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Great Skellig Island, IrelandA thousand-year-old headstone stands next to the ruins of an ancient church on Great Skellig Island, off the southwest coast of Ireland. Between the sixth and ninth centuries, the Celtic Christian church spread through Ireland, and the remains of the original monasteries have been preserved on islands like these of Kerry County.
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Leningrad, USSR, Date UnknownThe cruiser Aurora is permanently docked on the Neva River next to the Nakhimov Navy School in St. Petersburg. For communists, this ship has a proud history. On the night of October 25, 1917, a blank shot fired from its deck was the awaited signal for the Bolsheviks to storm the Winter Palace, an event that began the Great October Revolution.
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Trinidad and Tobago, 1998In the dual-island republic, Trinidad is often seen as the mother island. Stepmother [of Trinidad and Tobago], actually. In 1889, the British attached Tobago to nearby Trinidad as a way to cope with a particularly messy bankruptcy: A London financial company had failed, putting most of Tobago's sugar plantations out of business and destroying the local economy. Since joint independence in 1962, Tobago has been unified with Trinidad.
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Kaleidoscope Ridge, ArizonaRising and falling in sinuous curves, sandstone formations epitomize the beauty and solitude of the Southwest's unspoiled lands.
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Near Kairouan, TunisiaA farm boy in no particular hurry allows his donkey to browse on wild poppies as they shamble along toward field work near Kairouan, a city holy to Muslims.
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Lapland, NorwayRelatively few of some 32,000 Lapps who live scattered across the arctic fringes of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, the rugged area known as Lapland, have ever followed the lonely life of the reindeer nomad. But those few have clung tenaciously to the customs of their forefathers, following their herds along migratory routes linking winter and summer pastures.
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San Diego, CaliforniaNighttime is the right time to dine at the San Diego Pier Café, where first-rate seafood complements a breathtaking view of San Diego Bay and the illuminated San Diego-Coronado Bridge.
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Somerset, EnglandFor well over a thousand years, hedgerows [shown in background] have been a defining attribute of rural Britain, the stitching that holds the fabric of the countryside together. ... Yet they have been disappearing at a rate that many find alarming.
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Near Kairouan, TunisiaA farm boy in no particular hurry allows his donkey to browse on wild poppies as they shamble along toward field work near Kairouan, a city holy to Muslims.May 31, 2007
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Great Skellig Island, IrelandA thousand-year-old headstone stands next to the ruins of an ancient church on Great Skellig Island, off the southwest coast of Ireland. Between the sixth and ninth centuries, the Celtic Christian church spread through Ireland, and the remains of the original monasteries have been preserved on islands like these of Kerry County.May 31, 2007
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Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South AfricaThe seemingly empty landscape of the Kalahari Desert is full of clues to the whereabouts of potential prey for these San Bushmen hunters. Bushmen can read the desert like a book, studying droppings, tree markings, and hoof prints to determine an animal's species, gender, and age. They can estimate when an animal has passed through a certain area by the time it takes termites to rebuild a nest that’s been trampled, or a blade of grass to spring back upright, or a spider to repair its cobweb.May 31, 2007
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San Diego, CaliforniaNighttime is the right time to dine at the San Diego Pier Café, where first-rate seafood complements a breathtaking view of San Diego Bay and the illuminated San Diego-Coronado Bridge.May 31, 2007
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