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JANUARY 31, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Sunlight through a cyprus swamp. Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina

Medford Taylor/National Geographic Stock
JANUARY 30, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A Russian Orthodox priest strikes for democratic change in Sofia.

Thomasz Tomaszewski
JANUARY 29, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A young Turkish girl looks out of a window in Sogut Golu.

James L. Stanfield
JANUARY 28, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Elderly ladies sitting on a bench looking at a baby in Venice.

Jodi Cobb
JANUARY 27, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Maria Anastasi and her daughters watch Italy play Nigeria in the World Cup soccer match of July 1994. Maria lives in a three-room apartment in a poor Catania neighbourhood, Sicily. This day in 1926 saw the first public demonstration of television.

William Albert Allard
JANUARY 26, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Sunlight falls on a tree root entwined head of a Buddha statue in Wat Phra Maharthat, Ayuthaya.

Alison Wright
JANUARY 25, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Children walk past Manila's Smoky Mountain on Luzon Island.

Lynn Johnson
JANUARY 24, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A cemetary on the Pacific coast of Chile's Atacama Desert.

David Evans
JANUARY 23, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

An informal portrait of a Japanese woman in traditional dress.

Karen Kasmauski
JANUARY 22, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Portrait of an Egyptian man holding an umbrella in Deir el Gharbi.

James L. Stanfield
JANUARY 21, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

House windows are latticed to shield the women inside from view in Jidda.

Jodi Cobb
JANUARY 20, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

An ossuary in the cemetery of La Fontanelle, Naples

Tino Soriano
JANUARY 19, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A silk dyer's wife presents herself in purdah for a portrait in her home, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State.

Cary Wolinsky
JANUARY 18, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Prayerful woman at Hindu fire-walking ceremony called Teemeethi.

James L. Stanfield
JANUARY 17, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Here freedom marchers gather at the Lincoln Memorial.

James P. Blair
JANUARY 16, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

African elephant in aggressive defense posture in front of a lion in the grass, Duba Plains, Okavongo Delta.

Beverly Joubert
JANUARY 15, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A mongolian nomadic woman at her yurt in Erdene Soum.

Alison Wright
JANUARY 14, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Monks in yellow hats blow horns at a fire puja at Nechung Monastery, Dharmsala.

Alison Wright
JANUARY 13, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Geishas napping.

Karen Kasmauski
JANUARY 12, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Near the temples of Vat Phou in the quiet village of Champassac a child pulls algae from the murky waters.

Stanislas Fradelizi/National Geographic My Shot
JANUARY 11, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A fort encloses a spring now used by women for bathing and laundry on Tarut Island.

Jodi Cobb
JANUARY 10, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A young monk blows a chewing gum bubble leaning on a Yamaha, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh District.

Alison Wright
JANUARY 9, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A portrait of a himba elder woman in Hartmann Valley.

Michael Poliza
JANUARY 8, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Portaledges protected by an overhang from falling rock and ice, Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island.

Gordon Wiltsie
JANUARY 7, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Cityscape of high rises and waterways in downtown Dubai.

Mattias Klum
JANUARY 6, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Adult male common kingfisher catching amur bitterling in Labod.

Joe Petersburger
JANUARY 5, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Polar Bear and cub on a floating hunk of ice. Olga Strait, Svalbard.

Ira Meyer
JANUARY 4, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A member of the salt camel caravan, near Fachi.

James L. Stanfield
JANUARY 3, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

An Egyptian drinks from the River Nile.

Ed Kashi
JANUARY 2, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Aboriginal teen with a mask of mud, swiming in a billabong, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

Sam Abell
JANUARY 1, 2012 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

On this day in 1856 the first underwater phtoograph was taken. Here Southern Right Whales, underwater off the Auckland islands.

Brian J. Skerry