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Day in photos Nor'easter hits Sandy-affected areas of New York and New Jersey, Mayan manuscript, earthquake hits Guatemala and more.
Nov. 7, 2012
A man walks toward a police car during a nor'easter in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The storm dropped heavy rain and snow on the Northeast, bringing dangerous winds and again knocking out power in a region where hundreds of thousands were still in the dark after superstorm Sandy.
Andrew Burton
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Reuters
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Nov. 7, 2012
Snow gathers on the statue of George M. Cohan in New York's Times Square.
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Reuters
Nov. 7, 2012
Men shovel snow from a walkway in Times Square. Coastal residents of New York and New Jersey faced new warnings to evacuate their homes and airlines canceled hundreds of flights as the nor’easter arrived.
Frank Franklin II
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AP
Fatima Quentiro walks with her granddaughter Galalea Castro through the snow to a bus stop in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens. The two are wearing jackets donated by the New York City Marathon, which was canceled after superstorm Sandy hit the area.
Mario Tama
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Nov. 7, 2012
A shopper stocks up on groceries in the snow at a ShopRite in Paramus, N.J. The nor’easter was another blow to New Jersey residents who were just recovering from superstorm Sandy.
Carmine Galasso
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AP
Nov. 7, 2012
Army Sgt. Kimberly Boyce, left, a water purification specialist, and Spc. Michael Winkelman II, an all-wheel vehicle mechanic, pull 6-inch water hosing assemblies from a vehicle that will channel water away from the Redfern housing complex in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens. The Army unit, deployed to the area in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, state and local officials, performed water removal operations from the damaged complex, that remains without power.
Maj. John Adams
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U.S. Army via European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 7, 2012
Volunteer Karina Ayubi, left, joins National Guardsman Brandon Kyle as they distribute blankets donated by the American Red Cross to residents without power as a nor'easter approached Little Ferry, N.J.
Kathy Willens
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AP
Nov. 7, 2012
The nor’easter batters the already hard hit area of Oceanpoint, N.J. Although such storms are common on the Northeast coast, this storm was unseasonably early.
Les Stone
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American Red Cross via Reuters
Nov. 7, 2012
A seaman assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11, from Gulfport, Miss., loads a bulldozer with debris in Staten Island. Cleanup continued in areas that had been hit by superstorm Sandy, even as a nor’easter moved into the area.
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martin Cuaron
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U.S. Navy via Reuters
Nov,. 6, 2012
Navy Diver 1st Class Franklin Horn, left,, from Temecula, Calif., assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, and Construction Electrician 2nd Class Gayland Andrews, from Mount Rose, Colo., assigned to Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 202, start a pump to remove water from basements flooded by Hurricane Sandy during relief efforts in Queens.
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martin Cuaron
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U.S. Navy via AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2012
People wait for the bus in the snow in Fort Lee, N.J. Transportation systems in New Jersey and New York were just returning to normal operations when the nor’easter hit the area.
Marko Georgiev
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AP
Nov. 7, 2012
A large gathering of students, faculty and staff participate in the "We are One Mississippi" candlelight walk on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. The walk was organized to condemn a Tuesday night protest against the reelection of President Obama, during which some students chanted political slogans while others used derogatory racial statements and profanity, according to a statement from the university.
Alex Edwards
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The Daily Mississippian via AP
Nov. 7, 2012
A police officer is engulfed by flames from a gasoline bomb thrown by protesters in front of the Greek Parliament during clashes in Athens. Greece’s fragile coalition government faced its toughest test so far when lawmakers voted on new austerity measures demanded to keep the country afloat.
Dimitri Messinis
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AP
Nov. 8, 2012
Margitta Korth cuts branches of shrubs covering an East German Trabant in her garden in Selmsdorf, Germany. The car, built in 1971, has been parked here since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Jens Buttner
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2012
Christopher Sanchez, wearing an Inca costume, looks at the camera as he stands outside an art gallery in Cuzco, Peru. Sanchez said he earns about U.S. $200 dollars per month working to promote the gallery.
Karel Navarro
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AP
Nov. 8, 2012
A visitor, at the request of the photographer, looks at the 12th century Dresden Codex, also known as the "Codex Dresdensis," one of four historic Mayan manuscripts that still exist in the world and that together suggest modern civilization will come to an end on Dec. 21, at the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany. The documents enumerate the Mayan calendar, which will complete its 13th cycle on Dec. 21, and many people across the globe are interpreting the calendar to mean impending global devastation and the birth of a new order are near.
Joern Haufe
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Getty Images
Nov. 8, 2012
A sky caiman vomits water on one of the last pages of the 12th-century Dresden Codex at the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany. Also known as the "Codex Dresdensis," it is one of four historic Mayan manuscripts that still exist in the world and that together suggest modern civilization will come to an end on Dec. 21. The documents enumerate the Mayan calendar, which will complete its 13th cycle on Dec. 21, and many people are interpreting the calendar to mean impending global devastation and the birth of a new order are near.
Joern Haufe
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Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2012
Residents walk among rubble after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in San Marcos, Guatemala. The mountain village, some 80 miles from the epicenter, suffered much of the damage with some 30 homes collapsing in its center. There are three confirmed dead and many missing after the strongest earthquake to hit Guatemala since a deadly 1976 quake that killed 23,000.
Moises Castillo
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AP
Nov. 7, 2012
Relatives of Rosa Ramos, who died in the earthquake, gather over her coffin at a morgue before returning her remains to her village, in San Marcos, Guatemala.
Moises Castillo
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AP
Nov. 7, 2012
Palestinian women resist evacuation by Israeli soldiers before the demolition of two Palestinian houses in the village of Hares near the West Bank city of Nablus. The houses were destroyed because they were built without a permit.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2012
A wounded man trapped in the debris of a collapsed building rented by Melcom, which runs Ghana's largest chain of retail department stores, waits for help, in Accra. The four-story building collapsed, killing at least one person and trapping dozens inside, emergency officials and witnesses said.
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Reuters
Nov. 7, 2012
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), speaking on Capitol Hill, discusses the looming budget sequestration that will raise taxes and trigger $100 billion in cuts. Boehner called on President Obama to work with House Republicans to come up with a compromise.
Brendan Hoffman
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Nov. 7, 2012
President Obama walks with daughters Sasha, right, Malia, left, and first lady Michelle Obama to Air Force One before leaving O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The first family returned to Washington after spending Tuesday in their home town while awaiting election results.
Paul Beaty
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AP
Nov. 6, 2012
Dreaux Zeller, 4, shields his eyes from grass clippings as he "helps" his mother, Rosie, mow the lawn in Panama City Beach, Fla.
News Herald via Andrew Wardlow
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AP
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