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  • Cryonics: Dr Avi Ben-Abraham, of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company of Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen (background) to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. Dr. Ben Abraham wears a bracelet that identifies him as a cryonic patient should he be found dead. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
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  • Cryonics: Dr Avi Ben-Abraham, of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company of Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen (background) to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. Dr. Ben Abraham wears a bracelet that identifies him as a cryonic patient should he be found dead. MODEL RELEASED 1987.
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  • Cryonics: Art Quaif (seated at computer) and a colleague at Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company in Oakland, California. In the stainless steel vats full of liquid nitrogen are dead human bodies. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
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  • Cryonics experiments: laboratory re-agent bottles used by Paul Segall, of Berkeley, California, in his cryonics experiments that involved freezing animals after replacing their blood with a blood substitute solution, and then bringing them back to life. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs, or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys organs.  1988..
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  • Cryonics experiment on a hamster conducted in a garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, by Paul Segall (left) and Sternberg. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen to await a future thaw. MODEL RELEASED 1988..
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  • Experimental cryonics: Paul Segall in his garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, with his family and Miles, a beagle. Segall replaced Miles' blood with a substitute before cooling him to 37.4 degrees & disconnecting a heart lung machine. After 15 minutes, during which Miles' pulse, breathing & circulation had ceased, the dog was warmed, its blood returned & Miles was restored to health.  Human cryonics clients are frozen & preserved in liquid nitrogen to await the advances in medical science that a future thaw might bring about. However, conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs are plagued by problems of intracellular ice formation, which destroys cells. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
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  • USA_SCI_CRY_08_xs .Cryonics: Dr Avi Ben-Abraham, of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company of Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves freezing whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, in liquid nitrogen (tank in background) to await a future thaw. Cryonicists claim that medical science in the future may offer a cure for cancer or the restoration of youth, and that their methods of preservation might offer some people an opportunity to benefit from these advances. Conventional cryobiology methods for freezing organs (for organ transplants, for example) are plagued by problems of intracellular ice crystal formation, which destroys their component cells. Dr. Ben Abraham is reading ?the Prospect of Immortality? and is wearing a bracelet that identifies him as a cryonic patient should he be found dead. MODEL RELEASED 1987.
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  • Baboon blood research for cryonic purposes. Surgical staff checking a baboon in an ice bath during an artificial blood experiment. The baboon's blood has been replaced with an artificial substitute. Here, its body temperature is being cooled to below 10 degrees Celsius for three hours. Artificial blood can aid the preservation of organs and tissues before transplantation. It can also be used for emergency transfusions, as a replacement for blood lost in surgery and as an alternative to blood during low temperature surgery. Artificial blood also removes the risk of infection and does not trigger an immune response. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. BioTime, California, USA, in 1992.
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  • Cryonics experiment on a hamster conducted in a garage laboratory in Berkeley, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, and their preservation in liquid nitrogen to await a future thaw.  1988.
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  • Baboon blood research for cryonic purposes. Surgical staff checking a baboon in an ice bath (upper right) during an artificial blood experiment. The baboon's blood has been replaced with an artificial substitute. Here, its body temperature is being cooled to below 10 degrees Celsius for three hours. Artificial blood can aid the preservation of organs and tissues before transplantation. It can also be used for emergency transfusions, as a replacement for blood lost in surgery and as an alternative to blood during low temperature surgery. Artificial blood also removes the risk of infection and does not trigger an immune response. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. BioTime, California, USA, in 1992.
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  • Cryonics: Lawyer, F. Zinn and daughter in his home office. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. MODEL RELEASED 1987.
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  • The modest premises of Trans Time Inc., a cryonics company in Oakland, California. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Cryonics involves the freezing of whole human bodies, organs or pet cats & dogs, to await a future thaw & a potential second opportunity to live. A recently dead body would be frozen in stages, firstly down to -110 degrees Fahrenheit (using dry ice) and then down to -320 F (in liquid nitrogen). During this process, blood is replaced with a substitute mixed with glycerol, to prevent formation of ice crystals. Intracellular ice formation causes severe damage to organs & tissues, and is a major obstacle in the mainstream development of cryobiology science. MODEL RELEASED 1988.
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  • Alcor Life Extension (Cryonic) Company, Scottsdale, AZ. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. Jerry B. Lemler, MD, president and CEO of Alcor, in the cryonic storage tank room. The tanks contain frozen bodies and heads. Ted William's dismembered frozen head is one of these tanks. Lemler resigned in 2003 after he was diagnosed with cancer..
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  • Alcor Life Extension (Cryonic) Company Conference held in California.  Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Baboon blood research. A captive baboon before cryonic experimental blood replacement surgery. The baboon's blood was replaced with an artificial substitute. Artificial blood can aid the preservation of organs and tissues before transplantation. It can also be used for emergency transfusions, as a replacement for blood lost in surgery and as an alternative to blood during low temperature surgery. Artificial blood also removes the risk of infection and does not trigger an immune response.  BioTime, California, USA, in 1992.
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  • Cryonics experiment on a hamster conducted in a garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, by Paul Segall (left). MODEL RELEASED 1988..
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  • Experimental cryonics: The family of scientist Paul Segall at home in Berkeley, California, with the family dog Miles, a beagle. Segall replaced Miles' blood with a substitute before cooling him to 37.4 degrees & disconnecting a heart lung machine. After 15 minutes, during which Miles' pulse, breathing & circulation had ceased, the dog was warmed, its blood returned & Miles was restored to health. MODEL RELEASED 1992.
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  • Experimental cryonics: Paul Segall in his garage laboratory in Berkeley, California, with Miles, a beagle. Segall replaced Miles' blood with a substitute before cooling him to 37.4 degrees & disconnecting a heart lung machine. After 15 minutes, during which Miles' pulse, breathing & circulation had ceased, the dog was warmed, its blood returned & Miles was restored to health. MODEL RELEASED 1987..
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  • The Khuenkaew's refrigerator holds some soft drinks, eggs, a bag of meat. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew holds two handfuls of homegrown rice in the family grain storage building (built on stilts) behind the main house. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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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 carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. A worker in a red hardhat trims beef. 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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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. 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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  • Photographer Peter Menzel in front of cooling beef carcass parts. The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. 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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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. 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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  • Tonto National Monument: Cliff Dwellings of Salado Indians from 1300 to 1500AD. Arizona. USA.
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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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  • Villagers farm terraced land on the hillsides near their homes, growing wheat, rice, chilies, and potatoes, depending on the season. The wheat harvest, now ending, is assigned to the women. But the men do other jobs. A neighbor gathers the chaff to burn it while Nalim and Namgay's son-in-law Sangay Khandu plows the fields below with bulls. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Wheat and dried chili peppers on the third floor storage area of Namgay and Nalim's house, Shingkhey, Bhutan. The Namgay household owns and rents land scattered in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home, each strip being devoted to one crop: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes.  Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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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 carcasses are cooled in a large refrigerated room. 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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  • View from Kamakou Preserve rain forest, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Kamakou Preserve rain forest, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • In the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, meat is preserved by drying it in the sun. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 40). This image is featured alongside the Namgay family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Wang Lingyun, manager of the Yue Xiu seafood restaurant in Luoyang, with a plate of her specialty scorpions. On the bar behind are large jars containing potent rice wine with deer penises, snakes, and herbs. Luoyang, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 99 Top)
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  • Jars of pickled vegetables for sale at the Ciglane outdoor "green" market in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Although food stalls have returned to the Ciglane market, parts of the Olympic park behind it have become a burial ground for siege victims. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A vendor makes a sale of dried and ground up chili peppers at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan.. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. 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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  • "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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Although their complicated schedules put pressure on their lives, Rasim and Ensada Dudo of Sarajevo still try to preserve the rituals and pleasures of eating. Remembering all too well when the city was starving, they are grateful that they can now fill Rasim's taxi with the weekly grocery shopping. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 50).
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  • Hapu'u ferns in the rain forest of the Kamakou preserve on Molokai, Hawaii. USA. These ferns are considered a delicacy by feral pigs, which have devastated large sections of native forests by rooting and digging. The pigs are being eliminated by hunting and fencing. .
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  • Fern leaves. Kamakou Preserve, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Phoenix Mountains Preserve.  Phoenix, Arizona. Desert.
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  • 050911ICE.240TrvlConf_rwx.Church at Budir, Iceland (adjacent to Budahraun Nature Preserve).
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  • A sheep at the Budahraun Nature Preserve, Iceland (adjacent to Budir Hotel, Snaefellsnes, Iceland).
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  • Church at Budir, Iceland (adjacent to Budahraun Nature Preserve).
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  • Church at Budir, Iceland (adjacent to Budahraun Nature Preserve).
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. A family inspects Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984).Information about the National Atomic Museum from .http://www.atomicmuseum.com/ [moved from lot 4]
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress, as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Nuclear Missiles: Shark, Mace, Matador (left to right). Los Alamos, New Mexico. 1992.
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. A family inspects Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico MODEL RELEASED (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. A family inspects Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico. MODEL RELEASED (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984)
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  • "The Goalkeeper," 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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  • Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. 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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  • A human nervous system. Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. 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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  • "The Runner," 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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  • "The Pole-vaulter," 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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  • "The Goalkeeper," 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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  • "The Chess Player", 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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  • Gunther von Hagens, creator of Body Worlds. 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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  • Blood vessels of an adult at Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. 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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  • A rear view through a cross-section of a woman's head at Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. 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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  • The "Winged Man," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibit. 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.  [2002]
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  • Church and cemetery at Budir, Iceland (adjacent to Budahraun Nature Preserve)
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  • Weather: Rainbow over nature preserve researchers Holt and Quizenberry. Waikamoi, island of Maui, Hawaii. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Museum Director posing by Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico. MODEL RELEASED (1984)
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  • Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. 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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  • Transparent slices of male body at Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibit. 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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  • Gunther von Hagens seen with the "Winged Man" from his Body Worlds exhibit. 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.  [2002].
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  • Gunther von Hagens seen with the "Winged Man" from his Body Worlds exhibit. 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.  [2002].
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery..The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called "a gem unique and worthy of its name." When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called ?a gem unique and worthy of its name.? When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Couple at a picnic, Nags Head Woods, NC, USA. Land preserved by the Nature Conservancy. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fountain Hills, Arizona. A huge fountain in the middle of an artificial lake is a feature of this desert subdivision, showing a blatant disregard for water preservation. When the temperature is very hot, the entire fountain evaporates before it rains into the lake. USA.
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  • The small medieval village of Ujúe perches atop a hill in the province of Navarra. Constructed high up on the mountain range of the same name, the historic defensive town of Ujue preserves its medieval atmosphere with cobbled streets and stone houses clustered around the fortress-church of St. Mary (XII-XIV) where King Charles II's heart is kept.
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  • Roasting red peppers for preservation and canning. Santo Domingo, Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Les Price, opal miner, above mineshaft with dinosaur footprints at Lightning Ridge, Australia. Dinosaur footprints are preserved when the damp surface material (clay or sand) is baked for a long period by the Sun, as at the beginning of a drought. When the overlying water eventually returns, it carries sediments which fill in the footprints, but which are of a different composition to the underlying rock. Here, the excavation of the mine has removed this lower layer (the original 'surface'), leaving the cast of the footprint visible, although it is debatable whether the miner's tools shaped the rock into the shape of a footprint. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
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  • Dubious dinosaur footprint. Les Price, an opal mineworker examines the cast of a dinosaur footprint in the roof of an opal mine, which he excavated. Dinosaur footprints are preserved when the damp surface material (clay or sand) is baked for a long period by the sun, as at the beginning of a drought. When the overlying water eventually returns, it carries sediments which fill in the footprints, but which are of a different composition to the underlying rock. Here, the excavation of the mine has removed this lower layer (the original 'surface'), leaving the cast of the footprint visible, although it is debatable whether the miner's tools shaped the rock into the shape of a footprint.  Photographed at Lightning Ridge, southern Australia. MODEL RELEASED [1989].
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  • The Finken family's suburban straw bale home located a block-and-a-half east of Lac Deschênes in the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. (Coco Simone Fincken is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Cooking methods: Electric stove. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer.
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  • The Lopes-Furtado family from Cabo Verde in the kitchen of their home in Luxembourg with one week's worth of food. Natercia Lopes-Furtado and her husband Ernesto Lopes Sanchez, 47, with their children: Darlene, 16, Melody, 14, Teddy, 9, and Lionel, 4. Cooking method: electric stove, oven and microwave. Food preservation: electric refrigerator and freezer. Model Released.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. Cooking method: wood fire. Food preservation: natural drying. Favorite food: D'jimia: soup with fresh sheep meat. The Aboubakar family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 56).
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  • A very fine example of a fossilized ammonite (Hoploscathite). Although the shell itself has not been preserved, the internal nacre has survived, giving the opalescent 'mother of pearl' coating. Ammonites were a subclass of marine mollusks, which had a well-defined head with tentacles for feeding. They first appeared in the Lower Devonian period (400 million years Before Present), becoming extinct by the Upper Cretaceous period (65 million years BP). (1991)
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  • Fossilized remains of a prehistoric fish (Lepidotes). This example has been particularly well preserved, with the scale patterns and the large, bony head clearly defined. This fish was about 80cm in length, and was found in the Holzmaden area of Germany. Such a piece commands very high prices at fossil fairs, such as the one at Tucson, Arizona. (1991)
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  • A fossilized dinosaur limb bone is prepared in the paleontology laboratory of Monash University, Australia by Leslie Kool. Preparation involves the removal of the fossil from the rock matrix, in which it is embedded, using a fine-tipped drill. Fossils are normally removed from the field with a substantial portion of rock or plaster around them. This allows the removal to be performed slowly and carefully, avoiding damage to the sample, and any required preservation work to be made. This fossil was found near Dinosaur Cove in southern Australia, the first mining operation specifically for the purpose of fossil hunting.  [1989].
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  • A fossilized dinosaur limb bone is prepared in the paleontology laboratory of Monash University, Australia by Leslie Kool. Preparation involves the removal of the fossil from the rock matrix, in which it is embedded, using a fine-tipped drill. Fossils are normally removed from the field with a substantial portion of rock or plaster around them. This allows the removal to be performed slowly and carefully, avoiding damage to the sample, and any required preservation work to be made. This fossil was found near Dinosaur Cove in southern Australia, the first mining operation specifically for the purpose of fossil hunting. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
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  • (1992) Mummy's DNA testing. Dr. Svante Paabo taking a sample from a 2000 year old mummy's foot for DNA analysis. DNA obtained from the foot was compared with DNA from present day Egyptians and people from surrounding countries. This is part of research into the amount of ethnic mixing within the population of the upper Nile region. The mummy is about 2000 years old. University of California at Berkeley.  DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the molecule responsible for carrying the genetic code, which is slightly different in every individual. Familial traits can be traced by studying the differences. Taking DNA from preserved humans gives a good account of how humans spread across the world. ). MODEL RELEASED
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  • Samuel Tucker, a lobsterman, with his typical day's worth of food in front of his boat at the Great Diamond Island dock in Maine.   (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 6 feet, 1.5 inches tall; and 179 pounds. Sam works the lobster boat by himself, saving on labor, but in the summertime his son Scout comes along. ?He's a blast,? says Sam. ?I take him and some of his friends out; they're all just leaning over the rail in their life preservers looking to see what's in the trap when it comes up. They're pretty good at saying, 'He's got a keeper.'? Sam's state license restricts his traps to the bay, where he averages only one lobster for every two traps. After paying for fuel and bait, there's not much profit. He supplements his income with fish auction commissions, and his family's diet with venison culled from the island's deer population.  MODEL RELEASED.
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