The Great American Eclipse, the 2017 Life Ending Industry EXPO in Japan, the World Belly-flop Championships in Norway, thousands march against hate in Boston, Louisiana crawfish in Germany, the World Tango Championship in Argentina, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 8/19–8/25
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The total solar eclipse, viewed from Charleston, South Carolina, on August 21, 2017. The Associated Press reported that Monday's eclipse was "most-observed and most-photographed eclipse in history." #
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President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron look up at the partial solar eclipse from the balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 21, 2017. #
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The International Space Station, in silhouette, as it transits the sun during a partial solar eclipse seen from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington, on August 21, 2017. #
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Eclipse watchers react during the total solar eclipse at the Symbiosis Oregon Eclipse Festival at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest near the city of Mitchell, on August 21, 2017. Emotional sky-gazers stood transfixed across North America Monday as the Sun vanished behind the Moon in a rare total eclipse that swept the continent coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century. #
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The umbra, or moon's shadow, passes over Earth during the total eclipse, as viewed from the International Space Station on August 21, 2017. Viewing the eclipse from orbit were NASA's Randy Bresnik, Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, ESA (European Space Agency's) Paolo Nespoli, and Roscosmos Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy. The space station crossed the path of the eclipse three times as it orbited above the continental United States at an altitude of 250 miles. #
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Tourists visit The Storr on the Isle of Skye on August 17, 2017 in Portree, Scotland. The Isle of Skye is known as one of the most beautiful places in Scotland, however its infrastructure services are being stretched to the limit by the number of visitors heading there to enjoy its rugged scenic beauty. #
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A Louisiana crawfish, or Procambarus clarkii, walks across a path in the Tiergarten park on August 24, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Popular features in local aquariums, the crustaceans - also known as crayfish, freshwater lobsters, crawdaddies, mountain lobsters, yabbies and mudbugs - are not native to Germany. Conservationists believe they arrived in the park as a result of people emptying their aquariums there, possibly also the reason they appeared Frankfurt three years earlier. Although they are also considered pests, they are illegal to harvest for human culinary consumption as is habitual in what is considered their more natural habitat of the American South. #
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Local Bario 18 gang leader "El Mortal", 18, poses for a photo on August 19, 2017 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He said he has been a gang member since he was age 10. In Honduras, rival gangs including Barrio 18 and MS-13 tightly control territory, earning money from extortion and drug trafficking. San Pedro Sula has one of the highest rates in the world for violence and homicide rates, most of it gang-related, for a populace not at war. Poverty and violence have driven immigration to the United States, although the number of U.S.-bound immigrants has dropped during the first months of the Trump Presidency. #
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A young bull is lifted from the roof of a building with a crane during preparations for the annual Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Karachi on August 20, 2017. The owner keeps young animals -- three or four bulls and and some goats -- on the roof of a four-story building for a year until they are ready for sacrifice. Muslims believe that they will receive more rewards if they raise an animal and sacrifice it after a year or two. #
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Thousands of diners participate in the annual "Diner en Blanc" (Dinner in White) at Lincoln Center on August 22, 2017 in New York City. Diner en Blanc began in France nearly 30 years ago. Attendees all must wear white clothing and bring their own picnic food and white tables clothes. It's the second time the event, which is held in cities around the world, has been held at Lincoln Center. #
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The statue of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson stands covered by a black tarp as it stands in Justice Park, formerly known as Jackson Park, on August 23, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The statue was covered today after the Charlottesville city council voted unanimously to cover Confederate statues in black tarp. #
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Traditionally-clad Zulu maidens prepare to take part in the mini reed dance (Umkhosi woMhlanga) in the rural district of Emalangeni, some 80km north of Durban, South Africa, on August 19, 2017. #
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A picture taken on August 20, 2017, shows a statue of Lebanese Christian Maronite monk Saint Charbel, weighing 40 tons and measuring 23 meters, being transported on the Jounieh highway to the town of Faraya north east of Beirut. Saint Charbel Makhlouf, was a Maronite monk and priest who obtained a wide reputation for holiness during his life and was canonized by the Catholic Church. #
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An archaeologist works at a tomb of one of sixteen Chinese migrants, discovered buried at the turn of the 20th century in the pre-Colombian pyramid of Bellavista, according to Ministry of Culture, in Lima, Peru, on August 24, 2017. #
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Members of Virginia State Police prepare for the funeral of fellow Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates at Saint Paul's Baptist Church August 18, 2017 in Richmond, Virginia. Bates and Lieutenant Pilot Jay Cullen were killed when their Bell 407 helicopter crashed into a wooded area while they were monitoring the civil unrest during the white supremacy 'Unite the Right' rally August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. #
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Click to view imageThe lifeless body of a man lies on a street on August 19, 2017 in Mandaluyong, Philippines. A recent spike in the killings related to the government's anti-drug operation sparked outrage among citizens as police confirmed deaths as high as 35 bodies in one day starting last week. The killing of a 17 year old boy who was collared by police in Caloocan city added to the furor as witnesses claim that they saw police handed the boy a gun and asked him to run before shooting him to death. President Duterte lauded the killing of the 35 people last week and had asked for the killing of more people involved in drugs. #
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Stanislav Fursov and Ekaterina Simonova, from Russia, compete in the stage category at the World Tango Championship final in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 23, 2017. #
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Workers hold a tranquilized rhino after it was dehorned in an effort to deter the poaching of one of the world's endangered species, at a farm outside Klerksdorp, in the northwest province, South Africa, on August 14, 2017. #
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Alba Crivello, 7, separated by a glass door, sits and plays with puppies secured inside a kennel at the Animal Haven animal shelter, on August 24, 2017, in New York. The puppies are among new arrivals of abandoned dogs flown out of Puerto Rico that is struggling with a pet overpopulation problem, worsened by a financial crisis that has prompted many people to abandon animals. "They came here to be happy and have fun," said Crivello. #
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