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  • An elderly man with a prayer wheel and prayer beads at a small monastery near the Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Mehemet Çinar, 81, photographed here with his wife Emine, 78, fingers his prayer beads and prays throughout the day, in addition to the required 5 times a day for the Muslim faithful. He is largely bed bound with lung ailments, but still smokes regularly. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Los Angeles, CA.
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  • The head monk at his partially rebuilt monastery with his typical day's worth of food in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 4,900 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 158 pounds.
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  • Young woman wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Her parents listen as Safiye Çinar talks about the origins of her extended family. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • USA_SFOL_11_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • An actor dressed as an Iraqi man stands outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Soumana Natomo, a Muslim, finishes his prayers at one of his two wives' homes as one of his daughters plays quietly. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Children, Child. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • A woman living on a small farm about 5 miles from the village of Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Calabay Sicay family sisters at home in San Antonio Palopo Village on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala. Smiles show tooth decay.
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  • A camel at dusk at the Mallinath Fair, one of the biggest cattle fairs of Rajasthan that lasts for two weeks. It is held annually in the desert near Tilwara, a village in Rajistahan (March-April). Highly popular breeds of cows, camels, sheep, goats and horses attract people not only from Rajasthan but also Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Rajasthan, India. .
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  • A holy man at the Kumbh Mela Festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India claims to only drink one glass of milk per day and be 140 years old. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world. Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • Portrait of a holy man praying 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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  • Mehemet Çinar, 81, fingers his prayer beads and prays throughout the day, in addition to the required 5 times a day for the Muslim faithful. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Religion, Elderly.
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  • Monk with prayer beads, Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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