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  • A poor traveller sleeps in a sleeping ag underneath a Paris bridge, Ile de la Cite. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 30, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A poor traveller sleeps in a sleeping ag underneath a Paris bridge, Ile de la Cite.
    Bruce Dale
  • Amish lads pull roller skating friends on a country road in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 29, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Amish lads pull roller skating friends on a country road in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania.
    William Albert Allard
  • A nymph that has almost completely morphed. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 28, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A nymph that has almost completely morphed.
    Cory Bucher/National Geographic My Shot
  • People on a platform in a field of Sorghum. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 27, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    People on a platform in a field of Sorghum.
    Michael Poliza
  • Street sign submerged in flood waters in Richmond, Virginia. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 26, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Street sign submerged in flood waters in Richmond, Virginia.
    Medford Taylor
  • Portrait of an orphaned Peruvian spider monkey in Madidi National Park. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 25, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Portrait of an orphaned Peruvian spider monkey in Madidi National Park.
    Joel Sartore
  • One-handed a cyclist maneuvers his bike while holding an umbrella. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 24, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    One-handed a cyclist maneuvers his bike while holding an umbrella.
    Pete McBridge
  • Harvesting tea leaves at the Mingshan Ecological Tea Garden in Sichuan. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 23, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Harvesting tea leaves at the Mingshan Ecological Tea Garden in Sichuan.
    Michael S. Yamashita
  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 22, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
    Randy Olson
  • Women play Chinese Mahjong in a park in in Wuhan, near the Yangtze River. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 21, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Women play Chinese Mahjong in a park in in Wuhan, near the Yangtze River.
    Justin Guariglia
  • A woman talks on a mobile phone while riding a human-powered rickshaw in Kolkata, West Bengal. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 20, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A woman talks on a mobile phone while riding a human-powered rickshaw in Kolkata, West Bengal.
    Steve Raymer
  • A woman sits on the stoop of an orange building in Valparaiso. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 19, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A woman sits on the stoop of an orange building in Valparaiso.
    Richard Nowitz
  • Cyclists pedal down the old hutongs (alleys) of Shanghai. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 18, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Cyclists pedal down the old hutongs (alleys) of Shanghai.
    Jodi Cobb
  • Pedestrians stop to listen to street musicians in Stockholm.  [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 17, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Pedestrians stop to listen to street musicians in Stockholm.
    Jonathan Blair
  • A woman talking on a cellphone in Canova Tadolini Restaurant, Rome. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 16, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A woman talking on a cellphone in Canova Tadolini Restaurant, Rome.
    Jodi Cobb
  • A tattoed bride and her groom, Little White Chapel, Las Vegas. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 15, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A tattoed bride and her groom, Little White Chapel, Las Vegas.
    Jodi Cobb
  • A woman carrying an umbrella passes a man on a pilgrimage sleeping in Santiago de Compostela, Gal... [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 14, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A woman carrying an umbrella passes a man on a pilgrimage sleeping in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.
    Jim Richardson
  • A regular at Le Louis IX, "Caramel" keeps a client company in Paris. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 13, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A regular at Le Louis IX, "Caramel" keeps a client company in Paris.
    James L. Stanfield
  • Three nuns climb a stone stairway in a city square in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 12, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Three nuns climb a stone stairway in a city square in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.
    Jim Richardson
  • A man in a hammock reads a book outside the closed door of a shop in Saigon. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 11, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A man in a hammock reads a book outside the closed door of a shop in Saigon.
    Justin Guariglia
  • Soccer in front of the 12th century Cathedral in Messina, Sicily. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 10, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Soccer in front of the 12th century Cathedral in Messina, Sicily.
    Tino Soriano
  • A man and his daughter lean against each other reading on Nanjing Lu, Shanghai. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 9, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A man and his daughter lean against each other reading on Nanjing Lu, Shanghai.
    Justin Guariglia
  • Mullick Bari, a once grand mansion belonging to an Indian trading family, Kolkata, West Bengal. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 8, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Mullick Bari, a once grand mansion belonging to an Indian trading family, Kolkata, West Bengal.
    Steve Raymer
  • A man's reflection in the black granite floor in front of the Louvre, Paris. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 7, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A man's reflection in the black granite floor in front of the Louvre, Paris.
    Raul Touzon
  • Pedestrians outside San Roque Church, Guanajuato. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 6, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    Pedestrians outside San Roque Church, Guanajuato.
    Raul Touzon
  • A woman in formal dress carrying an umbrella passes by vintage cars in Havana. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 5, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A woman in formal dress carrying an umbrella passes by vintage cars in Havana.
    Medford Taylor
  • A man crosses the cobblestones of the Plaza de Armas in Arequipa. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 4, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A man crosses the cobblestones of the Plaza de Armas in Arequipa.
    William Albert Allard
  • A man sells goldfish in bags tied to a tree branch in the Shatila Palestinian Camp of Beirut. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 3, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    A man sells goldfish in bags tied to a tree branch in the Shatila Palestinian Camp of Beirut.
    W.E. Garrett
  • The Shanghai South Railway Station, Shanghai. [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 2, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    The Shanghai South Railway Station, Shanghai.
    Justin Guariglia
  • People parade, dressed as grapes and carrying boxes of wine to serve to spectators in New Orleans... [Photo of the day - April, 2011]
    APRIL 1, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
    People parade, dressed as grapes and carrying boxes of wine to serve to spectators in New Orleans, Louisiana.
    Krista Rossow

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