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ZAMORA, SPAIN - APRIL 19: A young and sleepy penitent of the Cofradia de Jesus del Via crucis is carried by another as they walk the streets during a Holy Week procession on April 19, 2011 in Zamora, Spain. Easter week is traditionally celebrated with processions in most Spanish towns.

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - APRIL 22: Christian pilgrims pray at Church of the Holy Sepulcher during the Good Friday procession on April 22, 2011, in Jerusalem, Israel. Thousands of Christians around the world will today mark Good Fiday when they commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In Jerusalem Christian pilgrims took part in processions along the route that Jesus is believed to have taken in his last days as he carried the cross.

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This picture shows a 200-ton boat deposited on top of a building by the March 11 tsunami in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on May 2, 2011. Work to scrap the boat is expected to begin in early May.

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Children release white balloons in the air on March 16, 2012 during a minute of silence on the day of Belgian national mourning, at the primary school Sint-Lambertusschool in Heverlee. Belgians observed a minute of silence and church bells tolled across the grieving nation on March 16 as the bodies of 22 children and six adults killed in a Swiss bus crash were flown home.

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Employees cut beef along a production line at a slaughter house of a cattle farm of Hondo Agriculture Development Co. Ltd, in Fengdu county of Chongqing Municipality March 27, 2012. Nearly 20,000 cattle are fed in the farm and about 200 cattle are slaughtered on a daily basis, according to the company. Picture taken March 27, 2012.

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Pakistanis sit on a passenger bus during the transport strike in Peshawar on April 10, 2012, against raised petrol prices. Pakistan on April 1, raised petrol prices by up to 8.2 percent, the oil and gas regulatory authority said, contrary to its advice to leave prices unchanged.

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A trade union activist dances during a rally organized by various trade unions affiliated to the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to mark May Day in Katmandu, Nepal, on May 1, 2012.

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Bioluminescence from glowing plankton in sea tide line on beach, with stars above and ship lights on horizon, Vaadhoo Island, Raa Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean, October 2010 (New Scientist Picture of the Day, 14 May 2012)

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A policeman watches band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova speaking on a TV screen in a hall outside a court room of the Moscow City Court where three members of the punk band Pussy Riot are set to make their case before a Russian appeals court that they should not be imprisoned, in Moscow, Wednesday. October 10, 2012. (Sergey Ponomarev/AP Photo)

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A man takes pictures as Endeavour slowly passes, in Inglewood, California, on October 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A parking lot full of yellow cabs sits flooded as a result of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

looks like a glitch from the og gta

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One month after Washington State voters approved the state’s marriage equality law in [Referendum] 74, same-sex couples get marriage licenses for the first time on December 6th, 2012. At around 1:30am, Larry Duncan, 56, left, and Randy Shepherd, 48, from North Bend, Wash. got their marriage license. The two plan to wed on December 9th, the first day it is possible for them to wed in Washington State. They have been together for 11 years.

Randy Shepherd is almost too perfect a name for that photo and story.

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A welder, wearing a homemade protective mask, works in Yishui County, Shandong province, on June 10, 2006. (Reuters/China Daily) #

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Fisherman Ompong Vargas, 39, who wears a facial mask made of fabric to protect his skin from getting darker, holds a fish in his mouth as he searches a net at Laguna de Bay in Taguig City Metro Manila May 24, 2013. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo

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Police officers and soldiers swept through the five-story Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya on Sept. 21 after gunmen opened fire. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

Damn ... didn't the attackers have machine guns? If so, takes some cojones to go in there with a pistol and no armor.

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In the town of Rjukan, Norway, people gather in front of the town hall, where sunlight is reflected by giant mirrors (top) erected on the mountainside, on October 18, 2013. Rjukan, a small industrial town 150 km west of Oslo, is situated in the bottom of a valley between steep mountains in Telemark County, and is cut off from direct sunlight for five to six months a year. Now, three giant mirrors mounted on a nearby mountainside will reflect winter sunlight into the valley. (Reuters/Tore Meek/NTB Scanpix)

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Ukrainian riot police take souvenir snapshots of each other during a brief rest on another day of anti-government protests in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's parliament, in an extraordinary session on Tuesday, has repealed a series of laws that have been criticized as stifling dissent and free speech. Ukraine has seen violent protests since November. PHOTOGRAPH BY: MAXIM SHIPENKOV / EPA

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A man paints a picture of the scene as anti-government protesters clash with police on Hrushevskoho Street near Dynamo stadium in Kiev, on January 25, 2014. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)