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PHOTO OF THE DAY July 25, 2003  

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Where Sonpur, India
When 1983
Photographer George F. Mobley

"At dawn elephants lumber into the river at Sonpur. Their keepers will scrub them clean with porous stones, decorate them with paint, and sell them at the giant fair."

—Text from the National Geographic book Great Rivers of the World, 1984

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