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1. Mideast conflict

   A bomb explodes in the north-eastern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Targeted bombings in central Gaza City have people fleeing what were believed to be safe buildings, many of them now left homeless. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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2. Rocky steps

   The so-called Rocky steps could still be used under a proposed redesign of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but they would be divided by the window, no longer offering the grand sweep of today. (Michael Vitez/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT)
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3. James Brown mansion

   James Brown's clothing and shoes can still be found in their rightful places at Brown's Beech Island, S.C., mansion. All of the items have been photographed, tagged and catalogued. (Kim Kim Foster-Tobin/The State/MCT)
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4. Boundary waters

   Katie Ellsworth shows a stringer of walleyes to Robert Bjerken, left, and Tom Ellsworth as they fish in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and Canada. (Dennis Anderson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)
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5. Amazon sortation

   Chelsea Pfeiffer scans items at Amazon's new sortation center in Kent, Wash. "Tens of thousands" of packages will go through the facility. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times/MCT)
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6. Tampa Bay Rays

   Tampa Bay Rays' Yunel Escobar drives in two runs with a ground-rule double in fifth inning action during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The Rays took the Cardinals 7-2. (Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT)
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7. Lynx

   The Minnesota Lynx' Lindsay Whalen (13) is fouled by the Atlanta Dream's Erika de Souza during the first half at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Minnesota won, 112-108. (Kyndell Harkness/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)
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