Assortment of Pictures

This May 3, 2009 photo shows seven-year-old Alexandra Rodriguez, a student at Nancy Lopez Elementary School, having her face decorated by Mark Reid, during the Fiesta del Rio Cinco de Mayo celebration at Cahoon Park in Roswell, N.M.

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A first grader from St Jude School, in Bridgetown, Ohio, observes a polar bear at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Avondale, Ohio, Thursday, May 7, 2009, during a school field trip.
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Giraffe calf Shani is seen with her father Naruk, left, and her mother Kibaya, right, at the Berlin Zoo, Friday, May 15, 2009. Shani was born May, 3, 2009.
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A seal appears with a comforter found in it's pool in the zoological garden in Jihlava, Czech Republic, Saturday, April 25, 2009.
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Polar bears Bill, right, and Lara react, at their first meeting, at the Zoom Erlebniswelt zoo, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Friday, April 17, 2009. Polar bear Bill came from the zoo in Bruenn, Czech Republic, as a new partner for female polar bear Lara.
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Close encounter : Newly hatched butterflies land on a woman during a press launch of the "Butterfly Jungle" at the Natural History Museum in London.
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Selection of some of the images taken over the years by the Hubble space telescope. Two astronauts from the US space shuttle Atlantis began the first of five ambitious space walks to overhaul the Hubble space telescope and extend its working life.

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