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Top 10 ODD photos from around the world

Last updated on: July 22, 2014 12:59 IST

 Ten photos that prove that it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there!

  Shannon Byrne has her photo taken with Abraham Lincoln impersonator Dennis Boggs during a Civil War re-enactment to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta, in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Top 10 ODD photos from around the world

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Twinkind co-founder Timo Schaedel looks at a 3D-printed figure of himself at the Twinkind 3D printing studio in Berlin. 


A 3D-printed likeness is produced by taking a 360 degree photographic scan of a person, which is then rendered into a 3D digital model and retouched to meet the requirements for printing.

The printing machine uses this digital model to produce a high-resolution solid figure. Twinkind co-founder Timo Schaedel said, people often come to the session well-groomed, with fresh hair-cuts and their best clothes, "just as they used to do in the past, when they had their portrait taken in a photo studio."

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Participants take part in the "Tomato Royale" event in Chicago, Illinois. The event is modeled after Spain's famous La Tomatina festival.

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Dogs with sunglasses rest on a table at the 2014 Taipei Pet Show at Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei

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A boy leans on a sack of cabbages at a vegetable wholesale market in Jinan, Shandong province July 13, 2014. China's leaders are expecting to see a dividend from three months of stimulus spending in second-quarter growth data on July 16, 2014

A boy leans on a sack of cabbages at a vegetable wholesale market in Jinan, Shandong province, China

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A boy navigates a coin on his face as he participates in parlour games organized by residents during feast day, in honour of their patron saint, Santa Rita De Casia, in Paranaque city, metro Manila

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Italian artist Gilbert Proesch (right) and British artist George Passmore, known as Gilbert & George, pose with their artwork "City Lights"  during the launch of their new exhibition "Scapegoating" at the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, London on July 17.

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"The Ninth Wave," an art piece by Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang, docks along the Huangpu River as part of the 2014 Power Station Art exhibition in Shanghai.

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A man looks at an installation of keys, used in Stasi police barracks, by Sonya Schoenberger, that is installed inside Christoph Zwiener's exhibition project "ADN Guard House" in Berlin.

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A refugee family hold numbered placards as they pose for a photo during a census conducted by the Thai authorities at Mae La refugee camp, near the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Sot district, Tak province, north of Bangkok

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