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River ships moor in front the Russian White House in Moscow on August 21, 1991, to support Boris Yeltsin. Russia marks on August 19-22, 2011, the 20th anniversary of the abortive 1991 coup against then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic at the time, gathered his supporters after denouncing the coup from the roof of a tank, what resulted later a collapse of the Soviet empire. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV

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Crop formation, Hungerford, Berkshire

Aerial view of a crop formation near Hungerford, Berkshire, England. Crop formations are patterns of flattened plants in crops such as wheat or barley. They started appearing frequently in the mid-1980s in south-west England. Their cause is unknown. Many theories exist, ranging from science-based physical explanations such as the "plasma vortex" theory based on the phenomenon of electrohydrodynamics (EHD) to unorthodox suggestions that they are created by extraterrestrial intelligences. 2 circles linked by long sinuous channel

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