PHOTO OF THE DAY January 8, 2006  

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Where Kabul, Afghanistan
When 1946
Photographer Maynard Owen Williams

Afghan youths contemplate a Hollywood movie poster outside a theater in Kabul in 1946. Heirs to a strong equestrian culture, Afghanis were said by some visitors at the time to be particularly fond of the hard riding in American Westerns.

—Photograph from "Geographica/Classic: Back to Afghanistan," December 2004, National Geographic magazine


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