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DENVER.- When it comes to elegant lighting, this French Art Deco-style chandelier easily qualifies as a statement piece. Crafted around 1920 from red alabaster with bronze fittings, it is a featured item in Bruhns May 3 auction of antique lighting, fixtures and architectural accessories. Bid absentee and live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. LIVEA UCTIONEERS/BRUHNS AUCTION GALLERY PHOTO.
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NEW YORK.- Queen Latifah attends the "Bessie" New York screening at The Museum of Modern Art on April 29, 2015 in New York City. Rob Kim/Getty Images/AFP
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MUNICH.- Visitors look around a part of the new Nazi museum in Munich, southern Germany, on April 29, 2015. Munich will open this museum on the former site of the Nazi party headquarters on April 30, 2015, in a long overdue reckoning with the German city's status as the "home of the movement". The inauguration coincides with the 70th anniversary of the "liberation" of Munich by US troops at the end of World War II, and of Adolf Hitler's siucide the same day in a Berlin bunker. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOF STACHE.
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BERLIN.- A woman makes a headstand in the Lustgarten park on Museum Island in central Berlin on April 29, 2015. AFP PHOTO / DPA / WOLFGANG KUMM
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MARSAL.- A file photo taken on August 14, 2014 shows human remains during excavation works at an ancient grain silo near a Celtic salt mining site in Marsal, eastern France. 2,500 years ago the Seille Valley in Moselle, now peaceful and pleasant, was bustling with activity: a local exhibition which opened on April 29, 2015 retraces the activities at the largest salt mine of the Celtic era in Europe. AFP PHOTO / FRED MARVAUX
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RIO DE JANEIRO.- Brazilian sculptor Ique Woitschach repairs the sunglasses of the bronze statue of US pop icon Michael Jackson --which were stolen last week-- at Santa Marta community (favela) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 29, 2015. The statue was made by Woitschach in 2010, a year after Jackson's death, at the place where Jackson filmed the "They don’t care about us" video in 1996 and which became a famous tourist spot. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA
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BHAKTAPUR.- A Nepalese man checks for damage to a temple at the heritage town of Bhaktapur on April 29, 2015, following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck the Himalayan nation on April 25. Rescuers are facing a race against time to find survivors of a mammoth earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people when it tore through Nepal five days ago and devastated large parts of one of Asia's poorest nations. AFP PHOTO / MANAN VATSYAYANA
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TUNIS.- German President Joachim Gauck (L) and his partner Daniela Schadt (R) stand with Tunisian culture minister Latifa Lakhdar (C) as they pay their respects in front of a monument displaying the names of the victims of those killed in the attack on the Bardo National Musem the previous month, in Tunis on April 29, 2015. Gauck is on tree day official visit to Tunisa. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID
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TOKYO.- Some 300 colorful carp streamers fly on the foot of Tokyo's landmark Tokyo Tower on April 27, 2015. Koinobori or carp streamers are displayed for the May 5 Boy's Festival in Japan, that reflect the parents wishes for boys to grow up as strong as the carp. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO
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SLAVUTICH.- An Orthodox priest holds a prayer during a memorial ceremony early on April 26, 2015 in front of the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutich, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the accident site, and where many of the power station's personnel used to live. Ukraine on April 26 marks the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster which was the world's worst nuclear accident. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV