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NOV 5 2015, 5:43 PM ET


01. Ice crystals grow on the edge of a maple leaf in Sieversdorf, Germany, on Nov. 3, 2015.



02. Volunteers and local residents help refugees
and migrants disembark from a small vessel
after their arrival in Skala Sykaminias on the
northeastern Greek island of Lesbos on Oct. 30. Greek authorities say a number of people have died near other islands after two boats carrying migrants and refugees from Turkey to Greece sank overnight, in the latest deadly incident in the eastern Aegean Sea.



03. Orthodox Jewish men try to cross Bedford
Avenue in front of former professional road
racing cyclist Laurent Jalabert (runner in black)
of France in the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn during the 2015 New York City
Marathon in New York, on Nov. 1.



04. New York Mets' Daniel Murphy reacts after
missing a ball hit by Kansas City Royals' Mike
Moustakas during the eighth inning of Game 4
of the Major League Baseball World Series on
Oct. 31 in New York.



05. City workers cross the Millennium footbridge over the River Thames on a misty morning in London on Nov. 2. Airports across Britain suffered disruption on Monday as heavy fog led to delays and cancelations for a second day.

Flights to and from London airports were being affected, while foggy conditions in the capital
and across Europe were causing problems to
airports around the country.

Amazing. Keep up the fantastic pics and captions @IceWizard.

06. A miner is seen at the end of his last shift at the coal mine in the Romanian city of Petrila, on Oct. 30. Petrila, the oldest coal mine in Romania and deepest mine in Europe, that opened in 1859 under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was closed on October 30 as part of Bucharest promises to liquidate unprofitable mines.



07. A woman holds the body of a dead baby that was found on the beach on the Greek island of Lesbos on Oct. 30.



08. Migrants and refugees try to warm up in a
train travelling from Gevgelija at the Greek-
Macedonian border to Serbia on Nov. 3. More
than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed
the Mediterranean to Europe in October a
monthly record and more than during the whole of 2014, the United Nations said.



09. Thousands of great white pelicans fight to eat fish provided by Israeli farmers at a water
reservoir in the Emek Hefer valley north of the
Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Nov. 5.

Thousands of migrant Pelicans pass though Israel on their way to Africa and then again when they return to Europe in the summer. Local farmers feed the birds in order to avoid damage to the commercial fish pools.



10. A child's shoe is seen in front of debris from
a Russian airliner which crashed at the
Hassana area in Arish city, north Egypt on Nov.1.

A Russian passenger airliner crashed
Saturday in a remote mountainous part of
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula 23 minutes after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board, including 25 children.



11. Abu Amer (center), a former well driller, sits
with family members inside their underground
shelter in an Aleppo southern suburb on Oct. 29. The shelter which Abu Amer has been building for the past year, and will include four rooms equipped with ventilation and lighting, is expected to be completed in the coming
months.



12. U.S. Secret Service Agents stand guard as
Marine One, with President Barack Obama on
board, prepares to land in New York on Nov. 2.
Obama was attending democratic fundraisers.

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13. President Barack Obama greets a young
child dressed as the Pope riding in a
"Popemobile" as he hands out treats to children trick-or-treating for Halloween on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Oct. 30.



14. A woman in the role of a spirit known as a
Gede participates in a ceremony honoring the
Haitian voodoo spirits of Baron Samdi and
Gede on the Day of the Dead in the National
Cemetery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Nov. 2.

The Day of the Dead is celebrated on the first two days of November during All Saints and All Souls Day and Voodoo believers and devotees offer candles, alcohol and food to the deceased.



15. Denisa, 15, and her 11 year-old sister
Alexandra stand behind their mother’s coffin
after requesting a souvenir picture with her at
their family home in Bucharest, Romania on
Nov. 3. Maria Ion, a 38 year-old widow and
mother of five, died in last Friday's fire at the Colectiv nightclub where she occasionally
worked as a cleaning lady.

The fire at the basement nightclub during a heavy metal show killed more than 30 people and led to the collapse of the government after thousands took to the streets in protest.



16. Alessandra Fortes de Lima, 6, touches the
boot of her father, Adimir Goncalves de Lima,
before a parade during the Semana Farroupilha or “Ragamuffin” week, in Alegrete municipality, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil on Sept. 20.

Some of the Brazilian cowboys ride with little girls wearing old-fashioned dresses. They
parade before crowds in southern Rio Grande
do Sul state, which fancies itself as practically a separate nation, with its rugged rural traditions and Germanic roots.



17. Smoke billows from a building early on Oc.
30, following reported shelling by Syrian
government forces in the rebel-controlled area
of Douma, east of Damascus, Syria.

Did you take this wonderful photographs @IceWizard? They are truly amazing in capturing so much feeling and depth. (Sorry if that's too personal and you would prefer to refrain from commenting on my question.)

CL... I cannot take credit...

I do, however, scour the news and look for somethings I find interesting...

Maybe others will as well....

Ice