Images Dated 22nd December 2004

Triggerfish skeleton, X-ray

Triggerfish skeleton. Coloured X-ray of a triggerfish (family Balistidae). Its name originates from its ability to erect the first two dorsal spines (upper left), which can then lock or unlock, preventing the fish from being swallowed by predators or being pulled out of its nest. The fish's head extends into a snout with strong jaws containing eight teeth on the lower jaw and six on the upper jaw. Triggerfish are found in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific. They grow to between 30-75 centimetres

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Mideast-Israeli-Palestinians-Nativity Church

A Palestinian child wearing a red Santa hat blows out candles inside the Grotto at the Church o the Nativity in the Biblical West Bank City of Bethlehem 22 December 2004. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem protested that Israel's West Bank barrier had turned the biblical town into a "giant prison" as Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas. AFP PHOTO/YURI CORTEZ / AFP PHOTO / YURI CORTEZ

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The Babes in the Wood Race, Bermuda, 1904

Illustration showing the Babes in the Wood race at a gymkana held in Bermuda, 1904. The race was as follows: The men had to gallop up to a wall, dismount and climb over. Then they had to find dolls hidden in the woods beyond and return each to his lady, who had to put the babe in a perambulator and wheel it over a short course

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