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June 12, 2012
Jerry Dixey wipes down a 1940 steel-body Ford during a stopover at COMP Performance Group for lunch and a tour of the facility in Memphis. The Ford is one of a group of nearly 60 street rods taking part in the 2012 AMSOIL/Street Rodder Road Tour, with more than 100 cars making their way to Bowling Green, Ky., for a National Hot Rod Association reunion.
Stan Carroll
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The Commercial Appeal via AP
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June 12, 2012
Fellow workers, a firefighter and doctors work together to cut steel bars that were pierced through a worker's body during an operation at a hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. The worker was pierced by seven steel bars during his duty at a bridge construction site, local media reported.
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China Daily via Reuters
June 12, 2012
Brothers Georg, left, and Johann Schmidberger work on a harness for the Vatican Swiss Guard at their blacksmith shop in Molln, Austria. Johann, 29, and Georg, 28, produce made-to-order handmade harnesses for the Vatican that take 120 hours of handiwork per piece and hardly differs from the 500-year-old originals. The brothers carry on the tradition of the blacksmith trade in the fifth generation of their family.
Lisi Niesner
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Reuters
une 12, 2012
Paddlers are dwarfed by the container vessel CAP Jervis as they approach the mouth of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla. The paddlers left the jetties at Mayport on their way to Huguenot Memorial Park as part of the Standup for the St. Johns source-to-mouth expedition.
Bruce Lipsky
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Florida Times-Union via AP
June 12, 2012
A boom stretches out to contain a pipeline leak on the Gleniffer reservoir near Innisfail, Alberta, Canada. Plains Midstream Canada says one of their non-functioning pipelines leaked between 1,000 to 3,000 barrels of sour crude oil near Sundre, Alberta, on June 7 and flowed downstream in the Red Deer river to the reservoir.
Jeff McIntosh
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The Canadian Press via AP
June 12, 2012
Flowers were left by people on the head of a humpback whale that beached itself in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada. The whale, with signs of injuries on its body, was alive when fisheries officials arrived but died soon after.
Andy Clark
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Reuters
June 12, 2012
Pacific white-sided dolphin Piquet swims with her two-week-old male calf at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Less than 24 hours after its birth on Memorial Day, the calf began surpassing several critical milestones to mark the newborn's successful development, including bonding with mom and nursing regularly, according to the aquarium.
John Gress
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Reuters
June 12, 2012
Inmates make pottery products during a ceremony at Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima, Peru. On the eve Father's Day in Peru and as a way to reintegrate into society and contribute to their families economy, inmates presented their artistic work in pottery and gastronomy in an event organized by the prison authorities.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
June 12, 2012
Death penalty opponents, including Sister Joanne Bloome, of Tutwiler, Miss., left, and Joyce Daniels of Atlanta, center, sing during a memorial ceremony on the grounds of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, for the four people killed by death row inmate Jan Michael Brawner. Brawner was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the killings of his 3-year-old daughter, his ex-wife and her parents.
Rogelio V. Solis
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AP
June 13, 2012
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, leaves Westminster Magistrates’ Courts in London after she was granted bail on charges of attempting to cover up phone-hacking done by her staff at the News of the World tabloid.
Sang Tan
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AP
June 12, 2012
Ron Barber gives former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) a hug prior to speaking to supporters at a post-election event in Tucson, Ariz. Barber, Giffords’ former district director, won a special election to fill the seat Giffords left in January to focus on her recovery from a gunshot wound to her head during a gunman's shooting spree a year earlier.
Ross D. Franklin
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AP
June 12, 2012
First lady Michelle Obama attends a book signing of her first book “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America,” at a book store in Washington.
Jason Reed
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Reuters
June 12, 2012
Former first lady Barbara Bush touches up the hair of her husband, former president George H.W. Bush, as they arrive in Kennebunkport, Maine, for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life, “41.” The premiere was held on George Bush's 88th birthday on the grounds of St. Ann's Church in Kennebunkport, near the Bush family's summer home.
Charles Krupa
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AP
June 12, 2012
Gustav Bickel from the SOS-Weissstorch-Hilfe, an organization to protect storks, bands two young birds sitting in their nest on the roof of a church in Ihringen, Germany. The Kaiserstuhl region is one of the Germany's warmest and is known for its rich flora and fauna.
Patrick seeger
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AFP via Getty Images
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Smoke billows from a wildfire burning west of Fort Collins, Colo. The fire, which started on Saturday, has burned more than 40,000 acres and one person is dead as it continues to burn out of control.
V. Richard Haro
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AP
June 13, 2012
A burnt vehicle is removed from the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad. Bombs targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad and police in southern Iraq killed more than 60 people in a wave of attacks during a major religious festival, police and hospital sources said. The festival was held to mark the anniversary of the death of Shi'ite imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a great-grandson of Prophet Mohammad.
Saad Shalash
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Reuters
July 12, 2012
Libyan designer Nizar Naser al-Dien adorns a mannequin in his workshop in Tripoli with accessories made from bullet shells that were used during military operations following the Feb. 17 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi's rule.
Anis Mili
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Reuters
June 12, 2012
An Indian migrant boy works in a sari factory on World Day Against Child Labor in Katmandu, Nepal. This day serves as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labor.
Niranjan Shrestha
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AP
June 12, 2012
New York Yankees’ Robinson Cano drops his hat and glove in the dugout at the end of the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta.
David Goldman
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AP
June 11, 2012
A NEEMO 14 aquanaut practices shoveling underwater, just as an astronaut would shovel to collect soil samples on another planet. An international team of aquanauts has begun training at a lab deep in the Atlantic Ocean for an eventual visit to an asteroid, NASA said. The scientists, astronauts and engineers making up the 16th excursion of NASA's Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) come from the United States and the space agencies of Japan and Europe.
NASA
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AFP via Getty Images
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