Images Dated 6th May 2010

A pelican flies over the Intracoastal Waterway off Dauphin Island

A pelican flies over the Intracoastal Waterway off Dauphin Island, Alabama May 6, 2010. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANIMALS IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E65700FS01

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St Johns Gate

Engraving depicting St John's Gate, in Clerkenwell, London, the residence of Edward Cave (1691-1754), an English printer, editor and publisher with the illustration of St John's Gate featured beneath a facsimile of a letter by Cave, London, Great Britain, circa 1747. St John's Gate is one of the few remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past, built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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Dark clouds of smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the

Gulf of Mexico, May 6, 2010 - Dark clouds of smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies conducted the in situ burn to aid in preventing the spread of oil following the explosion on Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon

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