Pouya Dianat

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The U.S.S. Iwo Jima from Norfolk, Va. rolls through the fog into Portland Harbor one day before Fourth of July festivities are kicked off in Portland.
   
  
A shaft of afternoon sunlight illuminates the exact spot where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stayed and was killed by assassin's bullet 40 years ago on April 4, 1968.
     
  
An airplane begins its descent toward Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, home to Atlanta-based Delta Airlines, on the eve of merger rumors between Delta and Northwest Airlines.
   
The lifelong friends and relatives of Michael A. Scrocca, who was killed in an arson attack, console one another after placing his casket on the hearse.
   
Immigrants protesting a bill that would deport many illegal aliens chose to unite as a group under the American flag during a May Day rally.
     
  
Docks are forced farther from their respective homes as Lake Lanier reached record low lake levels as the drought dragged on for months in Atlanta.
   
Deng Riak reacts to a question about the death of his cousin, Beer Ayuel, who was killed in Iraq where he was working as a translator.
   
Car washing at home has been banned causing Atlantans to flock to local car washes during the worst drought to strike the southeast.
     
  
Nearly 50,000 spectators filled Piedmont Park for the Green Concert headlined by the Dave Matthews Band and the Allman Brothers.
   
A demorgue team makes their way down what was once an off-ramp for Highway 10 in search of victims of hurricane Katrina.
   
     
  
   
Students from Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University protest the unfair proescution of members of the Jena 6, a group of Louisiana high schoolers that were being charged with attempted murder after a schoolyard brawl.
   
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (Sen. D-Ill.) energizes the crowd at a rally at the Georgia World Congress Center.