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  • A mining employee works around a large piece digging equipment used at Black Thunder, a coal surface mine. Located in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the dragline bucket used at the mine holds 170 cubic yards of coal that is extracted, processed, then loaded onto trains. Almost 100 million tons of low sulpher coal is shipped from this surface mine to power plants.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large sand dune in the Atacama Desert. Known as the driest place on earth, the desert is also considered the oldest. It has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large dune in the Atacama Desert a region in north Chile that is considered the driest place on earth. Located between the Andes and Coastal mountains, the parched desert is formed by wind and erosion.
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  • Tourists stand on the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital. It is a large pre-Columbian archeological site including pyramids and terraces in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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  • Oversized modern sculpture in the renovated 1920s Moore Building.
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  • Tourists walk through the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital in the Valley of Oaxaca. Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples – Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs – the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of Monte Albán were literally carved out of the mountain and are the symbols of a sacred topography. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with unique architecture.
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  • A jockey’s life is not easy—a member of an elite club of professional athletes who maintain a near inhuman weight restriction that most Americans couldn’t pass. Although talented women compete, it is not an easy life.
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  • War Emblem races down the final stretch to win the Kentucky Derby in 2002 at Churchill Downs.
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  • Jockeys wait for the next race to be called when they will make their way to the paddock and mount their horse. A jockey’s life is not easy—a member of an elite club of professional athletes who maintain a near inhuman weight restriction that most Americans couldn’t pass.
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  • A jockey’s life is not easy—a member of an elite club of professional athletes who maintain a near inhuman weight restriction that most Americans couldn’t pass.
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  • Walking down a muddy track after a thoroughbred horse race at Keeneland. A jockey’s life is not easy—a member of an elite club of professional athletes who maintain a near inhuman weight restriction that most Americans couldn’t pass.
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  • A female jockey carries her tack down the track after a race at Keeneland. A jockey’s life is not easy—a member of an elite club of professional athletes who maintain a near inhuman weight restriction that most Americans couldn’t pass.
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  • A Monastery Pontic Mountains.
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  • Waiting in the paddock before a race is Pat Day who had a career win of over 8000 races.  A jockey’s life is not easy—a member of an elite club of professional athletes who maintain a near inhuman weight restriction that most Americans couldn’t pass.  He speaks with a trainer before a race and is surrounded by the trainers’ sons at Keeneland Race track.
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  • Foggy forest view with a couple walking between giant redwood trees.
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  • Tourists climb down steep steps the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital with impressive architectural remains in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico. <br />
It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples – Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs – the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of Monte Albán were literally carved out of the mountain and are the symbols of a sacred topography.
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  • Tourists walk through the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Oaxaca Valley, it is an important archeological site founded in 6th century B.C.
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  • A young boy paddles a tortora reed boat through the surf near a little village of Huanchaco located north of Lima.  The caballitos, or "little horses," are traditional hand-made boats used by fishermen in the region.
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  • The Sumela Monastery clings to mountain cliff in the Pontic Mountains.
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  • Hiker in misty forest with redwood tree trunks.
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  • "Wawona area of the park.  Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees - tunnel tree is a favorite picture spot..."
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