The U.S. and Iowa state flags fly at a rally for Mitt Romney in West Des Moines on December 30, 2011. (Brian Snyder/courtesy Reuters)
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Children show burnt election ballots outside a polling station in Kinshasa on November 29, 2011. (Emmanuel Braun/courtesy Reuters)
A worker installs some of the 288 new Waterford crystals on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball. (Mike Segar/courtesy Reuters)
The headquarters of Brazil's central bank in Brasilia. (Ueslei Marcelino/courtesy Reuters)
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong use umbrellas to write "2012" (courtesy Reuters).
Lincoln's handwritten copy of the "Spot Resolutions" (courtesy National Archives).
Health workers pack dead chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong December 21, 2011. Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a dead chicken there tested positive for the deadly H5N1 avian virus. (Tyrone Si/courtesy Reuters)
The first page of The American Crisis, No. I. (courtesy Library of Congress)
Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich during the Republican Party presidential candidates debate in Sioux City, Iowa on December 15, 2011. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters)
People attend a sanctioned rally on a bridge near Bolotnaya square to protest violations at the parliamentary elections in Moscow on December 10, 2011. (Sergei Karpukhin/courtesy Reuters)
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