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Day in photos: Dec. 7, 2012

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Alexey Romashov of Russia soars during the normal hill qualification round at the FIS World Cup Ski Jumping event in Sochi, Russia.

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British sappers work into the early evening to strip out a building at Patrol Base Nahidullah in Afghanistan.

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Andorra's Luis Marin Tarroch flies through his snowboard cross qualification run at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Schruns Montafon, Austria.

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Pearl Harbor survivor Daniel Fruchter, of Eastchester, NY, salutes members of a color guard at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York before ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor.

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A family of Japanese macaques take a bath in a hot spring at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Japan.

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Recovery contractors prepare to transport a WWII-era FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane after it was recovered from Lake Michigan. The plane, which was recovered from 200 feet of water, crashed into the lake on December 28, 1944; its pilot survived.

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This composite of multiple exposures shows part of a routine by Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia as they perform their short program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Sochi, Russia.

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A mass of protestors toe the line at a perimeter set up by the Egyptian army around the presidential palace.

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A lobster boat heads out to sea at dawn from the shore of South Portland, Maine.

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Young Indian students play on a swing after morning assembly at the Central Baptist Church School in New Delhi.

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Members of the armed forces take part in a dress rehearsal ahead of the British Military Tournament at Earls Court exhibition center. The annual event showcases military skills to raise funds for the armed forces.

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Rabbis Segal Shmoel, left, and Yehuda Teichtal install a giant menorah in front of the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin in celebration of Hanukkah, which begins Dec. 8.