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Smalldog Imageworks Creative Retouching for Chick-fil-A Cows Calendar «Trail Grazers» by photographer Andy Mahr, 2011. (Photo by Andy Mahr)

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Relatives of the crashed AirAsia plane passengers pray at Juanda Airport, in Surabaya, Indonesia, 31 December 2014. Indonesian rescuers retrieved three more bodies from the sea on 31 December but the search to recover more victims from the AirAsia plane crash was hampered by bad weather, the recue chief said. AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December, about halfway through a two-hour flight between Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, and Singapore. (Photo by Made Nagi/EPA)

People take pictures of huge waves crash on the Viavelez seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias January 2, 2016. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

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A local resident rescues a baby owl after Cyclone Mocha's crashed ashore, in Kyauktaw in Myanmar's Rakhine state on May 14, 2023. Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore in Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh on May 14, 2023, uprooting trees, scattering flimsy homes in Rohingya displacement camps and bringing a storm surge into low-lying areas. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)