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Afghanistan - Bathing in Kabul River
Afghanistan -- Children, and grown-ups, bathing and washing in Kabul River. In the background is part of the New Kabul City, with modern buildings and facilitates.
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Afganistan -- Afgani harvestors dancing the Harvest Dance, brandishing long scythes called Sikals which are used to cut wheat and other crops.
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Afghanistan - Mountain Artillery Unit
Afghanistan -- Afghanistan Mountain Artillery unit with guns carried on mule back. Mules are the best means of climbing the rugged mountains and deep gorges of Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan - The Main Market Street of Gazni
Afghanistan -- The main market street of the historic city Gazni, with the old fort (now an army barracks) towering over it. Gazni is about 200 kilometers southwest of Kabul and only 50 kilometers from the border of Pakistan. The city was named af...
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Afghanistan - The Old Fort in Gazni
Afghanistan -- The Old Fort in the historic city of Gazni, from which the Afghanis launched their invasion of India in the old ways.
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Afghanistan -- A camel caravan carrying raw wool comes into Gazni where the wool will be processed.
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Afghanistan -- Veil Wearing Women in Old Kabul
Afghanistan -- Women still wearing the veil shopping in Old Kabul. These women are from outlying villages and still follow ancient custom but women of Kabul, encouraged by the government, are rapidly casting away outdated customs such never show t...
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Afghanistan-Pushtuns who want an independent state of their own along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, come into Gazni city with their guns. These tribesmen are dead shots, even using old flint-lock rifles.
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Air Crash at the Kai Tak Airport
A four-engined C-54 of the U. S. Air F coming from Okinawa with five people on board, was destroyed by fire on the runway when one of its wheels struck the embankment of the sea-wall during landing at Kai Tak Airport.
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Astronaut Glenn Visits Japan Prime Minister
US astronaut Col. John Glenn (centre) explaining his three-orbit space flight in Friendship 7 last year to Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda of Japan. The astronaut was on a courtesy visit to Tokyo. He presented the Premier with a model of Friendship 7....
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