Images Dated 9th July 2010

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. Defeat of the British Army by American troops under Major

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
Defeat of the British Army by American troops under Major General Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans, 8 January 1815, during the War of 1812. Aquatint, c1817, by Philibert Louis Debucourt after a painting by Jean-Hyacinthe Laclotte, an engineer in the Louisiana Army, after a drawing he did on the battlefield

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Bottlenose Dolphin - mother is stimulating her

Bottlenose Dolphin - mother is stimulating her recently born calf after which the calf normally will feed (Tursiops truncatus). Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy. The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks. The male calf was born July 2nd 2010 at 8:02 am and started to take milk 2 and half hours after birth (feeding at an average of two/three times per hour). At birth its weight was roughly 16 kg and 120cm in length. After 20 days its weight was 31 kg. The mother is Blue, a female born in Delphinarium Rimini Italy in 1996. The father is Micha, 25 year old coming from Cuba (in Italy since 1989)

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A young boy skateboards past a ramp decorated with graffiti in a skate park in Durban

A young boy skateboards past a ramp decorated with graffiti in a skate park in Durban, South Africa on July 9, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza / AFP PHOTO / CARL DE SOUZA

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