A German sunrise, the opening of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, the ‘Day Of The Goose’ in Spain, Roman soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall, a 300-year-old lighthouse in Boston Harbor, and much more.
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A smiley face on a sunflower in a field in Lawrence, Kansas, on September 7, 2016. The 40-acre field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws thousands during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the sunflowers. #
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A performer in a wheelchair takes flies off a ramp during the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Paralympics at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium on September 7, 2016. #
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Nomads ride horses wearing burning clothes at the opening ceremony of the World Nomad Games on September 3, 2016 in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan is hosting the second World Nomad Games dedicated to the sports of Central Asia. Over 40 countries are taking part. #
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An aerial view shows makeshift shelters, tents and containers where migrants live in what is known as the "Jungle", a sprawling camp in Calais, France, on September 7, 2016. #
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Boston Light, America's oldest lighthouse, flashes in Boston Harbor, viewed from Hull, Massachusetts, on August 25, 2016. The U.S. Coast Guard's last manned station will celebrate the 300th anniversary of its first lighting on September 14th. #
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An African migrant stranded in Costa Rica uses his cell phone at a makeshift camp at the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in Penas Blancas, Costa Rica, on September 7, 2016. #
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Employee of ornithological flight support service Nika Ryzhova-Alenicheva holds her hawk, which is used to control fauna to avoid bird strikes during takeoffs and landings, at Domodedovo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on September 2, 2016. #
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A farmer walks with a decorated cow at the Allgaeuer Viehscheid cattle drive on September 9, 2016 near the village of Oberstaufen, southern Germany. During the traditional "Almabtrieb" event, cow herds are brought from alpine pastures, where they stay during the summer, to their stables in the valley. #
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A vendor uses a crane to bring a bull down from the rooftop of his triple-story house, to sell him at a cattle market set up for the upcoming Eid al-Adha, in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 4, 2016. #
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Dusk settles in over Prada Marfa, an art installation in Valentine, Texas, on September 6, 2016. Created by artists Elmgreen and Dragset in 2005, the installation is modeled after a Prada boutique and features some of the brand's goods from that year. #
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Roman soldiers take part in an evening patrol as the lives of Roman Legionnaires are re-enacted during the Hadrian's Wall Live event at Housesteads Roman fort on September 3, 2016 in Carlisle, England. The event which was organised by English Heritage brought together over 120 re-enactors from around Europe to create a living history camp for visitors to Birdoswald and Housesteads Roman forts on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. #
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Participants reenact the 1812 Battle of Borodino between Russia and the invading French army during anniversary celebrations in Moscow, Russia, on September 4, 2016. #
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A fighter from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army) runs to avoid sniper fire, in the village of Tal al-Siwan area of the rebel-held stronghold of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on September 5, 2016. #
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Children jump to catch money thrown by Catholics from the church tower in gratitude for favors received from the Virgin Mary, fulfilling a traditional annual ceremony in Guarambare, 40 km southeast of Asuncion, on September 7, 2016. #
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A girl dressed as the Virgin Mary poses for a photo during the Lantern Festival celebrating the eve of the nativity of the Virgin Mary in Ahuchapan, El Salvador, on September 7, 2016. #
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A man attempts to pull the neck off a dead goose while being repeatedly plunged into the water during Antzar Eguna (Day Of The Goose) in the Basque fishing town of Lekeitio, near Bilbao, northern Spain, on September 5, 2016. Geese are hung from a rope over the harbor as participants passing on a boat attempt to grab the animal and are then lifted up and plunged into the water until they pull off its neck or fall down into the water. #
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The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew, comprised of Jeff Williams of the U.S. and Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin of Russia, lands near the town of Zhezkazgan (Dzhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, on September 7, 2016. #
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Brazilian Paralympic runner Marcia Malsar is assisted after falling while carrying the torch as rain falls during the 2016 Rio Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 7, 2016. #
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Celebrants participate in the annual West Indian Day Parade on September 5, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. More than a million people were expected to line the streets for the Labor Day ritual. #
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Afghan residents look out from broken windows of a building near the site of an attack following a car bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on September 6, 2016. Explosions rang out during an hours-long attack on an international charity in Kabul, the latest assault in a recent wave of violence in the Afghan capital that has killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens. #
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The Man burns as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gather for the 30th annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on September 3, 2016. #
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Clashes break out between riot police and supporters of Brazil's sacked ex-president Dilma Rousseff who demonstrate four days after she was impeached by the Senate, along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 4, 2016. #
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Members of staff pass by an artwork by British artist Antony Gormley entitled 'Object, 199', a life-size cast-iron sculpture cast from the artist's body and hung from the ceiling of the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, on September 7, 2016. #
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