2012 Year in pictures- part II

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The second collection of images from 2012 once
again brought us nature at its full force and beauty
along with news and daily life coming from countries
like Russia, Syria, Egypt, England, India and Italy. The
following is a compilation - not meant to be
comprehensive in any way - of images from the
second 4 months of 2012. Please see part 1 from
Monday and here's part 3. - Lloyd Young ( 47 photos
total)

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Tightrope walker Nik
Wallenda walks the
high wire from the
United States side to
the Canadian side
over the Horseshoe
Falls in Niagara
Falls, Ontario, on
June 15. (Mark
Blinch/Reuters)

An image provided by
NASA, the SDO satellite
captures a ultra-high definition 4
image of the Transit of Venus
across the face of the sun at
on June 5 from space. The last
transit was in 2004 and the
next pair of events will not
happen again until the year
2117 and 2125. (NASA) #

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An Indian barber holding a
candle, gives a haircut for a
customer on July 31 at his shop
in Kolkata, India. India's energy
crisis cascaded over half the
country when three of its
regional grids
collapsed, leaving 620 million
people without government-
supplied electricity for several
hours in, by far, the world's
biggest blackout. (Bikas
Das/Associated Press) #

6

Revelers on the
Mall in London
watch Queen
Elizabeth II appear
on the Buckingham
Palace balcony on
June 5 as part of a
four-day Diamond
Jubilee celebration
to mark the 60th
anniversary of
Queen Elizabeth II
accession to the
British throne. (Sang
Tan/Associated
Press) #

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Muslims attend a mass prayer
session "Tarawih" marking the
beginning of the holy fasting
month of Ramadan in a mosque
in Makassar of Indonesia's South
Sulawesi province on July 20. The
Indonesian government set
Ramadan to fall on July 21. (Yusuf
Ahmad/Reuters) #

8

Russia's President Vladimir Putin
(center) enters Andreyevsky
(St.Andrew's ) Hall at the Great
Kremlin Palace in Moscow’s
Kremlin, on May 7 during his
inauguration ceremony. Putin took
his oath of office today to become
Russia's president for a historic third
mandate at a glittering ceremony
inside the Kremlin. (Alex
Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Egyptians celebrate the election
of their new president Mohamad
Morsi in Tahrir Square on June 24
in Cairo, Egypt. Official election
results today confirmed that
Mohamed Morsi is to be the next
president of Egypt. Morsi
received over 13 million or 51.7%
of the votes, while his main
rival, former Prime Minister
Ahmed Shafiq, received 48.27
percent. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty
Images) #

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Ousted Egyptian
president Hosni
Mubarak sits inside a
cage in a courtroom
during his verdict
hearing in Cairo on
June 2. A judge
sentenced Mubarak to
life in prison after
convicting him of
involvement in the
murder of protesters
during the uprising that
ousted him last year.
(AFP/Getty Images) #

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A police lieutenant
swings his baton at
Occupy Wall Street
activists in New York
on May 1. Hundreds
of activists with a
variety of causes
spread out over New
York City on
International Workers
Day, or May Day, with
Occupy Wall Street
members leading a
charge against
financial institutions.
(Mary
Altaffer/Associated
Press) #

A double rainbow
appears after heavy
storms pass over 12
Nipton Road in
Searchlight, Nevada,
on July 13. (Gene
Blevins/Reuters) #

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An attendee with
rainbow-colored
lips pauses during
the annual gay
pride parade in Sao
Paulo on June 10.
About three million
people took part in
the parade under
the theme of
"Homophobia has a
cure". (Yasuyoshi
Chiba/AFP/GettyIm
ages) #

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Wrangler Nate Cummins takes the opportunity to ride by moonlight, the
night before the "Super Moon" during Montana Horses' annual horse drive
outside Three Forks, Montana, on May 4. The Mantle family, who own
Montana Horses, held their last horse drive where they rounded up
approximately 300 horses and drove the herd 35 miles from their winter
range to the Mantle ranch. The horses will be picked up by leasers to be
used as pack and trail horses at dude ranches and national parks. (Jim
Urquhart/Reuters) #

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Hikers watch an annular eclipse
from Papago Park in Phoenix on
May 20. The annular eclipse, in
which the moon passes in front of
the sun leaving only a golden ring
around its edges, was visible to
wide areas across China, Japan
and elsewhere in the region before
moving across the Pacific to be
seen in parts of the western United
States. (Michael Chow/The Arizona
Republic via Associated Press) #

The old tower is seen collapsed after
an earthquake in Finale Emilia on
May 20. A strong earthquake rocked
a large swathe of northern Italy early 16
on Sunday, killing at least three
people and causing serious damage
to the area's cultural heritage. The
epicentre of the 6.0 magnitude
quake, the strongest to hit Italy in
three years, was in the plains near
Modena in the Emilia-Romagna
region of the Po River Valley. (Giorgio
Benvenuti/Reuters) #

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An Iranian resident
from the village of
Baje-Baj, near the
town of Varzaqan
sits on top of the
rubble of his home
destroyed by an
earthquake on
August 12. (Atta
Kenare/AFP/GettyI
mages) #

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Tom
Sullivan, center, embraces
family members outside
Gateway High School on July
20 where he had been
searching franticly for his son
Alex Sullivan who celebrated
his 27th birthday by going to
see "The Dark Knight Rises,"
movie where a gunman
opened fire in Aurora, Colo.
(Barry Gutierrez/Associated
Press) #

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A policeman chases a supporter
of a jailed female punk band
while climbing on a fence
enclosing the Turkish embassy
near a court building in Moscow
on Aug. 17. Three women from
the Russian punk band were
sentenced to two years in jail on
Friday for their protest against
President Vladimir Putin in a
church, an outcome supporters
described as the Kremlin leader's
"personal revenge". (Mikhail
Voskresensky/Reuters) #

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A protester, with blood on his face after a strike to the head
with a police baton, screams during an anti-NATO protest
march in Chicago on May 20. Baton-swinging police
officers clashed with anti-war protesters at the start of the
NATO summit on Sunday, beating some and dragging
others away. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) #

Rescuers and relatives stop a woman from committing suicide by
jumping off a building in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, on Aug. 14.
The woman was rescued as she tried to commit suicide after killing her
nephew following a family dispute, local media reported. (Reuters) # 21

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The Thunderbirds
perform a fly past as
graduates celebrate
at the Air Force
Academy
commencement
ceremony in
Colorado
Springs, Colo., on May
23. (Kevin
Lamarque/Reuters) #

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First Lady Michelle Obama and
President Obama hug after
delivering remarks during a
campaign event at the Alliant
Energy Amphitheater in
Dubuque, Iowa, on Aug. 15
during his three-day campaign
bus tour across the state. (Jim
Watson/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Republican presidential
candidate and former
Massachusetts Govermor
Mitt Romney, right, and
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
speak to an overflow
crowd during a
campaign rally at
Randolph Macon College
on Aug. 11 in
Ashland, Va. Mitt Romney
kicked off a four day bus
tour with an
announcement of his
running mate. (Justin
Sullivan/Getty Images) #

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Commuters disembark from
crowded suburban trains
during the morning rush
hour at Churchgate railway
station on World Population
Day in Mumbai on July 11.
According to a 2011 census
conducted by the
government of
India, Mumbai has a
population of more than 12
million with an estimated
population density of
about 20,482 persons per
square kilometer. (Vivek
Prakash/Reuters) #

Runners pass the Olympic flame
on the first day of competition 26
in the Olympic Stadium, on
Aug. 3. (Daniel Ochoa De
Olza/Associated Press) #

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Gabrielle Douglas of
the United States
performs on the
balance beam in
the Artistic
Gymnastics
Women's Team final
on Day 4 of the
London 2012
Olympic Games at
North Greenwich
Arena on July 31.
(Jamie Squire/Getty
Images) #

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Spain's Marina
Alabau celebrates
after winning the
rs:x women's gold
medal on Aug. 7.
(Bernat
Armangue/Associat
ed Press) #

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The pack of riders
cycles past a
woman on a horse
during the 13th
stage of the 99th
Tour de France
cycling race
between Saint-
Paul-Trois-Chateaux
and Cap
d'Agde, on July 14.
(Stephane
Mahe/Reuters) #

Workers wear panda costumes as they carry a box to transport
Giant Pandas back to the wild, at the Wolong National Nature
Reserve in Wolong, southwest China's Sichaun province on May 3.
The bears will be left to fend for themselves to learn crucial survival
skills, and scientists plan to gradually reduce human interactions
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until they can live in the wild without any assistance, and while there
have already been 10 attempts at setting pandas free over the
past 30 years, and only two are thought to have been successful as
the bears find it very hard to survive on their own. (AFP/Getty
Images) #

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A squirrel is trapped in a
manhole cover in
Isenhagen, northern
Germany, on Aug. 5. After
they were called by
neighbors, police managed to
free the animal by using olive
oil. (Associated Press via Police
Hanover) #

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Wrestlers perform during the
Lucha Va Voom's Cinco de
Mayan show at the Mayan
Theater in downtown Los
Angeles, Calif., on May 4.
Lucha Va Voom is the mixture
of elements of Lucha libre, or
masked Mexican professional
wrestling, with comedy and
striptease. Since 2002, the
company has toured the
United States for the annual
Cinco De Mayo show, they
have added some more
“traditional” Mexican elements
like Folklorico
dancers, mariachis, Aztec
dancers, tequila, and
something called “tamales
from outer space.” (Joe
Klamar/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Ginger Buchanan,left, wears
her wedding dress as she and
her husband Doug participate
in the Mud pit Bellyflop, the
marquis event during the
Summer Redneck Games at
Buckeye Park in East
Dublin, Ga., on May 26. The
Summer Redneck Games
were first held in 1996 as a
spoof on the 1996 Summer
Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. (Erik
S. Lesser/European Pressphoto
Agency) #

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A lone Russian World
War II veteran with
flowers sits in a trolleybus
in Moscow, Russia, on
May 9 after a traditional
meeting in Gorky Park
for the Victory Day
celebrations marking
the 67-year anniversary
of victory over nazi
Germany. (Maxim
Shipenkov/European
Pressphoto Agency) #

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A girl rubs her eyes as smoke rises
from a burning effigy of the
demon Ghantakarna, symbolizing
the destruction of evil, during the
Ghantakarna festival at the
ancient city of
Bhaktapur, Nepal, on July 17.
According to legend, the demon
is believed to "steal" children and
women from their homes and
localities. (Navesh
Chitrakar/Reuters) #

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A Syrian boy who was injured when
a shell, released by regime
forces, hit his house on Aug. 24
waits to be treated at a hospital in
Syria's northern city of Aleppo.
Syrian forces blitzed areas in and
around the Aleppo , activists
said, as Western powers sought to
tighten the screws on embattled
President Bashar al-Assad. (Aris
Messinis/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Jake Beaudoin, a US Army Private
of 508 BSTB, 4th Brigade Combat
Team, 82nd Airborne
Division, takes cover during a
controlled detonation to clear an
area for setting up a check point
in Zahri district of Kandahar
province, southern
Afghanistan, on May 31. (Shamil
Zhumatov /Reuters) #

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A music group
performs on a path
amid fields to greet
the farmers at
Hwanggumpyong
Island, near the
North Korean town
of Sinuiju and the
Chinese border city
of Dandong on June
6. (Jacky
Chen/Reuters) #

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Orthodox Christian
pilgrims pray by a
wall at Bet Medhane
Alem rock church in
Lalibela on Aug.19.
(Siegfried
Modola/Reuters) #

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An Indian cadet
from the National
Cadet Corps
gestures towards her
colleague on the
occasion of 65th
anniversary of India's
independence from
British rule in
Srinagar, India on
Aug. 15. (Mukhtar
Khan/Associated
Press) #

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Cori Walters hugs her
daughter Hannah, 6, at the
California Institute for Women
state prison in
Chino, Calif., on May 5. An
annual Mother's Day
event, Get On The Bus, brings
children in California to visit
their mothers in prison. Sixty
percent of parents in state
prison report being held over
100 miles from their children.
(Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) #

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Competitors work to pull a
woman up an obstacle where
competitors must jump to the
top of a half pipe during the
Tough Mudder at Mt. Snow in
West Dover, Vt., on July 15. The
Tough Mudder is a nine mile
endurance event which runs
competitors through a military
style obstacle course complete
with mud, water and fire.
(Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) #

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Space Shuttle
Enterprise is carried
by barge underneath
the Verrazano-
Narrows Bridge on
June 3 in New York
City. Enterprise is on its
way to the Intrepid
Sea, Air and Space
Museum, where it will
put on permanent
display. (Michael
Nagle/Getty Images)
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A Pakistani worker pulls on a wire he will
connect to a thick chain that will in turn
be used to peel away a slab of the
outer structure of a beached vessel in
one of the 127 ship-breaking plots in
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Geddani, some 40Kms west of Karachi
on July 10. Geddani's ship-breaking
yards employ some 10,000 workers
including welders, cleaners, crane
operators and worker supervisors. The
yards are one of the largest ship-
breaking operations in the world rivaling
in size those located in India and
Bangladesh. It takes 50 workers about
three months to break down a midsize
average transport sea vessel of about
40,000 tons. The multimillion-dollar ship-
breaking industry contributes significantly
to the national supply of steel to
Pakistani industries. (Roberto
Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images) #

Police try to help remove a car surrounded by water
on Aug. 28 after its owner parked it on the bank to
watch waves brought on by Typhoon Bolaven in
Qingdao, in northeast China's Shandong province. 45
Typhoon Bolaven, the strongest storm to hit South
Korea for almost a decade, left a trail of death and
damage in southwestern and south-central regions of
the Korean peninsula on Aug. 28, and crossed into
China early on Aug. 29. (AFP/Getty Images) #

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A baby sleeps in a sheet made
into a hammock on Aug. 12 in
Manila, Philippines after
relentless rains submerged at
least a third to one half of the
sprawling capital triggering a
landslide that killed nine
people and sent emergency
crews scrambling to rescue
tens of thousands of residents.
(Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
#

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An area lies scorched by a wildfire
near Mt. Pleasant, Utah on June
25. (Scott G. Winterton/The
Deseret News via Associated
Press) #

Visitors of the Holi Open Air, throw powdered color at each other at the riverside of the Elbe in
Dresden, Germany, on Aug. 26. (Arno Burgi/European Pressphoto Agency) #
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A full moon as seen from West
Orange, N.J., rises over the
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skyline of Lower Manhattan
and One World Trade Center in
New York City on May 6. (Gary
Hershorn/Reuters) #

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