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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Phil Smith and Randy BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia .
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • New River Gorge Bridge, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumper in mid-parachute seen below the 900-foot bridge. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Jumping off a dune at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Jumping for joy, Andrea Caven (second from left) works through the routines in her ballet class at the American Canyon Community Center. Parents (Regan on right, in UCSD sweatshirt) benevolently supervise from chairs along the wall. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 265).
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway.  Mille 12, jumps on the trampoline in the back of their farmhouse on the family sheep ranch. Model-Released.
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  • An afternoon swim in the river Ganga. Near the Dashashwamedh ghat. Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • A traditional encierro, or taunting of the bulls by local residents at the annual wine harvest festival in Logroño, Spain. This takes place in the municipal bullring after the bulls run through the streets early every morning.
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  • Menzel-D'Aluisio compound, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Children swim in the Li River near Xingping town outside Guilin, China.
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  • Children getting spring water flee when they see white people in Mpigi, Uganda (Africa).
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  • "The Goalkeeper," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • "The Goalkeeper," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • Teenagers in Poutasi village, Western Samoa, play volleyball in front of the village church. Material World Project.
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  • Myron Kruger jumps in front of a VideoPlace screen. Kruger designed this system to allow people to interface directly with computers. The operator stands in front of this large, backlit screen. A video camera is used to form an image of the silhouette - the computer then interprets different poses or actions as different commands. The results are displayed on an equally- large video screen, the image of the operator being manipulated in response to the commands. Kruger was the first to use the term 'artificial reality' for this concept. Model released. (1990)
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses the Sierras near Cougar Rock.
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  • Alex Wright, 14, skips along the top of a pipe that is part of the California Aqueduct water transport system. Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, along Route 395. Los Angeles Aqueduct. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France. Third in a series of three photos.
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  • A troupe tries out its cycling act at the Shanghai Circus World, Shanghai, China, where acrobat Xiaoli Cao practices. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France.
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  • Boys run and leap into the Niger River in the late afternoon at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France. Second in a series of three photos.
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  • BASE jumper parachuting from 900-foot New River Gorge bridge on Bridge Day in West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Kayakers in the New River Gorge on Bridge day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumpers are parachuting from the bridge above them. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman, jumping with trainer at a Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. She was the CEO of an Israeli-founded company Checkpoint, Inc. that became successful designing and selling security firewalls which secure an organization's internal network from external hackers. Model Released (1999).
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  • In this photo-illustration, graduate student Josh Davis (underwater, in a wet-suit) helps the RoboPike breach out of the water in order to show how well the robotic fish might be able to swim one day. The idea for the image of the RoboPike breaching came from the head of Ocean Engineering, Professor Triantafyllou, whose dream it is for a robotic fish to swim well enough to be able to jump out of the water.
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  • Maya Ukita (left) and her mother, Sayo (red shirt) watch a neighbor boy jump rope while waiting for the bus to pick up the kids in the morning for their kindergarten class. Bus stop in Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • In this photo-illustration, graduate student Josh Davis (underwater, in a wet-suit) helps the RoboPike breach out of the water in order to show how well the robotic fish might be able to swim one day. Photographed at the Department of Ocean Engineering Testing Tank Facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The idea for the image of the RoboPike breaching came from Professor Triantafyllou, whose dream it is for a robotic fish to swim well enough to be able to jump out of the water. Published in Smithsonian Magazine, August 2000 issue, page 55.
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  • For a photo-illustration, graduate student Josh Davis (underwater, in a wet-suit) helps the RoboPike breach out of the water in order to show how well the robotic fish might be able to swim one day. The idea for the image of the RoboPike breaching came from the head of Ocean Engineering, Professor Triantafyllou, whose dream it is for a robotic fish to swim well enough to be able to jump out of the water Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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  • Little girl plays jump rope in front of her rammed earth home in the village of Gaselo, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Young man jumps between pillars at sunset.  Naples, Florida, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez (center), Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, monitors operations with his colleagues on an oil rig. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he runs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roadkill kangaroo along the Stuart Highway, south of Glendambo. South Australia during the Pentax Solar Car Race. Kangaroo jumped in front of this Toyota Landcruiser just before dawn and was killed. The Toyota's front end is protected by a Roo-Guard, just for this reason.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman with one of her 6 horses. Deborah Rieman greets her horses Porsche 911 Targa Trade In (white and gray dappled, named from her trade-in that purchased the horse) and Adrenaline Rush (chestnut brown, named for the reaction to riding the horse) before taking them out for warm-up runs and jumps. The horses are two of Deborah's six that are housed at the Breakwell Charlebois Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. Model Released (1999).
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