Thursday Aug. 6, Our World In Pictures
JAPAN — Lanterns Flown in Memorium: A boy offers prayer after releasing a paper lantern into the Motoyasu River where hundreds of thousands of atomic bombing victims died, with the backdrop of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Thursday. The country marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing this week.
CYPRUS — Giraffe Grazes Tree Tops: A giraffe is photographed at a zoo during an unusually hot day in Pegia village on Wednesday.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.