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Photos of the Week: Swan Song, Eiffel Climb, Porcelain Starlings
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A participant in the World Beard and Mustache Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, poses before taking part in one of the 17 categories of beard and mustache styles on May 18, 2019. #
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The French pilot and performer Franky Zapata flies on a flyboard above the new multihull Sodebo Ultim 3 during its baptism ceremony in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, on May 19, 2019. #
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British Prime Minister Theresa May stands before a podium at Downing Street in London, England, on May 24, 2019. May announced that she would be stepping down as Britain's prime minister. #
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Sonja, a nine-day-old white South African lion cub, is held by the zookeeper Imre Sebok during a presentation to the media at the Szeged Game Park in Szeged, Hungary, on May 24, 2019. #
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Thousands of runners wave and dance before they start the GutsMuths-Rennsteiglauf cross-country run, Europe's most popular cross-country race, in Neuhaus am Rennweg, Germany, on May 18, 2019. #
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The 2022 midshipmen's class from the U.S. Naval Academy works to scale the Herndon Monument and place an upperclassman’s hat atop the monument in an annual tradition in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 20, 2019. Plebes, or freshmen, must scale the monument, greased with about 50 pounds of vegetable shortening, using teamwork to remove a traditional plebe cap and replace it with the upperclassman’s cap. The tradition dates back more than 70 years and concludes the plebe year for Naval Academy students. #
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Members of the Third U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, place flags in front of each headstone to honor the nation's fallen military heroes as part of "Flags In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 23, 2019. #
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Martin Tower, the former world headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, implodes in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on May 19, 2019. Crowds gathered to watch the demolition of the area's tallest building, a 21-story monolith that opened at the height of Bethlehem Steel's power and profitability, but that stood vacant for a dozen years after America's second-largest steelmaker went out of business. #
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A cowboy chats with an escaramuza rider before her presentation at the Rancho del Charro on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, on May 18, 2019. Mexico's Charros National Association is marking its 98th anniversary, which is being celebrated from May 15 to June 2. #
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Abortion-rights campaigners attend a rally against new restrictions on abortion passed by legislatures in eight states, including Alabama and Georgia, in New York City on May 21, 2019. #
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Wearing MAGA shirts, the sisters Pepper (left) and Daisy, from southwestern Virginia, play together at sunset as they visit the White House with their mother on May 18, 2019. #
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A masked demonstrator takes part in the funeral service for the U.S. citizen Eddy Montes, who was killed in a prison shooting, at a church in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, on May 19, 2019. #
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Olympique Lyonnais's Ada Hegerberg celebrates scoring the team's second goal during the Women's Champions League Final at Ferencváros Stadium in Budapest, Hungary, on May 18, 2019. Olympique Lyonnais went on to win the final, 4–1. #
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Children look at the installation Murmuration (Landscape), an enormous flock of 10,000 porcelain starlings swarming overhead, by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, on May 23, 2019. #
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Trucks are piled on top of one another at Riley Auto Group in Jefferson City, Missouri, on May 23, 2019, after a tornado struck there. A series of powerful tornadoes killed at least three people in southwestern Missouri and caused extensive damage in Jefferson City, the state capital. #
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Shane Lin (center) is comforted by his partner, Marc Yuan (right), and a friend during a wedding ceremony in the Shinyi district of Taipei, Taiwan, on May 24, 2019. A new law had just gone into effect making Taiwan the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage and granting couples full, legal marriage rights. #
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