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Amish - adherents of the old traditional way of life. Most of them wear clothes and hats certain colors and old-fashioned, ride in horse drawn carriages, use only steel wheels, plow land plow horse. Children and women go barefoot in the warm season. Amish prohibited from serving in the army, photographed, drive cars and fly on airplanes, have computers, televisions, radios, wear a wristwatch and wedding rings.

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1. The Amish in a light carriage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania May 19. Amish enter into marriages only with their co-religionists. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

2. A farmer with a dog in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Amish with characteristic thoroughness relates to agriculture, is still cultivating the land using plows. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

3. Farmers working in a field in Lancaster on May 19. In his spare time, men are engaged in the Amish furniture, Amish women sew clothing, in both cases, everything is done by hand and in the fashion of the beginning of the XVIII century. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

4. Amishsky farmer plowing a field in Lancaster. Because the Amish marry only representatives of their communities, among them common genetic diseases of the same type, and women often miscarriage, however the birth rate among Amish traditionally high, there are families with 8-10 children, resulting in each generation their number is doubled. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

5. Cows on a farm in Lancaster, Matthew Stoltzfus. Upon reaching a certain age Amish have the right to leave his father's house for 3 years, and go to live in the "outside world", where they can sin at will their souls, but at the end of this period, Amish obliged to go home and make a decision: either it is completely immersed in the traditional Amish lifestyle and remains in the community, observing all the rules of conduct, or he permanently leaves the community, living as he wants, and then even the next of kin had not served him a helping hand, no matter how he needed. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

6. Boy Amish farm in Lancaster on May 19. Although the entire way of life, the Amish are very rich. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

7. Pond Farm Matthew Stoltzfus in Lancaster. The number of Amish is more than 200 thousand people by ethnicity is mostly Alsatians. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

8. Amishskie farmers work in the barn on a farm in Lancaster. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)

9. Aware of themselves as belonging to one denomination, the Amish, however, fall into different groups. In the photo: a bicycle lying on the edge of a farm in Lancaster. (Todd Heisler / The New York Times)