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  • Crowded street in the market section of Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Crowded street in Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The crowded Ujjain train station during Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.
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  • Decorated cemetery crowded with people in the distance, on the Day of the Dead, in  Todos Santos de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, sells two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of  Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (He is not visible in this photo of the crowd.) (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, sells two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of  Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (He is not visible in this photo of the crowd.) (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Travelers crowd on top of a train at the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Red Square with crowds and a McDonald's sign. Moscow, Russia.
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  • An aerial of a procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • An aerial of a procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. Generally, he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A busy street in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. Shibuya district serves as the administrative and commercial center of Tokyo.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India.
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  • Thousands of pilgrims enjoy free meals of vegetarian curry and dal served by volunteers at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela, in Ujjain, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Nagas (Hindu ascetics who are followers of Sadhus) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors..
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), bargains with a vendor of flour and beans before he buys some. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • York Beach, Maine. July.
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. August. Napa Valley, CA
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  • Florida Street, Buenos Aires
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), buys a big sack of rice from a  vendor in a truck. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. His wife Ermalinda and youngest son watch. He bought "broken" rice because it is cheaper than the whole grain rice. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), pays for some flour he bought from a vendor in the weekly market in Simiatug (his wife, Ermalinda is by his side on the right, also with red poncho. His youngest son is on his wife's back and Alvarito, 4 is in the blue sweater eating an orange.) He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. ((Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • An intersection roundabout with a traffic cop in the perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander through the city. Varanasi, India..
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  • An intersection roundabout with a traffic cop in the perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander through the city. Varanasi, India..
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  • A pilgrim sleeping near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varansi, India.
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  • The perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander through the city. Varanasi, India.
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  • Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • Buckets of food prepared for worshippers at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
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  • The perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander aimlessly through the city, foraging for food and water.
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  • Exemplifying Japan's lively and adventurous food culture, Osaka's Dotomburi Street offers an all-squid eatery, an all-crab place, and a restaurant specializing in fugu (poisonous blowfish). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 184). This image is featured alongside the Ukita family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Taipei, Taiwan morning rush hour commute, with thousands of commuters on motor scooters and motorcycles.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Night market.
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Pedestrians on the Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • Traffic swirls around a policeman at a roundabout in the busy and noisy main shopping district of Varanasi in Utta Pradesh province, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Apart from keeping his eye on rickshaws, the policeman is watching for bicycles, pedestrians, cars, and the two cows wandering down the street.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India. On the right is Sitarani Tyaagi, one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests (called Sadhus) that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. (Sitarani Tyaai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80Diets.) Generally he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds.
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  • The colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat  in the city of Varanasi, India, gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in Varanasi. A ghat is a stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
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  • The Sunday market in the village of Menghan in the southwestern province of Jinhong, near Burma, Jinhong, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 102,103)
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  • A bird's-eye view of Phnom Penh's Wholesale Market showing how busy traffic moving through the streets can scarcely be differentiated from the buyers and sellers. Vats of deep-frying crickets as well as small frogs and whole small birds are found in this early morning market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Sea Lions at Pier 39, San Francisco, California
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  • Evening tourist show on the Ganges, Varanasi, India. Brilliant spectacles of light from handheld towers of candles, held by priests and other Hindis during religious rites (pujas). Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi. There is a nightly ceremony of lights performed mostly for tourists.
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  • The fresh meat section of the weekly market in Hargesia, the capital of Somaliland. Despite the chronically chaotic political situation, people still try to go about their ordinary lives whenever they can, in this case buying and selling beef, mutton, and camel meat. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 17). 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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  • Motorcyclists wait as pedestrians cross a busy street in Shanghai, China.
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  • Pilgrims jamming the trains in Hardiwar station. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • A pilgrim feeds a sacred cow in the street left over chapattis. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River upstream from Manacapuru, Brazil.
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River in Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tourists negotiate their way to the Taj Mahal Bangladesh, a replica of India's famed Taj Mahal erected by Ahsanullah Moni, a millionaire film director and business man from Bangladesh. He says he built it because most  Bangladeshi people cannot afford the trip to Agra, India to see the real thing. The entry fee for his replica is 50 Taka, about  0.75 USD. There is a 25-room hotel facing the Bangla Taj and he says his plans include a film studio and center nearby. The construction of the main Taj will be completed in about a month but the tourist attraction is now open to the public. Moni claims about 20,000 people visit daily. There is only a single lane two kilometer road winding through the surrounding rice fields connecting the main road to his attraction, near the town of Sonargaon, about 30 kilometers from Dhaka.
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  • Caged chickens on sale at a market in slum settlements  near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A woman sells chickens at a market in the slums near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Nearly 20 percent of Dhaka's more than seven million residents live in the slums.
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Motorcyclists approach a busy traffic intersection on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam. Motorcycles are the most common mode of transport in Vietnam.
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  • Tourists stand outside the Taj Mahal Bangladesh, a replica of India's famed Taj Mahal erected by Ahsanullah Moni, a millionaire film director and businessman. The Bangla Taj sits in the middle of rice fields near Moni's home village outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He says he built it because most  Bangladeshi people cannot afford the trip to Agra, India to see the real thing. The entry fee for his replica is 50 Taka, about  0.75 USD. There is a 25-room hotel facing the Bangla Taj and he says his plans include a film studio and center nearby. The construction of the main Taj will be completed in about a month but the tourist attraction is now open to the public. Moni claims about 20,000 people visit daily. There is only a single lane two kilometer road winding through the surrounding rice fields connecting the main road to his attraction, near the town of Sonargaon, about 30 kilometers from Dhaka.
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  • Tourists stand outside the Taj Mahal Bangladesh, a replica of India's famed Taj Mahal erected by Ahsanullah Moni, a millionaire film director and businessman. The Bangla Taj sits in the middle of rice fields near Moni's home village outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He says he built it because most  Bangladeshi people cannot afford the trip to Agra, India to see the real thing. The entry fee for his replica is 50 Taka, about  0.75 USD. There is a 25-room hotel facing the Bangla Taj and he says his plans include a film studio and center nearby. The construction of the main Taj will be completed in about a month but the tourist attraction is now open to the public. Moni claims about 20,000 people visit daily. There is only a single lane two kilometer road winding through the surrounding rice fields connecting the main road to his attraction, near the town of Sonargaon, about 30 kilometers from Dhaka.
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  • Pedestrians on the Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Ahsanullah Moni, millionaire film director and business man, stands on the balcony of a hotel overlooking his new Taj Mahal Bangladesh, a replica of India's famed Taj mahal built in the middle of rice fields near his home village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.  He says he built it because most  Bangladeshi people cannot afford the trip to Agra, India to see the real thing. The entry fee for his replica is 50 Taka, about  .75 USD. There is a 25-room hotel facing the Bangla Taj and he says his plans include a film studio and center nearby. The construction of the main Taj will be completed in about a month but the tourist attraction is now open to the public. Moni claims about 20,000 people visit daily. There is only a single lane two kilometer road winding through the surrounding rice fields connecting the main road to his attraction, near the town of Sonargaon, about 30 kilometers from Dhaka.
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  • Bergen, Norway
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Tunick is on a ladder taking photos as a Cessna plane flies overhead. 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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  • Photographer Peter Menzel's telephoto lens compresses the naked bodies of New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. 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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  • Poultry. Turkeys on a truck waiting to enter the slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Hereford cattle are being loaded into tractor-trailers to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Aerial of a cemetery in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • A logjam of tourist boats on the canal in Zochimilco, Mexico.
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  • Molino de Flores National Park, Mexico. Laura Meruz and Raul Ortiz grow their own corn and make cheese quesadillas with blue corn tortillas. Near Mexico City.
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  • Saint Prisca, the Cathedral in Taxco, a colonial silver mining town in central Mexico.
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  • Whitewashed houses of Cordoba seen from the bell tower of the Mosque, Cordoba, Spain.
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  • The crumbling village of Gallipienzo, in Navarra, Spain is built on the side of a hill and is utterly charming. The houses are built of stone and mortar. The old mortar is crumbling and is patched in places. Several of the homes are newly renovated but the owners kept the original ideas of the houses in place which is what is keeping the village charming.
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  • Toledo, Spain seen from a hill on the other side of the Rio Tajo.
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  • The hill town of Rivello, Basilicata, Italy.
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  • The hill town of Rivello, Basilicata, Italy.
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  • Aerial of Montparnasse Cemetery and adjacent apartment buildings in Paris, France.
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  • Prague, Czech Republic. Old Jewish cemetery in Josefov, the former Jewish ghetto. This cemetery was used from 1439 to 1787 and it is the oldest existing Jewish cemetery in Europe.
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  • Prague, Czech Republic. Old Jewish cemetery in Josefov, the former Jewish ghetto. This cemetery was used from 1439 to 1787 and it is the oldest existing Jewish cemetery in Europe.
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