Images Dated 25th January 2010

Buried Alive

A cholera victim awakens to find themselves already in their coffin, 1854. L'Inhumation Precipitee or The Premature Burial by Belgian artist Antoine Wiertz. From the Wiertz Museum in Brussels. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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New Zealand flax lily in bloom in Tongariro National Park

Native to New Zealand Phormium tenax, known as New Zealand flax, flax lily or just as flax in New Zealand, is an evergreen perennial plant used as fibre plant and a popular ornamental plant. Phormium tenax grows as a clump of long, straplike leaves and tall flowering shoot with yellow or red flowers. Tongariro National Park is the oldest national park in New Zealand, located in the central North Island. It has been acknowledged by UNESCO as one of the 28 mixed cultural and natural World Heritage Sites

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