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Fact The Day in Photos – November 11, 2018
Members of the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe take part in the thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance in Mississauga, Canada on November 8, 2018. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Images)

Members of the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe take part in the thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance in Mississauga, Canada on November 8, 2018. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Images)
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11 Nov 2018 00:09:00
Fact Mining the Devil's Gold
Miners pulling up lazy tourists to the rim of Kawah Ijen (Ijen Volcano), East Java, Indonesia on September 21, 2017. They will earn as much as they would bring down a load of sulfur. Nomadic Explorer, Cultural Lifestyle Photographer Claudio Sieber captured striking images of miners working at Ijen volcanic range in East Java, Indonesia. The sulphur miners risk their lives daily as they climb the active volcano carrying heavy loads, which they sell to sugar refineries. Shortly after midnight curious tourists are flocking in hundreds through the gate of Ijen's foothills to be right on time, driven by the images others took before them. Kawah Ijen is the one of the world's largest acidic volcanic crater lake; famous for its turquoise color as well as the unreal atmosphere it offers during darkness. A dusty path zigzags 3 kilometers up to the crater rim. This doesn't mean anything challenging; in particular, special sights have to be deserved anyway. The irritating smell of sulfur announces the near of the crater's existence. Arriving on the crater's rim the reward for the torture becomes visible. Blue fire darts its tongues through the fumes of sulfur dioxide. Somehow, the spectacle isn't as romantic as expected, since it is also the rough working space of approx. 150 sulfur miners who start their shift at 1 am. Lately, harvesting the abundance of devil's gold received international attention. This did obviously not really improve a miner's lifestyle; neither did it contribute to a better wage. (Photo by Claudio Sieber/Barcroft Images)

Miners pulling up lazy tourists to the rim of Kawah Ijen (Ijen Volcano), East Java, Indonesia on September 21, 2017. They will earn as much as they would bring down a load of sulfur. Nomadic Explorer, Cultural Lifestyle Photographer Claudio Sieber captured striking images of miners working at Ijen volcanic range in East Java, Indonesia. The sulphur miners risk their lives daily as they climb the active volcano carrying heavy loads, which they sell to sugar refineries. (Photo by Claudio Sieber/Barcroft Images)
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02 Oct 2017 08:31:00
Fact USA last Week, Part 2/3
A woman hands flowers to a member of the Wisconsin National Guard standing by as people gather for a vigil, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., August 28, 2020. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

A woman hands flowers to a member of the Wisconsin National Guard standing by as people gather for a vigil, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., August 28, 2020. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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08 Sep 2020 00:01:00
Fact A Look at Life in Indonesia
A model displays henna tattoo designs on her hands during a Henna tattoo competition in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 07 November 2023. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA/EFE)

A model displays henna tattoo designs on her hands during a Henna tattoo competition in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 07 November 2023. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA/EFE)
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15 Dec 2023 05:54:00
Fact USA last Week, Part 2/3
A hand-painted sign encouraging citizens to vote, sits with Halloween decorations in the front yard of a home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. October 20, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Drake/Reuters)

A hand-painted sign encouraging citizens to vote, sits with Halloween decorations in the front yard of a home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. October 20, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Drake/Reuters)
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31 Oct 2024 03:26:00
Fact Last Weeks' Looks
Cast member George Clooney kisses the hand of his wife Amal Clooney on the red carpet for the screening of ”Jay Kelly” on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)

Cast member George Clooney kisses the hand of his wife Amal Clooney on the red carpet for the screening of ”Jay Kelly” on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)
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12 Sep 2025 03:22:00
Fact A Look at Life in India
Women carry pitchers after filling them with water from a hand pump to their houses in Thane district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, May 30, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

Women carry pitchers after filling them with water from a hand pump to their houses in Thane district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, May 30, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)
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04 Jun 2019 00:01:00
Touching Sisterly Love and Tradition in a Remote Russian Village
“Two-Handed Saw, 2014”. “Most of the neighbors have switched to power tools to run their households, the buzz of chain saws and weed-whackers overpowering the quieter sounds of country life, but my aunts hold on to the two-handed saw that's decades old, the sickle and scythe that need to be sharpened and polished after each use, the old axe that's becoming heavier each year. Each of these objects is familiar, holding memories of their brother, who succumbed to cancer a few years ago, of days before my grandfather lost his vision in the 50's, of busier days and longer futures”, Sablin told. (Photo by Nadia Sablin)

In northwest Russia, in a small village called Alekhovshchina, Nadia Sablin's aunts spend the warmer months together in the family home and live as the family has always lived, chopping wood to heat the house and making their own clothes. Sablin's book of photographs, “Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila”, is published by Duke University Press. Here: “Two-Handed Saw, 2014”. (Photo by Nadia Sablin)
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25 Feb 2016 12:12:00
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