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Cary Wolinsky

A Shingon Buddhist meditates under frigid waterfalls in Toyama, Japan. The practice, which can last for hours, is called takigyo, and it is meant to cleanse the mind, body, and soul.

Quartzsite, Arizona, is a hot spot for RVers in the winter, welcoming some 1.5 million every year. The camp is full of vendors, like this baked-potato-and-pies stand.

At a wedding celebration in Sichuan Province, China, in the mid-1980s, a friend swings a piece of candy between the bride and groom, who both try to bite it at the same time. Candy is a traditional favour for wedding guests in China, as it symbolises the sweetness of love.

A story in the June 1994 issue detailed the life cycle and many uses of cotton. Here, a paper maker takes waste from worn denim and uses it to dye paper.

In this story from 1977, Dr. George Archibald keeps Tex, a female sandhill crane, company at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Sandhill cranes in Wisconsin were almost extinct after the Great Depression, when they were often hunted for food.

In Wisconsin, a dense forest grows around a glacier-made lake. This picture appears in the August 1977 issue, in a story that tracked the Ice Age through the state of Wisconsin.

At the Rolling Rock Steeplecase Race in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a woman partakes in a buffet that happens to be placed in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce. The June 1978 covered one of the last races-- the tradition ended in 1983 after almost 50 years.

A mulberry silkworm in the early stages of knitting a cocoon. It takes roughly 2,500 to 3,000 silkworm cocoons to make one yard (0.91 metres) of silk fabric.

The DNA profiles of these two are nearly 99 percent the same. The genes of any two humans, of course, are even more alike. But after our prehuman ancestors shed most of their body hair, we evolved highly visible differences in skin colour. Tiny tweaks to our DNA account for them. Dark pigmentation would have helped our ancestors cope with the intense African sun; when humans migrated out of Africa into low-sunlight regions, lighter skin became advantageous.