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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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  • Decomposing body in the streets of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia, where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992.
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  • A human skull on the sandy banks of the Ganges River. across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi.
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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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  • Across the Ganges River from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India, human remains wash up on the sandy shore. A human skull.
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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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  • 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.
    IND_040412_361_x.jpg
  • Alien. Head and torso of a replica alien on an autopsy table as an exhibit at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, USA. The town has tourist attractions around the theme of UFO's. It was near Roswell on 2 July 1947 that UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Strange wreckage was found in a field and when the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found and an autopsy conducted. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. The official explanation was that it was a crashed weather balloon. Many Roswell inhabitants, however, believe that aliens had arrived. (1997)
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  • Replica of an alien body (a movie prop donated to the museum) in the International UFO Museum and Research Center, 114 N. Main St., in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. Museum visitors begin their tour with a short talk by Dennis Balthaser, a "certified MUFON UFO-ologist" (Mutual UFO Network). The Roswell incident started on 2 July 1947 when UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Next morning a rancher, Mac Brazel, discovered strange wreckage in a field. When the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. (1997).
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  • A decomposing cow floats in the Ganges River across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India. Human remains also wash up on the sandy shore on this side of the Ganges. Varanasi, India.
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  • The eldest son, Brajesh Kumar Singh, accompanies the body of his mother, Subhadra Singh, 60, to the center of the Ganges River for a water burial as her husband Gopal Jee Singh, 65, stands on the shore at Jalasi ghat and watches. The body is weighed down with a rock and will be released into the water, as was Subhadra's wish, rather than being cremated.
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  • Alien autopsy. Retired mortician, Glenn Dennis, with a replica of an alien body at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, USA. The town has tourist attractions around the theme of UFO's. It was near Roswell on 2 July 1947 that many UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Strange wreckage was found in a field and when the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found and an autopsy conducted. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. Many Roswell inhabitants, however, believe aliens had arrived. Model Released (1997)
    USA_SCI_UFO_25_xs.jpg
  • Replica of an alien body (a movie prop donated to the museum) in the International UFO Museum and Research Center, 114 N. Main St., in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. Museum visitors begin their tour with a short talk by Dennis Balthaser, a "certified MUFON UFO-ologist" (Mutual UFO Network). The Roswell incident started on 2 July 1947 when UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Next morning a rancher, Mac Brazel, discovered strange wreckage in a field. When the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. (1997).
    USA_SCI_UFO_22_xs.jpg
  • Retired mortician Glenn Dennis who was on duty in Roswell, New Mexico, the night of the purported crash of a UFO outside of the nearby town of Corona peers at the replica of an alien body (a movie prop) in a local museum. Dennis, whose wife doesn't allow the discussion of UFO's in their home, is president of the International UFO Museum and Research Center, in Roswell. Stories about the crash spread and some called the incident a government cover up hiding the existence of alien life forms. Officials said it was a weather balloon. Model Released (1997) .
    USA_SCI_UFO_21_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    IND_040412_720_x.jpg
  • 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.
    IND_040412_359_x.jpg
  • A one-legged human skeleton left behind in Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 people were killed between November 1991 and March 1992. March 1992.
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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.
    IND_040412_409_x.jpg
  • Boys warm themselves over an impromptu fire at dusk near the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in Yazd, Iran. Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetary, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Faith Daluisio's profile and an abandoned Zoroastrian tower of silence. Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetary, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth. MODEL RELEASED.
    IRN_061214_415_rwx.jpg
  • Abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence. Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
    IRN_061214_391_rwx.jpg
  • Tourists visit the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
    IRN_061214_391_xw.jpg
  • A Zoroastrian cemetery in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in this nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
    IRN_061214_366_xw.jpg
  • Iranian boys sit around a fire near the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence, where their bodies would be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery , although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
    IRN_061214_484_xw.jpg

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