in China are mostly from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. <br />
<br />
China has been experiencing the largest mass migration in history and people have left the countryside for the cities-perhaps 400 million people by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • A dancer in green sparkles and fringe performs with a live snake at the Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant in Beijing. <br />
<br />
The dancers, wait staff, and performers are all migrant workers from Xinjiang Province in Northwest China. Migrant workers in China are mostly from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. <br />
<br />
China has been experiencing the largest mass migration in history and people have left the countryside for the cities-perhaps 400 million people by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • Chained-up hounds, anxious to be part of the fun, watch their owner wave at a p assing truck.
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  • Chained-up hounds, anxious to be part of the fun, watch their owner wave at a passing truck.
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  • At the A Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant, ethnic dancers, wait staff, performers are all from Xinjiang Province in North West China.
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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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  • Hatchet in hand, a man steadies his grasp on the handle during a target competition-one of many challenges at a traditional logging show. The Southeast Alaska region's roots are deep in the heyday of a vibrant logging industry when locals come together for fun competing with saws and hatchets, pole climbing and wheel barrow races.
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