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  • A dinner table is set on fire in the desert at Burning. Earlier that evening, 8 celebrants have dinner. 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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  • Michael Rae talks about calorie restrictive diets and longevity to the audience at the Idea City Conference in Toronto, Canada. Michael is research assistant to the theoretician and biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, and they are the coauthors of the book Ending Aging. (Michael Rae is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Hooded penitents in a night-time procession 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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  • Vision quest in the desert near Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. Peter Menzel self-portrait at night. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Menzel and Zekri spent the night out in the desert after fasting for a day. The idea is to have visions and meditate. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mountjuich Fountains at night, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Night shot of the façade of the Gothic Cathedral (built 13th to 15th Century) in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Night shot of the façade of the Gothic Cathedral (built 13th to 15th Century) in Barcelona, Spain, Seen from the Hotel de Colon.
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  • Dinner at Charles Mann and Ray Kinoshita's house in Amherst, MA
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • The sheep barns and farmhouses of fhe Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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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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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Flying saucer golf cart at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..An art car decorated in colored lights as a flying saucer at Burning Man, the art, drugs and sex festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • 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..Devilish Spokane, Washington chip designer David Wilkins dances as a piece of art burns on the Black Rock Desert/ Burning Man Festival, Nevada.
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  • Black Rock Desert, Nevada.One of the many futuristic art-themed camps at dusk at the Burning Man Festival burn. Burning Man is the art, drugs and sex festival based on radical self-expression and creative community held annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Zadzim Cemetery, Poland. All Saints Day.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Piles of leaves and trash as the graveyard is cleaned preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
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  • Colorado National Monument near Grand Juntion, Colorado
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  • Sailboats on a summer evening on Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, California.
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  • Koi Fish pond in the backyard of Demello. TK California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars each.  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A tattooed patron sipping a beer at the bar of Triple Rock Microbrewery, formerly know as Roaring Rock. Berkeley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge 50th Anniversary Celebration - photographed from Yerba Buena Island. City lights of San Francisco seen in the background.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from Yerba Buena Island. City lights of San Francisco seen in the background. Time exposure of car lights.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. View south from the top of the north tower. Time exposure of early evening commuterr traffic crossing the deck of the bridge.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California, kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Here a worker skins a cow. San Joaquin Valley, California. 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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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Clos Pegasse Winery banquet room in the winery caves. Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Schramsberg Winery Caves, Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Christmas lights and decorations at Silverado Country Club, Napa Valley, Napa, California. USA.
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  • Napa Valley, CA at Thanksgiving time 2010 with Menzel and D'Aluisio family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Calistoga, California.In the wine cave of one of Napa Valley's oldest wineries, Schramsberg Vineyards. Napa Valley, California. A cellar worker will gently knock or "riddle" the collected sediment, which has settled in the necks of the countless wine bottles in the Schramsberg wine cave, one of the oldest in Napa Valley, California. Though it is a tedious process, riddling is a fundamental step in the time consuming production of sparkling wine.
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  • Paoletti Winery cave, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Wine barrels in the Sattui Winery wine cave in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Family dinner for Menzel/D'Aluisios at Dyen Sabai Restaurant on the Nam Khan River, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Mekong River at Ban Saylom, south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Bagan, Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Sunest from Pyathada Pagoda, Bagan, Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Airport in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • A brown tree snake on the branch of a tree in the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands.  There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • The Stuart Highway near Devil's Marbles rock formation, Northern Territory, Australia. Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • The rising sun scorches the landscape along the Stuart Highway during the Pentax Solar Car Race. South of Glendambo. South Australia.
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  • Sunset in Honolulu, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Lava flows into the sea from Kilauea Volcano.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA..
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Fat Tuesday Restaurant neon sign near the River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
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  • Illuminated drive-in movie theater sign at dusk. Triple Horror: Bucket of Blood, Blood Bath, Blood from Mummy's Tomb. One dollar a car entry fee. USA.
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  • The Burton Barr public library in Phoenix, Arizona.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Reading fat layers by sonogram at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. USA.
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  • A group of friends have their picture taken in front of The Cloud Gate, a large mirroring metal sculpture at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA. It visually bends the cityscape and people that pass by, and under. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
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  • View of the large mirroring metal sculpture called Cloud Gate, from beneath it, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA. It visually bends the cityscape and people that pass by, and under. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
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  • Early evening view of the Guggenheim Art Museum, Bilbao, Spain designed by architect Frank Gehry. Seen from bridge over the river.
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  • Notre Dame Cathedral at night. Paris, France.
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  • Night time time-exposure with traffic leading up to the Eiffel Tower. Paris, France.
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  • Prague, Czech Republic. Old town street at dusk with lighted shop windows.
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  • Kuwait oil well fires. Al Burgan field. Tornados of smoke reflected in oil lake.
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  • Aerial of burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Aerial of burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Aerial of burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Fireworks celebrating the handover of Hong Kong to China by the British in 1997. Shanghai, China..
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  • Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia. The temples at Angkor are spread out over some 40 miles around the village of Siem Reap, about 192 miles from the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. They were built between the eighth and 13th centuries and range from single towers made of bricks to vast stone temple complexes. Regarded as the supreme masterpiece of Khmer architecture, it is a huge pyramid temple built by Suryavarman II between 1113 and 1150. It is surrounded by a moat 570 feet wide and about four miles long. The bas-relief carvings are of the highest quality and the most beautifully executed in Angkor..
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Americans and Soviets gather for a group portrait at the Karkarlinsk Field lab. (1987]
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  • "Pregnant Woman," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, rinses spoons in a cooking pot as her herder waits for his breakfast of cornmeal porridge, "ugali", and sweet hot tea before setting off for the day to graze the family's cattle on the southern Kenyan plain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Children of the Ochoas family waiting while their mother, Bernadina, prepares a breakfast treat of roasted waykjuiro worms, Chinchapujio, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 154 Top)
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  • Paramount Theater, Boston, MA
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Uwe George and Venita Kaleps from German GEO visiting Menzel and D'Aluisio at their home in Napa Valley, CA
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosion on July 16. 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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