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  • Pioneers in blue flak jackets and helmets probing for landmines near a new training camp for 229 volunteers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Pioneers in blue flak jackets and helmets probing for landmines uncover a small hockey puck size landmine near a new training camp for 229 volunteers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Rainforest "weedbusters" chop & apply herbicide to invasive weeds. The ?weedbusters? of Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii defend the park from the most vexatious invasive plants (Chris Zimmer and Lowell Thomas, rear; Kim Tavares and Bob Mattos, front). They are National Park employees who use machetes and weed killing chemicals to rid sections of forest of non-native invasive plants such as Kahili Ginger, Banana Poka, and Kikuyu (African grass)..Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Rainforest "weedbuster" Bob Mattos chopping & applying herbicide to invasive weeds; Kahili Ginger. Volcano National Park Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The walled city of Avila, Spain under storm clouds.
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Fence with radioactive sign and tourists during openhouse viisit. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Ft. Ross, near Timber Cove, N. Caliornia Coast
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  • Cape Neddick, Maine light house.
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  • War games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Combatant playing war peers out a window with his paintball gun ready to fire at the Sat Cong Village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On the desert shooting range, a young woman competes in the 3-gun match.  Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas.
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  • The walled city of Avila, Spain under storm clouds.
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  • Oil well fire fighting specialists from the Texas company Boots and Coots shield themselves from the intense heat of the fire so that they can more closely direct other workers using equipment on the end of long booms attached to shielded bulldozers in the Kuwait oil fields. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • An oil well fire specialist from the Texas company Wild Well Control shields himself from the intense heat of the fire so that he can more closely direct other workers using equipment on the end of long booms attached to shielded bulldozers in the Kuwait oil fields. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Shepherd's Dell State Park near Portland, OR
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  • Shepherd's Dell State Park near Portland, OR
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  • Nude bathers.  Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • Ft. Ross, near Timber Cove, N. Caliornia Coast
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  • War game combatant at Sat Cong village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. He surrenders after being shot in the face with a blue paintball. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cellorigo, Rioja, Spain.
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  • The walled city of Avila, Spain under storm clouds.
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  • A firefighter from Safety Boss of Canada sprays foam on one of the weaker oil well fires. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. Photo shot on July 3, 1991.
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  • Oil well fire fighting specialists from the Texas company Boots and Coots shield themselves from the intense heat of the fire so that they can more closely direct other workers using equipment on the end of long booms attached to shielded bulldozers in the Kuwait oil fields. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. Photo taken on July 3, 1991.
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  • Oil well fire fighting specialists from the Texas company Boots and Coots shield themselves from the intense heat of the fire so that they can more closely direct other workers using equipment on the end of long booms attached to shielded bulldozers in the Kuwait oil fields. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. Photo taken on July 3, 1991.
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  • Serpentine Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. China.
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  • Lightning tolerance test. A researcher holding two carbon-fiber panels from a helicopter, showing their tolerance of lightning. The panel at right is simple carbon fiber, and has had a large hole punched in it by simulated lightning. This is because it is an electrical insulator, so cannot disperse the electricity across its surface. The panel at left has a thin grid of copper wire coating the surface. This allows the electrical charge to disperse over the surface, causing nothing more than damage to the paint. Photographed at Lightning Technologies Inc. of Massachusetts, USA. 1992.MODEL RELEASED
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  • Ft. Ross, near Timber Cove, N. Caliornia Coast
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  • An oil well fire specialist from the Texas company Boots and Coots shields himself from the intense heat of the fire so that he can more closely direct other workers using equipment on the end of long booms attached to shielded bulldozers in the Kuwait oil fields. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Nene goose, the endangered state bird of Hawaii, USA, in Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii. At 230,000 acres, Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park dominates the southeast end of the Big Island, sweeping from lava-bound coast to high-mountain rain forest. Midway up the mountain, in the dry land forest, protection from predators plays a big role in the effort to bring back the nene in one of Hawaii's largest wild nene flock (about 160 birds)..Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA. .
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • California Conservation Corps. Clearing a stream of redwood logs for the California Department of Fish & Game so that salmon can use the stream to spawn. Near Eureka, Northern California.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks at Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The penguins stay vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. National Park Service rental cabins at the bottom. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Sikh C&H sugar factory security guard, Inderjit S. Bal. Martinez, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roger Moore with Charles Jensen and his dog at Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge, Northern California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Charles Jensen with his dog at the Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge, Northern California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, looking at the rainbow. Photographed in 1980 prior to his writing the book.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. 1980
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  • Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California. Designed by Simon Rodia 1921-1955. Untrained as an architect, engineer, or builder, Simon Rodia created a complex of towers that rose over one hundred feet tall. Composed of structural steel rods and circular hoops connected by spokes, the towers incorporate a sparkling mosaic of found materials including pottery, seashells, and glass. Rodia's house, destroyed by fire in 1957, resided within the complex..Declared hazardous by the city of Los Angeles, the towers were threatened with demolition until an engineer's stress test proved them structurally sound. They have since been designated a cultural monument. USA.
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  • California Gnatcatcher (endangered species) at Starr Ranch Audubon Sanctuary in Orange County, California. Overlooking Coto de Caza subdivision.
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  • A Gentoo penguin tends its eggs at Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The penguins stay vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • A Gentoo penguin tends its eggs at Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The penguins stay vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • On Cuverville Island. Gentoo penguins nesting on piles of stones, chasing off skua birds, the scavengers of the Antarctic that are trying to eat their eggs and young chicks. Antarctic Penninsula.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. National Park Service rental cabins at the bottom. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona.  USA.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Tumacacori, Arizona. Tumacácori National Historical Park in the upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona is comprised of the abandoned ruins of three ancient Spanish colonial missions. The Park is located on 360 acres in three separate units. San José de Tumacácori and Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, established in 1691, are the two oldest missions in Arizona. The third unit, San Cayetano de Calabazas, was established in 1756. USA.
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  • Tonto National Monument: Cliff Dwellings of Salado Indians from 1300 to 1500AD. Arizona. USA.
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  • Dramatic spring runoff from melting mountain snow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Beginning descent of the South Kaibab Trail of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in winter. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Watts Towers in Los Angeles, California. Designed by Simon Rodia 1921-1955. Untrained as an architect, engineer, or builder, Simon Rodia created a complex of towers that rose over one hundred feet tall. Composed of structural steel rods and circular hoops connected by spokes, the towers incorporate a sparkling mosaic of found materials including pottery, seashells, and glass. Rodia's house, destroyed by fire in 1957, resided within the complex..  Declared hazardous by the city of Los Angeles, the towers were threatened with demolition until an engineer's stress test proved them structurally sound. They have since been designated a cultural monument.
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  • Fort Ross Historic State Park, near Bodega Bay, northern California. A Russian settlement from the 1800's.
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  • Shrine on a street corner in Laguardia (Alava) Rioja, Spain.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • An artist sleeps near her art installation at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Palisade, near Grand Junction, Colorado
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  • John S. Weber looking at a model of himself by German artist Karin Sander. Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) San Francisco, California. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bupaya Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Hapu'u ferns in the rain forest of the Kamakou preserve on Molokai, Hawaii. USA. These ferns are considered a delicacy by feral pigs, which have devastated large sections of native forests by rooting and digging. The pigs are being eliminated by hunting and fencing. .
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  • View from Kamakou Preserve rain forest, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Kamakou Preserve rain forest, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Security at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • Menzel and D'Aluisio home, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Taitung, Taiwan. Buddha's head tropical fruit, a delicacy grown in Taitung.
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  • Boston, MA at dawn. From Cambridge, with Boston Museum of Science to left.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Town of Siguenza, Spain, dominated by its castle.
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  • Elephant: Elephant orphanage at Pinnawella, Sri Lanka.
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  • Foreign Aid workers (NGO's) on their day off go to the beach with armed guards.  Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Rice: Aerial view of rice fields at Grey Lodge Waterfowl Management Area, Butte County, California, USA.
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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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  • Buddhist prayers imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. (Those seen here are in the Ura Valley, east central Bhutan). Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family member. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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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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  • Prayer flags above the town and district center of Wangdi Phodrang. Buddhist prayers are imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles. The prayers are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family members. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Hypothermia: The annual Snow Bath at the Winter Carnival in Quebec, Canada. Onlookers gather to cheer on these snow bathers. Seventy-five courageous men and women brave the cold. Their only protection: a bathing suit. Three quick dips in the snow interrupted with a short break out of the cold are part of the program. Ice Palace seen in the background. [1988]
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  • Hypothermia: The annual Snow Bath at the Winter Carnival in Quebec, Canada. Onlookers gather to cheer on these snow bathers. Seventy-five courageous men and women brave the cold. Their only protection: a bathing suit. Three quick dips in the snow interrupted with a short break out of the cold are part of the program. Ice Palace seen in the background. [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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Molloy family: John, 43, Natalie, 41, Emily, 15 (called Em), and Sean, 5 (wearing his school uniform, including a hat for sun protection)on the backyard patio by their pool in Brisbane, on Australia's east coast, with one week's worth of food, in January. The Molloy family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 30).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Soumana Natomo of Kouakourou, Mali, wraps his head and face for protection against many different elements. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 212). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, weighs the food items consumed by Saleh Abdul Fadlallah at Birqash Camel Market, outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps don’t store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets surrounded by camels at the  Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps don’t store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain.
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  • Crop dusting oranges.  Helicopter flying over orange groves near Bakersfield, California, USA, spraying the trees to protect the crop from disease and mildew. .Cameo Ranch.
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  • Local tribesman wearing a penis gourd, called a horum, and a hat of bird feathers carries a sack of vegetables and handful of bananas on a trail near Kurima, in the central highlands of the South Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. His body is rubbed with pig grease to help protect him from chilly weather. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Orlando Soccer Stadium fans during a Pirates vs. Durban game. Like many soccer stadiums around the world, the playing field is securely fenced to protect the team from the fans. Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The exuberant young son of a yak herder suddenly appears roadside in the Phobjikha Valley [some call it the Gangte Valley] basin, Bhutan. The government and international conservation groups protect the valley because of its winter population of endangered black-necked cranes. From coverage of revisit to Material World 1994 book Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah with his day's worth of food at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 3200 kcals.  He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, camels' humps don't store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Early in the morning, Buaphet Khuenkaew applies makeup in the tiny two-room wooden house she and her family live in, in Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. The house is on stilts to protect it from yearly flooding, and is surrounded by rice fields. Material World Project.
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  • Phobjikha Valley [some call it the Gangte Valley] basin, Bhutan. The government and international conservation groups protect the valley because of its winter population of endangered species of black-necked cranes. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • At Burning Man, PhD tech nerd and artist Austin Richards demonstrates the power of his Tesla coil, which he has named Megavolt. Richards is protected from the electrical strikes by a special suit. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery..The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called "a gem unique and worthy of its name." When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called ?a gem unique and worthy of its name.? When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Deception Island near Pendulum Cove's thermal waters in Whaler's Bay, a protected harbor. Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, is the site of a circular flooded volcanic caldera. On the shore are rusting remains of Whaling operations (1911 to 1931) and the ruins of a WWII British base, Port Foster (1944-1967). Evacuated after a volcanic eruption, then closed permanently in 1969 after another eruption. Faith D'Aluisio visits graves after a kayak trip. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula.  organizing the kayaks to be launched near Pendulum Cove's thermal waters in Whaler's Bay, a protected harbor. Deception Island is the site of a circular flooded volcanic caldera. Conditions had to be perfect in order to kayak outside of the Bay, and they were. On the shore are rusting remains of Whaling operations (1911 to 1931) and the ruins of a WWII British base, Port Foster (1944-1967). Evacuated after a volcanic eruption, then closed permanently in 1969 after another eruption. Chinstrap penguins in the steam of the volcanics that are still warming the beach sand at Whaler's Bay.
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