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  • Prayer flags above the town and district center of Wangdi Phodrang. Buddhist prayers are imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles. The prayers are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family members. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Buddhist prayers imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. (Those seen here are in the Ura Valley, east central Bhutan). Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family member. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
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  • A desert dust storm whips the tents and flags of a pilgrim camp at Kumbh Mela. 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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  • Terraced rice fields and prayer flags in the upper Paro Valley, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Auction banquet of a captured FMLN flag from El Salvador.
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  • Culver Miltary Academy private school, Culver, Indiana.
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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Lakeland, Florida
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Tour guide at the Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • A Buddhist stupa above the Dingha Valley, Tibet.
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Control room with tourists at the Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Naked nagas parading down to the Ganges for a bath. 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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  • Nobska lighthouse on Cape Cod, near Falmouth, Massachusetts.  New England, USA.
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  • Camel statue in a park near the harbor. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Casa Consistorial, Pamplona, Navarro, Spain.
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  • Hundreds of beach-goers bask in the sun at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
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  • Control room with tourists at the Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Bryggen, the Wharf, in Bergen, Norway
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  • A procession leaving the cathedral 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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  • Naked nagas parading down to the Ganges for a bath. 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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  • Art installation 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.
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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..A woman wearing sunflowers holds an umbrella to guard against the desert sun. Her companion wears a skirt made of pornographic homosexual playing cards.
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  • Early evening photograph of the courthouse in the square in Sonoma, CA. A group of anti-war protesters (Iraq) holds a vigil. 2004.
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  • Nobska lighthouse on Cape Cod, near Falmouth, Massachusetts. New England, USA.
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  • Vesterbro district porn shop. Vesterbro is the red light district of Copenhagen. Denmark.
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  • Church in Tonala, Mexico.
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  • Sunset on the beach on  Ambergris Cay, Belize.  Central America.
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • Tiananmen Square; Beijing China.
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  • Nyhavn canal area. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • 2 men in traditional costume stomp grapes barefoot on a stage in front of the cathedral at the yearly wine festival ceremony in Logroño, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Wenceslas Square. Velvet Revolution memorial. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • General Dynamics F-16 flying over the waving American flag at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • Arc de Triumph close-up with billowing French flag. Paris, France.
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  • Turkish flag on a ferry boat, on the Bosphorus River, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Indianapolis, Indiana. State capital building.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • York Cliffs house at Cape Neddick, Maine.
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  • State Farm Insurance Balloon. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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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. Staff at the Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole seismic monitor. (1987]
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • Carson 'Collard Green" Hughes, devours giant hamburger at a bar in Newport News, Virginia.  He died in December 2008, at age 44. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Members of the armed forces practice for ceremonies to mark the founding of The Republic of China and New Year's Day at Freedom Plaza, by Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and National Concert Hall and National Theater.
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  • Women's rowing club on Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, California.
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  • King's Chapel Burial Ground, downtown Boston, MA
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  • A young woman war games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. Her T-shirt reads: "Join the Marines. Travel to exotic distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people. And kill them." MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines.
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  • Staunton, Virginia. Shenandoah Valley. President Woodrow Wilson's birthplace.
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  • Brunch at David Griffin and Kathy Moran's in Arlington, VA
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  • Tombstone of a French-Indian war soldier with Fall foliage in Farmington, Connecticut, New England, USA.
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  • USA_SIKH_06_xs.Sikh festival parade at the Sikh Temple, Yuba City, California..
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses Emigrant pass near Watson's monument.
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  • Private flower gardens attended by retired homeowner, Mr. Shadi, in El Cerrito, California, USA.
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  • The Goodman House Bed and Breakfast located at 1225 Division Street in Napa, California.  Built in 1882.
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  • King's Chapel Burial Ground, downtown Boston, MA
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  • King's Chapel Burial Ground, downtown Boston, MA
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120129_018_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos
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  • War games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Vietnam War Memorial after a snowstorm. Washington, DC. USA.
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  • Tombstone of a French-Indian war soldier with Fall foliage in Farmington, Connecticut, New England, USA.
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  • Castle & Cathedral in Javier, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Leaning tower of Pisa, Italy.
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  • Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing point between East and West Berlin, Germany, during the Cold War. Photo taken in 1978.
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  • A young shelling victim in a "Villa Hospital", a private home turned into a hospital in the north sector (Ali Mahdi controlled sector), in Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992. March 1992.
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  • Students protest constitutional reforms proposed by President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela in November 2007. The reforms would enhance Chavez's power enabling him to run for another term.
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  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. [1977]
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  • Rockwell Aerospace: manufacturer of airplane and space vehicles. Rockwell operated in Downey, California for seventy years (1929-1999) and produced systems for the Apollo Project as well as the space shuttle. President Rocco Petrone 1986.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_SCI_AVI_06_120_xs.jpg
  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines.
    USA_SCI_AVI_05_xs.jpg
  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_SCI_AVI_04_xs.jpg
  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_SCI_AVI_03_xs.jpg
  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_SCI_AVI_02_xs.jpg
  • New house blessing in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Monks perform a ceremony that includes music and chanting. The whole village is treated to a special meal inside afterward. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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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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  • Sikh temple, Yuba City, California.
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  • Aerial of Sikh festival parade at the Sikh Temple, rural Yuba City, California.
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  • King's Chapel Burial Ground, downtown Boston, MA
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  • War games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
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  • A family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) in the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • Skycar. M400 Skycar, developed by Paul Moller, founder and CEO of Moller International in Davis, California. According to Moller, it is able to be driven as a normal car, but also has four large turbofans, which provide the thrust to lift it into the air. Once in the air, the fans turn backwards to propel the skycar like an airplane. The Moller team says it will be able to reach speeds of up to 375 miles (600 kilometers) per hour. A computer will actually control the craft, meaning it will require little training. It contains 4160 HP (rotary) freedom engines. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_SCI_AVI_07_120_xs.jpg
  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. Because Laos has a Communist government, many people fly both Laotian flags and Communist party flags outside their homes.
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  • Buddhist prayer flags flutter over pedestrians crossing the Bumthang Chhu (river) on a frosty late winter morning in Jakar in Bumthang District, eastern central Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Prayer flags at the Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County.
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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
    TIB_060621_478_xw.jpg
  • Kiosk selling toy guns, flags, etc. in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia.
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  • California State Flag. The Historic Bear Flag was raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, by a group of American settlers in revolt against Mexican rule. The flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, "California Republic" was placed beneath the star and bear. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag.
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  • The CN Tower dominates the Toronto skyline in Ontario, Canada. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The 1,815-foot tower is illuminated by a recent multimillion-dollar lighting upgrade, and its nightly hues mirror the Canadian flag's colors of red and white. On Lake Ontario.
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  • Raising the flag before school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Car dealership sign with the American flag, Statue of Liberty and the word Forever, in Miami, Florida, USA.
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