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  • Renown ice climber Marco Prezelj tackles an ice candle in Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park in the Alps. Frozen waterfalls are a technical challenge and Prezelj explained he listens to the pitch of sound of ice cracking to plan the safest route.
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  • Cover of the June 2000 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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  • A group of Umbero people look with wonder at a polaroid photograph.
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  • This Mexican photographer has been selling Polaroid instant color photographs to tourists at the base of Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Falls, for 50 of his 73 years. The waterfall makes a dramatic 75-foot drop through Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.  The falls and surrounding park are a draw for Mexican families for picnics.
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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 white-gloved military parade takes over a street through the downtown Santiago.<br />
Carabineros de Chile are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmery created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country.<br />
They also re-establish order and security in Chilean society through civic education, service to the community, police work, and in a war situation, to act as a paramilitary force (all their members have military training).
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  • Cowboys from central Utah wait for a signal to begin branding young calves and an errant dog finds his way back to safety. Separated when they were moving cattle, the dog jumped up into the saddle upon seeing his owner. The ranch is surrounded by federal land of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Canyonlands National Park with spectacular views or the orange walls surrounding Indian Creek.
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  • Hausos or Chilean cowboys topped with white Andalusian hats watch a rodeo competition. Huasos ride horses wearing the traditional straw, flat-brimmed sombrero called a chupalla.  A growing popularity of the rodeo as national sport is found near Santiago and all around central and southern Chile.
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  • Millenium Village, an experimental village run by the United Nations.
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  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
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  • People bathing in the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
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  • Restored Colonial colonnades edge Lima's Plaza de Armas, bringing many people into the streets of Peru's capital city. The era when the City of Kings was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, established it as the showplace of Spanish South America.
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  • A truck stuck in a muddy road with people standing about watching.
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  • Resettled people in a community neighboring a gold mine.
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  • The Octopus Festival in Carbillino is attended by over 70,000 people.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • Local people try to extract their truck stuck in the monsoon mud.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • Resettled people in a community neighboring a gold mine.
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  • People ignore the monsoon rain while strolling the streets on Christmas eve.
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  • A diver searches for tasty seafood in a coral reef in the National Park of Amer ican Samoa.
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  • Masai tribesman near Serengeti National Park with cell phone.
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  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
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  • A diner watches people cross El Zócalo, Mexico City's grandiose main square, from the elegant Gran Hotel's rooftop restaurant. Built atop ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, the zócalo is now surrounded by sprawling Spanish colonial architecture, the most prominent being the Metropolitan Cathedral.
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  • Families gather outside a small, white-painted church for a ramps dinner. Allium tricoccum, wild leek, wild onion, spring tonic, or most commonly, the ramp is a wild plant that grows in the mountains of Appalachia. It resembles a scallion and tastes like a cross between an onion and garlic and dinners are a long-standing community tradition.
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  • Men and boys dress in white sheep's fur costumes to celebrate Slovenia's traditional version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they parade ringing bells to scare off evil spirits and chase away winter believed to bring spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • Wearing a black hat, a sister waits while her brother unhooks a horse from a sled. Some Ladinos choose a simple life in LaVal the Dolomites, a village so isolated that the people there have their own language. In small villages, population continues to drop and older people go unmarried.
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  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
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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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  • A young Zapotec woman adorned in a flower wreath sits in the shadows during a wedding celebration in the Chagigo neighborhood of Juchitan. Wedding celebrations happen on weekends in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where traditional culture is strong.  Women take leading roles in business and government in the town with the population of approximately 70,000 people.  The Mexican Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire, as resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • Dressed up in a suit and bow tie, a young boy patiently waits for cake to be offered while attending a wedding reception in the restored Colonial colonnades edge of Lima's Plaza de Armas.  Well dressed guests mingle at the party towering over the youth.
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  • Models walk down a runway and across stage lights for a high fashion bridal show featuring designer gowns. The cosmopolitan city of Monterrey is modern and industrial attracting young people with money to spend.
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  • Beloved icons, St. Bernard dogs were once indispensable for their abilities to save people buried by avalanches. Although replaced by modern equipment, traditions die hard and the dogs are maintained as a tourist attraction.  200 years ago St Bernard dogs saved 45 of Napoleon’s soldiers buried in an avalanche—the dog was bayoneted to death when one soldier thought he was being attacked by a bear.  St. Bernards are cared for by a foundation in Martigny, France.
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  • Maternity Ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.  Head of OB/GYN was taught by Jotham Musinguzi who became head of Population and Development Dept. for the government.  Jotham recently retired because he did not agree with the current president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Museveni has a military background and just wants to get BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Jotham said he wants to bump Uganda's population up to 60M before he even starts to worry about infrastructure for all these people. Uganda is about 30M now.  About half of Uganda's population is under 15 and life expectancy is about 50.  Population has doubled from 1990 to now.
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  • New Yorkers enjoy Drummer's Grove who have gathered informally in a corner of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park every Sunday afternoon since 1968. The mix of dancers, musicians, and others who listen and participate in the celebratory atmosphere.<br />
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Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted did not envision Drummers Grove in the 1860s when he and Calvert Vaux planned an urban space of meadows, woodlands, and pastoral views to help people connect with nature in New York.
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  • Living below an encroaching mine, residents find their clear running stream muddy. They walk up the creek looking for the source of the sediment spoiling drinking water in the holler.
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  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
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  • Bachelors in a small rural village of 65 people make a small parade as they continue the region's traditional Carnival celebration. Dressing for a Pagan wedding, unmarried men march ceremoniously from house to house, then families invite them inside for food and spirits as they celebrate the end of winter.
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  • A Laufarija carnival festival participant, Daisy, holds her mask carved from Linden wood. She is one of 25 characters that symbolize the features and weaknesses of particular groups of people. The cultural tradition is an annual play held in the streets to celebrate the coming of spring to Slovenia.
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  • Fur-costumed revelers at a spring festival surround a woman during their parade through the streets.  Men dressed in white sheep's fur don tall hats to celebrate Slovenia's version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they ring bells to scare off evil spirits and to chase away winter which brings spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • A woman arranges items on a car to sell at a roadside flea market. West Virginians have always lived with the backdrop of the coal train passing by and money has gone out of town on that train—it is no coincidence that some of the poorest people in the US live in coal country. <br />
One of the main poverty issues of Appalachia stems from the fact that the employed population makes less money that others in the U.S. which was a trade off for other assets like a rich family life.
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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 writer mimics a Nyangatom woman.
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  • A writer is carried to the Omo River's muddy shore.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Islamic Turks mourn a dead relative.
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  • An American photographer on assignment with an Easter Island photographer.
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  • A Suri woman with a lip plate carries her baby.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Moscow Planning Center and Reproduction Maternity Home.
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  • A Kara woman prepares food near Lake Diba.
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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
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  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
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  • Kara family doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Twilight over Lumale Camp in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Kara tribespeople in temporary agricultural camp in Kundama.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • At a wedding party, Kara guests of all ages are offered sorghum beer.
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  • A woman struggles in wind to photograph tourists on camels on beach.
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  • An Aborigine family sitting outside. Two are painting a pukamani pole.
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  • Photographer Melissa Farlow shooting a deer from her vehicle window.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man and a young Aborigine girl.
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  • Masai tribesman cooking meat over a smoking fire.
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  • A photographer on assignment on a crowded train in Mumbai.
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  • A group of Mbuti Pygmy women and children.
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  • An Mbuti Pygmy woman and man waving grass whips.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys participating in manhood initiation rites.
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  • A group of Congolese women and children in a waiting room.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy child crying as he receives an innoculation.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen in the rain forest with freshly killed duikers.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen sitting on rolled up hunting nets.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribespeople with hunting net and baby in sling in forest.
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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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  • A Mbuti Pygmy woman smokes a pipe as another nurses a baby.
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  • Aborigine grandmother with child in stroller, and man with body paint.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy children play with a bow and arrow.
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  • Aborigine children sit on a truck after arriving at a swimming hole.
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  • A young Australian woman and two Aborigine children swimming.
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  • Ugandan children embrace a photographer on assignment.
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  • A photographer on assignment at a gold mine in Ghana.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Soldiers help a Mayan mother and her baby in Chiapas where the Mexican army clashed with local Zapatista rebels demanding more assistance from the federal government.
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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • Walkers on a fog-shrouded beach at low tide.
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  • Men bring their camels to a saint's tomb to have their camels healed.
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  • Street scene in Multan.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • A Russian woman admires her newborn with her daughter.
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  • Homeward-bound farm families loaded with food and possessions, crowd into the flatbed of a pickup truck taxi as the open-air market in Xilitla draws to and end. In one of the largest ethnic Huastec Indian towns, each Sunday morning the narrow cobbled streets fill with stalls selling locally grown coffee, sugarcane, incense and corn tamales from the market.
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  • Kids play in a tributary of the Omo River as their mothers do laundry.
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  • Russian parents with their two children.
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