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  • Pilgrims at Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Tobacco - The Clifton Walton family strips dried tobacco from the stalks in their barn in Charlotte, Tennessee. USA.
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  • Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland in May of 2004. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. Family is in same order as the family portrait in Material World taken outside their home in December 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Lagavale family, dressed in their Sunday best for the White Sunday holiday church services, cheerfully pose for the camera in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which supplements their modest needs. Material World Project.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • Kumbh Mela Festival, Hardiwar, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.
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  • Kumbh Mela Festival, Hardiwar, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Almanza family at home in Exeter, California, USA. Farmworkers.
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  • Gary and and his father Floyd Zaiger in one of their orchards. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Zaiger with his son under an aprium (apricot & plum) tree. 1983. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Winemaker Daryl Sattui, with his son Mario and dog Lupo, in one of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley, California..Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Visitors from Zia Pueblo, San Isidro inside of the Chimayo Sanctuary on the road to Taos, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It is dedicated to the Madonna where supposedly a miracle occurred.
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  • A gypsy family drinking Tecate beer at a picnic in a park in Zochimilco, Mexico.
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  • Spectators at the patron saint festival at Coyotepec Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • El Barrio del Carme, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland in May of 2004. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. Family is in same order as the family portrait in Material World taken outside their home in December 1993. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, right, with the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, right, with the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • An Indian family visiting the temple at Halebid, South India. The ancient capital of the Hoysalas, Halebid was then known as Dwarasamudram. The great city of Dwarasamudra flourished as a Capital of the Hoysala Empire during the 12th & 13th centuries.
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  • The father of rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, with Jose's sons at their home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Nalim and Namgay family portrait outside their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Poor people living on the sidewalk near Nariman Point; Bombay, India.
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, California. Wind turbines. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1985).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1983).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1983).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1989).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1985).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at San Gorgonio Pass, near Palm Springs, California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1986).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_47_xs.jpg
  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, California. Wind turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_55_xs.jpg
  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1983).
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  • Used tires entering a prototype burning-burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. A tire mountain containing around 40 million tires dominates the landscape (background); the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc- containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. MODEL RELEASED (1985).
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  • Mountain of used tires at a prototype tire- burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. The mountain contains around 40 million tires & the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc-containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • Mountain of used tires at a prototype tire- burning power station in Westley, California. The tires are used as fuel to run an electricity generator. It is estimated that one tire can serve the energy needs of the average northern California household for a day. The mountain contains around 40 million tires & the plant is expected to burn some 4 million tires annually. Several environmental protection systems reduce emissions from the plant; a smog-control system neutralizes nitrous oxides, a scrubber system removes sulphur & a giant vacuum cleaner removes fly ash. Both the sulphur & the zinc-containing fly ash are recycled. (1988).
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • 80 panel photovoltaic electric array on Menzel and D'Alusio property in Napa Valley, CA. Nearly zeros out electric PG&E fees by providing power to the grid which runs the meter backward during daylight hours.
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  • Margaret (Linda) Gundlaugsdottir of the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland, with her grandson. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Nuclear Energy: California Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California. The plant has two reactor units, which combined have a net power capacity of nearly 1200 megawatts. The plant, operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric company, became commercially operational in 1977. (1985).
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  • Nuclear Energy: California Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California. The plant has two reactor units, which combined have a net power capacity of nearly 1200 megawatts. The plant, operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, became commercially operational in 1977. (1985).
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  • Hydro Electric Energy: Oroville Lake and Dam. Oroville, California. (1990).
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  • Hydro Electric Energy: Roosevelt Dam near Phoenix, Arizona. (1987).
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  • The Benziger Family at Glen Ellen Winery, Glen Ellen, California, (Sonoma County). Today the winery is known as Benziger Family Winery and produces high-end table wines at smaller production levels.
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  • Close up view of some of the rectangular photovoltaic cells that comprised the power supply for Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. An array of some 7,200 of these cells was arranged in a hood covering the front & back of the vehicle. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. (1987)
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  • Hydro Electric Energy: Oroville Lake and Dam. Oroville, California. (1980).
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  • Walking robot. Blur-flash image of Pinky, a walking robot prototype, being physically supported by researcher Dan Paluska at the Leg Lab. at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Pinky is a next generation walking robot that, unlike previous generations, can walk untethered and unsupported at normal human pace. Pinky was built to help understand the dynamics of the human stride. Photographed in Cambridge, USA
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  • Fabio Pellegrini in his office in the home he shares with his wife Daniela Ciolfi and their daughter Catarina. The home has been in Daniela's family for many generations. Revisit with the Pellegrini family, 2005, Pienza, Italy. The Pellegrinis were Italy's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 198-199), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. In 1996, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Multi Familiar Juarez, a housing project in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of the Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Regis Block, a building in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Ali Ghoyumi, 76 year old weaver working in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran. He can trace his family back many generations he says, and his family have all been weavers. He is the last of his family that still weaves, as the pay is low.
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  • Madru Choudhary (right), is the chief custodian of the Harishchandra cremation ghat in Varanasi, India. He was 45 at the time the photo was taken and his family has been "in the business" for generations.
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  • The Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner, cooking at her home in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive.   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner with her typical day's worth of food in her parent's bakery in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World ion 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 144 pounds. She's wearing her Bread Queen sash and crown, which she dons whenever she appears at festivals, trade shows, and educational events, representing the baker's guild of Germany's greater Cologne region. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Trying to concentrate in a crowded, busy workspace, graduate student Harumi Ayai pats makeup onto the immobile features of a face robot in the Hara-Kobayashi Laboratory. This machine, the first face robot built in the lab, has a single camera in its left eye. Notwithstanding the relative simplicity of its design, the machine was able to smile when people approached it. Although rapidly superseded by later models, the lab went through three generations in a few years, the robot is still being studied. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 78-79.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Regis Block, a building in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Multi Familiar Juarez, a housing project in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of the Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Multi Familiar Juarez, a housing project in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of the Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Madru Choudhary, is the chief custodian of the Harishchandra ghat in Varanasi, India. He was 45 at the time the photo was taken and his family has been "in the business" for generations. Harishchandra is the smaller of the two ghats used for the cremation of thousands of Hindus each year. They are of the Dom caste which historically has included traders, weavers, scavengers, and musicians.  (His first name can also be spelled Matru. His last name is also spelled Chaudary, or Chaudhery).Varanasi, India.
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  • The Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner, holds a loaf of bread at her parent's bakery in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. She's wearing her Bread Queen sash and crown, which she dons whenever she appears at festivals, trade shows, and educational events, representing the baker's guild of Germany's greater Cologne region. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive.   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Toshiko Taira, 87, of Kijoka, Okinawa, Japan. Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, and her daughter, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been named a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. Although older generations of Okinawans are still living into their one-hundredth year, some say that the decline of weaving in the home was the beginning of the decline of the lengthy life spans of Okinawans.
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  • Van de Graaff generator display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Pamela Gross demonstrates static electricity. A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator used to produce a high voltage, usually in the megavolt range. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented it. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the girl touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to her hands, and through to her hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end.  MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Van de Graaff generator display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pamela Gross demonstrates static electricity. A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator used to produce a high voltage, usually in the megavolt range. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented it. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the boy touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to his hands, and through to his hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end. (1991)
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • The table is set for lunch at the home of widowed farmer Lan Guihua, who lives in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • A dog looks on impatiently as men slaughter a chicken for visitors at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer living in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant..Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Static electricity. Young boy holding the dome of a Van de Graaff generator, which makes his hair stand on end. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the boy touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to his hands, and through to his hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end. Photographed at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Solar energy: SEGS Solar Plant. Southern California Desert. Solar power. One of the three Luz International solar energy complexes in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Together these sites, which cover 1000 acres, generate 275 megawatts of electricity, 90% of the world's total grid-connected solar energy production. This installation, located at Kramer Junction, has an array of 650,000 computer-controlled parabolic mirrors which track the sun across the sky, focusing it's light onto tubes containing a synthetic oil. The oil, which is thus super-heated to 391 degrees Centigrade, is used to boil water for steam turbine generators in one of five power plants. (1985).
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  • Alternative Energy: Mesquite Lake Cattle Manure Power Plant, California. The Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project is the world's first cattle manure-fired, commercial scale power plant. The plant burns cattle manure from nearby feedlots. The manure was becoming a serious waste problem because it was of limited value as a fertilizer in the area. In many cases, feedlot owners had to pay to have the manure removed. At Mesquite Lake, this waste material is burned and the heat generates steam, which drives a turbine/generator and produces about 17 megawatts of electrical power. After supplying plant needs, 14-15 megawatts are sold to Southern California Edison. This is enough power to supply the needs of a community of about 15,000 to 20,000 homes. (1990).
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