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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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A displaced Pakistani boy from Swat valley sleeps under a mosquito net outside his tent at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Emilio Morenatti/AP

 
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man covers his head with a bag after harvesting wheat before the Jewish Shavuot holiday, in a field outside the Israeli community of Mevo Horon, Ariel Schalit/AP

 
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Elderly citizens are seen onboard a public bus during an "Elders Day Out," organized by a bus manufacturer in Bangalore, India, Aijaz Rahi/AP

 

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6:38 - May 26, 2009

 
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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In the summer of 1937, Tony Sarg, an American puppeteer, illustrator, designer and painter, staged a sea serpent hoax in Nantucket. The serpent was one of his Macy's Day Parade balloons and must have been either terrifying or hilarious... or both. (View the whole series in the Nantucket Historical Association stream on Flickr.)

 

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3:46 - May 21, 2009

 
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office, May 8, 2009. The boy wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

 

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1:17 - May 20, 2009

 
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

This topic warrants three photos, actually: baby animals!

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Newborn baby elephant Kai-Mook takes her first steps at the elephant residence at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

 
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Newborn jaguar cubs at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin. (Gero Breloer/AP)

 
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Wolf cubs at the wildlife park in the eastern German town of Gross Schoenebeck. (Michael Urban/Getty Images)

 

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2:19 - May 19, 2009

 

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