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  • Woman holding a copy of the Holy Bible while preaching in public trying to generate some interest in the Christian faith in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Woman holding a copy of the Holy Bible while preaching in public trying to generate some interest in the Christian faith in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • The Star Pyramid in Stirling's Holy Rude Churchyard. Dedicated to religious martyrs and freedom, the pyramid was commissioned by William Drummond in 1863. Inscribed with the words Rock of Ages, Psalms 62 which in the Christian Bible, talks about 'God, our Rock of Ages .. that the rock which is higher than we are, that rock who is a refuge.' etc. As the peak of the pyramid rises to a point we also see the carving in stone of an open Bible that as if printed, has the words 'Word of God' and on the next page, "Light and Truth.'  On 29 July 1567 the infant son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned James VI of Scotland near here.
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  • The Star Pyramid in Stirling's Holy Rude Churchyard. Dedicated to religious martyrs and freedom, the pyramid was commissioned by William Drummond in 1863. Inscribed with the words Rock of Ages, Psalms 62 which in the Christian Bible, talks about 'God, our Rock of Ages .. that the rock which is higher than we are, that rock who is a refuge.' etc. As the peak of the pyramid rises to a point we also see the carving in stone of an open Bible that as if printed, has the words 'Word of God' and on the next page, "Light and Truth.'  On 29 July 1567 the infant son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned James VI of Scotland near here.
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  • Lighthouse keeper holding a personalised bible at Start Point Lighthouse before automation, Devon, UK. Start Point Lighthouse was automated in 1998, the year when the automation of all Trinity House lighthouses was completed by Trinity House. Trinity House is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids.
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  • An open Christian Bible in the interior of St. Marys church on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • An open Christian Bible in the interior of St. Marys church on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • Man preaching Christianity and the Bible in Covent Garden, London, UK. It is common to see religion being shouted out by people who aren't technically preachers.
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  • Two Othodox Christian monks read a Bible by candlelight during a service in a chuch in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, second only to Aksum, and is a center of pilgrimage for much of the country
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  • Dusk falls on a typical Mississippi veranda in a Hopper-esque fashion. Between Nesbit and Sardis just off route 55, Mississippi. When Driving through the Bible belt its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America.
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  • Road side baptist Church in Arkabutla, Senatobia. You can’t drive through the southern states, ‘Bible belt” of America without passing lots of churches. This really is a God fearing part of the world with religion everywhere: in the gospel music, sermons on the radio and lots of vast signs on the road advertising directly for your soul. Pictured here is a is typical wooden built chapel photographed as the light begins to fade.
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  • France. Refugees. Calais. So-called Jungle camp .  A charred bible amongst the  mess from the fire the night before (Saturday  21st November 2015 )
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  • Discarded religious books in a skip on 12th June 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. You can live forever in Paradise on Earth and Book of Bible Stories.
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  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa Mays Meaningful Brexit vote is taken in the UK Parliament, a Christian preacher shouts out Brexits context in the Bible, on 15th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
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  • Church in North Carolina . You can’t drive through the southern states, 'Bible Belt' of  America without passing lots of churches. This really is a God fearing part of the world with religion everywhere: in the gospel music, sermons on the radio and lots of vast signs on the road advertising directly for your soul. Pictured here is a is sign opposite a typical wooden built chapel. Other signs near by read: “The Church is a rest home for sinners not a hospital for saints” or simply “alcohol is a sin”.
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  • A bible in the Catholic church in Ka The Ko ethnic Kayan village on 17th January 2016, Kayah state, Myanmar. In the past most people residing in Kayah State were traditional spirit worshippers, but significant numbers have converted to Christianity, especially  Baptists or Catholics
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  • Empty chairs and open Bibles, all bathed in yellow artificial light make this airport chapel in Frankfurt am Main, Germany a European modernist haven from the chaos of global air travel; an escape from delays, terrorism and overall fears of flying. Predominately Christian with small corners for Muslim believers, the new modernism at Frankfurt/Main reflects a strong European tradition of functional design – far removed from the drab, dourness of many similar American facilities. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chanting in prayer during the Timkat (Epiphany) celebrations. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A nun sorting seeds outside the cave that is her home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monk in prayer with roasary beads and cross. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Portrait of a nun in prayer. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7490_10_1_1_1.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • A young, vulnerable-looking youth stands close to two members of a local Evangelical church who are using a carpet warehouse as a temporary Ministry. Rolls of carpets and rugs are behind these Christians as the two officials practice the 'laying on of hands' to cleanse the soul of their young convert during a religious meeting in Newport, Wales. As the ceremony takes place when this boy is persuaded to accept Jesus into his life, two retail signs proclaim the prices and credit terms of the household items. The laying on of hands is a religious practice found throughout the world in varying forms. In Christian churches, this practice is used as both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit during baptisms, healing services, blessings, and ordination of priests, ministers, elders, deacons, and other holy church ceremonies.
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  • A Christian crucifix stands encased in a wooden box that has been attached to a panelled wall in Quebec, Canada. The image is white except for the Jesus icon itself and coloured lights which glow on this dark afternoon in the depths of Winter. The religious shrine consists of the human effigy standing a plinth next to faded dried flowers. On the left side are six wheel hubs also fixed to a wire fence that borders this person's property. Their decorative design suggests the Canadian owner likes driving sports or utility vehicles but who is also a worshipper of the Christian faith and believer in idols. Canada's 2001 Census showed, 72% of the Canadian population listed Roman Catholicism or Protestantism as their religion. The Roman Catholic Church in Canada is by far the country's largest single denomination.
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  • Billy Graham preaches with sincere, confidently open hands to British Christians during Mission 89, a series of evangelical revival rallies in London, England. Graham is an Evangelical Christian who has been a spiritual adviser to several U.S. presidents including George W Bush with Time Magazine calling him “.. the nation's spiritual counselor."  He is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century and member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here he is seen towering on a giant screen over the small heads of his UK congregation who are sitting passively listening to the message of this great man of God. The scale of his personality and presence above them makes this a powerful image of leadership and of followers.
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  • VW van parked opposite redundant farm buildings near Clarksdale. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn. In The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, author Nicholas Lemman describes how, on Oct. 2, 1944, a crowd of 3,000 people quietly watched the first public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker at Hopson's plantation in Clarksdale. At best, wrote Lemman, a skilled field hand could pick 20 pounds of cotton in an hour; the mechanical picker picked 1,000 pounds. Hopson calculated that a bale of cotton (500 pounds) cost $39.41 to pick by hand and $5.26 by machine. It wasn't too hard to foresee the future. Hopson was the first plantation to convert completely to the mechanical cotton pickers. Soon afterward, the sharecropper shacks where the plantation's workers had lived were abandoned and then torn down. But now they're back at the Shack Up Inn, Mississippi's oldest B&B -- and that's bed and beer, y'all. "We don't fool around with any fixing of breakfasts," said Bill Talbot, part owner of the inn.
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  • Lonely tree in Clarksdale seems to echo the loneliness of the blues heritage in the town. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith and ZZ Top are some of the many musicians who have put Clarksdale on the map: with its own blues museum on Blues Alley it is no surprise to hear that  Clarksdale it is famous for being ‘the birth place of the Blues’. However the cotton pickers migration north after the introduction of mechanization  took  something of the blues soul with them with the blues museum as important an institution as any of the remaining blues joints .
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  • This truck seems to be pulling the Corn like a load direcly from the field and is evocative of the relationship to land and transport the Americans have always had, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed. A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi.
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  • Casino on converted steamer, Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them . <br />
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“It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the<br />
four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened.<br />
The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi
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  • Mail-box on the road leading into Robbinsville, North Carolina. Although this picture is typical of the road side view one gets when driving through the US. The US flag depicted in this context reflects the increased visibility of the stars and stripes post 9/11 and evokes a more sinister interpretation of this picture.
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  • trail of car headlights photographed at  at night in Vicksberg, Mississippi.
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  • The three musicians depicted  have ties to Clarksdale: this mural is located on the side of Carmen's Pawn shop at the corner of Sunflower and 2nd St. The city of Clarksdale is known as ”the land where the blues began”.
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  • The legendary crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 outside Clarksdake, Mississippi. In the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson was known as the kid who could barely play the guitar he often carried. Stories are told of musicians inviting Johnson to join them on stage, knowing that, before he got very far, the audience would be laughing. He disappeared for a while. When he returned, no one who heard him could believe he was the same man. He blew everyone away, playing the songs that would make him famous, among them "Cross Road Blues" and "Me And The Devil Blues." Rumours started and a myth was born :Johnson did a deal with the devil here at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 and sold his soul in return for his musical abilities. Whatever  the truth fans on the way to  the historic Blues town of Clarksdale and and its  Delta Blues Museum will often stop at Abe's Bar B Q on the intersection and pay homage.
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  • Lindsey Maples and friend Robert Montgomery hanging out as the sun begins to set in Arkabutla, Tennessee. The trick of the road trip experience  in Southern USA is to get off the main highways as often as possible: it’s the best  way to meet the real America. Despite the stereotype of red neck America that is portrayed you are more likely to meet a friendly and hospitable folk interested in you as you are in them.
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  • House crushed by tree in the path of a hurricane on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Pink Lincoln Limousine parked by the roadside on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Farmhouse by Highway on 5th March 2020 in Graceville, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Buddys Shoe Shine Shop sign on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. Buddy has been shining shoes for 50 years. Buddy doesnt say a whole lot, and he doesnt charge a whole lot either. ... Buddys shoe shining, a smile, a handshake and a couple of bucks can get your shoes heading in the right direction.
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  • Rush hour traffic on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Steel bull In The Entrance To Pike County Cattlemen Park on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted Pioneer Village of Alabama, a 19th-century farmstead with old buildings & artefacts, originally used as a shopping village, on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. American pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. The term especially refers to those who were going to settle any territory which had previously not been settled or developed by European, African or American society.
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  • Deserted Pioneer Village of Alabama, a 19th-century farmstead with old buildings & artefacts, originally used as a shopping village, on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. American pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. The term especially refers to those who were going to settle any territory which had previously not been settled or developed by European, African or American society.
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  • On route 231 a neon pig advertising the World Famous BBQ barbecue House, to passing traffic on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. Alabama barbecue is generally fueled by hickory wood, but oak and pecan are also used. Across Alabama, smoked pork—chipped, chopped, and sliced—is piled on hamburger buns and often topped with coleslaw, with dill pickles added as a defining condiment.
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  • Francine, 34 Kibaye sector, Rwahambi village. She tested positive for HIV in Jan 2005.."My first husband died in 1994 during the Genocide. I think I got the disease from my second husband - because after my first husband died, I had to look for another. I did marry him ... but now he is in Tanzania (it is likely that he fled as a genocide suspect). I cannot lose hope and I cannot be angry with my husband for all this". Kibileze, Rwanda.
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  • A Ethiopian priest at the cave monestery of Yimrehane Kristos near Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, second only to Aksum, and is a center of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • An Ethiopian Monk kisses a crucifix presented to him by a priest in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, second only to Aksum, and is a center of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • A priest with a distinctive Ethiopian cross, Lalibela, Ethiopia.
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  • Kenneth the Christian preaching at Windrush Square on the 25th February 2019 in Brixton in the United Kingdom. A new English record was set on this day with temperatures rising to 20.1C in south-west London. It is the first time a temperature of over 20C has been recorded in England during winter.
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  • A figure of Saint Stephen and a child in a rural Slovenian village shrine, on 20th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A protester stands outside Westminster Cathedral during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010. Voicing opposition to Catholic thinking the man has hand-written a sign of Biblical prophecies stating that the Pope is the Anti-Christ, with the Devil’s number 666 in his name. This is during Pope Benedict 's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Western playing in the breakfast room of a motel in Senatobia  just off route 55.TN. Part of the attraction of a road trip is just hitting the tarmac and seeing where you will end up. When the budget doesn’t run to a  fabulous hotel you can always plump for rough and ready and possibly film noir  at the thousands of bargain priced motels around the states. One can normally get clean sheets and a comfortable bed for the night but if not it all adds to the classic road trip experience.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This multi story carpark  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi
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  • Photographed in the neighbourhood of Robbinsville  these children are all looked after by their grandmother over the summer holidays: with a little help from a satellite dish and  125 channels of television.
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  • The famous Blue Ridge Parkway, a breathtaking highway through the Appalacian Mountains. This was shot in The Great Smoky Mountain Park near Robbinsville NC, taken as part of a 2700 mile two week road trip from Atlanta Georgia through Tennessee and Mississippi to New Orleans. There is great feeling of  freedom when you know you have  two weeks away from work  and responsibility and nothing but open road before you.
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  • Elvis presley's grave is a shrine and place of Pilgrimage to the thousands of Elvis fans  who worship his music decades after his death on August 16 1977. It would be easy to expect  Graceland to be an over-rated tourist attraction. But as it is,  you could go in there Elvis indifferent, and come out a fan. The house has been left exactly as it was when Elvis died in 1977. It’s not huge, in terms of superstars mansions now and although it is done in showy taste - all shag pile walls, heart shaped beds and white  leather sofas, the design has been left exactly as Elvis created it.<br />
Graceland is located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN 38116
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  • A pilot relaxes after a hards work crop dusting infront of his plane, Clarksdale; Mississippi.
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  • Blues singer outside the Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, and ZZ Top are some of the many musicians who have put Clarksdale on the map: with its own blues museum on Blues Alleyit is no surprise to hear that  Clarksdale it is famous for being ‘the birth place of the Blues’.
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  • Motel shot at night on the outskirts of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Part of the attraction of a road trip is just hitting the tarmac and seeing where you will end up. When the budget doesn’t run to a fabulous hotel you can always plump for rough and ready and possibly film noir at the thousands of bargain priced motels around the states. One can normally get clean sheets and a comfortable bed for the night but if not it all adds to the classic road trip experience.
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  • A man trys out a guitar at Gruhn (Fourth Ave. and Broadway, Nashville) With its 3,000-square-foot showroom and massive inventory of vintage instruments it attracts both mortal and celebrity alike. Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top has purchased more than 100 guitars from Gruhn, according to owner and founder George Gruhn. "I've sold at least 50 vintage guitars to Eric Clapton," he adds. "Whenever Eric is in town, he comes and visits."
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  • Jounalist, Katy Regan, 4 months pregnant, posing outside a refurbished cotton planters shack at the Shack Up Inn whilst on a road trip of the American southern states. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn.
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  • The Hard Rock Café, Nashville. Nashville  is the capital of Tennessee  and the self styled  home of country music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Matt Walton Posing with  his car  Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson,Tennessee, with his family in the background. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around: that’s when you get to meet the real America. Matts car looked like it was worth more than his house.
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  • Johnny Ville ( possible Elvis wannabe)  showing  his moves  outside  the  world famous Tootsies  bar on  Broadway has come to Nashville to develop his musical career: a natural performer and self promoter "Elvis was my daddy”  and "I've only been down to Nashville for a week and I've already got myself a record deal" he claims,  Johnny doesn’t have a permanent address and seems to rove around trying to make a few bucks with his guitar. It seems the romantic spirit of Nashville is alive and well. Nashville is the capital of Tennessee  and the self styled  home of country  music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical  US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Elvis‘ collection of best selling records hangs in a corridor at Graceland his home when he was alive and now a museum dedicated to all things Elvis.It would be easy to expect  Graceland to be an over-rated tourist attraction. But as it is  you could go in there Elvis indifferent and come out a fan. The house has been left exactly as it was when Elvis died in 1977. It’s not huge, in terms of superstars mansions now and although it is done in showy taste - all shag pile walls, heart shaped beds and white  leather sofas, the design has been left exactly as Elvis created it.<br />
Graceland is located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN 38116
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  • Johnny Ville pictured here inside the world famous Tootsies bar on  Broadway has come to Nashville to develop his musical career. Nashville  is the Hollywood of Country Music and wannabe stars from all over the world flock there to make their fortune.  Johnny is a natural performer and self promoter "Elvis was my daddy” he claims and promises to buy us a Cadillac when he is famous),  Johnny doesn’t have a permanent address and seems to rove around trying to make a few bucks with his guitar. It seems the romantic spirit of Nashville is alive and well. Today There is still some great music to be found in Nashville  but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Original 'Blues brother' style Dodge Monaco police car at the Shack Up Inn, Clarksdale. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn. In The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, author Nicholas Lemman describes how, on Oct. 2, 1944, a crowd of 3,000 people quietly watched the first public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker at Hopson's plantation in Clarksdale. At best, wrote Lemman, a skilled field hand could pick 20 pounds of cotton in an hour; the mechanical picker picked 1,000 pounds. Hopson calculated that a bale of cotton (500 pounds) cost $39.41 to pick by hand and $5.26 by machine. It wasn't too hard to foresee the future.
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  • Daisy, waitressing at a waffle house on 10 Highway, Baton Rouge. One of the joys of a road trip is sampling the many original 'dinner' restaurants built in the fifties and still with all the original fittings and  fixtures “happy days” style.
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  • Nathan Walton In his back yard swimming pool, Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson, Tennessee  with his father Matt, mother and friend in back ground. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • Barbecue area at Arka Butla Lake,  Senatobia, Mississippi. One of the great attractions of the US is the wonderful opportunities to sit down, break open the cool box and enjoy some wonderful countryside: getting  close to nature and dinner all at the same time.
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  • The World famous Tootsies  bar on  Broadway  Nashville.  Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the self styled  home of country  music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Tourists relaxing by  a motel swimming pool that just happens to over look the four lane highway route 55, Senatobia, MS. In America the car and lifestyle are so inseparable that this juxtaposition of leisure activity  and  motorways seems perfectly normal and is a common sight in the US .
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  • Barbers shop by the roadside on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Pink Lincoln Limousine parked by the roadside on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Empty yellow house by Highway on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Derelict abandoned house by Highway on 5th March 2020 near Graceville, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • House by Highway on 5th March 2020 in Graceville, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Highway 53 road junction on 5th March 2020 in Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Pram outside the S&M Cafe on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Police station with 5-foot-tall peanut sculptures of policeman on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan,  The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • The flag of the State of Alabama on car bumper 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Mural in downtown Dothan carpark, highlighting the history of the area on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. Most of the murals commemorate something about this section of Alabama, known as the Wiregrass area. Wes Hardin has been commissioned to tell the story of the industrial growth of Dothan, where he makes his home. He has painted the stories of turpentine and logging, of cotton and railroads. He has been commissioned to tell the story of soda fountains and businesses, of Sherman Rose, who trained the Tuskegee Airmen, and of musical legends in the Wiregrass.
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  • Statue remembering the victims of crime outside courthouse on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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