tinamanley > IRAQ, BAGHDAD:  An Imam hurries through the Imam al-A'dham Mosque in Baghdad on his way to teach classes in the Qur'an.  The Mosque was built in 1871 and renovated in 1903.
tinamanley > NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE:  Islamic great-grandmother welcomes her new great-grandson to the family after his head-shaving ceremony.
tinamanley > PERU, CHINCHERO:  Quechua women in distinctive hats indicating their villages, buy and sell varieties of vegetables and flowers at the Sunday market in the village of Chinchero in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
tinamanley > PERU, CHINCHERO:  Quechua woman in distinctive hat drinks chicha, corn beer fermented with saliva, and jokes with her daughter at the Sunday market in the village of Chinchero in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
tinamanley > PERU, CHINCHERO:  Quechua woman in hat distinctive of her village drinks chicha, corn beer fermented with saliva, and laughs with her daughter at the Sunday market in the village of Chinchero in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
tinamanley > PERU, CHINCHERO:  Quechua women in distinctive hats indicating their villages, crowd around a vendor to buy carrots at the Sunday market in the village of Chinchero in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
tinamanley > SOUTH CAROLINA, YORK:  Imperial Moth caterpillar, Eacles imperialis. The full-grown caterpillar is 75-100 mm long. It occurs in two color forms, green and brown. In the green form (pictured), the head is orange-yellow with vertical black or dark stripes on sides and front. The thoracic legs are yellow. The body is green and thinly clothed with long whitish hairs. The second and third thoracic segments each bear a pair of stubby, rough yellow horns, and rows of smaller yellow spines occur along the body to the rear. The spiracles along the sides are large, oval and pale yellow to cream in color. When fully grown, larvae leave foliage and pupate in the soil. Two broods may possibly occur each year; however, the caterpillar is most commonly seen in August and September.
tinamanley > IRAN, ARAK:  Abandoned Iranian village made of mud bricks in the high desert plateau of central Iran.
tinamanley > IRAN, PERSEPOLIS:  Ruins of Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, built by Darius and Xerxes around 500 BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great, with elaborate tent city built by the Shah of Iran in 1971 to celebrate the 2500 year anniversary of the Persian Empire.
IRAQ, BAGHDAD: An Imam hurries through the Imam al-A'dham Mosque in Baghdad on his way to teach classes in the Qur'an. The Mosque was built in 1871 and renovated in 1903.
tinamanley > IRAQ, BAGHDAD:  An Imam hurries through the Imam al-A'dham Mosque in Baghdad on his way to teach classes in the Qur'an.  The Mosque was built in 1871 and renovated in 1903.
IRAQ, BAGHDAD: An Imam hurries through the Imam al-A'dham Mosque in Baghdad on his way to teach classes in the Qur'an. The Mosque was built in 1871 and renovated in 1903.
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