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  • Stacks of bones and skulls in the catacombs of Paris, France.  The catacombs are a vast network of tunnels and tombs below the city.  They were originally built from limestone quarries dating back to the Romans.
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  • Siem Reap, Cambodia. A pile of human skulls marking one of the Killing Fields memorials.
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  • Human skulls unearthed by a demining crew in Hargeisa, Somaliland. They were found in a mass grave where 200 locals were executed by Siad Barre Government troops in 1988. Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war.March 1992.
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  • FRA_050524_026_x.Stacks of bones and skulls in the catacombs of Paris, France.  The catacombs are a vast network of tunnels and tombs below the city.  They were originally built from limestone quarries dating back to the Romans.  .
    FRA_050524_026_rwx.jpg
  • Stacks of bones and skulls in the catacombs of Paris, France.  The catacombs are a vast network of tunnels and tombs below the city.  They were originally built from limestone quarries dating back to the Romans.
    FRA_050524_015_rwx.jpg
  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
    POL_031103_006_x.jpg
  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_137_x.jpg
  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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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]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_18_xs.jpg
  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_106_x.jpg
  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_105_x.jpg
  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_071_x.jpg
  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_057_x.jpg
  • Catacombs, with millions of human bones removed from Paris graveyards. Paris, France.
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  • Catacombs, with millions of human bones removed from Paris graveyards. Paris, France.
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  • A human skull on the sandy banks of the Ganges River. across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi.
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  • A human skull, bones, and clothing dumped by a grave in  Champoton, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Across the Ganges River from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India, human remains wash up on the sandy shore. A human skull.
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  • A dead Iraqi soldier surrounded by unexploded landmines in the Manageesh Oil Fields in Kuwait near the Saudi border. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February, 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. 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 dead Iraqi soldier surrounded by unexploded landmines in the Manageesh Oil Fields in Kuwait near the Saudi border. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February, 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_050_xs.jpg
  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_066_x.jpg
  • Sat Cong Village war games paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA.
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  • Decomposing body in the streets of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia, where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992.
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  • Sheep's' head display advertising the meals available at the El Mirador restaurant in Malino de Flores National Park, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_116_x.jpg
  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_111_x.jpg
  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_067_x.jpg
  • A man with a head injury from shrapnel. The injury was too complicated for surgery. He was left to die in Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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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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  • "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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  • 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..
    Bodyworlds_04_xs.jpg
  • 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].
    Bodyworlds_01_xs.jpg
  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_110_x.jpg
  • A dead Iraqi soldier surrounded by unexploded landmines in the Manageesh Oil Fields in Kuwait near the Saudi border. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • One of many mobile art installations at Burning Man that became a gathering point in the late afternoon. The "Spirit of Time" or the "Tree of Time" was constructed by artist Dana Albany out of animal bones and has a constant droning sound component. 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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  • A one-legged human skeleton left behind in Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 people were killed between November 1991 and March 1992. March 1992.
    SOM_31_xs.jpg
  • 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..
    Bodyworlds_13_120_xs.jpg
  • 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].
    Bodyworlds_02_xs.jpg
  • In a private home on the edge of Kudowa-Zdroj, Poland (famous for spas and the Chapel of Skulls), an automated biblical scene was built for tourists. Visitor Faith D'Aluisio can't believe it. Built by artist Frantisek Stephan from 1896 to 1924.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Antipodean dinosaur hunting. Paleontologist Tom Rich holds the skull (in his right hand) and part of the tail of a fossil hypsolophodontid. This was a small dinosaur, about the size of a large chicken, living in the Cretaceous Period about 100 million years BP (before present). The specimen was found at Dinosaur Cove, southern Australia. Examination of the skull indicates that the creature had a large cerebral optic lobe, which suggests that it had some capacity for adapting to darkness. This becomes relevant when considering that it would have lived between 65 and 80 degrees south latitude, and would therefore have had to endure some length of permanent night in winter. Dinosaur Cove is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology ?normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
    AUS_SCI_DINO_33_xs.jpg
  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
    USA_SCI_MED_01_xs.jpg
  • Paleontologist Tom Rich hold fossil skull of leaellynosaurus (named for Leaellyn Rich) in the mine tunnel where it was found at Dinosaur Cove, Cape Otway, southern Australia. Dinosaur Cove is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology ?normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
    AUS_SCI_DINO_32_xs.jpg
  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon (view of his hands and breathing tube). (1988)
    USA_SCI_MED_16_xs.jpg
  • Forensic research. (1992) Argentine Forensic Anthropology team in morgue of San Isidrio Hospital measuring and cataloguing bones of a "desparacido" a disappeared Argentinian.  Mercedes Doretti (sleeveless), Patricia Bernardi, Silvana Turner (short hair), Carlos (Marco) Somigliana (beard), Luis Fondebrider.  Data is entered into a computer and eventually they hope to match data to make an ID.  They hope to extract DNA from bones for DNA fingerprinting. Skeleton in a forensic laboratory. The bones have been numbered for identification. The researchers are trying to determine the identity of the body, which can be done by extracting and studying DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the chemical responsible for heredity, and is different in each individual. These are the remains of someone abducted and murdered during the military rule in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The hole in the skull is testament to a violent death.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
    ARG_SCI_DNA_09_xs.jpg
  • Dan Ulmer and wife, two fossil merchants share their motel room with a variety of large fossils. On the table next to the bed is a leg bone from a dinosaur and the skull of a prehistoric rhinoceros-like animal (Brontotherium sp.). Brontotherium was a genus of mammals that lived in the Lower Oligocene period about 35 million years ago in what is now North America. This photo was taken during the Fossil Fair at Tucson, Arizona, where amateur and commercial fossil collectors gather to trade in the remains of prehistoric animals. Although frowned upon by many academics, amateur collectors frequently find remains of new fossil species or very fine examples of known species. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • A German fossil expert carrying the skull of a fossil fish, Xiphactinus. This photo was taken in a motel in Tucson, Arizona, during the annual Fossil Fair. Amateur and commercial collectors gather at the fair to trade in fossil remains. Although many academics are unhappy with such events, amateur collectors frequently discover the remains of previously unknown species or very fine examples of known species. Such fossils are recovered from private land: in the USA private individuals are rarely granted the special license needed to hunt for fossils on public land. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
    USA_SCI_FOS_09_xs.jpg
  • Leaellyn Rich holds the skull of dinosaur named after her in the mine tunnel where it was found in Dinosaur Cove, Cape Otway, Southern Australia. Dinosaur Cove is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology, normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
    AUS_SCI_DINO_29_xs.jpg
  • Medicine: Close up of Brain Operation. Doctors insert a plastic tube through a hole drilled in the patient's skull to destroy a brain tumor. The tube and pellets are precisely placed using a metal guide that is secured by screws. (1983)
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  • Medicine: Brain Operation. Doctors adjust a metal guide that is secured by screws in order to precisely place a radioactive tube through a hole drilled in the patient's skull to destroy a brain tumor. (1983)
    USA_SCI_MED_03_xs.jpg
  • Forensic research. (1992) Argentine Forensic Anthropology team in morgue of San Isidrio Hospital measuring and cataloguing bones of a "desparacido" a disappeared Argentinian.  Mercedes Doretti (sleeveless), Patricia Bernardi, Silvana Turner (short hair), Carlos (Marco) Somigliana (beard), Luis Fondebrider.  Data is entered into a computer and eventually they hope to match data to make an ID.  They hope to extract DNA from bones for DNA fingerprinting. Skeleton in a forensic laboratory. The bones have been numbered for identification. The researchers are trying to determine the identity of the body, which can be done by extracting and studying DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the chemical responsible for heredity, and is different in each individual. These are the remains of someone abducted and murdered during the military rule in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The hole in the skull is testament to a violent death.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
    ARG_SCI_DNA_03_xs.jpg
  • In an oddly ghoulish bit of dental R&D, Waseda University engineers have built a "jaw-robot" from a skull, some electronic circuitry, and an assembly of pulleys, wheels, and cables that act like muscle. Sensors measure the biting action of the jaw and the force of the chewing. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 173.
    Japan_JAP_rs_41_qxxs.jpg
  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
    USA_SCI_MED_02_xs.jpg

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