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  • The giant 45m long gold reclining Buddha at Wat Pho. This beautifully crafted Buddha has a smile 5m wide, this beaming smile because the depiction is of Buddha entering Nirvana. The black feet are beautifully inlaid with mother of pearl. Wat Pho is Bangkok's oldest temple, built in the 18th century
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  • The giant 45m long gold reclining Buddha at Wat Pho. This beautifully crafted Buddha has a smile 5m wide, this beaming smile because the depiction is of Buddha entering Nirvana. The black feet are beautifully inlaid with mother of pearl. Wat Pho is Bangkok's oldest temple, built in the 18th century
    2006-11-22_Wat Po Buddha_E_1.jpg
  • The giant 45m long gold reclining Buddha at Wat Pho. This beautifully crafted Buddha has a smile 5m wide, this beaming smile because the depiction is of Buddha entering Nirvana. The black feet are beautifully inlaid with mother of pearl. Wat Pho is Bangkok's oldest temple, built in the 18th century
    2006-11-22_Wat Po Buddha_D_1.jpg
  • The giant 45m long gold reclining Buddha at Wat Pho. This beautifully crafted Buddha has a smile 5m wide, this beaming smile because the depiction is of Buddha entering Nirvana. The black feet are beautifully inlaid with mother of pearl. Wat Pho is Bangkok's oldest temple, built in the 18th century
    2006-11-22_Wat Po Buddha_B_1.jpg
  • The giant 45m long gold reclining Buddha at Wat Pho. This beautifully crafted Buddha has a smile 5m wide, this beaming smile because the depiction is of Buddha entering Nirvana. The black feet are beautifully inlaid with mother of pearl. Wat Pho is Bangkok's oldest temple, built in the 18th century
    2006-11-22_Wat Po Buddha_A_1.jpg
  • Matching smiles from a young child having face painted and a wall poster during Swedish-owned home furnishing store Ikea promo. The young girl closes her eyes as a make-up artist applies paint to her face, echoed by a similar smile, rosy cheeks and yellow skin of the grinning character. They are at an opening event at the newly-opened Ikea at Croydon, now a Mecca for lovers of flat-packed home furnishings.
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  • Official wearing a Keep Calm And Smile high vis jacket at the Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival celebrations at Guildhall Yard. The annual event features early English entertainment including maypole dancing, Morris dancers and a marching band. The Chelsea pensioners & all the mayors of London take part in this traditional London event.<br />
The London tradition of the Pearly Kings and Queens began in 1875, by Henry Croft. Inspired by the local Costermongers, a close-knit group of market traders who looked after one another and were recognisable by buttons sewed onto their garments, Henry went out on the streets to collect money for charity, wearing a suit covered in pearl buttons to attract attention. When demand for his help became too much, Henry asked the Costermongers for assistance, many of whom became the first Pearly Families. Today, around 30 Pearly Families continue the tradition to raise money for various charities.
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  • With hands outstretched and a nervous smile on her face, a 3 year-old goes head first down a slide in her local park in south London. The gradient helps the girl on her downward journey as the tentatively slides down with her fingers feeling the polished surface, her smiling, confident face reflected on the three sides of the slide's metal. Tall London plane trees rise above in this public London space.
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  • Two young women take a selfie overlooking the River Thames on Londons Southbank with the Palaces of Westminster and Queen Elizabeth Tower containing Big Ben bell in the background. With their smartphone outstretched to take in the panoramic view behind them, the girls smile into the lens with the famous Westminster landmark on the opposite bank of the river. 17.4 million tourists visit the UK capital 2014.
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  • A Minnie Mouse balloon brought from Disneyworld, Paris, is carried on a London Underground tube train. The face of Minnie obscures the young girl's own features but to her right is a friend who has also returned to their home city after some time enjoying the Disney theme park in the French capital. Another train passenger seems amused by the cartoon character's presence in these otherwise drab surroundings - Minnies' smile to the camera makes for a humorous moment for these commuters under the streets of London.
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  • Smile graffiti during freezing weather, dubbed The Beast from the East due to the sub zero cold temperature winds coming in from Siberia, descends on Kings Heath High Street on 1st March 2018 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • A mother and baby smile during meal time in the dining room at the Friends of Needy Children Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The mother is feeding her child nutritious food as they are is an inpatient in the centre and receiving intensive treatment for malnutrition. The centre has recently been built to provide healthcare to malnourished children and education to mothers about nutrition and childcare.
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  • Service with a smile, Gemma Raynolds works at the Pencraig Diner along the A40 on the 12th April 2010 in Pencraig in the United Kingdom.
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  • Smile graffiti during freezing weather, dubbed The Beast from the East due to the sub zero cold temperature winds coming in from Siberia, descends on Kings Heath High Street on 1st March 2018 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
    20180301_freezing snow brum_015.jpg
  • A family group of tourists pose and smile for a selfie photograph at the back of Staten Island Ferry travelling away from Lower Manhattan, which can be seen in the background,Upper Bay, New York City, New York, United States of America.
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  • A man shows of his yellow costume with a big smile outside the Hackney Empire Theater in East London, United Kingdom,Sept 11 2016. The annual Hackney Carnival took place on a hot summers day and the procession of dancers dressed in various outfits moved through the streets to much joy of the many bystanders.
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  • Fatima, age nine, daughter of Nemat Khalil  poses briefly for this picture in Murad Khane as she is late for class at the local primary where she is in third grade. The school was recently built with the support of Turquoise Mountain.  It is rare to see such a confident smile on an Afghan child and a sign that maybe the work the charity is doing is having very good effects in the local community.<br />
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Murad Khane, the ancient centre of Kabul is undergoing a massive regeneration thanks to the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The foundation was set up by Steward Rory Stewart, the man who’s life has inspired a Hollywood biopic starring Orlando Bloom. He walked across Afghanistan with his dog, governed a province in  Iraq , tutored Prince William and Harry and was asked personally by Prince Charles to undertake the project of regenerating the heart of the old city centre. Two years later, the project has galvanized the local community who have all been offered work. The organization has cleared some 20,000 tons of rotting garbage from the streets, built a primary school, a clinic and restored several of the finest courtyard homes to near-mint condition. With an eye for capacity building Stewart has also developed a school for traditional crafts,
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  • Young smiling couple pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The young woman seems delighted with her selfie and smiles next to the sports hero's own rugged jaw and white teeth. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • Woman with fan shielding her face from sunchine passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • Man passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The bald-headed man gestures to others next to the sports hero's name in the bottom corner. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
    teeth_people09-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Men pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.  The two males walk past in good humour, one inhaling from his cigarette - the symbol of an unhealthy lifestyle versus the machismo character of athlete and sports hero. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
    teeth_people04-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Smiling bollard and police cones at a parking bay in London, UK.
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  • A smiling middle aged teacher in a school lesson, Arequipa, Peru
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  • A teenage girl smiles in summer sunshine while sitting on a seafront deckchair in the early nineteen sixties. It is the beginning of a new decade and an exciting time for a English teenage girl. She smiles at her father taking the photo for the family album while a more suspicious woman in the background wears classic sunglasses.
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  • Dan Hooper, widely known as Swampy during the 1990s, smiles as he holds a lock-on arm tube in a basket suspended from a bamboo tripod positioned in the river Colne on 8th December 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The climate and roads activist had occupied the tripod the previous day in order to delay the building of a bridge as part of works for the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link and a large security operation involving officers from at least three police forces, the National Eviction Team and HS2 security guards was put in place to facilitate his removal.
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  • Wealthy adults and a child wearing sunglasses who smiles in the back of an open-top car remaining stationary at traffic lights in Sloane Square, on 14th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • A face smiles out from a widescreen in the Aviva office foyer during a rolling video for the insurance corporate, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London, England.
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  • A happy Cuban woman selling flowers and smiling, yellow flowers and a yellow storefront.
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  • A 4 year-old boy holds an umbrella outdoors in family woods. Before he and his parents take a stroll through local woods, the boy wears a warm coat and a hood over his head on this wet, rainy spring day. Smiling at another person, the youngster looks forward to his walk in the great outdoors.
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  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
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  • A young boy stands up in his father's Anglia car on a summer day out in the early nineteen sixties. Standing up on the driver's front seat the child smiles out of the open window while the car is parked on a day out to the countryside. This is the new age of car ownership when newfound wealth meant families could afford to buy a vehicle and travel elsewhere after the war years of 1950s austerity. The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 and 1967. 1,594,486 Anglias were produced, The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about  1961.
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  • Bolivia June 2013. Altiplano. Huasahuasi, near Cajamarca. Portrait of  Rotilda, smiling and wearing traditional Aymaran clothes.
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  • An English caucasian lady smiles at something of interest to the viewer's right. She is a wrinkled female in her sixties, a healthy person with her own original teeth and whose untidy hair is greying and whose skin is slightly tanned under a summer sun. She wears a blue shirt with a wide collar, fashionable in the 1980s (eighties) and has a bemused, attentive expression as if entertained by something of humour out of frame. This is someone's mother and grandmother, at an age when her hard-working life is nearly over and her pension is hopefully covering her everyday needs.
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  • Central London. March 4th 2017 . Tens of thousands of health workers, activists and members of the public protested against austerity and cuts in the NHS National Health Service. A young smiling girl holds a placard she made which says Think of me, keep it free; save our NHS.
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  • Three black girlfriends walk past odd mannequins in a central London street. Striding in rhythm with the shop window models, the women are enjoying their shopping trip to Oxford Street where the opportunities for retail therapy are far and wide. One smiles at a joke and another carries a pink bag from a nearby store. The mannequins are stylish and in step.
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  • Young man smiling whilst picking onions vegetables in a field, organic community farming project, Devon, UK
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  • A grinning portrait of a fishmonger from the Princess Cafe on Foreshore Road in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. Smiling with bad teeth but with a generous and kind face, the elderly man stands on the corner, outside his traditional seaside business in the centre of town where passing trade from locals and tourists guarantee him an income  - a secure future towards his retirement in the coming years. In the background are signs advertising his produce: Haddock, Cod, and Lemon Sole - all locally caught and served with chips.
    fishmonger_portrait02-19-07-1993_1.jpg
  • A female student from Singapore celebrates her end of Chemistry Finals (exams)  at Trinity College, Oxford. With glitter sticking to her dark hair, this talented international Asian student smiles with great relief and intends to celebrate the end of her examinations at Oxford by partying with friends. In celebration of this achievement, of surviving the pressure and stress of the last examinations, students all over the city in the same fortunate position, often carry bottles of alcohol to their residences where the partying continues, shared by contemporaries and friends. In the street, the young lady from Singapore pauses before walking along Catte Street, past the Bodleian Library. Oxford is the third oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest surviving in the English-speaking world. Foreigners make up one third of the student body.
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  • A close-up portrait of a middle-aged man in his late-fifties street portrait with moustache. The middle-aged man smiles to the camera as he stands in the street with a brick wall as a background.
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  • A housewife smiles from her low door in her inner-city home within Lisbon's Bica district of the Portuguese capital. In the shadows a person irons clothes with the help of an electric light bulb. But by her green door in afternoon sunshine, the lady in the foreground looks happy with her lifestyle, darning some material with a good view of passers-by at street level.
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  • A woman in a purple wig with a drink smiles as she listens to a performer at the Standon Calling Festival in Hertfordshire, UK..Standon Calling is a small independent festival set among the hills in Herfordshire that showcases World Music, Indie Music and dance Music. It is one of the new, small and quirky boutique festivals which have become popular in the UK...
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  • A portrait of a mother in her 41st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend. It is the summer of 1960 and the mum's dress is styled from the previous decade: blue with white spots and pearl necklace. She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day. Oddly, the boy looks as though he is wearing a girl's dress which may have been a hand-me-down from an older sibling or just the trend then.
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  • A man smiles as he struggles with an umbrella during heavy rain fall and windy weather on Westminster Bridge in London, United Kingdom on 16th August 2019.
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  • A man smiles as he struggles with an umbrella during heavy rain fall and windy weather on Westminster Bridge in London, United Kingdom on 16th August 2019.
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  • Young female gaucha cowgirl girl, portrait looking at camera and smiling, wearing competition pageant sash. Gaucho cowboy Rodeo, Flores de Cunha, Rio Grande do Sul.
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  • A visiting Lama teacher of Kagyu Tibetan-Buddhism greets a westerner baby and its father in the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. Touching the child on its head, the Lama smiles and appears the archetypal kind leader of the Buddhist religion. The dad and baby are western visitors in this peaceful location for spiritual cleansing and often to find answers to their complicated, modern lives. And many here have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Bolivia June 2013. Cajamarca. Meeting with women. Two women laughing and smiling as they knit.
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  • A young African school-child proudly holds his reading book and smiles in in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  He is learning to read independently.  The book has been provided provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A young Nepalese boy smiles and laughs while he stands in the sunshine in front of green metal lockers in his bedroom in the Voice of Children rehabilitation center in Kathmandu, Nepal. The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
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  • A smiling male ski guide In Morzine / Portes du Soleil ski area on 21st March 2017 in France
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  • Young female gaucha cowgirl girl, portrait looking at camera and smiling, wearing competition pageant sash. Gaucho cowboy Rodeo, Flores de Cunha, Rio Grande do Sul.
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  • A male public health TB nurse smiles at a young female patient as her prepares her for a blood test  during a tuberculosis contact tracing screening in a hostel in central London, UK.
    UK-Health-London-TB-Screening-5590.jpg
  • Young Guarani boy smiling and looking towards his mother with the TV on in the background. The Guarani are one of the most populous indigenous populations in Brazil, but with the least amount of land. They mostly live in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. Their tradtional way of life and ancestral land is increasingly at risk from large scale agribusiness and agriculture. There have been recorded cases and allegations of violence between owners of large farms and the Guarani communities in this region.
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  • A Nepalese mother sits smiling on a hospital bed with her two children in the Friends of Needy Children Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.  The centre treats malnourished children and provides education to mothers about nutrition and childcare. Both her children, ages 18 months and 5 months have had nutrition treatment as they were both malnourished.
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  • A Nepalese woman laughs and smiles as she operates a tapestry loom in her home.  She is able to provide for her family from selling rugs and carpets and her sons have been able to return to school education.  She was assisted to buy the loom by Voice of Children charity.
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  • Man relaxing in a chair in the doorway to his shop. Rangoon, Burma 2001
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  • Weaving wool in a small family run cooperative, Hue city, Vietnam
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  • The "Cunha Poranga' Carnival Queen, dances inside the stadium during the three day event which celebrates the native Amazon indian myths and legends of the " Boi Bumba" carnival, Parintins, Brazil
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  • Mu Ze Latso with a friend, also from the Mo Suo minority visit a Buddhist temple in Yongning town, north west Yunnan Province, close to Tibetan and Sichuan border.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Mu Ze Latso, 22, shares a joke and an intimate moment with her mother Mu Ze Namu, they belong to the Mo Suo minority / tribe from Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room
    chilugu_048_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso, 22,  at home with her parents, Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_039_1.jpg
  • Philippines - Aurora - Young girls in a science lesson
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  • The mock wedding between Laura Dickie and Charles Kenyon as part of the festivities of their small rural community in Vermont, USA
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  • On the Island of Tupinambarana, where the "Boi Bumba" Carnival takes place every June the island's population become fanatical for one of the two teams that take part in the three day event. Here girls  dress all in red to show allegiance to the red bull known as " Garantido", Parintins, Brazil
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  • A pilgrim serenely grooms his long beared at the Sonepur animal fair, Bihar, India.
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  • A pilgrim serenely grooms his long beared at the Sonepur animal fair, Bihar, India.
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  • A father sees his  daughter off to school, Bangalore, India.
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  • A father sees his  daughter off to school, Bangalore, India.
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  • Philippines - Aurora - Young girls in a science lesson
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  • Philippines - Aurora - Young girls in a science lesson
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  • A lady with her cat outside her south London home, on 6th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A young 23 year-old woman celebrates the passing of her driving test by holding up her L Plates in front of the family car in south London, on 7th December 2018, in London England.
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  • Tens of thousands of health workers, activists and members of the public protested against austerity and cuts in the NHS National Health Service on March 4th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. A healthworker has a heart drawn on her cheek with NHS written inside it,
    nhs_5574_1.jpg
  • Visitors pose in front of the British Museums Elgin Marbles that originate from the Parthenon in Athens, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Portrait of a Karen Pwo ethnic minority man with traditional tattoos at Mae Lay village, Chiang Mai province, Thailand
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  • Sitting on the floor, an elderly Hindu Cham woman weaves a priest's turban with cotton and silk threads on a back-strap loom outside her home in My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. The Cham people are remnants of the Kingdom of Champa (7th to 18th centuries) and are recognised by the government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups.
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  • Japanese entrepreneur, Tetsuro Hama with cars for sale at his north London car dealership business. Hama is the owner of So plus a north London car dealership. He arrived from Japan in 1973, looking for business opportunities before starting a hotel in a Bayswater backstreet. He then went into the restaurant industry, soon earning the respect of employees and customers for affordable and tasty sushi. From the chapter entitled 'The Price of Happiness' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014).
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  • Young Hmong Der (White Hmong) women wearing contemporary Hmong traditional costumes taking selfie portraits on a mobile phone at Ban Km 52 Hmong New Year celebration Vientiane province, Lao PDR. The Hmong celebration of New Year is based on the lunar calendar. This important time is an opportunity to honour ancestors and spirits through offerings and rituals and to partake in games, sports, feasts, shows, bullfights and courtship. The Hmong are the third largest ethnic group in Laos. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • Young Hmong Der (White Hmong) women wearing contemporary Hmong traditional costumes taking selfie portraits on a mobile phone at Ban Km 52 Hmong New Year celebration Vientiane province, Lao PDR. The Hmong celebration of New Year is based on the lunar calendar. This important time is an opportunity to honour ancestors and spirits through offerings and rituals and to partake in games, sports, feasts, shows, bullfights and courtship. The Hmong are the third largest ethnic group in Laos. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • Young Hmong Der (White Hmong) women wearing contemporary Hmong traditional costumes taking selfie portraits on a mobile phone at Ban Km 52 Hmong New Year celebration Vientiane province, Lao PDR. The Hmong celebration of New Year is based on the lunar calendar. This important time is an opportunity to honour ancestors and spirits through offerings and rituals and to partake in games, sports, feasts, shows, bullfights and courtship. The Hmong are the third largest ethnic group in Laos. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • Teenage pupils enjoying a lesson at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, UK. Ampleforth College is a coeducational independent day and boarding school in the village of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1802 as a boys' school, and is run by the Benedictine monks and lay staff of Ampleforth Abbey.
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  • A 19 year-old girl's hair blows across her face at the beach at Brighton, England. Wearing glasses to rectify her short-sightedness (myopia) the young lady can see little as her long hair sweeps over her eyes. It is a sunny day on the southern English coastal town, with a shingle beach stretching down to the sea.
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  • Imelda Esgana, fish vendor, Talisay, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Every morning at 7 am Imelda meets the fishermen as they return from the sea with their catch. After sorting and weighing,  Imelda sells the fish locally by going house to house. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall.  Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations.
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  • Two Romanian peasant women with a sheep at the livestock market in Ocna Sugatag in Maramures, Romania. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • Portrait of members of the Serpentine Swimming Club after swimming, Hyde Park, London, UK. The Serpentine Lake is situated in Hyde Park, London’s largest central open space. The Serpentine Swimming Club was formed in 1864 ‘to promote the healthful habit of bathing in open water throughout the year’.  Its headquarters were beneath an old elm tree on the south side of the lake, a wooden bench for clothing being the only facility.  At this time London was undergoing rapid expansion and Hyde Park was now in the centre of a densely populated built up area and provided a place of relaxation to its urbanised masses. Now, the club has its own (somewhat spartan) changing facilities and members are  permitted by the Royal Parks to swim in the lake any morning before 09:30.  They race every Saturday morning throughout the year, regardless of the weather.
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  • A young Khmu ethnic minority girl works on her family farm picking pumpkins in Ban Nam Khor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
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  • Portrait of a family looking out from street doorway in Lisbon's Bica district of the Portuguese capital. The family members huddle for this portrait, half in sunlight and others lit by the light from a lightbulb that lights the dark room behind. A grandmother, a mother and young girls look out from their home to the street outside. Lisbon's Bica district is a steep gradient area of narrow streets more peaceful and atmospheric than other busier locations where cars and trams make wider roads noisier. Flights of steps dissect the quarter which remains largely unspoilt.
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  • The fathers, mothers and sisters of a Hindu bride and groom pose for wedding photographs, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • A Hindu bride groom  places on his fiancé's finger the wedding ring which signifies their engagement, overlooked by both their respective families, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding the bride groom arrives at the venue of the ceremong with his family and friends and is greeted by the bride's family and friends, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • While two mates in tartan uniform trousers look a little bashfully, a more forward friend from the same Scots regiment soldier chats to two young women during 50th anniversary celebrations of wartime VE Day. Bending down to make himself heard and perhaps to impress the two rather posh females into sharing their phone numbers. They are in Hyde Park to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved.
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  • The former Beirut hostage, Terry Waite waves from a car, driven away after landing back at RAF Lyneham, UK. Looking exhausted, with red eyes, a drawn complexion and a grey/white beard, Waite is otherwise delighted to be back on home soil after years of captivity. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages including journalist John McCarthy and was himself held captive by Islamic factions for 1,763 days, the first four years of which were spent in total solitary confinement, between 1987 and 1991.
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  • Covered in flour, water, streamers and wearing a fez, a male student celebrates the end of Finals (exams) at Oxford University by partying his way back from his university college and on to an all-night party. In celebration of this achievement, of surviving the pressure and stress of the last examinations, students all over the city in the same fortunate position, carry bottles of alcohol (here it is Champaign)  to their residences where the partying continues, shared by contemporaries and friends. Many have hired formal suits for the occasion. In the street, the young man pauses before another dance across the road where mates await him. Oxford is the third oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest surviving in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions.
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  • UKIP (UK Independence Party) leader Nigel Farage before TV interviews during his difficult and controversial first day of his party's conference in Westminster, central LOndon.
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  • Nick Leeson, the former banker known as the Barings Rogue Trader seen Terryland Park, the home of Galway United, Ireland. Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is CEO of Galway United Football Club whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world.
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  • Nick Leeson, the former banker known as the Barings Rogue Trader seen in Galway, Ireland. Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is CEO of Galway United Football Club whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world.
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  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his early-twenties street portrait with moustache. The moustache is well trimmed and is shaved low in his upper-lip with a small tuft underneath. Focus is on the tache and eyes rather than on his clothing and urban background. The fellow is stylish and is very self-confident as he makes a bold statement of his own youth and gender.
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  • A close-up portrait of a young man in his late-twenties street portrait with moustache. The mustache is well-waxed to keep its upturned shape and is generally known as a handlebar style of facial growth. Focus is on the curled hair and eyes rather than on his clothing and urban background. The fellow is stylish and is very self-confident as he makes a bold statement of his own youth and gender.
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  • A mother swings her young child along the pavement and grass of Bath maze Bath Festival Maze (1984) in Beazer Gardens, Riverside Walk, Pulteney Weir, Bath is by renowned maze designer Gilbert Randoll Coate (8 October 1909 – 2 December 2005) who was a British diplomat, maze designer and "labyrinthologist".
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