Ceremonial guard with spear at the Alcazar Palace in Seville, Spain

Ceremonial guard with spear at the Alcazar Palace in Seville, Spain

Imperia statue by Peter Lenk at the harbor, landmark, Konstanz, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Statue of Lenin, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

Hermannsdenkmal monument, Cherusci, Hiddesen, Detmold, Teutoburg Forest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Statue of an angel on Ala-Too square, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

SUDAN South Bahr el Ghazal Thatched mud house raised on wooden stilts in Dinka village.

BRAZIL Bahia Salvador da Bahia Young woman with three children crossing wooden bridge over water polluted with sewage in shanty town. Houses raised on stilts above water behind. Brasil slum favela Brazil

BRAZIL Bahia Salvador da Bahia Slum dwellings raised above sewage polluted water with access by wooden bridge. Brasil slum favella Brazil

SOMALIA Politics Independence Day Parade. A mass of seated women with their arms raised in the air dressed in white with colourful headscarfes. Colorful African Eastern Africa Somalian Soomaliya Female Woman Girl Lady Female Women Girl Lady

Laos, Mekong, Bamboo Hut in Village next to the Mekong River.

England, Hampshire, Milford on Sea, People walking along Hurst spit a 1.5 mile long shingle ridge.

Spain, Extremadura, Merida, Los Milagros Aqueduct built by the Romans in the first century BC.

Spain, Extremadura, Merida, Los Milagros Aqueduct built by the Romans in the first century BC.

MYANMAR Yangon Buddhist monk lying on raised platform and reading in Shwedagon Pagoda. Burma Rangoon Shwe Dagon

Spain, Extremadura, Merida, Los Milagros Aqueduct built by the Romans in the first century BC.

WEST INDIES Antigua Dickenson Bay Raised area of sand fortified by rocks with people sitting on loungers under thatched umbrella with man swimming and wooden jetty in the foreground.