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Red tears of sweat stream down the yellow-painted face of a Huli wigman in Papua New Guinea. His elaborate costume, donned for a ceremonial welcoming dance called the sing-sing, also includes a dramatic wig of human hair.

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Pink flowers and a hand-painted sign advertising treasures adorn a yellow-and-red building in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The city's beauty and mild climate have attracted many foreign residents.

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 brightly painted train engine stands under a deep blue sky in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Santa Fe Railroad, one of America's most famous, merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad in the mid-1990s.

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A time-lapse photo captures the wispy steam and yellow glow of the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Brunswick, Georgia, at night. The mill is surrounded by the wetlands of poet Sidney Lanier's "Marshes of Glynn."

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A staircase stands in sharp relief against a wall of yellow stained glass at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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A yellow boat hull is reflected at the waterline in Quebec’s Forillon National Park. This oceanside park is located at the farthest tip of Gaspe Peninsula.

Life in Color: Yellow

Yellow evokes the shine of the sun and is found throughout nature and the man-made world as a color that commands attention. This highly visible hue is found on everything from bumblebees to school buses, traffic signs to highlighters. Misbehaving soccer players are shown yellow as a warning, and Tour de France racers know the man in yellow is the rider to beat.

Here, a woman in Diafarabe, Mali, holds her brilliant yellow scarf against a deep blue African sky. Her landlocked country is a desert land that was once a hub for ancient Saharan caravan routes.