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  • The Opera House premiered in 1922, claiming to be the world's fifth largest.
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  • The Opera House premiered in 1922, claiming to be the world's fifth largest.
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  • Porch of the Bolduc House Museum with antique chairs and rakes.
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  • Abraham Lincoln once made an address at the Illinois State House, and Harry Hahn has been playing Lincoln since 1960.
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  • The Old State House is part of Boston National Historical Park.
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  • Kudzu vine completely covers an abandoned house.
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  • Mexicans gather at a popular local bookstore and coffee house to drink, smoke, talk and take in the ambiance.  A trendy meeting place with a casual club atmosphere draws a young crowd to listen talk, eat and drink while listening to live music.
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  • An inhabited house is next in line to be vacated and burned down as a coal company moves out families in the way of a growing mine. The homes were company owned.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, stands at the door of the farmhouse where he has li ved all his life. The house in Mocassin Swamp, northern Florida, has no electri city or running water. His only company are four cows and 14 cats.
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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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  • Shadow of a woman on an Ileret dome house.
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  • Portrait of Shirley, a float house owner near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • It's a festive atmosphere in the kitchen as a  couple prepares dinner for friends on their float house. Located on a secluded bay, visitors arrive by boat or by a water landing in a plane.
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  • A Rapanui man with his Belgian girlfriend live in a one-room house.
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  • A Rapanui man with his Belgian girlfriend live in a one-room house.
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  • A man and dog on the deck of their float house.
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  • A farmer walks along a fence to his barn and house.
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  • Swede, a float house owner, bows farewell to guests as they leave for the evening near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A rustic, float house, characteristic in Southeast Alaska, is reflected in the waters at dusk. The structure is tied off in a protected cove and accessible only by boat or float plane. Swede and his dog stand on the dock and watch for the evening guests' arrival.
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  • A family serves dinner to guests in the kitchen of their float house on the water. Their home is made from scavenged wood then tied up with ropes in a quiet bay near Prince of Wales Island. These homes are characteristic of the region and only accessible by boat or float plane.
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  • Autumn foliage along the serpentine drive to the Biltmore house.
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  • A vegetable garden in the Brush Park Historic District on a lot where a Victorian mansion once stood.
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  • A newspaper portrait of Mikhail Gorbechev on a rough-hewn building.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • Owner of 'Good Girls Go to Paris' creperie in Detroit.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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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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  • Aerial view of Hobet 21, a large mountaintop removal mine site was among the largest coal surface mines in West Virginia. The Lincoln County mine ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week expanding over hills and valleys, filling in Connelly Branch creek. At its peak in 2002, the mine produced 5 million pounds of coal in one year. After the company was bankrupt in 2015, the site was passed on to a conservation firm who continued mining.<br />
A lone house sits beside Mud River in the shadow of the mine's encroaching path. The town of Mud hasn’t been much of a community in the couple of decades since the post office closed, and in 1998 around 60 residents remained. They had two churches and a ball field. In early 1997, Big John, the mine’s 20-story dragline, moved above Mud and more houses, near this one, were bought and destroyed.
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  • A home was abandoned after a sediment pond overflowed at a mountaintop removal mine site. Flood waters poured down the holler carrying tree limbs that blocked a bridge over the creek used by residents to get to their house.
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  • Cradling his puppy, “Meatball,” a youth hangs out on the dock of the float house. The family built their home off the coast of Prince of Wales Island which is only accessible by float plane or by boat. The houses are characteristic of Southeast Alaska, tied down with ropes and floating on the water in an isolated bay.<br />
Life in remote Alaska offers adventures and an atypical lifestyle rich in experiences.
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  • A home was abandoned after a sediment pond overflowed at a mountaintop removal mine site. Flood waters poured down the holler carrying tree limbs that blocked a bridge over the creek used by residents to get to their house.
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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 mansion 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.
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  • Ileret dome houses.
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  • New houses built by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited.
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  • Domed houses in Komote, an El Molo village just outside Loiyangalani.
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  • Houses and boats in harbor of fishing village on Baranof Island.
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  • An Iraqi family displaced by war awaits orders to move from temporary housing.
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  • A colorful entrance to a Native Alaskan clan house greets visitors at Totem Bight State Historical Park. It is a replica of a community house representing of those in early nineteen-century native villages of Southeast Alaska. Tlingit or Haida chieftain’s dwelling also housed several families.
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  • A religious Ladin man reads a newspaper while watching a Catholic funeral on television in the kitchen of his farm house in the Dolomites. The community is close-knit and have a language unique to their region in LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • Totem poles and clan house at Totem Bight Historic Site.
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  • Artists paint the walls of Imagination Station, a house across from Detroit's abandoned train depot.
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  • A rescued orphan foal leaves little time for sleep, so a bed is moved into the makeshift horse nursery in the house.
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  • A counselor talks with a troubled child at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility supports women who need a refuge from abusive or threatening situations. They can receive food, a place to sleep, medical attention and emotional support for them selves and their children.
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  • A worker consoles a crying child at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility exists to help support women and their families in Quito who are in need of place to go if they are abused or threatened.
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  • A young boy draws on paper at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. Outside the window of a room filled with stuffed animals, children play on swing sets and recreational equipment.
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  • A woman knits a pink bootie for a baby at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. Women seeking refuge are given a place to sleep and eat, medical attention and help to relocate safely with their children.
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  • A warm glow comes from a meeting house at twilight in the American Samoan villa ge of Sa'ielele.  Even the local dogs show up at the social center to nip at th eir fleas.
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  • A counselor talks with a troubled child on the playground at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility supports women who need a refuge from abusive or threatening situations. They can receive food, a place to sleep, medical attention and emotional support for them selves and their children.
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  • A Svan clan leader sits by the fire in his house.
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  • A worker sets fire to a home that is demolished to rubble as a result of mine expansion. As mountaintop removal mine permits allow the surface mines to expand, they often displace residents in their way.  Dingess-Rum Coal Company served notice to Dehue residents renting old coal company houses, giving them 30 days to move. <br />
Dehue, like dozens of other mining towns, was once a busy center of activity with a grocery, post office, theater, barbershop, pool hall, school payroll office, and Civic Club. These communities become ghost towns and over time are dismantled. Day lilies and fruit trees often mark the spot of leveled homes lining a road.<br />
Dehue was located off Route 10 on Rum Creek south of Logan. It began in 1916 as a coal company town owned by Youngstown Mines Corporation. It existed as late as the 1970s, but the homes were never sold to private residents. Most houses were cleared and burned in 2000 and 2001.
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  • Aerial view of Hobet 21 mountain top removal coal mining site looms over one of the few remaining houses in Mud, W.V. Once this was a quiet rural community, but mining companies can legally come within 100 feet of a family cemetery and 300 feet from a home and they run 24 hours a day and seven days a week. <br />
Hobet 21 once produced about 5.2 million tons of coal, making it among the largest surface mines in the state. The Lincoln County mine expanded to fill in Connelly Branch creek, and after the company was bankrupt in 2015, the site was passed on to another firm who continued mining.<br />
The town of Mud hasn’t been much of a community in the couple of decades since the post office closed, but in 1998 around 60 residents remained. They had two churches and a ball field. In early 1997, Big John, the mine’s 20-story dragline, moved above Mud and more houses, near this one, were bought and destroyed.
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  • A worker sets fire to a home that is demolished to rubble as a result of mine expansion. As mountaintop removal mine permits allow the surface mines to expand, they often displace residents in their way.  Dingess-Rum Coal Company served notice to Dehue residents renting old coal company houses, giving them 30 days to move. <br />
Dehue, like dozens of other mining towns, was once a busy center of activity with a grocery, post office, theater, barbershop, pool hall, school payroll office, and Civic Club. These communities become ghost towns and over time are dismantled. Day lilies and fruit trees often mark the spot of leveled homes lining a road.<br />
Dehue was located off Route 10 on Rum Creek south of Logan. It began in 1916 as a coal company town owned by Youngstown Mines Corporation. It existed as late as the 1970s, but the homes were never sold to private residents. Most houses were cleared and burned in 2000 and 2001.
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  • These are workers' villas in wealthy Huaxi village in 2008. Some of the industries of Huaxi Village (Farmers Village) are in the background. This co-op has been a model farm for 45 years. They were capitalists before it was legal in China. They started factories, but worked in them with no windows in secret. When government officials came to inspect, they sent all the workers out to the fields and disguised the factories. Huaxi became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. This model farm became so successful they started selling shares in the 60's. They sold the shares "underground" The residents now buy shares... or work for shares to purchase these homes.  When shares were first offered, they went for 2000RMB, now they go for 30,000 RMB. In 2008, 30,000 officials visited this place to see how it runs effectively. There are not many model farms left in China, and none with this wealth. The model farm runs about 80 factories and In 2008, Huaxi was held up by the government as the most successful transition from farmer to the socialist/capitalist world. But more recently, in the face of economic pressures, Huaxi Village has gone bankrupt.
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  • Pygmy children play outside.
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  • A boat motors past Stiltsville: abandoned homes on stilts.
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  • A man feeds carrots to nearly tame mustangs in a Nevada subdivision. Residents in the Virginia Range are accustomed to wild horses grazing and then visiting their yards.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp.
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  • Stiltsville: abandoned homes on stilts off Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • Restored homes grace a street in the old Wicker Park neighborhood.
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  • Lured by vegetation, wild horses wander through subdivision yards in the Virginia Highlands.
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  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • Suri women building a hut in a village outside of Tulgit.
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  • Building a new hut in Tulgit for the village representative.
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  • Satellite dishes in the fishing village of Pulau Misa.
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  • A satellite dish in the fishing village of Pulau Misa.
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  • Masai tribesman laughing.
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  • Family of Ole Surupe gathers clothing.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy woman and child in the frame for a leaf-covered hut.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy woman and child in the frame for a leaf-covered hut.
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  • Refugee Pygmies at their camp.
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  • Refugee Pygmies near their leaf huts.
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  • Refugee Pygmies wash near their leaf huts.
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  • A gold mining town in northeastern Congo.
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  • A gold mining town in northeastern Congo.
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  • Boys are secluded before they do dances signifying their manhood.
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  • A photographer at a Mbuti hunting camp.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp.
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  • Pygmies bend branches to create shelter at hunting camps.
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  • Pygmies bend branches to create shelter at hunting camps.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp.
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  • Mbuti women assemble shelter walls using mongongo leaves.
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  • A satellite dish for international programs is in a courtyard.
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  • Stiltsville: abandoned homes on stilts off Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • 4H contestants camp at the edge of Nobles’ County Fairgrounds.
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  • Slows Bar BQ in Corktown across from the abandoned Central Station.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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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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  • 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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  • A man walks down the road in Tom Biggs Hollow in Letcher County, Kentucky, while his great grandchildren play nearby.<br />
Lucious Thompson, who lives in nearby Tom Biggs Hollow, joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth when he found his land disrupted from above. “There’s good mining and there’s bad mining,” Mr. Thompson said. “Mountaintop removal takes the coal quick, 24 hours every day, making my streams disappear, with the blasting knocking a person out of bed and the giant ‘dozers beep-beeping all night so you cannot sleep.”<br />
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Mr. Thompson spoke with the authority of a retired underground miner. Underground miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh, deep workplaces that were far out of sight. Now, the hollow dwellers have become witnesses more than miners as a fast-moving, high-volume process uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills.<br />
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“They make monster funnels of our villages,” said Carroll Smith, judge-executive, the top elected official, here in Letcher County, the location of some of the worst flooded hollows adjoining mountaintop removal sites. “They haven’t been a real good neighbor at all.”<br />
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With underground mining, coal miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh workplaces deep in the ground and far out of sight. With mountaintop removal, a fast, high-volume process that uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills that help define the hollows, the residents have become witnesses more than miners.<br />
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New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/national/11MINE.html
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  • A coal mine above Mc Roberts causes flooding and water problems for the residents that live in the shadow of this valley fill from a mountaintop removal mine.
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  • Man on an off-road vehicle drives home after stones and debris turned the flooded road into rubble during a summer rain. Small streambeds are dumped with the excess rock and dirt that the length of the Ohio River is filled in. The result is a threat to clean water and the biodiversity of the ecosystem. Flash flooding occurs where it never has before.<br />
Like a cancerous mutation of strip mining, entire mountaintops are blasted away to obtain a small seam of coal. Unwanted rock is pushed into valleys and streams, destroying natural watersheds.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Women attend a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A village in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • A fishing village in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • Komote, an El Molo village in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Maoi replicas near a hotel.
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