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  • Santiago Ferrero / Reuters

    Shepherds drag goats for a traditional bath at the Puerto de la Cruz beach in Spain's Canary island of Tenerife June 24, 2010. The goats were taken for their traditional San Juan's day bath for the purification and fecundity of the flock.

    Taking a goat for a bath

    In Spanish, they call this "El Bano de Cabras." Flickr user "snapjac" has some good pictures of the event as well.

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  • Ansel Adams/AP via Sotheby's

    A print of 'Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" likely created in the 1950s or 1960s. The image, which sold for a record $722,000 on Monday, June 21, is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography being offered by Sotheby's as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale. The largest number of works were taken by Adams, about 400 Polaroid and non-Polaroid images. The two-day sale concludes Tuesday evening, June 22.

    Ansel Adams photograph sets auction record

    A historic sale of works by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography set records for Ansel Adams and Lucas Samaras during a two-day auction of iconic images from the Polaroid corporate collection that continued Tuesday.

    Read the full story HERE.

  • Bettmann / Corbis file

    Oct. 15, 1950: President Truman and General MacArthur were no sooner seated in the ancient jalopy (the only auto available on Wake Island) which served as their limousine than they apparently began serious conversation. What was actually said there is not known, but presidential press secretary Charles Ross told newsmen, "I think the conference started in the car." This candid photo, made through the rear window of the venerable vehicle, shows the two leaders as they left the airstrip for the conference house.

    Pete Souza / Official White House Photo via AP file

    This Oct. 2, 2009 file photo provided by the White House, shows President Barack Obama meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, aboard Air Force One in Copenhagen, Denmark. McChrystal has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Obama and his colleagues, administration officials said Tuesday.

    McChrystal / MacArthur: Deja vu all over again?

    Six months after their 1950 meeting on Wake Island, Truman fired MacArthur. Now, eight months after their meeting on Air Force One, McChrystal is being summoned to Washington, his professional fate unclear. In this video from MSNBC TV's The Daily Rundown, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell says:

    "I think it crosses the line of insubordination and it crosses the line of the Military Code of Justice. He has challenged the Commander-in-Chief and legally, morally, ethically, professionally, he ought to be canned. Now the question is whether practically you can fire the top commander at a time when the war is [...] in a very bad stage." -Watch

    As far back as last October, pundits and historians were comparing the conundrums Gen. McChrystal posed for President Obama with the troubled relationship between MacArthur and Truman, who famously reflected on the end of that affair: "I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was." This column by David Greenberg, a professor of history at Rutgers University, is a good example, in part because of its clear caveat about drawing too direct of an analogy:

    "Like most historical analogies bandied about in the media, this one is overdrawn. Yet the story of Truman and MacArthur remains useful to remember — not because it directly mirrors today's but because it created a dynamic in which subsequent presidents felt unduly constrained by the prospect of military commanders undermining them." -via The St. Petersburg Times / tampabay.com

    Click here to see the McChrystal / MacArthur comparisons popping up in a Bing News search.

  • Aly Song / Reuters

    Local flood victims move a table from their flooded homes to a dry storage area, travelling via wooden buckets in a flooded village on the outskirts of Yingtan, Jiangxi province June 21, 2010. Heavy rain across a swathe of southern China over the last week has killed at least 175 people and left 107 missing, as rivers broke their banks and landslides cut off road and rail links, state media said on Monday.

    Saving furniture

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  • NASA via AFP - Getty Images

    This NASA image released June 21, 2010 shows the Aurora Australis Observed from the International Space Station on May 29, 2010.This aurora image is taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 24, 2010. The ISS was located over the Southern Indian Ocean at an altitude of 350 kilometers (220 miles), with the astronaut observer most likely looking towards Antarctica (not visible) and the South Pole. The aurora has a sinuous ribbon shape that separates into discrete spots near the lower right corner of the image. While the dominant coloration of the aurora is green, there are faint suggestions of red left of image center. Dense cloud cover is dimly visible below the aurora. The curvature of the Earth's horizon (the limb) is clearly visible, as is the faint blue line of the upper atmosphere directly above it (at image top center). Several stars appear as bright pinpoints against the blackness of space at image top right.

    Aurora Australis seen from space

    Seeing the northern lights from earth is one of my favorite memories. Seeing Aurora Australis from space is almost unimaginable.

  • Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace via EPA

    A Greenpeace handout photo shows adult brown pelicans waiting in a holding pen to be cleaned by volunteers at the Fort Jackson International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, Louisiana, USA, 21 June 2010. Members of the Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research team work to clean birds covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.

    Oiled brown pelicans undergo rehab

    I hope these pelicans fully recover. We've previously discussed the challenges of picture editing for the Gulf Oil Spill story here, and have also specifically addressed here how we strive for transparency when publishing handout pictures like this one, from Greenpeace.

  • NASA via AP

    In this June 16, 2010 satellite image provided by NASA, Papua New Guinea's Manam Volcano releases a thin, faint plume, as clouds cluster at the volcano's summit. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite took this image. The clouds may result from water vapor from the volcano, but may also have formed independent of volcanic activity. The volcanic plume appears as a thin, blue-gray veil extending toward the northwest over the Bismarck Sea.

    Cloudy volcano seen from space

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  • Yuriko Nakao / Reuters

    A couple uses a hammer to smash their wedding ring to symbolize the end of their eight-year marriage during a "divorce ceremony" in Tokyo June 20, a day before they file for divorce. So far 25 couples had held such ceremonies, each costing around 55,000 yen ($606) which includes rides in separate rickshaws to a "divorce mansion" to conduct the ceremony in front of friends and relatives, according to the ceremony producer Hiroki Terai.

    Yuriko Nakao / Reuters

    Coming full circle

    Well, I guess you can start it all with a ceremony and end it all with a ceremony. Hallmark would be proud.

  • Wojtek Radwanski / AFP - Getty Images

    Laundry muddied after a flash flood in May is seen on the day of Poland's presidential elections, June 20, in the village of Zastow. The campaign for a new head of state after president Lech Kaczynski perished in an air disaster in April has been overshadowed by floods that killed 24 people and drove thousands from their homes.

    Aftermath of two tragedies

    As a teenager, I helped my aunt and uncle clean up after a tornado destroyed their home, which was a horrible experience, but I imagine that cleaning up after a flood might be worse.

  • Alejandra Bartoliche / Reuters

    A protester urinates in front of a row of policemen during riots following the death of a 15-year-old boy in San Carlos de Bariloche on June 18, 2010. According to local media, provincial government officials have confirmed that four police officers, involved in the incident which left the boy dead during an alleged robbery, have been removed from their posts. Three people have died and at least 12 have been injured during the clashes.

    Protest in Argentina

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  • Pedro Ugarte / AFP

    U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley celebrates after scoring during their Group C first round 2010 World Cup football match against Slovenia on June 18, 2010 at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg.

    Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

    Bradley shouts at referee Koman Coulibaly after a very controversial call.

    Two very different pictures of Michael Bradley

    The top picture is how I wanted to remember this game. Instead, the bottom picture is how I will. In case you haven't followed the story, here's why.

  • Luke Duggleby / Redux

    The Indonesian village of Lamalera has hunted whales, sharks and dolphins for the last 500 years. Their method is to leap from a small wooden boat with a long harpoon made of bamboo and spear the animal. In this picture, the harpooner called Gregorious dives from the front of the boat to harpoon a large whale shark which he hits in the head.

    Luke Duggleby / Redux

    Because of the size of the whale shark. which can grow as long as 40 feet, it must be cut up in to small pieces. Here they attempt to get the head in to the boat which takes all the crew members.

    Luke Duggleby / Redux

    Two pilot whales are brought to the beach having been harpooned at sea. Once brought to shore the animal is divided in to parts and distributed to the community, partly for consumption and partly for exchanging with other inland communities for corn and rice.

    The last whale hunters of Indonesia

    Photographer Luke Duggleby captured stunning and startling images of the centuries-old tradition of whaling in Indonesia.

    At a May 2009 World Oceans Conference, the Indonesian government officially declared 3.5 million hectares of critical marine habitat in the Savu Sea for conservation. Though government representatives have assured that traditional whaling -- which has been supporting the surrounding communities means of living -- will not be banned in the area immediately outside the zone, concerns still remain. Lamalera is one of the last remaining Indonesian whaling communities and is categorized by the International Whaling Commission as aboriginal whaling.

    What do you think of whaling generally, and specifically traditional whaling methods like this?

  • Trent Nelson / Pool via EPA

    The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Drape, Utah, USA, on Friday, June 18. Four bullet holes are visible in the wood panel behind the chair. Gardner, convicted of aggravated murder, a capital felony, in 1985, was executed by firing squad , becoming just the third person to be put to death this way in more than three decades.

    An execution in Utah

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  • Kelly Humphrey/The Brainerd Daily Dispatch via AP

    Cindy Wood, right, stands in front of her tornado-damaged home in Wadena, Minn., on Thursday June 17. At least three people were killed and dozens were injured as a series of tornadoes tore through Minnesota on Thursday.

    Storm damage

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  • Christof Stache / AFP – Getty Images

    A lone man sitting in an empty beer garden drinks his beer in Munich, Germany on June 17, 2010. The local weather is cold and rainy, and that has impacted attendance of the traditionally well frequented beer gardens.

    How your garden grows

  • Gerard Julien / AFP - Getty Images

    A aerial view taken on June 16, 2010 in the French south eastern city of Puget-sur-Argens shows caravans and cars submerged in water in the aftermath of floods that struck the region. At least 25 people have been killed by these flash floods in Draguignan and in the neighboring city of Le Luc, caused by heavy rains.

    Lionel Cironneau / AP

    People wait amidst salvaged belongings in a devastated camp site in Saint Aygulf, southern France, Thursday, June 17, 2010.

    Sebastien Nogier / Reuters

    A resident of Draguignan and a friend gather water-damaged possessions inside her flooded house in Draguignan, south eastern France, June 17, 2010 two days after rising water from unusually heavy rains that hit the region caused a river to overflow.

    Claude Paris / AP

    Residents clean their items in a fountain after floods in Figanieres, southern France, Thursday, June 17 2010.

    Claude Paris / AP

    A man watches debris on the banks of the river Argens flowing through Arcs sur Argens, southern France, Thursday, June 17, 2010.

    Floods in France turn deadly

    Read the story and see video from the scene.

  • Tony Gentile / Reuters

    U.S. actress Kristen Stewart signs autographs as she arrives for the red carpet to promote the movie "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" in downtown Rome June 17, 2010.

    Tony Gentile / Reuters

    A fan cries as U.S. actors Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart arrive on the red carpet in Rome.

    Fan frenzy

    Have you ever felt this kind of passion for a movie or a movie star? See video of the stars and read more about the movie.

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