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  • Rancher Francisco Da Silva Correia holds a shotgun and recounts the story of how he killed the jaguar, whose skin is on the wall, in his riverside home near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets in front of the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, during a December snow storm. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Mohammad Riahi, a part time restaurant manager and taxi driver eats breakfast with his family at their home in the city of Yazd, Iran.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He lives with his father and mother, and will until he marries. Even then, he and his bride will be offered the second floor of his parent's home. At the restaurant he eats whatever he feels like eating. At home though, he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer (second from left in blue jeans), enjoys dinner with her family in their elegant four-story home in Isfahan, Iran.  (Atefeh Fotowat is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, award-winning authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at the Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • People walk across the forecourt of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in the city of Isfahan, Iran. The  extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque is in Imam Square, also known as Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat's mother, walks from the kitchen, about to sit down to a dinner with her family in their elegant four-story home in Isfahan, Iran. With her husband, a renowned miniaturist painter, they exemplify the educated Iranian upper middle class in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, famous for art and Islamic architecture.
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  • Shoppers walk through a bazaar in Isfahan, Iran, with a poster of Ayatollah Khamenei hanging above.
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • A woman adjusts  the wedding gown of a bride at a ceremony in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef cattle heads. 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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  • Shielded from the sun and strangers' eyes, and wrapped up against the chilly December air, a woman cloaked in a black chador wends her way through the ancient streets in the old market district of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The courtyard of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) and its reflection at night in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). The mosque was built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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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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  • Downtown Kuwait city with looted and shelled businesses after the end of the Gulf War in 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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  • Downtown Kuwait city with dead palm trees after the end of the Gulf War in 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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  • Downtown Kuwait city with dead palm trees a few months after the end of the Gulf War in 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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  • A family owned wineskin workshop in Pamplona, Spain. This old bota (wineskin) workshop called Botería San Fermin is operated by three brothers-Pedro, Victor, and Juan José Echarrí-the third generation of this family business. Their grandfather started the business 115 years ago. They've been in the present building 30 years and started learning the workmanship involved when they were young children. Originally the botería was in their home. They had three floors for living and one for the workshop. Victor is pictured. Process: They turn the stitched hide inside out, beat it on a machine to soften it (they used to have to do this by hand by beating it on a rock) and then put tar on the inside goat fur.  Navarro, Spain.
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  • 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) .
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  • "Squirt" is a robot that hides in the dark, M.I.T., Insect Robot Lab, Cambridge, MA
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Peter Menzel Photography

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