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A worker is cleaning the sticky coal on a belt pulley in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province, China, on December 17, 2025.

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Miki Pulley signage and logo

Signboard and logo of Miki Pulley. (Taken at JIMTOF2024) Signboard and logo of Miki Pulley.=November 6,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Drone helps rescue man above Nujiang River in SW China

STORY: Drone helps rescue man above Nujiang River in SW China DATELINE: May 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:40 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rescue operation STORYLINE: Recently, a worker was trapped on the cableway nearly 100 meters above the Nujiang River in Gongshan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, as the pulley failed. Rescuers sent the man food, water and tools by a drone. After three hours of rescue, the worker fixed the pulley and came back safely. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kunming, China. (XHTV)

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2 die in fall from Nagano cable car

MITAKE, Japan - Two passengers riding in a cable car in Mitake, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, died Oct. 15 after a cable became detached from a pulley and they were thrown from the gondola (shown).

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Poor phone service in war-torn Yemen exacerbates people's plight

STORY: Poor phone service in war-torn Yemen exacerbates people's plight DATELINE: Aug. 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:57 LOCATION: HAJJAH, Yemen CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a village 2. various of a Yemeni man 3. various of a village 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): SULTAN ALI GERBHI, Local resident 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): YOUSSEF MUSA, Local resident STORYLINE: After the civil war in Yemen destroyed communication towers, residents in Midi district in the northwestern province of Hajjah have to install small cell phone signal boosters up to 10 meters on wooden poles in order to make phone calls. This is how Sultan Jarbhi strengthens his cell phone's signal. After erecting a wooden pole in the yard of his house, the young man put a phone signal booster device in a plastic bag, tied a rope around it, and lifted it high to the top of the pole using a pulley until it picked up the phone network signal. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): SULTAN ALI GERBHI, Local resident "In Midi district, we cannot communicate with friend

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2 die in fall from Nagano cable car

MITAKE, Japan - Two passengers riding in a cable car in Mitake, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, died Oct. 15 after a cable became detached from a pulley and they were thrown from the gondola (shown). (Kyodo)

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A gangway against a ship - Manchester Docks, 1960

A docker climbs up a gangway resting against the hull of a large ship moored in Manchester Docks. Photograph by Shirley Baker Date: 1960

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Teahouses at Ueno Park

The location of the photograph is the same as that in #4198. But the pulley of the well is slung over a branch of the overhanging tree, whereas in #4198, it is slung on a stick crossing poles on either side of the well. The people sitting on the bench seem to be workers at the teahouse.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐8‐0]

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Japan's execution chamber

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pulley used to hang death row inmates in the execution chamber of the Tokyo Detention House that the Japanese Justice Ministry opened to the media Aug. 27, 2010, allowing participants in a press tour to take still photos and video footage for the first time. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)