Images Dated 2005 December

Battle Of Thermopylae

Persian archers kill the last of the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, August 480 BC. 300 Spartans, under King Leonidas I, had remained to defend the pass to the last against the might of Xerxes army. Engraving by Pinelli. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

© 2005 Getty Images

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Sunset on the Ubari Sand Sea

Deep shadows in the foreground and low angled sunlight illuminates the delicate ripples and complex patterns of the sand in the dunes of the Fezzan region of the Libyan Sahara known as the Ubari Sand Sea

© A 2005 Joe Carnegie / Libyan Soup

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USS Benfold and JDS Kirisame

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