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  • Raising pigeons on the roof of a Cairo, Egypt apartment building in the city of the dead.
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  • Aerial photograph of Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California.
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Aerial photograph of Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. Surrounding the dairy are fields growing hay for the cows.
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  • Aerial photograph of tract housing in Sun City, Arizona. Sun City is one of the nations first planned retirement communities for active seniors. The community center is at the center of a hub of circular streets with white-roofed houses..
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  • Typical round homes in Ha-Matiyane Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • A woman hanging out laundry from her apartment window in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Couple looking out the window of their apartment above hanging laundry in Cairo, Egypt. Bordering the city of the dead.
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • The other side of the Mekong River from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market for tourists in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Aerial photograph of track housing in Sun City, Arizona. Sun City is one of the nations first planned retirement community for active seniors..
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  • Built from mud bricks, windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), catch the wind and cool homes and other buildings. Building structures in Iran are built close together, especially in the country's hot, arid central region, and their purposefully tall earthen and brick walls create maximum shade for pedestrians in the narrow adjacent alleyways.  Yazd, Iran. Old City.
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  • A typical roundhouse in Mingha Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • View of Taxco, a colonial silver mining hill town in Mexico, with a patio in the foreground.
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  • A woman hanging out laundry from her apartment window in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • A family in front of their thatched roof home in a Mayan village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen boys, Abraham and Martin, and their cousin Julian, 10, slide down the roof when they find a moment to play. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Boys playing baseball in front of their thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • View at dusk of the rooftop of Amir Chakhaq Complex from its highest point. Windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), seen jutting out of the top of the roof catch the wind and cool the building. The domes (called gonbads) Yazd, Iran.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Overlooking his fiftieth floor worksite, ironworker Jeff Devine perches on the roof of a high-rise with his typical day's worth of food in Chicago.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 6,600 kcals. He is 39 years of age; 6 feet, 1 inch tall; and 235 pounds. He carries a cooler of ready-to-eat food from home rather than eat at fastfood restaurants and vending trucks. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. Family members: Soumana Natomo, 46, sits flanked by his two wives, Fatoumata Toure, 33 and Pama Kondo, 35. Soumana and Fatoumata's children are daughter Tena, 4 months, daughter Fourou, 12, son Kansy, 4, and son and daughter Mama, 8, and Fatoumata, 10. Soumana and Pama's children are son Mamadou, 10, son Mama, 13, and son and daughter Kantie, 16, and Pai, 18. To Pama's left is Kadia Foune, 33, Soumana's sister-in-law, with her children Kantie, 1, and Mariyam, 8. The Natomo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 206).
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  • Peter Menzel's first rammed earth passive solar home, with sod roof, in Napa, California, USA. Vegetable garden is planted in front.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Members of the armed forces practice for ceremonies to mark the founding of The Republic of China and New Year's Day at Freedom Plaza, by Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and National Concert Hall and National Theater.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs truck driver Conrad Tolby at sunrise at a truckstop in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan National Museum.
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  • Farm land near Voss, Norway.
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Evening prayers chanted at Wat Pak Khan, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • An extended family's simple rural home and yard in Horcon, Chile.
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  • Cosy Joe's pub in Westport, West Ireland.
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  • A man operates a henna mill in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • USA  The Long Haul Trucker.Conrad Tolby, an American long-distance truck driver, photographed with a typical day's worth of food on the cab hood of his semi tractor trailer at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. The caloric value of his meals this working weekday was 5,400 kcals. At the time of the photograph Tolby was 54 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and weighed 260 pounds. His meals on the road haven't changed much over the years?truck stop and fast-food fare, heavy on the grease?despite warnings from his doctor. He has more reason than most to watch his diet, as he's suffered two heart attacks?both in the cab of his truck. The trucker travels with his best friend and constant companion, a five-year-old shar pei dog, named Imperial Fancy Pants, who gets his own McDonald's burger and splits the fries with Conrad. From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. (Please note that the calorie total is not a daily caloric average. See his chapter, and the methodology, in the book for more information). MODEL RELEASED...Note: The authors used a typical recent day as a starting point for their interviews with 80 people in 30 countries. They specifically chose not to cover daily caloric averages, as they wanted to include some extreme examples of eating, like one woman's diet on a bingeing day or the small number of calories a herder in Kenya ate during extreme drought. The texts in the book provide the context for the photographs, detailing each person's diet, culture, and circumstance at the moment they were photographed: a snapshot in time. A complete methodology is available in the book.
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • The Carl Doumani and Pam Hunter house on the Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Vineyard reservoir. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA..
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  • Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • House with drying red peppers and laundry in the Casco Antiguo (old town) of Haro, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Traditional domes (called gonbads on a rooftop at Amir Chakhaq Complex. Yazd, Iran.
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  • An outside view of the Ananta Clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • Kibet Serem hangs up laundry that he has just washed.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He is 25 years of age. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it.
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver, with his typical day's worth of food arranged on the hood of his leased cab on Devon Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 2,000 kcals. He is 59 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 240 pounds. Din came to the United States as a young man in search of freedom and opportunity and remains pleased with what he found. He has lived in Chicago for 25 years and has been driving a cab for the past two decades, five to six days a week, 10 hours a day. He knows where all of the best Indian and Pakistani restaurants are throughout Chicago, but prefers his wife's home cooking above all. His favorites? ?Kebabs, chicken tika, or biryani?spicy food,? he says. Tika is dry-roasted marinated meat, and biryani is a rice dish with meat, fish, or vegetables that is highly seasoned with saffron or turmeric. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Waterfall by Norway Rt. #13 on the road to Vik
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • The view from the roof of an 8 story hotel in old Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • Solar energy: Covell Park in Davis, California. Residential homes with solar panels on the roofs. 1981.
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  • At dusk, the skyline of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • Scalloped roofs in the center of the old town in Ulm, West Germany.
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  • A cock strolls through the remote picturesque village of Santa Marina, which has a crackerbox church and stone roofs. There is no permanent priest in the town. However whenever a priest visits, there are masses. The town has electricity but there just as easily could not be. The town has few inhabitants. Rioja, Spain.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographing high school student Katherine Navas on the roof of her home in Caracas, Venezuela, for the book food portrait. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A soccer match, and later a TV crime show from Los Angeles, on a black and white car-battery-powered television holds a large, rapt audience of village men outside the barber's area in Kouakourou, Mali. The car battery is recharged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the barbershop. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. Africa.
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  • Sculpture on the roof garden at the Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • A view of tentlike roof of a building and a near full moon at the science and technology expo at Tsukuba, Japan.
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  • Roof Panel fire test at the Underwriters test Lab, Northbrook (Chicago) IL.
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  • Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, uses solar photovoltaic panels mounted on the roof to generate electricity for its operations. As part of its new environmental infrastructure, the brewery has also developed a wastewater treatment plant.
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  • Nguy?n V?n Theo, a rice farmer, in his courtyard in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, 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 typical day in December was 2500 kcals. He is 51 years of age; 5 feet, 4 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Behind him is a pile of last year's rice straw, used for fuel to boil water in the family's small kitchen. Rainwater from the tile roof of the main house fills a cement cistern, providing water for drinking and cooking. Theo enjoys the relative tranquility of village life, compared to his wife's busy routine of selling fresh produce on the sidewalks of Hanoi. Floods ruined his rice crop a few months ago, so after last year's store of rice is eaten, the family will rely on his wife's income to buy this staple grain until he harvests the next crop. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • The roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with a 14 inch telescope in the foreground.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • The roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with a 14 inch telescope. The University Campanile is in the background. Geoff Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Standing, wearing yellow, is Soumana's father. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • Fatoumata Toure stirs a pot of porridge on the roof of her home in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Costa grandsons, Javier (right) and Ariel, exercise daily on the roof of the family home in Havana, Cuba. Behind them are a blackboard with math homework and cages for the family's pigeons. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • An American documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT police team show being watched by Soumana Natomo and other men and boys in the village of Kouakourou on the banks of the Niger River in Mali. There is no electricity in the village. The television is powered by a car battery that is charged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the pharmacy behind the men. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family 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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  • Eulina Costa Allouis has turned the front room of her small apartment into a beauty parlor. Originally, she did the business on the roof of their home, out of sight from prying government eyes as no one was supposed to have a private business. Restrictions are less rigorous these days. Marianao district, Cuba. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Dubious dinosaur footprint. Les Price, an opal mineworker examines the cast of a dinosaur footprint in the roof of an opal mine, which he excavated. Dinosaur footprints are preserved when the damp surface material (clay or sand) is baked for a long period by the sun, as at the beginning of a drought. When the overlying water eventually returns, it carries sediments which fill in the footprints, but which are of a different composition to the underlying rock. Here, the excavation of the mine has removed this lower layer (the original 'surface'), leaving the cast of the footprint visible, although it is debatable whether the miner's tools shaped the rock into the shape of a footprint.  Photographed at Lightning Ridge, southern Australia. MODEL RELEASED [1989].
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, fixes one of her daughters' hair outside her adobe house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs or stove, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight prepares dinner for her family in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A series of domes, called gonbads, on the roof of the Amir Chakhmaq Mosque complex in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, walks to a livestock market  with her husband and children in  Simiatug, Ecuador to sell sheep. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age 5 feet, 3 inches and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.
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  • The view from the roof of an 8 story hotel in old Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
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  • The plaza in front of the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, seen from the roof of the Monastery.
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  • A section of the skyline of Taipei, Taiwan  from the roof of the Taipei Fullerton Hotel. The tall building is Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest buildings.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_060516_135_rwx.jpg
  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy on the roof of Cambell Hall at UC Berkeley (California) with 14 inch telescopes. Marcy and his team have detected a large number of exoplanets using data collected from large telescopes at other sites.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. They have separate households but share meals in the courtyard of Pama's house.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • A young boy looks bemused as he stands on the roof of his mudbrick home in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. A mound of grain is drying in the sun behind him. Material World Project.
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