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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 4, 2003  

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Where Algiers, Algeria
When 1972
Photographer Thomas J. Abercrombie

"'Algiers, the white,' Algerians call their capital, here awakening under a pale winter sun. The city's arcaded quay was built by the French, whose 132-year rule of this North African land ended in 1962. Beyond Algiers, on opposite sides of a rugged mountain range, lie fertile coastal plains and the vast oil-rich desert."

—From "Algeria: Learning to Live With Independence," August 1973, National Geographic magazine

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