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Day in photos Bolivia’s Natitas Festival, Hurricane Sandy recovery, President Obama thanks campaign workers, Thracian artifacts and more.
Nov. 8, 2012
A decorated“Natita” is carried out of the chapel at Cementerio General, the largest cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia. Natitas are human skulls from unnamed, abandoned graves that are used as amulets to war off thieves. The Natitas Festival is a mixture of Andean ancestral worship rites and Catholic beliefs. According to experts, it was common practice in the pre-Columbian era to keep skulls as trophies and display them during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. The festival marks the end of All Saints’ Day, but is not recognized by the Catholic Church.
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Nov. 8, 2012
People arrive in the chapel of the Cementerio General with decorated human skulls on metal platters to offer a prayer before attending the Natitas Festival.
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Nov. 8, 2012
A pile of sand on Ocean Avenue in Belmar, N.J., bears thank you messages and American flags, as recovery efforts continue in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. A nor'easter Wednesday knocked power out for hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey and slowed utilities' efforts to restore service to more than 600,000 still without power in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Jeanene Miller holds photographs of her in-laws after they were damaged during a flood caused by Sandy in Point Pleasant, N.J. The region woke up to wet snow and more power outages Thursday after the nor'easter pushed back efforts to recover from Sandy, which left millions powerless and dozens dead last week.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Crews work to repair downed wires in Eatontown, N.J., after a nor'easter brought high winds and dumped as much as a foot of snow overnight in the region pounded by Sandy last week.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Residents wait in line to collect free gasoline the day after a nor’easter struck the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens. Thursday was the first day gasoline became available for residents in the neighborhood following Sandy. Many of the residents are using gasoline to power generators for electricity. The nor’easter brought gusting winds, rain, and snow and forced the cancelation of flights for thousands of passengers flying into and out of JFK, LaGuardia and Newark.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Victor Ocasio pauses to catch his breath as he walks up a darkened stairwell to his 15th floor apartment in a New York City Housing Authority building that remains without power in Queens. Much of the Northeast on Thursday dug out from a snowstorm that hammered the region, which is struggling to recover from the devastation of Sandy. Local governments expanded gasoline rationing in the face of shortages that may last for weeks.
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Reuters
Nov. 8, 2012
A man walks through piles of debris in the Queens neighborhood of Belle Harbor, much of which was inundated during Sandy.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Families affected by Sandy receive a hot lunch in Brooklyn. Food and blankets were distributed to local residents by the nonprofit Red Hook Initiative. Meanwhile a nor'easter plunged temperatures to below freezing, bringing more misery to many Red Hook residents still without power, heat and running water.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Red Hook neighborhood residents affected by Sandy wait at an aid distribution site Brooklyn.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Doctors Without Borders doctor David Horne speaks with a bedridden patient, John Josey, about his medical needs in his New York City Housing Authority building, which is still without power, in Queens.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 8, 2012
Asa Metcalf, 4, looks over at classmates to make sure they are watching as he gets to wear the fire chief helmet during fire safety instruction at Pittman Center Elementary School in Pittman Center, Tenn.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, left, and her husband, Mark Kelly, leave after the sentencing of Jared Loughner, in back of U.S. District Court in Tucson. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Loughner, 24, to life in prison, for the January 2011 attack that left six people dead and Giffords and others wounded. “Gabby works harder in one minute of an hour fighting to make each individual moment count for something than most of us work in an entire day” Kelly said to Loughner during his sentencing hearing. “Mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through her head but you haven’t put a dent in her spirit and her commitment to make the world a better place.”
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Nov. 7, 2012
President Obama wipes away tears as he thanks members of his campaign staff and volunteers in Chicago. The president delivered a short speech a day after he won reelection, talking about his work as a community organizer in Chicago and telling staffers and volunteers that they will do "amazing things" in their lives. He told staff members that he is proud of the work they did, then paused to wipe away tears.
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Nov. 9, 2012
A wild elephant stands behind electric wires at Udawalawe National Park in Sri Lanka.
Dinuka Liyanawatte
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Reuters
Nov. 9, 2012
A young Anoa bull named Tycoon runs across his compound at the zoo in Berlin.
Mauricio Gambarini
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 8, 2012
A Woodland Trust worker disinfects his boots at Pound Farm Woodland, where many ash trees have been identified as having Ash Dieback Disease, near Ipswich, England. The outbreak has the potential to devastate the U.K.'s population of 80 million ash trees. The first confirmed case in the country was in March, and since then, the disease has been confirmed at another 82 sites, with woodlands in Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent and Essex among the worst affected; it has now spread to Scotland. Dieback is caused by the fungus Chalara fraxinea. It was first recorded in Eastern Europe in 1992 and has since spread to infect most of the continent.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Claudia Fernandez celebrates as she crosses the finish line during a "Walk on Water" event at Florida International University in Miami. Students at FIU walked on water wearing water shoes they built as part of a class assignment. Students had to make it to the other side of a 175-foot lake on campus while wearing their aquatic shoes in order to get an "A'' on the assignment, and the first student to do so won $500.
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Nov. 8, 2012
An archaeologist holds up part of a 2,400-year-old golden hoard found in an ancient Thracian tomb in the northern Bulgarian village of Sveshtari, some 250 miles northeast of Sofia. Prof. Diana Gergova, the team leader, said that among the artifacts, dating back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century B.C., were gold jewelry and applications for horse trappings, a tiara with reliefs of lions and fantasy animals, four bracelets and a ring.
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Nov. 8, 2012
Some of the artifacts found in an ancient Thracian tomb in Sveshtari, Bulgaria.
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Nov. 8, 2012
The tusk bone of a preserved woolly mammoth skeleton, nicknamed Helmut by the excavation team and estimated to date from 125,000 to 200,000 years ago, sits at a quarry site in Changis-sur-Marne, France. Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research uncovered this rare, near-complete mammoth skeleton in the countryside near Paris, alongside tiny fragments of flint tools, suggesting the carcass may have been cut into by prehistoric hunters. The archaeologists say that if that hypothesis is confirmed, their find would be the clearest evidence yet of interaction between mammoths and ancient cavemen in this part of Europe.
Benoit Tessier
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Reuters
Nov. 8, 2012
Relatives of Cruz Abel De Leon react when his body was found in a landslide triggered by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake, in El Recreo, Guatemala. The earthquake, off the coast of Guatemala, killed at least 48 people and trapped others under rubble, crushing homes and cars, destroying roads and forcing evacuations as far away as Mexico City.
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Reuters
Nov. 8, 2012
Nadalinis Juarez touches the forehead of her nephew Dilbert Vazquez during a funeral service in San Cristobal Cucho, Guatemala. The 4-year-old died when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck on Wednesday, collapsing his home, burying him and nine members of his family in the rubble.
Moises Castillo
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AP
Nov. 9, 2012
The sister of 11 year-old Ahmed Abu Dagah cries during his funeral in the southern Gaza Strip. Reports state that Abu Dagah was killed by Israeli forces in Al-Farahen during clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants on the border.
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European Pressphoto Agency
This undated image provided by the European Southern Observatory on Thursday shows the planetary nebula Fleming 1 in the constellation of Centaurus. Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the center of one of the most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. The new result confirms a long-debated theory about what controls the symmetric appearance of the material flung out into space. The results are published in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Science. This striking object is a glowing cloud of gas around a dying star. New observations have shown that it is likely that a very rare pair of white dwarf stars lies at the heart of this object. Their orbital motions can explain the symmetric structures of the jets in the surrounding gas clouds in this and similar objects, ESO said in its news release.
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