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Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

The beautiful region of Lake Toba, in Indonesia's North Sumatra, is home to the Batak people, composed of a number of ethnic groups with distinct languages, customs and architecture.

The Batak houses rank among the most memorable I've had the chance to photograph (this list includes thetongkonan in nearby Sulawesi, Zulu kraals in South Africa, Lake Titicaca"s straw huts and the trulli stone houses with their conical roof near Alberobello in the Italian region of Apulia.)

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This Happened — May 27: Dunkirk Invasion

The invasion of Dunkirk started on this day in 1940, during the early stages of World War II. Approximately 338,000 Allied troops were evacuated from Dunkirk, including more than 200,000 British soldiers.

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