Snapshots Of the Fortnight (11-25 April 2012)

Apr 30, 2012, 06:27 IST2 min
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Cyrus Fakroddin (L) and his pet goat Cocoa ride the downtown C train in New York. Cocoa is a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with Cyrus in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin has raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. "Cocoa doesn't even know she is a goat and you see that in her, but she loves hanging out with people," Fakroddin said. Picture taken April, 2012
Image by Allison Joyce/ Reuters
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French matador Sebastian Castella performs a pass as the bull stabs his horns into the arena, during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in Seville
Image by Marcelo del Pozo/ Reuters
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People smoke marijuana joints at 4:20 p.m. as thousands of marijuana advocates gathered at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The event was held on April 20, a date corresponding with a numerical 4/20 code widely known within the cannabis subculture as a symbol for all things marijuana
Image by Robert Galbraith/ Reuters
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Wellesley College Sophomore Mayrah Udvardi, of Canberra, Australia, gives a runner a kiss along the route of the 116th Boston Marathon in Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Villager Ivan Shamianok (L), 87, meets with former neighbours on the eve of "Radunitsa", or the Day of Rejoicing, a holiday in the Eastern Orthodox Church to remember the dead, at a cemetery in the abandoned village of Tulgovichi, near the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Minsk. Shamianok never left his village in spite of the Chernobyl blast, and he is now one of six last villagers that still live in Tulgovichi. Belarus. Ukraine and Russia will be marking the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, the world's worst civil nuclear accident, which took place on April 26, 1986
Image by Vasily Fedosenko/ Reuters

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