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  • Death Valley. Skateboarding on road along Artist's Drive through Artist's Palette.
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. 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.
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  • Forensic research. (1992) Argentine Forensic Anthropology team in morgue of San Isidrio Hospital measuring and cataloguing bones of a "desparacido" a disappeared Argentinian.  Mercedes Doretti (sleeveless), Patricia Bernardi, Silvana Turner (short hair), Carlos (Marco) Somigliana (beard), Luis Fondebrider.  Data is entered into a computer and eventually they hope to match data to make an ID.  They hope to extract DNA from bones for DNA fingerprinting. Skeleton in a forensic laboratory. The bones have been numbered for identification. The researchers are trying to determine the identity of the body, which can be done by extracting and studying DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the chemical responsible for heredity, and is different in each individual. These are the remains of someone abducted and murdered during the military rule in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The hole in the skull is testament to a violent death.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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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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  • Death Valley, California. 4th of July celebration fireworks at Furnace in high winds. 100 degrees F at 10 PM. Palm trees caught on fire and burned when struck by fireworks.
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  • Death Valley, California. 4th of July celebration fireworks at Furnace Creek in high winds. 100 degrees F at 10 PM. Palm trees caught on fire and burned when struck by fireworks.
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  • Death Valley sand dunes.
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • The clay Kumbha (water pot) has a special significance in the Hindu cremation ritual. It is blessed in the early stages of the ritual and then, most often during the series of rituals designed to ensure the proper path in death for a loved one, the Kumbha is carried by a mourner three times around the burning body then dropped (and it breaks).
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  • An exhausted mourner sits above the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat and lets ashes rain down on him. 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.
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned. Here his friend (to the right of the man with the beard) who was swimming with him tells the authorities how he drowned right after the boy disappeared beneath the murky waters of the Ganges. His teacher called his parents in Kathmandu but did not tell the reason why. When his father, Bhim Prasad Bastola, arrived in Varanasi on a bus, he was told of the death of his 15-year-old son Chudamani Bastola and the cremation ceremony was held shortly thereafter.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India. 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.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • 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.
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  • The "eternal fire" at the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. All funeral pyres are lighted from embers from this fire which burns above the 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,  place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death.
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  • Forensic research. (1992) Argentine Forensic Anthropology team in morgue of San Isidrio Hospital measuring and cataloguing bones of a "desparacido" a disappeared Argentinian.  Mercedes Doretti (sleeveless), Patricia Bernardi, Silvana Turner (short hair), Carlos (Marco) Somigliana (beard), Luis Fondebrider.  Data is entered into a computer and eventually they hope to match data to make an ID.  They hope to extract DNA from bones for DNA fingerprinting. Skeleton in a forensic laboratory. The bones have been numbered for identification. The researchers are trying to determine the identity of the body, which can be done by extracting and studying DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the chemical responsible for heredity, and is different in each individual. These are the remains of someone abducted and murdered during the military rule in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The hole in the skull is testament to a violent death.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Death Valley. Skateboarding in July from Zabriskie Point to Badwater. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mourners comfort each other at 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.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India. 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.
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  • An elderly widow living out her last days near the Manikarnika Ghat, in Varansi, India..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.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat in the city of Varanasi, India. 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. A ghat is a stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
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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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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • Stacked aboveground graves in a cemetery overlooking Lake Aititlan in Solola, Guatemala.
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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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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Graveyard and church in Arnedillo, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Author Tim Cahill having a cigarette break while viewing the vehicular carnage still remaining on the Jahra Road in July 1991, from Kuwait City to Basra, Iraq. American forces chased and trapped retreating Iraqi forces north of Kuwait City on the night of February 25 and the day of February 26, 1991. These units withdrew via the Jahra road on the way to Basra, an escape route that has become known as the "highway to hell." They were attacked by coalition aircraft and it is estimated that several thousand retreating Iraqis died..
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  • An aerial of a small section of the Jahra road from Kuwait City to Basra, Iraq. American forces chased and trapped retreating Iraqi forces north of Kuwait City on the night of February 25 and the day of February 26, 1991. These units withdrew via the Jahra road on the way to Basra, an escape route that has become known as the "highway to hell." They were attacked by coalition aircraft and it is estimated that several thousand retreating Iraqis died. .
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  • Ritual waters from the Ganges River are poured onto the face of the body of Savitridevi Mishra, who lived near the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. Wrapped in a shroud of yellow and gold and decorated with marigold garlands, the woman will be burned upon a funeral pyre at the cremation grounds in a rite officiated by the eldest living male in her family.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, is comforted by a family member as her mother, Savitridevi Mishra, is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat.
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  • This is the last letter written by a young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi who was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned.
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  • A man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A young girl picks her way along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A rowboat passes, distorted by the heat waves rising from a body burning at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Neha Diddee wait for an official at the Varanasi, India, police station to give them the official document permitting photography of cremation on the city's burning ghats on the Ganges River. Normally it is forbidden to photograph cremation ceremonies at The Mother Ganges, as the Hindis who consider its waters sacred call it. Varanasi, India.
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  • Chicken heads and feet are displayed on a market stall at the sprawling Sonargaon market  in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A man leading a funeral procession carries a picture of his grandmother, Trieu Thi Chat, who died at the age of 95 in Van Phuc Village, near Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Family members and friends gather at the funeral of Trieu Thi Chat,  who died at the age of 95 in Van Phuc Village, near Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, is comforted by a family member as her mother, Savitridevi Mishra, is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. This after the body has been washed, draped in a red and yellow shroud and marigold garlands and photographed for a family remembrance.
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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.
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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.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, attends to her dead mother, Savitridevi Mishra, just before she is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat.
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  • A relative splashes Ganges River water onto the face of Savitridevi Mishra at the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, is comforted by a family member as her mother, Savitridevi Mishra, is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. This after the body has been washed, draped in a red and yellow shroud and marigold garlands and photographed for a family remembrance.
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  • A woman named Savitridevi Mishra died at 4 o'clock this morning and lies on the paving stones in the center of a square ringed by apartments near Manikarnika Ghat and the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. A local photographer has come to take a commemorative photograph (at left).
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned.
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  • A man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A rowboat passes, distorted by the heat waves rising from a body burning at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Along the shoreline a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • In the narrow streets leading down to the Manikarnika Ghat, in Varanasi, India, many elderly people lounge about, whiling away their time.
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  • An aerial view of a Muslim cemetery in Tarim, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Family members and friends gather at the funeral of Trieu Thi Chat,  who died at the age of 95 in Van Phuc Village, near Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Guards stand outside the Ho Chi Minh Tomb  at Ba Ðình Square in Hanoi, Vietnam. The tomb is dedicated to the Vietnamese leader, who read the declaration of Vietnam's independence from the French in the same location in 1945.
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  • Two grandsons say a prayer at the grave of their grandfather near Tho Quang Village, Vietnam.
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  • The War Memorial Cemetery in a rural village (one of thousands) near the home of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. Nearly every village has a war memorial cemetery for the millions who died during decades of war with the French, Americans, South Vietnamese, and Chinese.
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  • The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned.
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  • People sleep near the piles of wood for cremation fires on the banks of the Ganges River near the Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) which is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi.
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  • A passing cow eats discarded marigold garlands along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • An elderly man lives on the street near the Manikarnika Ghat, in Varanasi, India.
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  • A family grave near the homestead of Illinois grain farmer Gordon Stine, who lives in St. Elmo, Illinois.    (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chunks of meat hung out to dry on hooks in the northwestern town of Opuwo, Namibia.
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  • A matador gives a final stab to a bull he just slaughtered at a bullfighting festival in Campos del Rio, near Murcia, Spain.
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  • Buddhist ceremony after the cremation ceremony with relatives and monks in the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • An electric power plant adjacent to a cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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  • Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, USA. A man on the adobe wall of the cemetery.
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  • Ascetic Hindu Priest--called a Sadhu, cloaks himself in a funeral shroud used to adorn bodies before they are cremated (left behind by mourners) at the main burning ghat in Varanasi.
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  • At Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the grounds of the Los Alamos National Lab, the Bradbury Science Center puts a positive spin on the development of nuclear weapons with historical displays. Exhibits have sanitized versions of nuclear weapons casings and hand-on nuclear weapons design stations.
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  • Cryonics experiment on a hamster conducted in a garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, by Paul Segall (left). MODEL RELEASED 1988..
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  • Two visitors standing at the  Mount of Olives, Israel, look out over the cemetery toward the gold-leafed Dome of the Rock, the most famous Islamic monument in the Old City of Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Old City of Jerusalem and Jewish Cemetery seen from the Mount of Olives, Israel. The church at the center is the Russian church of Mary Magdalene.
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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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  • 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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  • Evan Menzel photographing trinitite at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. 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) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Buddhist ceremony after the cremation ceremony with relatives and monks in the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Buddhist ceremony after the cremation ceremony with relatives and monks in the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_438_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_368_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_323_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_321_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke. His wife is in white in the center of the photo.
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  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
    LAO_110317_189_x.jpg
  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
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  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
    LAO_110317_166_x.jpg
  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
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  • Battle scarred hillsides around Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2001. ©2005 Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
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  • Cemetery on the grounds of the Olympic Stadium complex in Sarajevo, the site of the 1984 winter Olympics. A large portion of the athletic fields have become graveyards for the people killed during the siege of Sarajevo. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2001.  ©2005 Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Young girl lighting a candle under a large stone cross outside the Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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