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Students smear each other with colored powder during the celebrations of Holi, in Kolkata, India on March 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw) via The Big Picture
“I am happy to announce a new arrival to our little family — Dagny Isabella Ellsworth! She’s five weeks old, and the most adorable puppy in the world. She’s named for one of my favorite literary characters (Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged), and one of the greatest female politicians of all time (Queen Isabella of Castile).” From Kristin Ellsworth.
Tamil S. Sarangan, 11 years old, with his parrot Peti, which he brought with him as he escaped his home at the Tamil Tiger-held area following fighting between Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tigers, seen on February 23, 2009. He now stays in a temporary refugee camp in Vavuniya, northern Sri Lanka. (REUTERS/Nir Elias) via The Big Picture
A camera records its trip around a sushi conveyor belt at a restaurant in 苫小牧市 Tomakomai-shi, Hokkaido, Japan. Note the woman decked in Haute couture at minute 1:40. ブルー行く!
A woman walks home carrying an umbrella near Minova in eastern Congo, February 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) – the Big Picture
A man plays an electric guitar in the village of Pinga, a village with no electricity, in eastern Congo, February 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) – the Big Picture
Jean-Pierre Kalikunshe (L), 10, comforts his friend Espoir Kangeshe, 6, both of whom have had surgery to correct leg deformities, at the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, February 10, 2009. Kalikunshe and Kangeshe are among some 70 children looked after by Stand Proud, a charity that assists children suffering from polio and other leg defects in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, where 15 years of war has devastated public health services. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) — the Big Picture
A Congolese girl displaced by fighting carries firewood at a camp near Goma in eastern Congo, February 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) – the Big Picture
Seven-day drive from Los Angeles to New York City compressed into 4 minutes, time lapsed.
2LT Evan Robert Ellsworth—second row from the top, just left of center—in a class photo with graduating classmates of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Field Artillery, B Company, Basic Officer Leadership Course II, 4th Platoon Renegades, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Evan is on his way now to The Armor School, Ft. Knox, Kentucky. By the end of the summer, he’ll report to the 82nd Airborne Division (“All-American”), Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
A majorette jumps through the air as she takes part in the “Rose Monday” carnival parade in the western German city of Cologne on February 23, 2009. (AFP PHOTO DDP/MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK) via the Big Picture
A group of jesters spit fire during a carnival parade in Barranquilla, Colombia, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/ Fernando Vergara) via the Big Picture. Yes, tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday.
