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Dinka Cattle Camp

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:34:25 GMT

Boran cattle, the wealth and pride of their owners, stroll through a Dinka cattle camp north of Rumbek, in southern Sudan. Smoldering dried cow dung protects against insects. The Dinka form one of the largest tribal groups in the south of Sudan (Africa’s largest country), and their primary wealth is cattle.

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Caen Hill locks.

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:43:03 GMT

The Caen Hill locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Devizes, Wiltshire, is one of the 'Wonders of the Waterways' in England's canal system — a flight of 17 locks carries the canal up the hill. The canal system, covering 4,000 kms, was the highway network for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, and is now being restored to its full glory, for leisure use..

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Lord Mayor's show

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:20:34 GMT

Beadles, with silver mace in the form of the Tower of London, at the lord Mayor's show. Their duties today are largely ceremonial in that they accompany the Aldermen in the eight major ceremonies of the civic calendar and open and close the Wardmotes (the election meetings for members of the City's Courts of Aldermen and Common Council

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Willow and peach blossom,

Tue, 07 May 2013 06:53:04 GMT

Willow and peach blossom, West Lake, Hangzhou

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Whirling Sufi

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:58:01 GMT

A Sufi adherent in Omdurman, Sudan, whirls in prayer at the Friday dhikr or zikr. The word literally means "remembrance", and is a Sufi practice in which the names of God or Qu’ranic phrases are chanted as a means of prayer and meditation, accompanied by rhythmic dancing. Each Sufi sect, or tariqa, has its own version of dhikr. Adherents of this Qadriyya sect at the mosque of Hamad el-Nil whirl rapidly..

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Darfur women

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:56:56 GMT

Women from the Fur and Zagawa tribes at a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan, September 2004, during the conflict between rebels and government-backed miltia. They are wearing the tobe - the traditional brightly-coloured wrap-around garment used by Sudanese women..

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Mandari boy

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:45 GMT

Mandari boys wash head and hands in fresh cattle urine, later applying ash from a cow dung fire to keep insects away. Repeated washing has an admired bleaching effect on the hair...

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Mandari boy

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:45 GMT

A young Mandari woman near Juba, with decorative chevron scars..

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Guinea Worm

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:45 GMT

Two Mandari boys in southern Sudan use guinea worm filters supplied by the Carter Center, which has distributed millions of these plastic tubes to reduce infestations of the debilitating parasite by 70 percent in the last few years..

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asligsCanoes in Sulu Sea

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:47:52 GMT

Basligs (double outrigged fishing boats) in the Sulu Sea near the island of Jolo, at the southern tip of the Philippines, home to the Bajau Laut (sea-gypsies)..

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