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Photos of the Week: Sun Deck, Shot Put, Sloth Seat
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Mr. Lordi, aka Tomi Petteri Putaansuu of the Finnish hard-rock band Lordi, gets his second dose of COVID-19 vaccine from a nurse, Paula Ylitalo, in Rovaniemi, Finland, on August 1, 2021. #
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In Plumas County, California, flames leap from trees as the Dixie Fire jumps Highway 89 north of Greenville on August 3, 2021. Dry and windy conditions have led to increased fire activity as firefighters battle the blaze, which ignited on July 14. #
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Smoke from forest fires is seen over the small town of Kysyl-Syr, Vilyuysky District, Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, in Russia's Far East, on August 2, 2021. Wildfires have burned more than 16,000 square miles since the beginning of the fire season in Yakutia, said Andrey Mikhaylov, head of the forestry department of the regional Ministry of Ecology. #
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On the Greek island of Evia, north of Athens, flames rise above the village of Limni on August 3, 2021. Greece was grappling with its worst heat wave in decades, one that strained the national power supply and fueled wildfires near Athens and elsewhere in southern Greece. #
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A view of a 25-meter-tall steel sculpture dubbed The Gesture by the Lebanese artist Nadim Karam, made from debris resulting from the blast at the port of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, which occurred on August 4, 2020. Photo taken in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 2, 2021. #
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A cat runs on the field, evading capture, during the eighth inning of a game between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium on August 2, 2021. #
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A brown-throated sloth, called "43," rescued by Juan Carlos Rodriguez and his wife, Haydee, in a residential area, waits in a kennel, being prepared for release, at the couple's shelter for sloths, in San Antonio, Venezuela, on July 30, 2021. #
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Virginia Oliver, 101, inspects a lobster as her son Max, 78, passes it to her before she bands it, in Penobscot Bay, Maine, on July 31, 2021. Virginia has been catching lobsters off the coast of Maine since age 7 and is still going strong. She is the oldest licensed lobsterwoman in the state, and local historians describe her as perhaps the oldest active one in the world. She goes out into the waters off Rockland three days a week with her son, who helps her crew the boat. #
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A thread maker prepares colored threads for flying kites in Jammu, India, on August 3, 2021. The demand for these threads goes up in August, when people in northern India fly kites, peaking during Independence Day, which falls on August 15. #
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The Italian tightrope walker Andrea Loreni performs on a steel cable near the dam of Ceresole Lake on August 1, 2021, in Ceresole Reale, Orco Valley, Alps region, northwestern Italy. #
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A pink flamingo stands among flamingo chicks in a pen in Aigues-Mortes, near Montpellier, southern France, on August 3, 2021, during the annual tagging and controlling operation to monitor the progress of the species. #
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Cars wrecked by flooding are pictured during ongoing cleanup efforts in the Ahr Valley region following catastrophic flash floods on August 4, 2021, in Bad Neuenahr, Germany. Villages along the Ahr River as well as other towns and villages across western Germany are attempting to recover from devastating floods in mid-June that left at least 170 people dead, hundreds injured, and approximately 70 still missing. #
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