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  • Sunlight through a cyprus swamp. Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Sunlight through a cyprus swamp. Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina
    Medford Taylor/National Geographic Stock
  • A Russian Orthodox priest strikes for democratic change in Sofia. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A Russian Orthodox priest strikes for democratic change in Sofia.
    Thomasz Tomaszewski
  • A young Turkish girl looks out of a window in Sogut Golu. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A young Turkish girl looks out of a window in Sogut Golu.
    James L. Stanfield
  • Elderly ladies sitting on a bench looking at a baby in Venice. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Elderly ladies sitting on a bench looking at a baby in Venice.
    Jodi Cobb
  • Maria Anastasi and her daughters watch Italy play Nigeria in the World Cup soccer match of July... [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Maria Anastasi and her daughters watch Italy play Nigeria in the World Cup soccer match of July 1994. Maria lives in a three-room apartment in a poor Catania neighbourhood, Sicily. This day in 1926 saw the first public demonstration of television.
    William Albert Allard
  • Sunlight falls on a tree root emtwined head of a Buddha statue in Wat Phra Maharthat, Ayuthaya. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Sunlight falls on a tree root emtwined head of a Buddha statue in Wat Phra Maharthat, Ayuthaya.
    Alison Wright
  • Children walk past Manila's Smoky Mountain on Luzon Island. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Children walk past Manila's Smoky Mountain on Luzon Island.
    Lynn Johnson
  • A cemetary on the Pacific coast of Chile's Atacama Desert. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A cemetary on the Pacific coast of Chile's Atacama Desert.
    David Evans
  • An informal portrait of a Japanese woman in traditional dress. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    An informal portrait of a Japanese woman in traditional dress.
    Karen Kasmauski
  • Portrait of an Egyptian man holding an umbrella in Deir el Gharbi. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Portrait of an Egyptian man holding an umbrella in Deir el Gharbi.
    James L. Stanfield
  • House windows are latticed to shield the women inside from view in Jidda. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    House windows are latticed to shield the women inside from view in Jidda.
    Jodi Cobb
  • An ossuary in the cemetery of La Fontanelle, Naples [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    An ossuary in the cemetery of La Fontanelle, Naples
    Tino Soriano
  • A silk dyer's wife presents herself in purdah for a portrait in her home, Varanasi, Uttar... [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A silk dyer's wife presents herself in purdah for a portrait in her home, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State.
    Cary Wolinsky
  • Prayerful woman at Hindu fire-walking ceremony called Teemeethi. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Prayerful woman at Hindu fire-walking ceremony called Teemeethi.
    James L. Stanfield
  • Today is Martin Luther King Day. Here freedom marchers gather at the Lincoln Memorial. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Today is Martin Luther King Day. Here freedom marchers gather at the Lincoln Memorial.
    James P. Blair
  • African elephant in aggressive defense posture in front of a lion in the grass, Duba Plains,... [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    African elephant in aggressive defense posture in front of a lion in the grass, Duba Plains, Okavongo Delta.
    Beverly Joubert
  • A mongolian nomadic woman at her yurt in Erdene Soum. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A mongolian nomadic woman at her yurt in Erdene Soum.
    Alison Wright
  • Monks in yellow hats blow horns at a fire puja at Nechung Monastery, Dharmsala. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Monks in yellow hats blow horns at a fire puja at Nechung Monastery, Dharmsala.
    Alison Wright
  • Geishas napping. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Geishas napping.
    Karen Kasmauski
  • Near the temples of Vat Phou in the quiet village of Champassac a child pulls algae from the... [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Near the temples of Vat Phou in the quiet village of Champassac a child pulls algae from the murky waters.
    Stanislas Fradelizi/National Geographic My Shot
  • A fort encloses a spring now used by women for bathing and laundry on Tarut Island. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A fort encloses a spring now used by women for bathing and laundry on Tarut Island.
    Jodi Cobb
  • A young monk blows a chewing gum bubble leaning on a Yamaha, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh District. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A young monk blows a chewing gum bubble leaning on a Yamaha, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh District.
    Alison Wright
  • A portrait of a himba elder woman in Hartmann Valley. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A portrait of a himba elder woman in Hartmann Valley.
    Michael Poliza
  • Portaledges protected by an overhang from falling rock and ice, Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Portaledges protected by an overhang from falling rock and ice, Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island.
    Gordon Wiltsie
  • Cityscape of high rises and waterways in downtown Dubai. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Cityscape of high rises and waterways in downtown Dubai.
    Mattias Klum
  • Adult male common kingfisher catching amur bitterling in Labod. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Adult male common kingfisher catching amur bitterling in Labod.
    Joe Petersburger
  • Polar Bear and cub on a flating hunk of ice, Olga Strait, Svalbard. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Polar Bear and cub on a flating hunk of ice, Olga Strait, Svalbard.
    Ira Meyer
  • A member of the salt camel caravan, near Fachi. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    A member of the salt camel caravan, near Fachi.
    James L. Stanfield
  • An Egyptian drinks from the River Nile. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    An Egyptian drinks from the River Nile.
    Ed Kashi
  • Aboriginal teen with a mask of mud, swiming in a billabong, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    Aboriginal teen with a mask of mud, swiming in a billabong, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
    Sam Abell
  • On this day in 1856 the first underwater phtoograph was taken. Here Southern Right Whales,... [Photo of the day - January 2012]
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    On this day in 1856 the first underwater phtoograph was taken. Here Southern Right Whales, underwater off the Auckland islands.
    Brian J. Skerry
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