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Nov. 5, 2012
Participants in costume hold torches as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England. The processions and bonfire mark the uncovering of Guy Fawkes’s “Gunpowder Plot” to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, and commemorates the memory of 17 Protestant martyrs.
Luke MacGregor
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Reuters
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Nov. 5, 2012
Participants in costume hold torches as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England.
Luke MacGregor
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
A Kashmiri village woman wears wooden boards on her feet to collect water chestnuts from Wular Lake at Bandipora, about 40 miles north of Srinagar. Water chestnuts are locally known as “Singada” and are eaten raw or boiled or are ground into flour after they are dried.
Danish Ismail
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
A Kashmiri village woman wears wooden boards on her feet on marshy land to collect water chestnuts from Wular Lake at Bandipora, about 40 miles north of Srinagar.
Danish Ismail
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2012
An Indian girl is seen through the broken window of an abandoned and damaged car in a poor neighborhood of New Delhi.
Kevin Frayer
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AP
Nov. 6, 2012
An Indian man dries laundry on the polluted Yamuna River, holy to Hindus, on a hazy morning in New Delhi.
Kevin Frayer
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AP
Nov. 6, 2012
Farmer Ding Shilu, 64, attempts to take off in a homemade aircraft in the suburbs of Shenyang, northeast China. Ding’s flying machine has a metal frame, nylon sheeting and a motorcycle engine.
Mark
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 5, 2012
Old locomotives are seen in a train cemetery in Uyuni, some 290 miles south of La Paz, Bolivia. These locomotives and freight cars were part of Bolivia’s first railway network that carried minerals between Uyuni and Antofagasta, Chile, nearly a century ago, according to local media.
David Mercado
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
This photo provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York shows MTA employees using a pump train to get seawater out of the L train’s tunnel in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in New York.
Patrick Cashin
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
Andrew Pardo works on drying out his 1968 Mercury Montego that he was restoring after it was flooded by superstorm Sandy in Freeport, N.Y.
Kathy Kmonicek
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gives Ed Courter, 50, a hug outside the Port Monmouth fire station, where the governor visited residents and first responders a week after superstorm Sandy devastated New Jersey.
Clem Murray
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
Ariel Nadelberg of the Brooklyn borough of New York pours hot soup in a cup at a parking lot that has become a place where those in need can get food and clothing in a Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens, N.Y.
Craig Ruttle
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
Marines remove debris left from superstorm Sandy in the Staten Island borough of New York.
Keith Bedford
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
Mourners embrace as a family member waits in a limousine to drive to the cemetery after the funeral of John K. Filipowicz and his 20-year-old son, John C. Filipowicz, at St. Charles church in the Staten Island borough of New York. The men drowned in their Staten Island home because of the storm surge caused by superstorm Sandy.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
President Obama works the rope line during a campaign stop in Madison, Wis.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Nov. 6, 2012
People wait in line to vote in the presidential election at a fire station near downtown Miami.
Andrew Innerarity
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
Florida Gov. Rick Scott talks to supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla.
Scott Keeler
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
President Obama and singer Bruce Springsteen embrace during a campaign event near the state Capitol in Madison, Wis.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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AP
Nov. 6, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney kisses his wife, Ann, after they voted in Belmont, Mass.
Charles Dharapak
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
Supporters cheer Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a rally in Manchester, N.H.
Melina Mara
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The Washington Post
Nov. 5, 2012
Singer Bruce Springsteen walks with first lady Michelle Obama on stage during the final campaign event for President Obama in downtown Des Moines.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
Residents of a flood-wrecked home in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., offer encouragement to fellow victims of superstorm Sandy in a message scrawled on the bottom of a waterlogged mattress. A new storm, this one a nor'easter, was due to hit the shore Wednesday, raising fears of renewed damage and flooding.
Wayne Parry
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
A maple tree growing on the rocky riverbank in Alton, Ill., at the edge of the Mississippi River, bends in the windy weather.
John Badman
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AP
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