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A Kosovar Bosnian bride Senita Demirovic has her face painted on her wedding day for a traditional ceremony in the village of Donje Ljubinje, Kosovo on August 4.. The tradition, whose origins date from beyond living memory, is virtually viewed by almost all residents with universal pride as it has come to symbolize this place's special identity.
Crazy cool and beautiful
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A crushed van is ready to be lifted to a shredder at Gershow Recycling Corp. in Medford, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Many of the scrapped vehicles are part of the "cash for clunkers" program. The Senate is poised to pump $2 billion more into the popular "cash-for-clunkers" program after agreeing to give shoppers until Labor Day to make a deal on more energy-efficient models.
Do you think it's better for the environment to recycle an old vehicle and buy a new one, or to keep the old one running?
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This man, Secret Service I believe, stood in one place for the duration of President Obama's speech about the economy Aug. 5, slowly scanning the crowd, methodically, back and forth. His feet never moved and he showed no emotion during the speech, regardless of what Obama said and how the crowd reacted. At some point during the day, someone said to me that being near the President of the United States is probably the safest place you can be at any given moment.
I asked the White House if I could mount a camera behind the stage about fifteen feet up. The White House said no, concerned that the camera could fall. Instead, they let me locate it about sixty feet from the stage. The time lapse, linked below, took photographs every minute starting about 45 minutes before the president took the stage. Watch for the man who came out and hung the presidential seal on the podium.
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Monkeys Kai Lek and Tuk Tik make a 'Wai' or greeting in Thai traditional manner at the Monkey Theatre in Samui island, southern Thailand, on Aug. 6, 2009. The Monkey Theatre is a popular tourist attraction featuring small monkeys.
Apparently the little guy on the left missed the "no more scary faces" memo.
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Female gorilla 'Gana' holds her two-day old offspring at a zoo in Muenster, Germany, Aug. 4. Last year the traumatized gorilla, carried around her dead baby's body for several days, shown at right in Aug. 2008. Gana's very public mourning for her last child gained widespread attention after the baby gorilla, Claudio, died when he was three months old of a severe intestinal infection.
This one was of the most heart-breaking animal photo I saw last year. I was happy to see the image today of her with her new baby. Doesn't it look like she's kissing her?
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A man identified as Daniel Van Pelt, a New Jersey Assemblyman, tries to shield his face as he exits federal court after being one of the more than 40 people were arrested in a federal investigation of public corruption and international money laundering, in Newark, N.J., July 23, 2009.
This picture has an comic-book quality to it with the Dick Tracy hat and trench, the pinstripe suited arm reaching in and the aggressive photographer.
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