Charla Nash holds hands with her daughter Briana Nash during her hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Connecticut. Charla’s face and hands were ripped off by a friend’s chimpanzee in a 2009 attack that left her blind.
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Athletes participate in the fourth international Jerusalem marathon in Jerusalem’s Old City. Some 20,000 runners took part in the annual sporting event.
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People watch fireworks during celebrations on the main square of the Crimean city of Simferopol.
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A view shows the damage inside the Crac des Chevaliers fortress in the Homs countryside after soldiers loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad took control of it from rebel fighters, March 21, 2014.
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Matt Lichtenberger wades out into the still partially frozen Lake Michigan to look for valuables with a metal detector in Chicago.
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An African migrant holds on to the fence of a Spanish government-run temporary immigrants holding center in Spain’s north African enclave Melilla.
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Indonesian children with Down syndrome walk on the runway during World Down Syndrome Day celebration on March 21, 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia.
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German Federal Family Minister Manuela Schwesig attends the Equal Pay Day demonstration in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. The annual event recognizes the wage gap between the sexes in the country, where women’s salaries still lag behind that of men, particularly in the states that were once East Germany.
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Original drawings, poems and prose written by John Lennon, from the private collection of publisher Tom Maschler, are to be auctioned by Sotheby’s, including this untitled pen drawing.
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A horse drawn military caisson carries the remains of seven Vietnam service members during a full honors funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
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George Washington re-enactor Dean Malissa gestures talks with Mount Vernon Curator Susan Schoelwer during a preview of the opening of the New Room following its restoration at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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Baylor’s Isaiah Austin has his face covered by the ball as Nebraska’s Leslee Smith’s arm reaches for the ball during the second half of a second-round game in the NCAA college basketball tournament in San Antonio. Baylor won 74-60.
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Assistant Professor and Meteorite Curator at Phil McCausland and Jeff Renaud search for a meteorite just north of St. Thomas, Ontario. Researchers say at least one chunk of a meteorite may have landed in southwestern Ontario this week and more rocks may also be waiting to be found.
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A giant birthday cake in honor of Nevada’s 150th anniversary of statehood awaits slicing in Carson City, Nev.
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Elephant trainer Kim Doman feeds fruit to Tembo, the Topeka Zoo’s African elephant, during a training session.
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An anti-government demonstrator with a bleeding bullet hole drawn on her forehead takes part in a protest in front of an office of the Organization of American States, OAS, in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Demonstrators unfurl a sign outside a building housing attorneys whom, protesters say, push low and middle income renters out of the city, in San Francisco, California.
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Sweden’s skip Margaretha Sigfridsson yells instructions to her teammates during her tie-breaker game against South Korea at the World Women’s Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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