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Tens of thousands of bare-breasted virgins competed for Swaziland King Mswati III’s eye on Monday in a traditional Reed Dance.
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A man carries wood in Theth village in the northern Shala Valley on June 28 2008. Their jagged peaks hide one of Europe’s wildest and most remote areas, where tribal cultures live on even as the modern world encroaches.
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