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Members of The Farm, near Summertown, Tenn., load sorghum for processing into molasses at a nearby mill in Summertown, Tennessee, Dec. 7, 1971. The group, with 400 members, came to Tennessee to set up a communal life.

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Young woman meditating in nature. About 20 years old, Caucasian female. dreadlocks

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Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

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Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

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Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

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illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) standing on rock, side view, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

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culture primitive culture urban culture disability culture civil society pastoral communities in India utopia hunter-gatherer rural society nomadism hydraulic civilization