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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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  • Street scene of a military tank under Soviet era communications towers, a child on a bike and resident walking on the unpaved streets of Khailino in Kamchatka.
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  • Young girls in their finest dresses dance as the wedding party in the Khailino town hall that celebrated the first event in several years.
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  • Regional dairy princesses prepare for competition at the Nobles County fair.
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  • A busload of Japanese tourists are directed out after they walk into a private home by mistake in Heidi village. They were touring by bus through Heidiland, which gets its name from Johanna Spryri's fictional book titled "Heidi." The collection of statues depicting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is part of the communities lore.
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  • Attorney Brian Glasser briefs some of the 152 frustrated Sylvester, West Virginia citizens who banded together in a lawsuit in an effort to halt the assault on their air. Armed with video taped evidence, photographs, and testimony, the residents proved that black dust blanketed their town from a coal stockpile and preparation plant.<br />
They won but little has changed (the company bought a street sweeper for the community) but it was a moral victory for a group of people who saw property values plummet in the black cloud that hung over their town. None of the 152 mostly retirees had ever been involved in a lawsuit.
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  • A young girl waits for her turn to go at an 1800's fashion show at the Waleski Farm.
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  • A bride and groom deliver food and drink and greet shut in villagers in their homes.
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  • An English teacher presents the letter F to preschool children.
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  • A guard at an upscale gated housing development.
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  • Regional dairy princesses warm up their waves at the Nobles County fair.
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  • Villagers in the far north of Sudan greet each other before a family wedding in Karima, a northern village. These men rarely see each other. There is no work for them in their villages and most of them work in neighboring countries. Sudan is a difficult place to live if you a not a member of the elite few in Khartoum.
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  • Markets line the streets of the Senegal fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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  • The memory table is a display of framed portraits of family members at the annual June family reunion of the Tatums at Waycross, Georgia. As many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing on front porch rocking chairs.
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  • Music is a vital part of the annual June reunion of the Tatum family at their Waycross, Georgia homestead. A woman tuned her guitar then stopped to look at portraits on the "memory table" honoring deceased relatives. Red, white and blue flag decorates the front porch when as many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing.
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  • Hand and hat over his heart during prayer, a Confederate soldier in uniform honors his relatives that have passed at a family reunion.  The Tatum family at Waycross, Georgia, meets annually at the homestead and as many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing.
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  • Negotiating bicycles and buggies on a dirt road are part of life in Kjailino, a remote village in Kamchatka.
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  • A bride checks her makeup in a mirror as she readies herself for the wedding ceremony.
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  • A bride and groom talk with neighbors as they go through various rituals after their wedding.
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  • Regional dairy princesses prepare for competition at the Nobles County fair.
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  • Regional dairy princesses prepare for competition at the Nobles County fair.
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  • A day and boarding school in the Nakulabye neighborhood of Kampala.
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  • A farm woman takes a break from baking biscuits and taps on a window to get the attention of her nephew. Ladin village of LaVal is small and the people speak their own ethnic language in this isolated region of the Dolomites. They also speak German and Italian.
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  • Mary Miller gives a warm hug and greets a young boy at a church ramps dinner.
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  • Sex workers talk with women trying to help them who work for Quito's Office of Social Inclusion.  They are issuing official identification cards to prostitutes and attempting to help improve their working conditions. They stand on the street near the Santa Domingo cathedral in the historic district.
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  • A Masai child waves to tourists.
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  • A Mennonite man and his daughter look at a globe.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Two Ladin men share the news over a cup of morning coffee in a restaurant in the village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man and a young Aborigine girl.
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  • Islamic Turks mourn a dead relative.
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  • Underwater explorer Robert Ballard with scientists and  crew.
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  • Young people salute the flag during a ceremony honoring veterans.
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  • A costumed woman shushes children during the prayer at the annual June reunion of the Tatum family at Waycross, Georgia. As many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing at their homestead.
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  • A couple of relatives greet each other at the annual family reunion of the Tatums at their homestead in rural Waycross, Georgia. As many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing.
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  • Confederate re-enactors at an annual June reunion of the Tatum family at Waycross, Georgia, where as many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing.
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  • Cowboy hats are the typical attire for all who watch and compete in the White River Rodeo.
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  • There are 2.6 billion armpits in China, according to an ad man, and someone has to sell them deodorant. This shop-owner (right) thinks a guy wandering Nanjing Road in a full knight suit will do the trick for his snack shop.
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  • A Ghanian chief protected by guards with gold handled swords.
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  • A man and his daughter clowning around.
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