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Shuttle move, giant marionettes, inflatable Stonehenge, miniature train landscape and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
April 19, 2012
Trent Herlihy, 5, of Levittown, Pa., watches as the space shuttle Discovery is officially welcomed to the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
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April 19, 2012
Crowds outside the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly enjoy their last chance to see the space shuttle Discovery before it is moved inside the museum's hangar.
Tracy A. Woodward
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The Washington Post
April 19, 2012
Matevz Lenarcic gestures in front of his plane after landing in Brnik Airport in Slovenia. Lenarcic, a biologist and environmentalist, set off on Jan. 9 on a journey around the world in an ultra-light aircraft. He aims to break the records for the lightest aircraft and the least amount of fuel used to fly around the world, while raising awareness of global air pollution. Lenarcic flew the Virus SW914 ultra-light single-engine airplane produced by Slovenian company Pipistrel. The aircraft is a modified version of one of its earlier models that won awards in NASA-sponsored competitions for its exceptional fuel efficiency in 2007 and 2008.
Srdjan Zivulovic
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
Actress Angela Lansbury gestures as she is honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island. Along with Lansbury, baseball player and manager Tony La Russa and architect Richard Meier are this year's honorees for contributions they have made to a nation of immigrants. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation's database of ship's passenger records documents the arrival of more than 17 million immigrants, travelers and crew members who came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1942.
Mel Evans
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AP
April 19, 2012
Actress Scarlett Johansson signs autographs for fans as she arrives for the European premiere of "The Avengers" at a west London cinema.
Joel Ryan
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AP
April 19, 2012
British swimmers perform during the Teams Technical Routine during a synchronized swimming qualification event at the Aquatic Centre at Olympic Park in Stratford, east London.
Toby Melville
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
Sea lions play at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany.
Patrik Stollarz
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AFP/Getty Images
April 20, 2012
The Little Girl Giant Marionette makes its way through the streets as a giant puppet spectacular gets underway in Liverpool, England. Over the next three days French street theater company Royal De Luxe will be performing "Sea Odyssey" with the giants coming to life telling a story inspired by the Titanic.
Christopher Furlong
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Getty Images
April 20, 2012
Emmy-Lou Hussin, 5, looks at the Little Girl Giant, a giant marionette created by Royal De Luxe as part of "Sea Odyssey," a love story based around the sinking of the Titanic, in Stanley Park Liverpool. The giant puppets, which have appeared in Britain only once before, are expected to attract thousands of spectators as they make their way through Liverpool over the next three days.
Peter Byrne
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AP
April 19, 2012
Self-portraits by 200,000 children are projected onto Buckingham Palace to form portraits of Queen Elizabeth in central London. The portraits were collected by the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts to celebrate the nation's children in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Andrew Winning
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Brown holds an original missing poster of Etan Patz during a news conference near a New York City apartment building, where police and FBI agents were searching a basement for clues in the boy's 1979 disappearance. The authorities began their search early on Thursday at the SoHo neighborhood building where the 6-year-old boy disappeared, FBI spokesman Peter Donald said. Patz, who was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton, was formally declared dead in 2001. His disappearance helped launch a national movement on the issue of missing children. The date May 25 was declared National Missing Child Day in his honor.
Keith Bedford
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Reuters
April 14, 2012
Student Miles Spencer, 17, receives feedback on his resume during an interview as part of work readiness training at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. If the students performed well in their mock interviews with the volunteers, they will be eligible to interview for jobs with the L.A. County Bar Association.
Patrick Fallon
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Reuters
April 14, 2012
Student Bryson Negri, 17, waits for an interview during work readiness training at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. Negri hopes the interview will lead to an internship at a law firm.
Patrick Fallon
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Reuters
April 20, 2012
Jeremy Deller bounces on his artwork, "Sacrilege," as it is launched as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts at Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland. Deller’s "Sacrilege" is a full-scale inflatable replica of Stonehenge, one of the United Kingdom’s most recognizable heritage sites. The festival is showcasing more than 130 artists across 50 of Glasgow's permanent and temporary exhibition venues.
Jeff J. Mitchell
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Getty Images
April 20, 2012
Philippine firefighters extinguish a fire at an informal settlers' housing in Manila. About 150 families lost their homes. No one was reported killed in the incident, according to local authorities.
Noel Celis
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AFP/Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Natives of an indigenous ethnic group dance as they take part in a protest during the commemoration of the American Indigenous People Day in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Norberto Duarte
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AFP/Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Ethnic Muong women perform a traditional dance at the Vietnamese cultural village of Dong Mo, outside Hanoi. A series of cultural activities were held in Dong Mo cultural village for the Third Ethnic Group Cultural Festival.
Kham
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
An ethnic Hmong woman displays traditional costumes for sale at the Vietnamese cultural village of Dong Mo, outside Hanoi.
Kham
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
Former Tennessee women's college basketball coach Pat Summitt pauses as she appears at a news conference in Knoxville, Tenn. Summitt stepped aside after 38 seasons. The 59-year-old coach revealed Aug. 23 that she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
Wade Payne
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AP
April 20, 2012
An Afghan youth shaves at a traditional hamam bathhouse in Kabul. Afghans come in the morning for one-hour sessions inside the steam-filled rooms before heading on to the mosque for communal Friday prayers.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Capt. Owen Beynon Brown from the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery holds his dog Lord Percy up for Tango, his horse, to greet at Wellington Barracks in London. The King's Troop on Thursday was preparing for an inspection in Hyde Park in preparation for 2012 ceremonial roles in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Trooping the Colour and London 2012 Olympics.
Kirsty Wigglesworth
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AP
April 19, 2012
Two dozen foxhounds from the Mill Creek Hunt Club in Old Mill Creek, Ill., pause during an exercise outing on the grounds of the 2012 Midwest Horse Fair in Madison, Wis., as presenters and participants prepare for the opening of the annual three-day event.
John Hart
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AP
April 11, 2012
Experts measure a dead dolphin on a beach on the northern coast of Peru, close to Chiclayo. Peru is investigating the death of 877 dolphins -- 95 percent of them being of the bottlenose species -- which have been found along the Pacific Ocean between January and April this year.
Wilfredo Sandoval
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AFP/Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson poses in front of the German Economy Ministry in Berlin. Anderson was in Berlin to deliver to the ministry a petition on the seal skin trade made by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Michael Kappeler
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AFP/Getty Images
April 19, 2012
A flamingo is pictured at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany.
Patrik Stollarz
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AFP/Getty Images
April 19, 2012
A street vendor looks on as he waits for customers while selling bamboo flutes on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
A model amusement park, complete with spinning rides and flashing lights, stands at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping mall in Berlin. The LOXX landscape recreates in 1:87 scale landmarks of central Berlin as well as a myriad of often humorous little scenes of everyday life. According to a company employee the landscape contains 200,000 lights, 90,000 human figures and a model airport and has 150 trains running at any one time. It also has colored ceiling lights that dim and change to imitate twilight, nighttime and dawn as well as sound effects to imitate an occasional thunderstorm.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Figurines of police stop traffic due to a car accident at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping mall in Berlin.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Model trains drive past miniature versions of apartment buildings and the Spree river in east Berlin at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping mall in Berlin.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Aron, 5, and his mother look out at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping mall in Berlin.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
April 19, 2012
Figurines of people fill a train station at the airport of the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping mall in Berlin.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
April 18, 2012
A crane lifts part of a modular home over Harriet Street in Winona, Minn., to its foundation. Owners Pat Bushman and Jerry Gabrick worked with Centerville Homes to replace a rental house damaged by a fire in February. Bushman said the goal is to have the new split-level, five-bedroom house complete by June 1, the tenants' move-in date.
Andrew Link
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AP
April 19, 2012
From left, Hugo Aristegui, Marta Alvarez, Olatz Canovas and Sara Basaguren, second-year engineering students at Basque Country University, place paving stones on a model bridge during the 11th "Model Bridge With Ice Cream Sticks" competition in Bilbao, Spain. Bridges constructed from ice cream sticks and wood glue are laden with weights to test their strength until they break. The students' model bridge beat last year's record of 1,544 pounds by more than 220 pounds.
Vincent West
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
A group of U.S. Army veterans who took part in liberating Nazi death camps walk through the entrance gate of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, southern Poland, as they take part in the annual March of the Living to commemorate Holocaust victims. Walking with the flag is Frederick Carrier, one of the U.S. soldiers who helped liberate Buchenwald.
Alik Keplicz
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AP
April 19, 2012
Men carry an Israeli flag as they walk on the railroad tracks inside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland. Thousands of mainly Jewish people participated in the 21st annual March of the Living, a Holocaust commemoration.
Peter Andrews
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
A girl writes on a memory board as she sits on railroad tracks inside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland.
Peter Andrews
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
A person places a memory board on the railroad tracks outside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland.
Peter Andrews
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Reuters
April 19, 2012
An elderly man looks at the portraits of Macedonian Jews who were killed in the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, displayed in the Holocaust Memorial center of the Jews of Macedonia in the country's capital, Skopje. Macedonia marked the annual remembrance day for the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II.
Boris Grdanoski
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AP
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