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      <image:title>High Arctic</image:title>
      <image:caption>the tent I stayed in with the reporter and a guide while working in the high arctic circle and the clothing they made me wear to stay alive.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Friar's Funeral</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Commendation and Farewell memorial service was held fort 92 yr-old identical twin brothers Julian and Adrian Riester, who were professed as Franciscan friars in 1946 at the Bonaventure University Chapel.The burial service was held at the St Bonaventure Cemetery located near the campus. The brothers will be laid to rest in the area informally referred to as friar's hill. At the end of the service, birds were released by David Deitz (of Princess Doves in located in Allegany) He opens a basket containing the homing pigeons, and they fly out as the service ends.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Becoming Judy Garland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bobby Femia watches his brother Tommygo into character for his role in impersonating legendary singer Judy Garland. Bobby will assist when Tommy is ready for wardrobe.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Becoming Judy Garland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Entertainer Tommy Femia transforms himself into legendary Judy Garland for a performance at Don't Tell Mama cabaret in NYC where he has been doing so for over twenty years</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Lindytown, West Virginia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Big coal companies are buying out small mining towns along WV Route 26, a highway linking Bandytown, Twilight, and Lindytown. A visit to one of the few remaining residents.Their house stands alone.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Baraboo, Wisconsin</image:title>
      <image:caption>Burlesque Historical Society annual reunion, held this year in a suite at the Ho- Chunk Hotel and Casino in Baraboo, Wisconsin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Burlesque Reunion</image:title>
      <image:caption>Burlesque Reunion</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Columbia, South Carolins</image:title>
      <image:caption>Columbia, South Carolina's Campbell Pre-Release Center where prisoners use playing cards depicting unsolved crimes.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Madison, Wisconsin</image:title>
      <image:caption>Union supporters and various tribes of protesters make a stand inside the State Capitol building on a 24/7 mission. As the evening progressed, celebration began when it was announced that protesters would be allowed to stay for another night. Some danced as other played drums and make-shift instruments.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nascar</image:title>
      <image:caption>&quot;The Couchman&quot; Bill Montgomery follows tradition of setting up his scaffold in center track at NASCAR races with a living room setting; lamps, a couch; so friends and family can watch the race in the comfort of home. He also traditionally drapes an American flag around his shoulders as the race begins for all the drivers to see.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hooper, Nebraska</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hooper Nebraska. Highway 275 used to run through the town of Hooper until a few years ago when a new bypass was created. A group of concerned residents got together and helped to get a new Hooper sign erected to let passing vehicles know, Hooper is still here. The sign is located at a turn-off along the new bypass and it is lit-up at night.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hooper, Nebraska</image:title>
      <image:caption>Highway 275 used to run through the town of Hooper until a few years ago when a new bypass was created. A group of concerned residents got together and helped to get a new Hooper sign erected to let passing vehicles know, Hooper is still here. Hooper Nebraska resident Joel Hargens is a banker at the First National Bank Northeast located on Main Street. He has a view of Main Street and a collection of deer antlers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nail Salon NYC</image:title>
      <image:caption>Late evening scene of a nail salons located alongW14th Street NYC. A customer gets a neck massage while her nails dry.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>PetsHotel</image:title>
      <image:caption>PetSmart chain stores have PetsHotel services catering to pets whose parents must leave town without them.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bayou La Batre Volunteers</image:title>
      <image:caption>Volunteers from Pennsylvania working for the Mennonite Disaster Service, gather for a game of volleyball after their day of service in the Bayou La Batre community, hard hit by Hurricane Katrina.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>After Katrina Delery Street</image:title>
      <image:caption>Delery Street residents were allowed to come back to their Ninth Ward homes to survey the damage from the flood of Hurricane Katrina after conditions were deemed safe. Josephine Butler, 83, had a large statue of an angel that she said &quot;guarded&quot; her house that once stood at the entrance to her home. She was looking everywhere to see if she could it under all that remained of her house, which had slid across Delery Street and landed on top of where a neighbor's home once stood.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>After Katrina Delery Street</image:title>
      <image:caption>New Orleans Ninth Ward opened to residents after being closed due to dangerous conditions after flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Residents bought their own hazmat suits and came home to start the clean-up.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grant Park</image:title>
      <image:caption>Raquel Gayle took a stroll in Atlanta&amp;apos;s historic Grant Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Queen Mary II</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Queen Mary II docks in Red Hook Brooklyn. 5am fog surrounds the scene as a patrol boat secures the area.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fort Hood, Texas</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fort Hood, Texas</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Johnny Five</image:title>
      <image:caption>Johnny Five, a homeless man struggling with psychological and drug addiction issues, has returned to living in his &quot;cave&quot; at an abandoned train station in the Bronx. The final obstacle to getting up to the street from his cave, Johnny climbs an abandoned staircase and jumps the railing.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Brattleboro, Vermont</image:title>
      <image:caption>Vermont's International Youth Circus- Circus Smirkus 2011 Big Top Tour, performs in Brattleboro, VT, pitching their tents in a field at the Vermont Agricultural Business and Education Center. 14 year old trouper, Sam Ferlo from Rome, NY, who plays a clown just as his father did for Ringling Brothers Circus. His father passed away in November of last year and Sam has decided to follow in his father's footsteps. Friends of the family and circus performers donated money to an education fund so that Sam could attend the circus camp.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bangkok Rescue</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bangkok,Thailand  The Kredtrakarn Protection and Occupational Development Center has been made the main shelter to assist and provide services for trafficked women and children from foreign countries. Illegal Burmese garment workers sign and finger-print a list for back pay for labor done. Non-Government Organization (the Foundation for Women and Foundation for Child Development) workers are helping them as part of the long repatriation process. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Immokalee Labor</image:title>
      <image:caption>5:30 am, Immokalee farmworkers wait in the parking lot of La Mexicana grocery store where buses will come to pick-up day workers. Most wait for the regular bus and for others it&amp;apos;s first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. It&amp;apos;s the end of the tomato picking season.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Immokalee Bus</image:title>
      <image:caption>5:30 am, Immokalee Florida, farmworkers wait for transportation to work. It&amp;apos;s the end of the tomato picking season and It&amp;apos;s first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Labor-Hands</image:title>
      <image:caption>Immokalee Florida, farmworkers, the end of the tomato picking season where workers are paid 45 cents a basket.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Providence, Rhode Island</image:title>
      <image:caption>A tent city, dubbed Camp Runamuck by a community of homeless residents living in tents under a now closed overpass stretch of route 195 that is about to be torn down. Stephanie Proulx,19, shampoos her hair near the camp's restroom.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mini</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Mini Cooper car takes a spin through Manhattan. Parked in the West Village along Greenwich Street, a neighborhood dog sits across the street.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mascot</image:title>
      <image:caption>Alpharetta, Georgia Milton High School football photographed for a project: Class in America.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>The scene along South Indiana St where Sonja West and her daughter Sarah Burtrum were living.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>The trees took a beating, catching flying objects during the storm. This one is located near the Joplin Elk's Lodge.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Resident Franklin Gregory, 66, who is living in a shelter at the University, surveys his neighborhood on Annie Baxter Street.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>What's left of the St Mary's Roman Catholic Church where the interior pews still sit in the ruble.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jack Clayton walks through an area he barely recognizes along South Main St where Auto Advantage, a car dealership, once was located at 2427 S Main St.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Old photos were scattered on the ground where the auto dealer ship used to be. The stamp on the back of the photos credited Murwin Mosler, (who graduated from Joplin high school in 1935) a photographer who documented Joplin. This photo was blown from his archive storage from across the street.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Leah Peterson wanders around what was her home where she and her husband David had an adjoining business along S Main St, a music shop called Glory Days Music. As the tornado hit, they scurried into their basement and hid under a ping-pong table.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Kentucky Street scene where homes once stood, now a view as far east as can be seen by shocked residents.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin, Missouri</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tornado aftermath in Joplin, MO. A road has been cleared next to Cunniingham Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Registan Square</image:title>
      <image:caption>Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Artist Misha Vahrutdinov at work in Registan Square</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Train to Durres</image:title>
      <image:caption>Trains that were running needed repair, missing windows in many cars. This train to Durres from Tirane maes a stop to let riders off</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Albanian Bus</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Albanian communist government was collapsing and the system was breaking down. Parts to repair were scarce and any  public transportation was overtaxed in the capitol city of Tirane.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mask</image:title>
      <image:caption>A makeshift mask in Korce, Albania</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Enver Hoxja Museum</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Hoxja Museum, named after the former Communist leader in Tirana, Albania, provides a place for childhood adventure</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bread Shop</image:title>
      <image:caption>There were food shortages and long lines for the basics including this bread line in Tirane, the capitol of Albania.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Milk Line</image:title>
      <image:caption>A woman sits on the sidewalk saving her place in line, waiting for a milk delivery. It is pre-dawn in Tirane, the capitol of Albania. Food has become scarce due to the collapsing government and the breakdown of system.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Albanian Soldiers</image:title>
      <image:caption>Military base in Shkoder, Albania.Soldiers line-up before beginning a drill in self defense, a part of the requirement of a two-year service.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Albanian Drill</image:title>
      <image:caption>Military base in Shkoder, Albania. A self defense workout, a part of the requirement of a two-year service.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Visas.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Visas</image:title>
      <image:caption>The visa office in Tirana, Albania. Crowds seaking to get permission to travel.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albanian-Ramiz.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Ramiz</image:title>
      <image:caption>Palace of Congress in Tirana, Albania where Ramiz Alia, the hand picked successor to Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, listens to the Communist Labor Party&amp;apos;s 10th Congress as the government is collapsing and democracy is sweeping the country.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Albanian Factory</image:title>
      <image:caption>With the collapsing Communist government, work had come to a standstill in a machine parts factory in Tirane, Albania</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Albanian Cart</image:title>
      <image:caption>A horse driven cart was loaded down with hay as it pulled to a stop for people riding bicycles crossing the road in Tirane, the capitol of Albania.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bread Factory</image:title>
      <image:caption>A woman sweeps the floor of a bread factory in Tirane, the capitol of Albania.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Kirghizia Gym</image:title>
      <image:caption>Red October collective farm sports complex near Frunze, Kirghizia.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Kazakhstan</image:title>
      <image:caption>A sheepherder in Kazakhstan pulls on his horse as it tries to eat the grass</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Camel Farm</image:title>
      <image:caption>A boy herds a group of camels on his family&amp;apos;s farm in Turkmenistan.</image:caption>
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