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Treasures from Pompeii, an alphorn craftsman, an eclipse on Mars and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Sept. 19, 2012
Susan Gell and Roy Rodgers swim with their horse Shoshoni in Loch Lomond in Luss, Scotland. Gell and Rodgers live on Inchtavannaich Island on the lake and regularly exercise their horses by letting them swim to the mainland. Loch Lomond is the largest freshwater lake in Scotland and has about thirty islands.
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Sept. 19, 2012
A statue of Jesus Christ lays on its side on near the St. John's School in Orange, N.J., after workers removed it from the roof after it toppled during a windstorm. Newark Archdiocese spokesman James Goodness said the statue is about 25 years old. The school's original statue also was toppled by a storm.
Julio Cortez
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AP
Sept. 19, 2012
The iconic 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus on New York’s Columbus Circle is viewed from inside the 810-square-foot "Living Room" art installation by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. "Living Room,” built around the statue and its pedestal, sits 70-feet above ground level and is only accessible via a scaffold-encased staircase. Up to 25 people at a time can enter the conceptual artwork to get an up-close view of the 1892 marble figure of the Italian explorer.
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Sept. 20, 2012
A 1st century mosaic of a guard dog from the House of Orpheus in Pompeii is one of dozens of objects recovered from the ruins of Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum that will go on show outside Italy for the first time at a 2013 exhibition at the British Museum.
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Trustees of the British Museum via AP
Sept. 20, 2012
A wall painting of the baker Terentius Neo and his wife, from the House of Terentius Neo, Pompeii, A.D. 50-79, will also be part of the display at the British Museum. Pompeii and Herculaneum were wiped out by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The show will feature objects found in their ruins including jewelry, carbonized food and a baby’s crib that still rocks on its curved runners.
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Trustees of the British Museum via AP
Sept. 20, 2012
An employee of the British Museum holds a gold snake bracelet unearthed from the destroyed Roman city of Pompeii at an event in London announcing the exhibition entitled “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.” The exhibition will open March 28 and run through Sept. 29, 2013.
Oli Scarff
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Sept. 20, 2012
Bodybuilders strike a pose during a bodybuilding competition in Srinagar, India. The competition had 70 participants, competing in different bodybuilding categories, organizers said.
Fayaz Kabli
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
A Nepalese woman takes a dip at the Bagmati River, during the Rishi Panchami festival, in Kathmandu. Rishi Panchami is observed on the last day of Teej, when women worship Sapta Rishi (Seven Saints) to ask for forgiveness for sins committed during their menstruation periods throughout the year. Hinduism considers menstruation as a representation of impurity, and women are prohibited from taking part in religious practices during their monthly cycles.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
Nepalese women recite prayers led by a priest as they sit on the banks of the Bagmati River during the Rishi Panchami festival in Kathmandu. During the three-day long Teej festival, married women fast and pray for the good health of their husbands to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, while unmarried women wish for handsome husbands and happy conjugal lives.
Prakash Mathema
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Sept. 20, 2012
Relatives wave as Thai Muslims depart for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca at Narathiwat Airport in southern Thailand. The Hajj, the largest annual pilgrimage in the world, is the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in the lifetime of every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so.
Madaree Tohlala
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Sept. 19, 2012
Supporters cheer Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Miami. Romney and President Obama both spent much of Thursday in Florida, a key swing state in the upcoming election.
Nicholas Kamm
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Sept. 19, 2012
A plane displays an anti-Romney banner above the Univision studios in Miami before the Republican presidential nominee was interviewed by Univision News. Romney went on the Hispanic television network to speak to Latinos, a key voting bloc in the upcoming election.
Melina Mara
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The Washington Post
Sept. 19, 2012
A visitor looks through a set of tiny binoculars at the Nikon stand at the Photokina trade fair in Cologne, Germany. The biennial fair for the photographic and imaging sector presents products from image capture, image processing and storage to image output. Photokina also includes workshops, symposiums and photography exhibitions.
Odd Andersen
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
Austrian alphorn craftsman Walter Gstettner carves a decoration in the village of Vorchdorf in Upper Austria. The alphorn, or alpine horn, is a wooden wind instrument built in different shapes. The horns were once used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe, from the French Alps to the Carpathians.
Herwig Prammer
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
Gstettner, who is 68, works on an alphorn. Nowadays, alphorns are used in traditional alpine music ensembles as well as in crossover music from jazz to classical.
Herwig Prammer
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
Gstettner tests an alphorn prototype. The handmade spruce alphorns made by Gstettner costs about 1,500 euros ($ 1,950) and take about 200 hours to complete.
Herwig Prammer
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Reuters
Sept. 19, 2012
A worker drinks water from a kettle as he harvests sugar cane in Sidoarjo, in Indonesia's East Java province. Competition for land and under-investment has reduced Indonesia’s domestic sugar crop, making the country the world's biggest importer of the sweetener.
Sigit Pamungkas
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Reuters
Sept. 19, 2012
Sophie Morgan walks with the aid of “Rex,” a robotic exoskeleton, at the Welcome Trust in London. The system allows wheelchair users, including fully paralyzed people, to stand upright and walk independently. Sophie was paralyzed from the breast bone down after a 2003 car crash.
Dan Kitwood
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Sept. 19, 2012
People help each other to cross the street during a windstorm in Montevideo, Uruguay. According to local media, winds exceeded 100 mph during the storm.
Andres Stapff
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Reuters
Sept. 19, 2012
High waves from Rio de la Plata crash over the seawall in Montevideo, Uruguay. A powerful storm blew across the southern cone of South America, breaking windows in several buildings in Uruguay's capital, toppling about a hundred trees and cutting off three highways due to flooding.
Matilde Campodonico
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AP
Sept. 19, 2012
A man redraws the graffiti along Mohamed Mahmoud Street in downtown Cairo, a day after the walls were believed to be painted by government workers. The graffiti had existed since November, where some of the fiercest fighting between protesters and Egyptian security forces took place during last year’s uprising. The graffiti in red reads: "tell your boss that our country has a special taste for us." The words in black read: "If you erase I will write it again" and call the police and the country's system cowards.
MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY
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Reuters
Sept. 19, 2012
A woman holds a picture of her son, whom she says became an invalid from injuries sustained while in prison, during a protest rally in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili promised Wednesday to punish those responsible for torturing and raping prisoners, after video of the abuse was shown on television.
David Mdzinarishvili
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Reuters
Sept. 19, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) as other congressional leaders and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second from right, look on after Suu Kyi received her Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill. Congress awarded the Burmese democracy leader its highest civilian honor in 2008, amidst her 15-year house arrest for her peaceful struggle against military rule.
Ricky Carioti
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The Washington Post
Sept. 19, 2012
Members of the Amish community enter the federal courthouse in Cleveland. Jurors are beginning a third day of deliberations in the trial of 16 people accused of hate crimes in hair- and beard-cutting attacks against Amish residents in Ohio.
Scott R. Galvin
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AP
Sept. 19, 2012
The Mars rover Curiosity, ended its 43rd Martian day, about 8 feet from this rock, which is about 10 inches tall and 16 inches wide. The rover team has assessed it as a suitable target for the first use of Curiosity's contact instruments on a rock.
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NASA via Reuters
Sept. 19, 2012
Curiosity observed the Martian moon Phobos grazing the sun's disk on Martian day 37. The rover, dispatched to determine if the planet most like Earth in the solar system could have supported microbial life, has taken on a second job: moonlighting as an astronomer. Last week, Curiosity outfitted its high-resolution camera with protective filters and took pictures of the eclipse. Phobos and its sister moon, Deimos, are closer to Mars than our moon is to Earth, so they shoot across the sky relatively quickly. Phobos takes less than eight hours to circle Mars. Deimos takes about 30 hours to make the trip.
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NASA via Reuters
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