May 22, 2012

May 22 Photo Brief: Cooling-off kids, greased-up freshman, Olympic tattoos

Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, army, Baghdad, ballet, Brazil, Egypt, elephants, England, flowers, freshman, India, Joplin, London, Maryland, Monet, monkeys, Naval Academy, Olympics, Pakistan, Spain, tornado, Yemen

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Spreading rose petals to make incense in Pakistan, young elephants in England, youth in Germany and European Swimming Championship competitors get wet, greased-up freshmen make a human wall in Maryland and more in today’s daily brief.

: A man spreads rose petals, which will be used to make incense sticks, on the floor to dry in a compound in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)

: Nayan, a two year old Asian Elephant, is squirted with water by keepers to cool him down in his enclosure at Chester Zoo, Chester, northern England. (Phil Noble/Reuters)

: Details from a floral display inspired by Monet’s Impressionist painting at Giverney at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

: Annapolis Naval Academy freshmen climb the Herndon Monument which is covered with lard in Annapolis, Maryland. The tradition is one step in marking the end of wearing freshman headgear and moving up to headgear more like a U.S. Naval officer. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: Progress after about 2 hours of effort to create a stable human pyramid. The Naval Academy’s Class of 2015 succeeded in replacing the plebe hat with a midshipman’s hat on the pinnacle of the 21-foot greased Herndon monument in 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 13 seconds. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

: An Iraqi woman walks in a Baghdad street, in a yellow haze from a heavy dust storm which shut the capital’s airport. (Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images)

: A U.S. Army soldier from 3/1 AD Task Force Bulldog uses his night vision equipment before an early morning joint patrol with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in a village in Kherwar district in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

: Linda Gray of Manassas, Virginia orders some dog friendly ice cream for her four-year-old American Eskimo, Henry, from Tiki’s Playhouse owner Kelvin Abrams’ ice cream truck at Puppy Palooza in Adamstown, Maryland on Saturday, May 19, 2012. (Jen Rynda/Patuxent Publishing)

: A pair of goggles are seen next to an Olympics tattoo on a swimmer’s thigh during the 2012 European Swimming Championship in Debrecen, Hungary. (Laszlo/Reuters)

: A Yemeni child, chewing qat, a mild natural narcotic widely used in Yemen, stands in front of sacks full of recyclable items at a garbage dump near the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on May 9, 2012. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab region facing multiple challenges and crisis. Recently it witnessed a decline in the humanitarian and livelihood conditions, due to natural and human-made disasters, including armed-conflict and political unrest. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

: Members of the English National Ballet pose outside The Orangery restaurant at Kensington Palace in London as part of a publicity event for a summer charity fundraiser with Swan Lake as the theme. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

: Pilgrims make their way to the shrine of El Rocio during the annual El Rocio pilgrimage, in Seville. The pilgrimage to Almonte, which houses the Virgin del Rocio, is the largest in Spain with hundreds of thousands of devotees in traditional outfits converging in a burst of colour as they make their way on horseback and decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside. (Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images)

: Lequinho, a two-month-old green monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus), a species originary from South Africa, hangs out in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lequinho, whose mother died upon giving birth, is being taken care of by a team of veterinarians and biologists. (Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)

: A boy slides down into a swimming pool as the sun shines in the northern German city of Hameln as temperatures rose to up to 30 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit ). (Julian Straten Schulte/AFP/Getty Images)

: Pakistani men run past a burning vehicle after gunmen opened fire on a rally in Karachi. At least 10 people were killed as violence erupted in Pakistan’s most populous city of Karachi on May 22, after unknown gunmen opened fire on a rally, police said. Gunmen and arsonists went on the rampage after the firing on a protest rally staged against this month’s police operation in the city’s Lyari district in which 25 people were killed. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)

: A young Sufi Muslims devotee cries as she clasps her hands in prayer at the ‘dargah’ or shrine of Sufi saint Muhammad Moin-ud-din Chisti in Ajmer, India. Hundreds of thousands of Sufi Muslim pilgrims from across India converge on the North Indian town of Ajmer to mark the ‘Urs’ (death anniversary) Festival of Muhammad Moin-ud-din Chisti, a 12th century Sufi saint from Persia who lies buried in Ajmer. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images).

: Party boat operators await patrons on the shore of the Nile River a day before presidential elections in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptians go to the polls Wednesday and Thursday to choose a new president, the first of the post-Mubarak era. If no candidate wins a majority vote this week, a second round election will be held between the top two candidates June 16-17. (John Moore/Getty Images)

: A painted tree is seen still devoid of leaves after a massive tornado hit the town one year ago today in Joplin, Missouri. The EF-5 tornado left behind a path of destruction along with 161 deaths and hundreds of injuries, but one year later there are signs that the town is beginning to recover. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

May 22 Photo Brief: Cooling-off kids, greased-up freshman, Olympic tattoos

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