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Guy Fawkes' house, formerly the Old Lion Inn, where Gunpowder plotters met, Dunchurch, near Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK, Europe
Portrait of two smiling men met on the trail of Diana's Peak National Park on Saint Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
View of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), founded in 1870, the largest art museum in the Americas, New York City, United States of America, North America
Carpenters' Hall, newly built in 1774 when it hosted the First Continental Congress which met to oppose British rule, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, North America
Carpenters' Hall, newly built in 1774 when it hosted the First Continental Congress which met to oppose British rule, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, North America
Two female Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) accompanied by two cubs each walking off from each other after having had a close met up. South of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, High Norwegian Arctic (rr)
New Ireland Malagan funerary statue in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum, New York, USA. New Ireland is part of the Bismarck Archipelago, situated north of New Guinea, and has an estimated population of 100,000. The Dutch first encountered the island in 1616, and today New Ireland is a province of Papua New Guinea. Nineteen different languages are spoken on the island, and it is divided by a chain of mountains into three distinct regions: northern, central, and southeastern. The art of New Ireland traditionally centered on mortuary ceremonies and feasts to honor the dead. In northern New Ireland, the name given to these elaborate ceremonies is malagan, which is also the term used for the carved and painted sculptures associated with the ceremonies.
Yagim Mask at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Yagim Mask, 1920-25 Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Wood, paint. George Walkus (kwakwaka'wakw, ca 1875-1968). A furtive aggressive sea creature known as Yagim was part of the dramatic Tseyka performance cycle, which took place during the dark winter when life on the North West coast moves largely indoors
Detail of Terracotta funerary krater. Greek, Attic, Geometric, ca. 725 B.C. Atributed to the Trachones Workshop.
Aztec Cihuateotl. Mexico, Aztec. Late 15th-early 16th century. Stone. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 82nd Street Manhattan New USA
Painting of Hell, Inferno by Herri met de Bles, Interior, Doge's Palace, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Maidens Fair on the mountain Gaina is a traditional transsylvanian festival, where young people met, to find partner to marry. As the valleys in the Apuseni Mountains are remote and travelling was difficult in former times, it was and is still held on top of a mountain called Gaina, to make asccess easy for all valleys in the region, Europe, Eastern Europe, Romania, Transsilvania, Apuseni
Ester Hodari, age 22 years old, cooks dinner using the traditional three-rock cook stove with a fire in the middle. These cookstoves use a lot of fuel, firewood, and produce a lot of smoke. Ester told us that cooking with this type of stove made her eyes turn red and she often had a chest cough. Her children, ages 5, 2 and 3 months are often with her when she is cooking. Her sister-in-law, Shadya Jumanne, age 11, helps her cook as well. Not long ago Esterâs 3 month-old developed a cough, It kept getting worse and so they took her by motorcycle to the hospital at night. Ester started really worrying about this. After this Ester and her husband agreed that they needed to buy a clean cookstove and started saving. The girl helping Ester cook in some of the images is her sister-in-law Shadya Jumanne, age 11. Ester met Solar Sister entrepreneur Fatma Mziray when she married her husband and moved to this village, Mforo near Moshi, Tanzania. Ester said that Fatma is like a mother to her in the village. When Fatma showed Ester the new wood stove she saw that is used less wood and produced less smoke.