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  • October 8, 2018 - A day of voluntary olive picking near the settlement of Rahalim on an olive field part of the As-Sawiya Palestinian town, south of Nablus, in the presence of the Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, the Nablus governor and the British consul. Palestinian farmers usually need special permits to access their olive fields in the proximity of Israeli settlements, and sometimes they are even banned from them. Voluntary days of olive harvesting provide support and protections to these farmers when attending their fields and reduce the harassment from the Israeli army and settlers. Olives are a main source of income to hundreds of Palestinian families and being able to attend their fields is extremely important to them. A part from the continuous uprooting of olive trees and destruction of olive fields to make space to Israeli settlements and their expansion, to settlements roads, Israeli military zones, and the “security wall”, farmers in the West Bank  have also witnessed several incidents of crop theft, olive trees chopping, harassment, and physical attacks by Israeli settlers. The Palestinian authority has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank,  which means that it can’t prosecute Israeli settlers whose attacks often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces and are usually met with impunity (Credit Image: © Mohammed Turabi/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Two relatives of the Dawabsheh family standing in the doorway of the house which was firebombed by Israeli settlers and the family killed. From a series of photos commissioned by  British NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
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  • A Jewish settler with a machine gun in East Jerusalem. From a series of photos commissioned by  British NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
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  • A Jewish settler with a child on his shoulders in East Jerusalem. From a series of photos commissioned by  British NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
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  • A Jewish settler with a machine gun in East Jerusalem. From a series of photos commissioned by  British NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
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  • A Jewish settler with a child on his shoulders in East Jerusalem. From a series of photos commissioned by  British NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
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  • June 26, 2017 - Ofra, Israel - Former residents of the illegal outpost Amona, evacuated and demolished in February 2017, live in cramped conditions in the settlement Ofra. Initial construction is underway of a road that will lead to Amichai, the first new settlement in Samaria, West Bank, since the 1993 Oslo peace accords. Located in the Shilo Valley, north of Ramallah, Amichai is the intended future home of the 42 families from Amona, the refugees, as they call themselves. (Credit Image: © Nir Alon via ZUMA Wire)
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  • October 9, 2018 - Abu Hossam Al-'Adini, 70, harvest olives with his sons in his olive field on the east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, where he has been farming over the last 60 years. The olive harvest is a very important time in the Palestinian calendar, with olives being the mainstay of the Palestinian economy: yet olive growers in the Gaza Strip have been facing great challenges linked to the constant Israeli hostilities and an 11-year-long blockade on Gaza. Since the breakout of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, and throughout the 2006, the 2008-9, and the 2014 major Israeli military offenses, Israeli authorities have destroyed thousands of acres of olive groves, while those fields situated near the border with Israel are inaccessible to farmers also during small-scale Israeli military actions. The shortage of power supply in Gaza means that generators need to be used to power the olive oil extractors which survived the latest Gaza wars with Israel, but the fuel to make them function is very expensive. Moreover, with a crippling economy and huge unemployment not many Gazans can afford to purchase great amounts of olives and olive oil, while exports are often subject to Israeli restrictions (Credit Image: © Ahmad Hasaballah/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire)
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  • South Africa - Cape Town - 25 May 2020 - Coronavirus - The Settlers High School. Teachers return to school today, some feeling good about returning while some say they feel somewhat scared. Grade 7 and 12 learners are expected to return to school on the 1 June. This as level 4 lockdown allows schools to reopen with restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic. Picture Courtney Africa/African News Agency(ANA)
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  • South Africa - Cape Town - 25 May 2020 - Coronavirus - The Settlers High School. Teachers return to school today, some feeling good about returning while some say they feel somewhat scared. Grade 7 and 12 learners are expected to return to school on the 1 June. This as level 4 lockdown allows schools to reopen with restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic. Picture Courtney Africa/African News Agency(ANA)
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  • December 17, 2018 - Clashes occur between Palestinian youths and the Israeli forces in the Shweika village near Tulkarem on 17th December 2018,  as dozens of Israeli soldier raided the town. During the raid, the Israeli security forces demolished the family home of Ashraf Naalwa, a Palestinian suspected of carrying out a shooting attack killing two Israeli settlers in October. Naalwa was killed last Thursday by Israeli forces who surrounded the house where he was believed to be hiding, and shot and killed the man (Credit Image: © Mohammed Turabi/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Feb 28, 2008 - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa - A video recording of black workers made to perform degrading acts by white university students has sparked outrage in South Africa and cast a new spotlight on racism in the 'Rainbow Nation'. It includes images of one of the students urinating into a container of soup, which is then given to four unwitting black cleaners who are later seen vomiting into buckets. A voice is heard explaining that the act is a protest at plans to integrate non-whites into a whites-only residence building. The university is in Bloemfontein, the rural heartland of the Afrikaaner, the original white settlers of South Africa. Even in the post-Apartheid era, racial harmony there remains elusive.One black student at the university said: ''If I am in class they (whites) can't even sit beside us. They just choose to sit beside other whites. That shows they are not appreciating us at all.'' The tape has sparked debate and brought condemnation from whites and non-whites. Police had to use stun grenades to disperse angry protesters on the campus. Two of the students behind the video have since finished their studies, while two others have been banned from the campus. They may face criminal charges. PICTURED: A black student walks past security outside the Reitz hostel on Thursday. (Credit Image: © Shayne Robinson/ZUMA Press)
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • March 22, 2019 - Qalqilya, West Bank, 22th March 2019. Cashes occur between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli army in the West Bank town of Kafr Qaddum. Since 2003, the road between Kafr Qaddum and Nablus has been blocked to Palestinians and left open only to Israeli settlers and the Israeli army although an Israeli court ruled the roadblock illegal. The roadblock makes it impossible for Palestinians to reach their farmlands by car and lengthens the distance to Nablus of 14 Km. Up until 2013 Israel has confiscated 2,031 dunums of Kafer Qaddum agricultural land for the nearby Israeli settlements of Kedumim Zefon, Jit, and Giv'at HaMerkaziz, which are all part of the main Kedumin settlement. Weekly Friday demonstrations have been held since July 2011 to demand the reopening of the road to Nablus and against the expansion of the Kedumin settlement. Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been built and extended in contravention of international law (Credit Image: © Mohammed Turabi/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire)
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  • December 17, 2018 - Shweika, West Bank, Occupied Territories - Clashes occur between Palestinian youths and the Israeli forces in the Shweika village near Tulkarem,  as dozens of Israeli soldier raided the town. During the raid, the Israeli security forces demolished the family home of Ashraf Naalwa, a Palestinian suspected of carrying out a shooting attack killing two Israeli settlers in October. Naalwa was killed last Thursday by Israeli forces who surrounded the house where he was believed to be hiding, and shot and killed the man (Credit Image: © Mohammed Turabi/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire)
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • March 29, 2019 - Palestinians clash with the Israeli army in the northern West Bank, near the evicted Israeli settlement of Homesh. Palestinians were commemorating the upcoming anniversary of Land Day by planting trees near the settlement when the Israeli army supressed their activities and clashes began. Homesh is an Israeli settlement which was established in 1978 on 173 acres of confiscated land belonging to the nearby Palestinian villages of Burqa, north of Nablus, Silat ad-Dhahr, on the west of Jenin, and Bazaria on the east of Tulkarem. The residents of Homesh were forcefully evicted from their homes and their houses demolished as part of the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza  Strip and from an area in northern Samaria in the West Bank in 2005.The IDF though maintained a requisition order to impede Palestinians from returning to the land for eight years, while the Homesh Yeshiva organization has endeavoured to retain some hold on the area by funding an illegal outpost which has been repeatedly built on the site over the years. The attempt of Palestinians of replanting the area and grazing sheep and goats on the hills around the settlement has usually been met by the violence of settlers and soldiers, thus preventing Palestinians to regain control of their land. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law (Credit Image: © Mohammed Turabi/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire)
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  • San (also called Bushmen) are an ethnic group of South West Africa. They live in the Kalahari Desert across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Most of the 100,000 San people live in Botswana (around 55,000) but about 25,000 live in Namibia..The San have a foraging lifestyle based on the hunting of wild animals (usually with bows and poison arrows and spears) and the gathering of veld food. The fact they are hunter gatherers accounts for their nomadic way of life. Their lifestyle is particularly adapted to the hard conditions of the Kalahari Desert. They know where waterholes are located and carry water in ostrich eggshells. They drink water from roots and tubers they find by digging the ground. The San are intelligent trackers and know the habits of their prey. they hunt game of all size : mice, buffalos, antelopes, and even giraffes sometimes. They also eat various types of insects especially during the dry season.. Sans are part of the Khoisan language peoples (including the herding tribe of the Khoikhoi) who speak a language based on click sounds (consonants), made with specific moves of the tongue.
.Naming.Their is a debate about these people should be called as the term of San didn't used to be used by San people themselves as they didn't use to apprehend themselves as unified ethnic group. Indeed there is a various array of San subgroups. But this issue also arose because the words of San and Bushman (coming from the dutch word Bosjes Man) also have been used by outsiders (european settlers in particular) to refer to them, often with pejorative connotations..The different San language groups of Namibia met in late 1996 and agreed to use the general term San to designate them externally. This word was historically applied by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term meaning outsider in the Nama language (the language of the Khoikhois), enables the distinction between Bushmen from what the Khoikhoi called t
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Tourists visit ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia, Nov. 23, 2013. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • South Africa - Cape Town - 25 June 2020 - Ronwill van Helson feeds a wild seal named Pappie on the harbour wall. Hes has been feeding the seals here for over a decade now. Tourists usually give him tips when he makes the seals do tricks for food, but there are no more tourists coming to the harbour now. The name Hout Bay dates back to 1653, and relates to the quantity of excellent timber, from the existing Yellow wood trees, which early Dutch settlers found to be growing in its ravines. Kronendal was the first farm in Hout Bay established in the 1670s. They started to construct a small fishing harbour, which was even occupied by the French in the end of the 1780s. But until 1950, despite the fishing potential of the Bay, the lands were used primarily for the forests and the mines industries. During the 1950s-70s, life radically changed for the Hout Bay's residents. Today, Hout Bay Harbour, one of the jewels in Cape Town’s tourism crown has turned into a derelict, crime-infested place. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)
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  • May 4, 2017 - inconnu - Settlers on the Moon could build settlements using bricks made from surface dust baked solid by solar rays.Scientists at the European Space Agency have unveiled a 3D printing process using lunar materials mixed with a binding salt.These are then cooked into a solid brick using concentrated sunlight.To test the new process the researchers used a simulated moon dust composed of terrestrial volcanic materials and baked in a solar furnace.The furnace uses147 curved mirrors to focus sunlight into a high-temperature beam that melts the simulated moondust into a solid. Materials engineer Advenit Makaya who worked on the project, said the process was done on a 3D printer table and baked successive 0.1 mm layers of moon dust at 1,000° C / 1,832° F.He added that a single building brick measuring 20cms x 10cms x 3 cms can be made in about five hours.The tests show this method could be a feasible form of lunar construction, with the bricks reportedly being as strong as gypsum,More tests are needed to understand how transferable the process to the different conditions found on the lunar surface.A follow-up project dubbed RegoLight is set to explore the potential for these construction processes to be applied to lunar environments.Makaya added:’ ''Our demonstration took place in standard atmospheric conditions, but RegoLight will probe the printing of bricks in representative lunar conditions: a vacuum and high-temperature extremes.”The method could have uses back on Earth such as offering new ways to construct emergency housing in situations where transporting building resources may be costly or time-consuming. The ESA's materials and processes division chief Tommaso Ghidini said: ''3D printing of civil structures using solar power and in-situ resources could support rapid construction of post-disaster emergency shelters, removing long, costly and often inefficient supply chains.”Earlier this year researchers at the University of
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Tourists visit ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia, Nov. 23, 2013. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Tourists walk in the corridor of the abandoned hospital in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia, Nov. 23, 2013. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • South Africa - Cape Town - 25 June 2020 - Ronwill van Helson feeds a wild seal named Pappie on the harbour wall. Hes has been feeding the seals here for over a decade now. Tourists usually give him tips when he makes the seals do tricks for food, but there are no more tourists coming to the harbour now. The name Hout Bay dates back to 1653, and relates to the quantity of excellent timber, from the existing Yellow wood trees, which early Dutch settlers found to be growing in its ravines. Kronendal was the first farm in Hout Bay established in the 1670s. They started to construct a small fishing harbour, which was even occupied by the French in the end of the 1780s. But until 1950, despite the fishing potential of the Bay, the lands were used primarily for the forests and the mines industries. During the 1950s-70s, life radically changed for the Hout Bay's residents. Today, Hout Bay Harbour, one of the jewels in Cape Town’s tourism crown has turned into a derelict, crime-infested place. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of the abandoned hospital in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of the abandoned hospital in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • South Africa - Cape Town - 25 June 2020 - Ronwill van Helson feeds a wild seal named Pappie on the harbour wall. Hes has been feeding the seals here for over a decade now. Tourists usually give him tips when he makes the seals do tricks for food, but there are no more tourists coming to the harbour now. The name Hout Bay dates back to 1653, and relates to the quantity of excellent timber, from the existing Yellow wood trees, which early Dutch settlers found to be growing in its ravines. Kronendal was the first farm in Hout Bay established in the 1670s. They started to construct a small fishing harbour, which was even occupied by the French in the end of the 1780s. But until 1950, despite the fishing potential of the Bay, the lands were used primarily for the forests and the mines industries. During the 1950s-70s, life radically changed for the Hout Bay's residents. Today, Hout Bay Harbour, one of the jewels in Cape Town’s tourism crown has turned into a derelict, crime-infested place. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)
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  • August 4, 2017 - inconnu - Virtual reality fans will be able to visit the red planet Mars in an experience that shows how the first human settlers will cope.The immersive experience was put together using US space agency NASA’s input.The stunningly realistic depiction based on real maps, allows explorers to investigate an accurate replica of 40 square kilometres of the planet’s surface without leaving their armchair.The Mars 2030 virtual reality experience was created by FMS Studios, the digital video and experimentation production unit of multi-platform media company Fusion Media Group in collaboration with NASA.Called “the most realistic mars VR experience to date”, it includes a range of features designed to blur the line between science, engineering and entertainment. Mars 2030 has been accurately mapped and modelled from real mars orbital satellite data. Immersion is the primary focus with graphics and sound created to draw the user into the Martian landscape.To make it even more believable, the experience uses ambisonic audio filtered to match mars’ atmospheric pressure and sounds. A dramatic touch is given by an original score from the London Symphony Orchestra. Customisable touch screens display feedback information on the space suit worn by the VR users and fitted to the Mars Rover vehicle which can be guided over the surface.The suit gives biometric data, life support gauges and more. Mars 2030 users are able to navigate the expansive landscape and collect rock samples while observing the planetary protection zones. Later, they can analyze the findings in the geolab workstation’s VR microscope, revealing the planet’s hidden secrets. The habitat base has been modelled after actual NASA concept designs, and can also be explored.Calling in to report to NASA mission control at Houston and speaking with family members back home on Earth is also possible. Players can also get a first-hand look at many of the technol
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Tourists walk in the corridor of the abandoned hospital in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia, Nov. 23, 2013. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • SHIMON PERES (2 August 1923 - 28 September 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. Born Szymon Perski, he was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014, served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords. PICTURED: Jun 19, 2005 - Jerusalem, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State CONDOLEEZZA RICE and Deputy Prime Minister SHIMON PERES, meet in Jerusalem to focus on 'disengagement' of Jewish settlers from settlements  in Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.  (Credit Image: © Yossi Zamir-POOL via ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 24, 2015 - Chernobyl, Ukraine - Ukraine. Pripyat. Chernobyl. Jevgenie Markovitjs. 77 years old. Several hundred elderly people called samosels (self-settlers or autonomous returnees) have returned to their homes within the Zone after being evacuated after the nuclear accident in 1986. They are hardy soles who survive on their own, with little to no help from the government. (Credit Image: © Hans Van Rhoon/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • April 24, 2015 - Chernobyl, Ukraine - Ukraine. Pripyat. Chernobyl. Jevgenie Markovitjs. 77 years old. Several hundred elderly people called samosels (self-settlers or autonomous returnees) have returned to their homes within the Zone after being evacuated after the nuclear accident in 1986. They are hardy soles who survive on their own, with little to no help from the government. (Credit Image: © Hans Van Rhoon/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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