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W. PALM BEACH, FLA..- This bejeweled Italian 18K gold and lapis lazuli automated musical mantel clock is a scaled-down version of the famous Delacorte Clock on the triple archway near the children's zoo in New York's Central Park. The Delacorte Clock is one of the park's most beloved attractions, with revolving animals, musical nursery rhymes and monkeys that strike a bell. The clock shown here is entered in an Oct. 19 sale hosted by Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. LIVEAUCTIONEERS / AGOPB PHOTO
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HALF MOON BAY.- A pumpkin is hoisted off a truck to be weighed at the 42nd annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off Contest in the World Pumpkin Capital of Half Moon Bay, California on October 12, 2015. The Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is offering a special $30,000 mega-prize for the world record breaking pumpkin at the prestigious Half Moon Bay event. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON
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LE MANS.- French truck driver Olivier Kempf poses in his Scania 560 Hp decorated with an image inspired by the movies of Lino Ventura and Yves Montand on October 10, 2015 during the decorated truck contest on the sidelines of the 31st Truck 24-hour race in Le Mans, western France. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER
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DAKAR.- Senegalese craftsman Ibrahima Diallo installs the clay mould for the manufacturing of cooking pots, in a foundry , in central Dakar, on October 12, 2015. Senegalese foundries, usually managed by men, produce most of the cooking tools used in the country : cooking pots, containers, knives etc. The blacksmith craft, often passed down from father to son, uses traditional methods to melt metals from various objects, including recycled materials. AFP PHOTO/SEYLLOU
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NEW YORK.- A statue of George Washington looks over the New York Stock Exchange (C) February 28, 2012 in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA
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MOSCOW.- The monument to Swiss-French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, is pictured in central Moscow on October 15, 2015, during an opening ceremony. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA
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PHNOM PENH.- Cambodian honour guards stand in front of a statue of former King Norodom Sihanouk at a park in Phnom Penh on October 15, 2015 during the third anniversary of his death. Sihanouk died of a heart attack in Beijing on October 15, 2012 aged 89. AFP PHOTO / TANG CHHIN SOTHY
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VEYRINS-THUELLIN.- British architect David Marks poses inside the world biggest viewing platform, named "i306" and designed by Marks and built by French company POMA, on October 14, 2015 in Veyrins-Thuellin. The platform will be forwarded in England and installed in Brighton. AFP PHOTO / JEFF PACHOUD
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SANTIAGO.- Tourists visit a museum given over to multifaceted Violeta Parra in Santiago on October 14, 2015. The Violeta Parra Museum exhibits 49 works, oil paintings, papier-mâché, and hessian embroideries of this versatile artist, most known as singer-songwriter.
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BUENOS AIRES.- Buenos Aires Government Minister Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez, poses next to a painting of her great-aunt, Argentine former First Lady (1946-1952) Eva Peron (1919-1952), before an interview with AFP at the Evita Museum, in Buenos Aires on September 25, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JUAN MABROMATA