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Boy Scouts, Chincoteague ponies, river surfer (19 images)

28 July

BOY_SCOUT_JAMBOREE

More than 45,000 Boy Scouts salute during the singing of the national anthem as part of the Boy Scouts of America 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Ft. AP Hill, Va. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/DOD, Cherie Cullen)

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The Air Force's drill team performs during Wednesday's arena show at the 2010 Boy Scout National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Bowling Green, Va., on Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Mike Morones)

FRANCE_pedal_SUBMARINE

Stephane Rousson of France controls his Scubster, a new pedal-powered submarine on Wednesday, in Villefranche sur Mer, near Nice, southeastern France. The streamlined carbon fiber Scubster, built by Rousson, moves up to 6.2mph and 16 feet into the depths of the sea. (AP Photo / Terence Dewaele)

CALIFORNIA_WILDFIRE_helicopter

A fire helicopter drops water on the fire at Old West Ranch were residents were evacuated and about 30 to 40 homes have been lost to a wildfire about 10 miles southeast of the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, California on Wednesday. The area is about 70 miles north of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

River_SWIMMING_New_Hampshire

A young boy jumps into the Cockermouth River at Sculptured Rocks in Hebron, N.H. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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Villagers gather as U.S. Army soldiers from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, arrive in Samir Kalacha during military operations in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN_wounded_boy

U.S. soldiers and a local Afghan man carry an Afghan boy who stepped on an IED which severed his right foot and most of a hand to a U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter operated by the 58th Rescue Squadron, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on Wednesday. Air Force Pararescue teams and helicopter aircrews are part of the Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing based at Kandahar Air Field, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

CHINCOTEAGUE_PONIES

The first Chincoteague ponies exit the water after the 85th Annual Chincoteague Pony Swim across Assateague Channel on Wednesday, in Chincoteague, Va. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Jay Diem)

SPAIN_REVOLTOSA_DANCE

Hundreds of people appear blurred as they dance the "Revoltosa dance" around a bandstand as musicians play in the main square of Tudela, northern Spain, in the early hours of Thursday, during the town's annual fiestas in honor of Saint Ana. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

100_meter_shadows

Athletes compete in a Women's 100m heat, during the European Athletics Championships, in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano)

Young_girls_Beijing

Chinese girls wearing traditional flower headdresses tease each other outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

INDIA_lake_fishing

A Kashmiri man looks for fish in Dal Lake in Srinagar, India on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

CANADA_WILDFIRE_MOON

The moon appears over a ridge in Kamloops, B.C. in the early morning hours on Wednesday, as a grass fire burns on the hillside threatening homes in the area. Firefighters in western Canada are battling to save hundreds of homes from the wildfire. (AP Photo/Kamloops Daily News via The Canadian Press, Keith Anderson)

BABY_SEAL

The Los Angeles Zoo's newest harbor seal, Hudson, right, gets some attention from his mother, Asia on Wednesday, in Los Angeles. Hudson's birth marks the first successful attempt at breeding a harbor seal. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Border_fence_Arizona

A man talks on the phone as he stands next to the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

PAKISTAN_PLANE_CRASH

Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)

Florida_Lobster_catch

Jason Chockley rounds up the 31 lobsters he caught on the first day of the two-day mini lobster hunting season on Wednesday in Miami, Florida. The season runs from 12:01 a.m. Wednesday to 11:59 p.m. Thursday and is followed by the regular commercial hunting season which runs from August 6 to March 31. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

River_SURFING_Germany

A surfer jumps with his board into the Isar river on Wednesday in Munich, Germany. After heavy rainfall the Isar river carries plenty of water and forms a stationary wave. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)

CHINA_FACTORY_EXPLOSION

Firefighters extinguish a building next to a burnt out bus after an explosion at a plastics factory in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

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