Remembering the Viking invasions of Spain
Men dressed up as Vikings take part in the annual Viking festival of Catoira in north-western Spain August 7, 2011. The festival re-enacts past Viking raids in the area and is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of August. (Reuters)
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Rubber Women Challenge 2011
“Rubber woman is more than a vehicle.” With this slogan the 6th annual swimming challenge on rubber women was held on Losevsky thresholds at Vuoksi river, 90 kilometers (55 miles) away from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. More than 800 people attracted by this challenge.
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Taste of the Danforth, North America’s Premier Greek Festival
Even a dancing Garlic was on hand to bring a smile to people’s faces at Taste of the Danforth on Sunday. (RICK EGLINTON/TORONTO STAR)
Toronto’s favourite street festival has a whole new way to celebrate the fun flavours of Greece and summer in the city. Every year in August, the city of Toronto flocks to GreekTown on the Danforth. Celebrating its 18th year, the Pilaros Taste of the Danforth is Canada’s largest street festival, welcoming over 1.3 million visitors.
This year’s festival begins on Friday, August 5th at 6:00pm and runs through to Sunday, August 7th at 8:00pm.
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Red Bull Flugtag Moscow 2011: Crazy Contraptions Plunge into River
Competitors plunge into the water during the Red Bull Flugtag event in Moscow. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pottery Man
A worker carries a toilet bowl inside Romania’s new National Stadium, the Lia Manoliu Arena, which is under construction in Bucharest August 5, 2011. The new 55,000-seater stadium will be the biggest in Romania and will host the 2012 Europa League final. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
Two Men Try to Recover After Drinking Too Much in India
Two intoxicated men rest as it rains in Kolkata, India, Aug. 6. (Bikas Das / AP)
The 15th Woodstock Festival in Poland
A reveller poses for a picture in front of a giant Woodstock sign during the 15th Woodstock Festival in Kostrzyn-upon-Odra River, close to the Polish and German border, August 01, 2009. (Dalje / javno100)
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Tasting The Rainbow: The Ants Whose Multi-coloured Abdomens Show Exactly What They’ve Been Eating
Ring of colour: An ant’s transparent abdomen shows the colour of the food they have eaten. (Mohamed Babu / Solent News & Photo Agency)
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ConQuest of Mythodea, the Largest Role Playing Event
The ConQuest event is the largest interactive festival of that kind. Year by year in summer, the Brokeloh Manor near Hannover. More than 7000 participants from Europe, the US and other places in the world meet up with over 1000 fully trained and supplied extras. The event staff, holding 250 persons, over 120 tons of props and equipment change the manor and more than 60 hectars of fields, forests and else into the fantastic and mystical world of “Mythodea”. (PETER STEFFEN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Obama Cupcakes: Yes, We Eat!
Cupcakes bearing the likeness of U.S. President Barack Obama are displayed at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on Obama’s 50th birthday August 4, 2011 in Washington, DC. On Obama’s 50th birthday, the replica Oval Office at Madame Tussauds was decorated with party balloons, streamers and presents, while the figures the Obamas, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey were outfitted with party hats and noisemakers. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
