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People watch fireworks during the first edition of 'Golden Nights' International Pyrotechnic Festival in Bucharest July 5, 2008.
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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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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, and First Lady Sarah Brown arrive at New Chitose Airport in Chitose near Sapporo, Japan Monday July 7, 2008 to attend this year's G8 Summit. The G8 leaders from the United States, Japan, Russia, France, Britain, Canada, Italy and Germany begin a three-day summit Monday. The top issues are expected to be global warming and soaring oil and food prices.
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Dancers of the Ballet National de Marseille perform in "Les Pas de Deux d'Herman Schmerman", choreographed by William Forsythe, during the Malta Arts Festival at the Royal Opera House Ruins in Valletta July 6, 2008. The French ballet company is in Malta as part of the 'European Cultural Season' launched by the French Presidency of the European Union.
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EUGENE, OR - JULY 06: Shannon Rowbury celebrates winning the gold medal as she crosses the line in the women's 1,500 meter final during day eight of the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials at Hayward Field on July 6, 2008 in Eugene, Oregon.
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LONDON - JULY 06: Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates with the trophy winning the Championship during the men's singles Final match against Roger Federer of Switzerland on day thirteen of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 6, 2008 in London, England.
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A visitor places her hands on a "Tangible Earth", a digital globe which real time global metrological data is fed through the Internet from about 300 places in the world, is displayed at an exhibition pavillion inside the media centre for G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit in Rusustu town, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 6, 2008.
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People wait in the rain before the men's finals match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 6, 2008.
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Spectators hold umbrellas on centre court as rain stops play during the semi-final match between Zheng Jie of China and Serena Williams of the U.S. at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 3, 2008.
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A postcard in Jack Hiddlestone's collection, seen Monday June 30, 2008, shows Lake Lincoln swimming area at Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pa., with the missing monument to president Abraham Lincoln seen to the left of the bathhouse on the far shore. Sometime in the early decades of the 20th century, a 16-foot-tall statue of Abraham Lincoln, which was dedicated at Nay Aug Park with great fanfare on July 4, 1909, the centennial year of Lincoln's birth, simply vanished.
WASHINGTON - APRIL 11: The Abraham Lincoln mascot from the Nationals Major League Baseball team entertains school children as they wait in line to enter the grand opening of the Newseum April 11, 2008 in Washington, DC. The 250,000-square-foot interactive news museum is located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
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.
A woman has her picture taken with actors portraying former US presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington before the start of the national Independence Day parade on July 4, 2008 in Washington, DC. The Parade consists of invited bands, fife and drum corps, floats, military and specialty units, giant balloons, equestrian, drill teams, VIP's, national dignitaries, and celebrity participants, and is a major national event which seeks to draw the attention of Americans to the real meaning for the holiday.
Jack Hiddlestone holds an old postcard of Lake Lincoln as he stands by a pool complex which has replaced the lake, at Nay Aug Park in Scranton, Pa., during an interview Monday, June 30, 2008. Sometime in the early decades of the 20th century, a 16-foot-tall statue of Abraham Lincoln, which was dedicated at Nay Aug Park with great fanfare on July 4, 1909, the centennial year of Lincoln's birth, simply vanished.
A postcard in Jack Hiddlestone's collection is seen Monday June 30, 2008, and shows the missing monument to President Abraham Lincoln as it stood in the Nay Aug Park in Scranton, Pa. Sometime in the early decades of the 20th century, the 16-foot-tall statue of Abraham Lincoln, which was dedicated at Nay Aug Park with great fanfare on July 4, 1909, the centennial year of Lincoln's birth, simply vanished.
SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 17: Same-sex couple Amber Weiss (R) and Sharon Papo (C) walk with Patty Weiss by an Abraham Lincoln statue after they were married at San Francisco City Hall June 17, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Same-sex couples throughout California are rushing to get married as counties begin issuing marriage licenses after a State Supreme Court ruling to allow same-sex marriage.
This photo provided by the Sons of Confederate Veterans shows a statue of Jefferson Davis near completion in a studio in Lexington Va. on Tuesday June 17, 2008. The Statue has been commissioned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans for the American Civil War Center in Richmond. The Southern heritage group, Sons of Confederate Veterans, that opposed a statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the American Civil War Center is offering to donate the $100,000 statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis for the same site.
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