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  • Young man wears a steel kitchen colander on his head while reading TinTin,. "Destination Moon."  Spectacles, earnest expression, and metal "helmet" all suggest that he is imagining himself in the story.
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  • Athens Acropolis Propylaea with scaffolding preparatory to restoration program in 1978.  One workman stands on a platform, leaning against a column, watching as a line of tourists, mostly women, exits the Acropolis site through the Propylaea columns.
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  • Young man with a sense of humor wears a kitchen strainer as a helmet while reading TinTin story about outer space.
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  • View of Toledo, Spain, from across the river where a viewing platform has been established.  This is more or less the vantage point from which El Greco painted his famous view of the city.
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  • Detail of the facade of the College of San Ildefonso, Alcala Henares, an example of the Spanish Plateresque architectural style of the 16th century.  The building opened in 1506.
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  • Acropolis, Erechtheum, details of restoration work ongoing.  Tools, planks, scaffolding.  Olive tree growing from foundation.
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  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature with horse's head peering out from the pediment corner.  Metope figures faintly discernible.
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  • Detail of the Parthenon perstyle columns showing how the column's verticality had been disjointed from earthquake and explosion.
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  • Potsdam, Sans Souci, Chinese Tea House: gilded statuary with violinist playing.
    Violinist at Sanssouci, Potsdam
  • Organ grinder (hurdy gurdy) at Brandenburg gate.
    At Brandenburg gate.
  • Singer claps her hands singing in a nighttime performance.  Two guitarists seated behind her playing.  Blue stage lights.
    Flamenco singer performing
  • View of Tower Bridge, London, from the south bank of the Thames River, at dusk, with a full moon on the rise.  Violet colored evening light, glowing lights of the bridge and nearby buildings.
    Moonrise over Tower Bridge
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  • Cambodian man who survived the Khmer Rouge period holds out the kind of locust he and others ate to survive.
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  • Head and shoulders double portrait of a Cambodian brother and sister, both smiling.
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  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
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  • Orchestra of land mine victims playing outside Banteay Srei temple, Angkor.  All have lost one limb or another.
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  • Angkor Thom: a skinny little boy fishing in the rubble-filled city moat using a torn fish net; Bayon temple face towers beyond.
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  • Incense seller outside a Buddhist shrine in the Angkor Wat temple precinct.  The wall behind him has a small sculptured relief of Apsara dancers.  He is middle aged, rather good looking, and his face seems timid and anxious with a core of strength and determination underneath.
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  • American family prepares for a swim on Christmas Day at Cox's Bazaar, have attracted a silent but steady audience of onlookers.
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  • View through a screen and framing of pine branches.
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  • Peristyle, Diocletian's Palace, looking toward the entrance to the palace residential area.  Groups of tourists standing about, seated on the steps; one holds up her camera, another studies a guidebook, others in the center cluster around their guide.
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  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. West end exterior from plaza in a rainstorm.  Tourists huddled around the entrance.
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  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence.  Row of sculptured life size portrait heads around the apse exterior, mid-late 15th century work by sculptor George Matthew the Dalmatian (Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac)
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  • Sibenik, water dish for dogs built into a Renaissance wall, inscribed "AMOR D' CANI"
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  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Rose window from the outside.
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  • Wildly melodramatic Baroque statue of a woman in golden robes holding a golden fish and looking ecstatically upward in a demonstration of faith.  She is in the Sacristy of the Carthusian Charterhouse in Granada, Spain,  built between 1727 and 1764 by Luis de Arévalo and F. Manuel Vasquez
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  • Door to the College of San Ildefonso at Alcala Henares, seen partly closed, with another doorway beyond and a group of people outside.
    16th century door_ESP2201210--4063.jpg
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  • Many ceramic and bronze plaques are set in the cobbles of Jewish districts of Toledo and other towns.  The Hebrew lettering spells 'safeh" meaning "destroyed, perished, etc." and no doubt refers to the expulsion of the Jews in the 15th century, though the plaques are modern.
    Hebrew_remembrance_ESP201210--2374.jpg
  • View of a room in the ancient Roman sanitarium at Almendinilla with monochrome floor mosaics with symmetrical curvelinear designs.
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  • A huddled group of American tourists are dwarfed by the Baroque splendors of the Carthusian monastery church in Granada, Spain.
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  • The ruins of a summer palace built by Abd el Rahman III in the 10th century at the height of his power for his favorite wife (concubine? mistress?) named Azahara.  Elegant and extravagant at the time, known as Medinat al Azahara, the palace was destroyed by a new wave of Berber invaders after which it became a quarry for building material.  Now being excavated and restored for presentation and education.
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  • In the entrance to the Merida amphitheater.
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  • Acropolis, Parthenon: detail of a damaged column.
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  • Marrakech restaurant and night club lute player performing.  Onlooker in the background.
    In a Marrakech night club
  • In the Tube
  • Elderly man feeding pigeons in St. James Park
    St. James Park regulars
  • Action amonth a couple of dozen goldfish in the pool at the Jim Thompson house, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
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  • Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale , wooden sign with hand-carved lettering, pointing to one of the local footpaths across the Dales.  Thick holly shrubbery behind.
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  • Tonle Sap lake : three children rowing to school.  An older girl in the bow wields the paddle; two younger boys are seated behind her.  All are cleanly and neatly dressed.
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  • Elderly Cambodian man pauses by an outdoor water pump in the town of Siem Reap, smiling cheerfully.  He says that he stayed alive by hiding in villages where nobody knew him.
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  • Woman paddles homeward in the bow of her dugout canoe.  Two stilt houses are seen in the lake around her.
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  • Female guard at Banteay Srei seated in the window frame of the temple.
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  • Traditional bicycle rickshaw on the beach at Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh.  Its owner has left his red sneakers on it.  Two distant figures wade in the distance.  Late day shadows cast on the sand.
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  • Two farmers and two yoked cattle in a muddy rice field not yet planted.  Beyond, another field flourishing with green growing rice.
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  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419–ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside.
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  • Frontal view of three young men in colorful costume with drum and spears marching down the main street.
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  • The schooner "Flying Dutchman" moored at Sribenik harbor.  The Dutch registered ship carries a dozen passengers, captain, crew.  Modern hotel opposite the ship.
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  • Trsteno: fountain of Neptune in the garden of the Gucetic family summer house.  Fountain and sculpture date from 1736.  Male figure pouring water from his mouth.
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  • Dubrovnik: view from the Serbian position from which the Yugoslav People's Army bombarded Dubrovnik 1991-1992.  The site is peaceful now, covered with yellow flowering broom.  The city gleams in the distance as a cruise ship makes its way from the Dubrovnik harbor out to sea.
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  • Restored Dubrovnik homes have largely new roofs,made from tiles specially manufactured in Spain by original methods.  Citizens saves many of the original roof tiles, however, and these are used when visible wherever possible, while the new tiles have been set underneath them.  This view includes an unrestored roofless abbey church, though its vegetable garden is in active use.
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  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals.  Restored after Serbian assault damage during 1990s.
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  • Interior, looking down from the gallery into the tiny round sanctuary.  Church is deconsecrated, now used for concerts.  Restored after Serbian bombardment 1991-1993.
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  • Alcala de Henares cathedral interior showing organ, player, and singer, rehearsing.
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  • Three portraits in sequence: with and without sunglasses, hair tied back and hair let down
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  • Misericord in the choir of Toledo Cathedral showing a man with a loaf of bread (?) in each hand, as though offering them for sale or delivery.
    Misericord_delivery_man_ESP201210--4...jpg
  • Facade of the university College of Ildefonso at Alcala de Henares.  Flourish of red roses in the foreground, and a clutch of tourists lined up admiring the building's Plateresque ornamental flourishes around its doors and windows.  The building dates from the turn of the 15th-16th century.  The university, founded by Ximenez de Cisneros, opened in 1508 as the College of St. Ildefonso.  The facade was designed by Rodrigo Gil de Hontanon in the style known as plateresque.
    Alcala_Henares_university_ESP2201210...jpg
  • Interior of a megalithic dolmen site at Menga, Antequera, Spain.  The site has been nominated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
    Dolmen_Antequera_ESP201210--2465.jpg
  • View of Toledo, Spain, from across the river where a viewing platform has been established.  This is more or less the vantage point from which El Greco painted his famous view of the city.
    Toledo_view_ESP201210--4092.jpg
  • Ceramic plaque with Hebrew quotation embedded in the cobblestones of the Jewish quarter in Toledo, Spain.
    Hebrew remembrance ESP201210--2375.jpg
  • Standing portrait of a Spanish tour leader on his cell phone organizing the next step of the day's scheduled tour.
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  • Ancient Roman mosaic panel with fish, eels, and three fishermen in a rowboat using a net.
    Complutum_mosaic_ESP2201210--4022.jpg
  • Marble fragment from an ancient Roman sculpture: a beautifully wrought hand gently grasping a length of rope (?)
    Marble_hand_grasping_ESP201210--0356.jpg
  • Detail of an arcade in the Patio de Arrayanes, in the Alhambra, showing the richness and delicacy of its all-over ornament: Arabic inscriptions, rinceaux, foliate, geometric, and rudimentary stalagtite ornament.
    Alhambra_Arrayanes-ESP201210--0242.jpg
  • View along the Parthenon side colonnade or perstyle showing the slight convex curve that gives visual life to the structure.  Tufts of grass in the interstices of the fitted blocks.   Heads of four tourists visible over the edge of the platform.  City of Athens and far away landscape just visible.
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  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.
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  • View towards the Parthenon from inside the Propylaea..  Planks provide footing for visitors while workmen build scaffolding..
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  • Buckingham Palace from St. James Par..lake
  • Top of the Eye
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  • Angkor Wat: apsara dancers in relief betwen windows filled with carved stone balusters.
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  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
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  • The city seen from the steep hill directly above the city.  The walls, harbor, and a part of the nearby island Lokrum projecting from the left.
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  • View from Hvar hilltop castle embrasure over the town and harbor below, at noon on a sunny day.
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