Students take to the playground with their homemade kites for the annual Kite Fly at Big Springs Elementary School in Simi Valley, CA.
6/3/2011
Album ID: 1261471
Photos by Andy Holzman
Unabomber auction
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To Janine Vaccarello, chief operating officer at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, they're priceless. For a mere $1,766 at an online government auction that ended Thursday, Vaccarello's museum was the winning bidder for Kaczynski's black and white passport photos, along with the wood saw and Hanson Model 1509 scale that the man known as the Unabomber used in his deadly attacks. Carried out under court order by the U.S. Marshals Service and the General Services Administration, the auction was revenge of a sort for the victims and the families terrorized by Kaczynski's acts of violence that left three people dead and 23 injured from 1978 to 1995.
6/3/2011
Album ID: 1260996
Spelling Bee
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''Xerophobous," ''saxifrage" and "heresimach" might be unfamiliar even to people who read dictionaries for fun, but they didn't faze spellers at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday. Of the bee's 275 contestants, 41 will advance to Thursday morning's semifinals. Interspersed with long, tongue-tying words were some everyday ones, such as "femininity," ''croissant," ''myriad" and "misogynist."
6/2/2011
Album ID: 1260056
Heat vs. Mavericks -- NBA Finals Game 2
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Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks battle in the second game of the NBA Finals on Thursday night, June 2, 2011.
6/2/2011
Album ID: 1260866
Contaminated vegetables
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Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe's worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a "super-toxic" strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand-new.
6/2/2011
Album ID: 1260764
Space shuttle Endeavour on terra firma
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In the dark hours of Wednesday morning, Commander Mark Kelly guided the space shuttle Endeavour to touchdown on Earth for the last time, ending a 16-day mission and Endeavour's 19-year run spent transporting astronauts, science, and knowledge back and forth through the planet's atmosphere.
6/1/2011
Album ID: 1259959
Marilyn Monroe Photo Exhibit
7 photos
for sale
Marilyn Monroe photos on exhibit at the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Beverly Hills, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Wednesday would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 85th birthday and the "Happy Birthday Marilyn" exhibit includes ten never-before-seen photos by George Barris.
6/1/2011
Album ID: 1260059
Photos by Michael Owen Baker
Shaquille O'Neal announces he's retiring
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Shaquille O'Neal, a 15-time All-Star who struggled to get on the court last season because of injuries, tweeted on Wednesday that he is going to retire after a 19-year career in which he won four titles and the 2000 league Most Valuable Player award.
O'Neal wrote on Twitter shortly before 2:45 p.m. that, "im retiring." It included a link to a 16-second video in which he says, "We did it; 19 years, baby. Thank you very much. That's why I'm telling you first: I'm about to retire. Love you. Talk to you soon."
6/1/2011
Album ID: 1259987
Heat vs. Mavericks -- NBA Finals Game 1
29 photos
for sale
Heat vs. Mavericks -- NBA Finals Game 1
5/31/2011
Album ID: 1259345
Who They're Wearing: May 2011 #3
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More glamour from the Cannes Film Festival, the Billboard Music Awards, the Young Hollywood Awards, the season finale of "American Idol," the gracie Awards, celebrities at premieres and Jessica Alba on Capitol Hill.
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