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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • View from the Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti looking towards another Svan rural village.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti. Locals gather around a campfire in Tusheti.
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Animal sacrifice under the medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Prayer candles put on one of the Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti
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  • Medieval towers of the Ushguli settlement in the highlands of Svaneti.
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  • Boys climb a tower in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Aerial of Riverside, one of the first planned communities is located in suburban Chicago. Riverside, on the Des Plaines River, was designed in 1868 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the nation's most famous landscape architect, to attract Chicago's elite. Today the upscale suburban community hosts a historic railroad station and prominent water tower that was a technological marvel of steam driven pumps. The entire village was designated a National Historical Landmark in 1970.
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  • Flashing lights of a railroad crossing light the night sky in front of the water tower on central village square in Riverside, Illinois. Riverside is the first planned community in the United States, and was commissioned for a design by well-known landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux. An affluent suburban community nine miles west of Chicago, Riverside maintains the original aesthetic charm that was planned to appeal to people desiring a “rural” location.<br />
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The town might not have ever been popular had it not been for the disastrous Chicago fire of 1871 which served as an impetus for people to move away from the crowded, urban setting.
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  • Twilight falls on the snow-covered village of Castelrotto which is also known as Kastelruth in German. The tower of a cathedral lights up the northern Italian resort town that serves as a winter destination in the Dolomites. Large distinctive mountains loom over the communities attracting tourists in all seasons.
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  • An elevated view from a tower over the city of Turin, capital city of Piedmont in northern Italy. It is  that is known for its refined architecture and cuisine the in southern Alps. Stately baroque buildings and old cafes line Turin's boulevards and grand squares such as Piazza Castello and Piazza San Carlo. Nearby is the soaring spire of the Mole Antonelliana, a 19th-century tower housing the interactive National Cinema Museum. <br />
The first capital of united Italy in 1861, Turin went on to become one of the main economic and industrial cities in the country in the 20th century thanks to its car industry. The city is the home to Fiat, which also owns Lancia and Alfa Romeo, and Iveco trucks.
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  • Scenic view of the picturesque Ladin village of LaVa in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Perched on the lush green, hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara. <br />
The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, in which the western part of the Tethys Ocean, that was formerly in between the continents, disappeared millions of years ago.
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  • Young men leap from a high cliff into the Black Sea below.
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  • The Empire State Building looms behind the reeds of the Meadowlands.
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  • Twilight falls on the Ladin village of LaVal in the snow-covered Dolomites. Perched on the lush green, mountain hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara.
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  • Young men leap from a high cliff into the Black Sea below.
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  • Photographer Melissa Farlow atop a minaret of a 17th-century mosque in Lahore.
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  • A view from the 103 floor of Willis Tower or the old Sears Tower.
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  • Puffy clouds fill the sky over Devil's Tower.
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  • A ranger erases graffiti at Devils Tower National Monument.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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  • Scenes from the Bund – Including giant illuminated screen that shows commercials as it motors up and down the river. This screen is so bright that it throws a massive amount of light pollution into all of the condo buildings and fancy hotels along the Bund. There were so many complaints from wealthy building owners that the LED screen had to be parked in one spot rather than going up and down the river at night.
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  • The Pudong skyline shot from a roof top bar.
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  • New construction along the Dong Da Ming Road.
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  • These buildings will disappear because the property is just too valuable to leave them. For the moment, however, the government has cooled the housing market by imposing a 20 percent resale tax. If you want to see what this block will look like in the future you can just go to the City Planning Museum off People’s Square in the Puxi side of Shanghai. A 3D model shows not only the buildings that are already done, but also those planned for the future. These buildings will all be torn down.
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  • Commercials running on a screen on a boat on the river.
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  • Crowds in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Jesse Driskill herding cattle on the Koa Ranch.
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  • A church in the Ladino community of Wengen in the Dolomites.
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  • The Wrigley building on the north bank of the Chicago River.
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  • A large field of Thoroughbred horses blur as they run by the twin towers and down the stretch for the Kentucky Derby. This two minute horse race is one most famous in the world.
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  • A large field of Thoroughbred horses blur as they run by the twin towers and down the stretch for the Kentucky Derby. This two minute horse race is one most famous in the world.
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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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  • Bandit-style bandannas shield law abiders from dust on a well-worn trail in the Fisher Towers region of the Castle Valley near Moab, Utah. Off-road vehicle riders who stick to BLM's loosely enforced straight-and-narrow rules are plentiful, but thousands more disregard the rules, answering the call of their combustion engines to chart new paths through roadless areas. The degradation from rogue ATV riders has growing ecological consequences.
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  • Crumbling walls of Chanquillo dated archeological site 350 BC. that is located just off the Pan American highway north of Lima and just south of Casma.  Several towers surrounded by concentric walls make up the remnants of the fortress. Surrounded by a parched landscape of sand dunes, little is known about the crumbled structure.  <br />
 Lack of funds have kept the archeological site from being excavated but it is believed that the stone walls may have been used for ritual battles rather than real ones.
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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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  • Sea stacks tower above the surf at Shi Shi Beach.
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  • Shadows fall across Painted Hand Pueblo, a tower in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument, a treasure of Ansazi Indian ruins in Colorado. The 176,000 acres of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management includes 20,000 archeological sites.
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  • Pagan animal sacrifice beneath 12th century tower in Svaneti.
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  • View of the city looking south from the Hancock Tower at dusk.
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  • Pagan animal sacrifice beneath 12th century tower in Svaneti.
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  • Castleton Rock is a 400-foot Wingate Sandstone tower standing on a 1,000 foot Moenkopi-Chinle cone above the northeastern border of Castle Valley, Utah. It is a world-renown desert rock formation that has numerous climbing routes and is located outside of Moab.
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  • Sunset and shadows fall across a building in Lowry Pueblo, an archeological site located in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. A treasure of Ansazi Indian ruins in Colorado, the pueblo was constructed around 1060 AD atop abandoned pit houses from an earlier period of occupation. A total of 40 rooms and 8 kivas at its peak in the early 11th century, it was home to approximately 100 people. The 176,000 acre monument of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management includes 20,000 archeological sites.
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  • A timber faller works alone with a chain saw in the forest cutting trees one by one at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It is dangerous work.<br />
 The forests in the Tongass can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor in Alaska's Southeast.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • Old growth forest hemlock and spruce trees stand tall beside a 100-foot waterfall on Chichagof Island. It can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor.
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  • Conservationists hike through a 600-year old uncut old growth forest of tall trees. It can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor.<br />
Tongass National Forest in Alaska's Southeast  is the world's largest remaining intact coastal temperate rain forest. Nearly 17 million acres provides habitat for the largest population of Bald Eagles in the world.
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  • The Window on the World amusement park in Shenzhen allows Chinese to travel the world in an afternoon. Behind “Mount Rushmore” in this photo are actors playing Africans in huts and Egyptians at the Great Pyramids of Giza. Historically, during Mao, Chinese have not been able to travel. But for now they have to look at the “Eiffel Tower” and “Mount Rushmore” at Window on the World. Because of China’s one-child policy, instituted in 1978, this is the first generation in the world’s history in which a majority are single children, a group whose solipsistic tendencies have been further encouraged by a growing obsession with consumerism, the Internet, and video games. At the same time, today’s young Chinese are better educated and more worldly than their predecessors. Whereas the so-called Lost Generation that grew up in the Cultural Revolution often struggled to finish high school, today around a quarter of Chinese in their 20s have attended college. The country’s opening to the West has allowed many more of its citizens to satisfy their curiosity about the world: some 37 million will travel overseas in 2007. In the next decade, there will be more Chinese tourists traveling the globe than the combined total of those originating in the U.S. and Europe.
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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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  • A cowgirl leads her horse to a corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved from development and is an example of a working ranch respectful of the land.
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  • A cowgirl walks from the corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved and run by a woman rancher.
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  • A cowgirl leads her horse to a corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved from development and is an example of a working ranch respectful of the land.
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  • A Navajo woman lets her goats out to graze in Canyon De Chelly National Monument, a vast park in northeastern Arizona, on Navajo tribal lands. Its prominent features include Spider Rock spire, about 800-feet tall, and towering sandstone cliffs surrounding a verdant canyon. Inhabited by several Native American peoples for millennia, the area is dotted with prehistoric rock art.
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  • During October Festival of Bullfighting for the Lord of the Miracles, hundreds of spectators gather to critique the finesse of both red-caped matadors and bovine competitors. Plaza de Acho is Peru's oldest bull ring is located in a Lima suburb under the towering Cerro San Cristóbal mountain.
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