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** FILE ** Sunflower Electric Cooperative's coal-fired power plant rises beyond a pile of coal as it churns out electricity Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 in Holcomb, Kan. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill allowing two additional coal-fired power plants at the location. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)hg3
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First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama introduce the Edward M. Kennedy National Service Bill and later plant trees in its honor.Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton
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Red-billed Teal
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Yellow-billed Duck
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Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata looks on during a conference in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The Tata factory halted work on the much-anticipated Nano, which has been billed the world's cheapest car, because of increasingly violent protests by farmers demanding the return of some of the land on which the plant was built.
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Fusarium oxysporum
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Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata gestures at the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers conference in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The Tata factory halted work on the much-anticipated Nano, which has been billed the world's cheapest car, because of increasingly violent protests by farmers demanding the return of some of the land on which the plant was b
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Transmission tower bent near Huntsville, AL. TVA lost the ability to transmit power from both Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant and Widows Creek Fossil Plant after the storms on April 27, requiring both to be shut down.
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Pontiac G6 and Chevrolet Malibu's are shown at the General Motors Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. Festering animosity between the United Auto Workers and southern Senators who torpedoed the auto industry bailout bill erupted into full-fledged name calling Friday as union officials accused the lawmakers of trying to break the union on behalf of foreign automaker
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Byron, Illinois
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**FILE** Ford Motor Company employee Ralph Gazzillo assembles the new 2008 Ford Taurus X at the Chicago Assembly Plant in this June 22, 2007 file photo. The new energy bill requires automakers to sharply boost the fuel economy of cars and trucks, and that means vehicles are sure to become lighter. It's good news for makers of aluminum and carbon fiber, analysts say, while the steel industry is likely to see its piece of the auto-industry pie diminish.
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Adult Male
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Adult Female
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Craig Pedersen pours cotton seed into a hopper, Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at his farm in Lemoore, Calif. Pedersen has reduced his cotton planting as a result of slumping cotton prices and the uncertainties of the farm bill. Wary cotton farmers such as Pede
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Solar panels are shown on the roof of the California Academy of Sciences with the DeYoung Museum and Golden Gate Park in the background in San Francisco, Thursday, June 7, 2007. Set to open next year, the new home of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park is being billed as the world's greenest museum. Built with recycled materials, powered by sunlight and covered with a "living roof" of native plants, academy officials hope the science education center will become a model for su
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Labourers look on from inside the Tata Motors small car factory on the Calcutta-Delhi national highway at Singur, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Calcutta, India, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The father of two labourers at Tata Motors' troubled small car factory in eastern India killed himself Wednesday, local police said, a day after the company suspended work indefinitely at the site. The Tata factory halted work on the much-anticipated Nano, which has been billed the world's cheapest car
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A flock of adult and young Helmeted Guineafowl foraging
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Monument Valley in the northeastern part of the state is famous for its scenery and Hollywood Western films. Many tourist souvenirs produced in Arizona or by its residents display characteristic images, such as sunsets, coyotes, and desert plants.
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Police officers stand guard inside the Tata Motors small car factory on the Calcutta-Delhi national highway at Singur, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Calcutta, India, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The father of two labourers at Tata Motors' troubled small car factory in eastern India killed himself Wednesday, local police said, a day after the company suspended work indefinitely at the site. The Tata factory halted work on the much-anticipated Nano, which has been billed the world's cheapes
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Ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana
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Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam
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Section of Lady Gowrie's Garden in Government House, taken October 2009
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Cape Teal
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The Greater Double-collared Sunbird, Cinnyris afer (formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia), is a small passerine bird which breeds in southern South Africa. It is mainly resident, but partially migratory in the northeast of its range. The subspecies C. a. stuhlmanni and C. a. prigoginei are sometimes split as Stuhlmann's Sunbird, Cinnyris stuhlmann, and Prigogine's Sunbird, Cinnyris prigoginei respectivel. This sunbird is common in gardens, fynbos, forest edges and coastal scrub. The Greater D
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The Niagara River empties Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. This water is headed for Niagara Falls.
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A hoopoe sunbathing, on Lanzarote
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Red-crested.pochard
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Skull of Edmontosaurus, showing duck-bill and dentition – Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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Looking for food on a partially frozen pond
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Svalbard reindeer
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