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Charles, Prince of Wales, joked with instructors and staff at a Royal Air Force base in Holyhead, Wales, Monday. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)135 views
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Ang Tshring Shrepa played a shot on Kongde Ri, a mountain in eastern Nepal, Thursday. The amateur golfer, who owns Nepal’s Yeti Airways, hired a helicopter to get to the location. He plans to invite Tiger Woods to play there. (Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters)100 views
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Visitors looked at an Airbus A380 as it performed at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget180 viewsVisitors looked at an Airbus A380 as it performed at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France, on Wednesday. The 48th International Paris Air Show runs through June 21.(Adam Berry/Bloomberg News)
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Birds peered out of a birdhouse as spectators177 viewsBirds peered out of a birdhouse as spectators watched Ricky Barnes’s drive down the 12th fairway at the U.S. Open in Farmingdale, N.Y., Sunday. On Monday, Lucas Glover took the tourney with a three-over-par 73. (Matt Slocum/Associated Press)
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Hair in the wind298 views
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DETAIL OF A VILLAGE NEAR TAHOUA, Niger. By Yann Arthus Bertrand41 viewsThis village near Tahoua, in southwestern Niger, shows typical Hausa architecture: cubelike houses of banco (a mixture of earth and vegetal fibers), alongside imposing ovoid-shaped grain storehouses. The Hausa people, who make up 53 percent of the country’s population, are farmers, but they are most renowned for their craftwork and trade. The Hausa city-states in northern Nigeria have had commerce with numerous African countries for several centuries. Today the region of Tahoua is crossed by a road that leads northward, commonly called the “uranium route.” A vein of uranium was discovered in 1965 in the ground below the Air Massif, and mines in the northern town of Arlit yield nearly 3,000 tons of uranium each year, or about 10 percent of the world output, making Niger the third world producer.
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BOAT RUN AGROUND ON THE BEACH NEAR LÜDERITZ, Namibia. By Yann Arthus Bertrand387 viewsThe Benguela Current, moves north from the Antarctic and follows the coast of Namibia, where beaches alternate with reefs and shallows. The current causes a strong tide, violent turbulence, and a thick fog that conceals the contours of the coast. Thus, it is a passage feared by navigators sailing by on the way to the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern tip of Africa. Since 1846 Portuguese seafarers have called the shores “the sands of hell,” and the northern part of the coast was given the evocative name Skeleton Coast in 1933. The rusted wreckage of boats as well as airplanes and all-terrain vehicles, along with skeletal remains of cetaceans (aquatic mammals such as whales) and even humans, are strewn along this melancholy shoreline. The wreckage is sometimes mired in the sand hundreds of yards from the water, as seen here near the city of Lüderitz, testifying to the violence of shipwreck. Although advancing rescue technology allows more lives to be saved than fifty years ago, the cost paid on the seas around the globe has been heavy: at least 65 fishing boats disappear daily around the world, and each week two large vessels are shipwrecked.
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Stairway in the snow by Arnar Valdimarsson44 views
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Gomulka...by hesja120 views
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Through bridges and stairways by Bartek Kuzia162 views
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Hair's how by Alexander S.123 views
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Aircraft silver115 views
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