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Australian singer Kylie Minogue smiles as she poses for photographers with the OBE she received from Britain's Prince Charles for her services to music at Buckingham Palace in London July 3, 2008.
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Serena (L) and Venus Williams of the U.S. talk to each other during their quarter-finals doubles match against Bethanie Mattek of the U.S. and Sania Mirza of India at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 2, 2008.
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Acrobats perform during the presentation of A400M military aircraft in Seville, southern Spain June 26, 2008. Europe unveiled the A400M military aircraft on Thursday, giving the public a first glimpse of a powerful turboprop plane built to supply seven NATO countries with urgently needed strategic airlift capacity.
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A group of people look at the sun, standing on the rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory of Kokino, soon after sunrise on June 21, 2008, on the day of the summer solstice. The ancient astronomic observatory, located about 80 km northeast of Skopje, dates more than 4.000 years back in time. It is ranked by NASA as the fourth ancient observatory in the world.
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American singer and songwriter Erykah Badu performs on stage, on the opening day of the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival, at the Stravinski hall in Montreux, Switzerland, Friday, July 4, 2008.
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Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek is decorated for the Fourth of July as he walks back from a mound meeting against the New York Yankees in the fourth inning of their MLB American League baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York July 4, 2008.
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Spanish Fillippe Perrone (L) fights for the ball with Montenegrian Veljko Uskokovic (R) in the aquatic center swimming pool of the Spanish coastal city of Malaga on July 4, 2008 during their group match of the European Water Polo Championships.
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KIDLINGTON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 27: Sir Richard Branson (C) attends a photocall to launch Virgin Media's new television channel Virgin 1, at his home in Kidlington on September 27, 2007 in Oxfordshire, England.
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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Dita Von-Teese is seen at the launch of Virgin Media at Convent Garden Market on February 8, 2007 in London, England. Branson will spend the day in a perspex box being visited by celebrities and with only virgin media to entertain him. At its launch today Virgin Media will become the largest Virgin branded company in the world as well as a new force in British media, entertainment and communications. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dita Von-Teese
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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Dita Von-Teese launches Virgin Media at Convent Garden Market on February 8, 2007 in London, England. Branson will spend the day in a perspex box being visited by celebrities and with only virgin media to entertain him. At its launch today Virgin Media will become the largest Virgin branded company in the world as well as a new force in British media, entertainment and communications. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dita Von-Teese
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LONDON - FEBRUARY 08: Richard Branson and Dita Von-Teese launches Virgin Media at Convent Garden Market on February 8, 2007 in London, England. Branson will spend the day in a perspex box being visited by celebrities and with only virgin media to entertain him. At its launch today Virgin Media will become the largest Virgin branded company in the world as well as a new force in British media, entertainment and communications. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dita Von-Teese;Richard Branson
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The signature of President Abraham Lincoln is seen in this letter he wrote in 1854, and photographed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. The library has unveiled for the first time for public display a series of letters owned by Kennedy that were written by former presidents.
An person portraying President Abraham Lincoln is seen beneath the dome of the former First Bank of the United States building, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007. History and tourism leaders announced Tuesday plans to move the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia to the former bank building.
The signature of President Abraham Lincoln is seen on a handwritten note, dated July 7, 1863, as it is displayed for the first time at the National Archives in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2007. The National Archives unveiled the handwritten note by Lincoln exhorting his generals to pursue Robert E. Lee's army after the battle of Gettysburg, underscoring one of the great missed opportunities for an early end to the Civil War.
President Abraham Lincoln is shown in this Nov. 8, 1863 file photo made available by the New York Public Library. Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
President Abraham Lincoln is shown in this Nov. 8, 1863 file photo made available by the New York Public Library. Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln is shown in this Nov. 8, 1863 file photo made available by the New York Public Library. Lincoln could have survived if today's medical technology existed in 1865. How that would have affected history is less clear, according to a doctor and historian who planned to speak Friday, May 18, 2007 at an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference on the deaths of historic figures.
Spanish Civil War veteran Abe Osheroff, 94, points out photos to his son, Dov Osheroff, rear, at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument, a memorial to Americans who joined the conflict, in San Francisco on Sunday, March 30, 2008. Osheroff who passed away shortly after the inauguration ceremony said, "I thank you, on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, for making us immortal.
Spanish Civil War veteran Abe Osheroff, 94, points out photos to his son, Dov Osheroff, rear, at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument, a memorial to Americans who joined the conflict, in San Francisco on Sunday, March 30, 2008. Osheroff who passed away shortly after the inauguration ceremony said, "I thank you, on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, for making us immortal."
Spanish Civil War veteran David Smith, 94, speaks with Joan Balter in front of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument, a memorial to soldiers who fought in the War in San Francisco on Sunday, March 30, 2008. Only about three dozen of those who snuck aboard ships and crossed the mountains from France to fight survived to see the United State's first public memorial to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, as they were known.
Spanish Civil War veteran James Nate Thornton, 93, sits in front of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument, a memorial to soldiers who fought in the Spanish Civil War from in San Francisco, March 30, 2008. The faces of some of the approximately 3,000 men and women who broke American isolationism to volunteer in the 1936-1939 Spanish war look out from the translucent onyx squares of a monument recently inaugurated on the city's touristed Embarcadero.
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