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Sunlight through a cyprus swamp. Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina
Medford Taylor/National Geographic Stock
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A Russian Orthodox priest strikes for democratic change in Sofia.
Thomasz Tomaszewski
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A young Turkish girl looks out of a window in Sogut Golu.
James L. Stanfield
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Elderly ladies sitting on a bench looking at a baby in Venice.
Jodi Cobb
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Maria Anastasi and her daughters watch Italy play Nigeria in the World Cup soccer match of July 1994. Maria lives in a three-room apartment in a poor Catania neighbourhood, Sicily. This day in 1926 saw the first public demonstration of television.
William Albert Allard
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Sunlight falls on a tree root emtwined head of a Buddha statue in Wat Phra Maharthat, Ayuthaya.
Alison Wright
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Children walk past Manila's Smoky Mountain on Luzon Island.
Lynn Johnson
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A cemetary on the Pacific coast of Chile's Atacama Desert.
David Evans
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An informal portrait of a Japanese woman in traditional dress.
Karen Kasmauski
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Portrait of an Egyptian man holding an umbrella in Deir el Gharbi.
James L. Stanfield
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House windows are latticed to shield the women inside from view in Jidda.
Jodi Cobb
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An ossuary in the cemetery of La Fontanelle, Naples
Tino Soriano
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A silk dyer's wife presents herself in purdah for a portrait in her home, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State.
Cary Wolinsky
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Prayerful woman at Hindu fire-walking ceremony called Teemeethi.
James L. Stanfield
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Today is Martin Luther King Day. Here freedom marchers gather at the Lincoln Memorial.
James P. Blair
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African elephant in aggressive defense posture in front of a lion in the grass, Duba Plains, Okavongo Delta.
Beverly Joubert
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A mongolian nomadic woman at her yurt in Erdene Soum.
Alison Wright
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Monks in yellow hats blow horns at a fire puja at Nechung Monastery, Dharmsala.
Alison Wright
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Geishas napping.
Karen Kasmauski
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Near the temples of Vat Phou in the quiet village of Champassac a child pulls algae from the murky waters.
Stanislas Fradelizi/National Geographic My Shot
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A fort encloses a spring now used by women for bathing and laundry on Tarut Island.
Jodi Cobb
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A young monk blows a chewing gum bubble leaning on a Yamaha, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh District.
Alison Wright
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A portrait of a himba elder woman in Hartmann Valley.
Michael Poliza
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Portaledges protected by an overhang from falling rock and ice, Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island.
Gordon Wiltsie
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Cityscape of high rises and waterways in downtown Dubai.
Mattias Klum
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Adult male common kingfisher catching amur bitterling in Labod.
Joe Petersburger
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Polar Bear and cub on a flating hunk of ice, Olga Strait, Svalbard.
Ira Meyer
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A member of the salt camel caravan, near Fachi.
James L. Stanfield
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An Egyptian drinks from the River Nile.
Ed Kashi
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Aboriginal teen with a mask of mud, swiming in a billabong, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
Sam Abell
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On this day in 1856 the first underwater phtoograph was taken. Here Southern Right Whales, underwater off the Auckland islands.
Brian J. Skerry