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A Sadhu (holy man) returns after taking a holy dip at the Sangam in Allahabad. The Sangam is a holy bathing site during The Kumbh Mela, which runs from January till March, and takes place every 12 years in Allahabad while smaller events are held every three years in other locations around India.

An Iraqi woman looks at a display of pictures of people killed by Saddam Hussein's regime at the Shaheed Monument in Baghdad, Iraq. Saddam Hussein had the split teardrop-shaped sculpture built in the middle of a manmade lake in the early 1980s to commemorate Iraqis killed in the Iran-Iraq War. The names of hundreds of thousands of fallen Iraqi soldiers are inscribed in simple Arabic script around the base. In recent years, the Shiite-led government has begun turning it into a museum honoring the overwhelmingly Shii

Elderly Pakistan, Gul Nabi, 70, sits on a roadside near his home with his granddaughter Shailala, a year and a half, sleeping on his lap, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 18, 2013. Gul Nabi and nine members of his family fled Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur in 2009, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, and took refuge in Islamabad.

Busker Will Soto walks a tightrope at the sunset celebration in Key West, Florida, in this file photo taken in 2007. The sunset celebration at Mallory Square is a daily ritual for visitors to this subtropical island at the bottom of the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys are the end of the road, where the legendary US Route 1 stops for the ocean at mile zero, a classic American road trip.

A handout picture shows the Mars 2013 camp just after sunset in the desert of Morocco. Between February 1 and 28, 2013, the Austrian Space Forum in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh - conducted an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud in Morocco in the framework of the PolAres research program. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew conducted experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering,

An Iraqi woman looks at a display of pictures of people killed by Saddam Hussein's regime at the Shaheed Monument in Baghdad, Iraq. Saddam Hussein had the split teardrop-shaped sculpture built in the middle of a manmade lake in the early 1980s to commemorate Iraqis killed in the Iran-Iraq War. The names of hundreds of thousands of fallen Iraqi soldiers are inscribed in simple Arabic script around the base. In recent years, the Shiite-led government has begun turning it into a museum honoring the overwhelmingly Shii

Elderly Pakistan, Gul Nabi, 70, sits on a roadside near his home with his granddaughter Shailala, a year and a half, sleeping on his lap, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 18, 2013. Gul Nabi and nine members of his family fled Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur in 2009, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, and took refuge in Islamabad.

Busker Will Soto walks a tightrope at the sunset celebration in Key West, Florida, in this file photo taken in 2007. The sunset celebration at Mallory Square is a daily ritual for visitors to this subtropical island at the bottom of the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys are the end of the road, where the legendary US Route 1 stops for the ocean at mile zero, a classic American road trip.

A handout picture shows the Mars 2013 camp just after sunset in the desert of Morocco. Between February 1 and 28, 2013, the Austrian Space Forum in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh - conducted an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud in Morocco in the framework of the PolAres research program. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew conducted experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering,

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