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| Students practice martial arts at Xuecheng Martial Arts School in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, China on June 11, 2008. Around 300 students from all over the nation, aged from 5 to 17 years old, receive martial arts training as well as cultural courses at this school, local media said. |
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In this Jan. 23, 2008, the construction site of the new China Central Television headquarters building is seen in Beijing. The building's two angled towers were connected in December to form a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections. The 230 meter (755 foot) building, one of Beijing's tallest, houses more than 10,000 staff. |
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A bull sarcophagus in which a member of the Ubud royal family was cremated burns during the funeral ceremony Tuesday July 15, 2008 in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. |
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Spacesuit engineer Dustin Gohmert drives NASA's new lunar truck prototype through the moon-like craters of Johnson Space Center's Lunar Yard. The lunar truck was built to make such off roading easy, with six wheels that can be steered independently in any direction. In addition, the steering center can turn a full 360 degree, giving the driver a good view of what's ahead, no matter which way the wheels are pointing. |
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A lone man sits in the thousands of empty seats on the US Capital grounds for the presidential inauguration on January 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. |
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A commuter uses her metro ticket featuring a picture of President-elect Barack Obama in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2009. Obama and his family will check into Blair House, the historic US presidential guest house just across the avenue from their future White House residence. |
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| The sun sets on the US Capitol, late January 15, 2009 where the 44th US President, Barack Obama, will be inaugurated January 20, 2009. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards |
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A wax figure of US President-elect Barack Obama is unveiled in a recreation of the White House's Oval Office at the Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London, on January 15, 2009. |
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| Early morning preparations continue for President-elect Barack Obama's Inaugural Reviewing Stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. |
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| A White House staffer carries a framed photograph of US President George W. Bush outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 13, 2009, one week before Barack Obama is sworn in as president. |
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| A worker cleans the steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, as preparations continue around Washington for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20. |
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Los Angeles street artist Shepard Fairey poses for a picture with his Barack Obama Hope artwork in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. Fairey is the designer of the famous Obama campaign poster and also the Obey-Andre the Giant poster of a few years back. |
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Model builder Gary McIntire puts the finishing touches on a Lego presidential inauguration scene on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 at Legoland California in Carlsbad, Calif. The scene was built to celebrate President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony on Tuesday. |
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Historic scene depicting President-elect Barack Obama taking the presidential oath of office on the steps of the Capitol in Miniland Washington DC, in Legoland park in Carlsbad, California, January 16, 2009. |
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Afghan youths dive at a swimming pool on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul on June 24, 2008. Temperatures in the Afghan capital are approaching the 30 degrees Celsius mark as the summer sets in in Central Asia. |
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Ethnic Tibetan worshippers enter a monastery to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, during a sandstorm in Aba, Sichuan province, February 17, 2008. Thousands of Tibetan pilgrims gathered to celebrate Monlam, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. |
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A suicide bomber's foot is seen at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 22, 2008. The bomber killed three civilians and wounded one more in the attack, a police official said. |
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A director reviews his notes during a rehearsal for the Inauguration Ceremony January 11, 2009 at the US Capitol. |
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A gondola passes through flood waters near Rialto Bridge on December 2, 2008
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| A U.S. Marine helicopter takes off from the East Front of the U.S. Captiol Building during a dress rehearsal of the swearing-in of the new president in front of the U.S. Capitol Building January 11, 2009 in Washington, DC. ( |
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A woman checks a watch printed wtih picture of President-elect Barack Obama at a roadside store as preparations continue for Obama's inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2009. |
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| Kristin Aldridge of West Chester, PA., surveys a magazine from a stand featuring President-elect Obama and his family on their covers at a Penn Station news stand in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. |
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Red Star Belgrade's fans light torches during the Serbian First Division soccer match against Mladost Lucani in Belgrade, Serbia on March 29, 2008. |
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A blue line down Constitution Avenue indicates the route of the Inaugural Parade January 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. |
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The train carrying President-elect Barack Obama approaches the Claymont Amtrak rail station during Obama's inaugural whistle stop train trip in Claymont, Del., Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009.. |
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| US President-elect Barack Obama stands on the viewing deck of their train as they pass through Claymont Station January 17, 2009 in Claymont, Delaware. Obama is embarking on the final leg of his journey to the White House as he travels to Washington, DC by train. |
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| People wave to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as his train passes through Edgewood, Maryland January 17, 2009 on their whistle stop train trip to Washington, DC. |
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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama gets into a Presidential limousine bearing the license plate "44" after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, January 18, 2009. |
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Crowds fill the Mall as they attend the the "We are One" Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial January 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. |
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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial" on January 18, 2009 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. |