Last July, Jan Koeman of Middelburg, the Netherlands, poked a tiny hole in an empty beer can, inserted a piece of photographic paper, and pointed the pinhole toward the sun. Six months later (Dec. 23, 2010) he extracted the paper and this was the result:

"This is called solargraphy," explains Koeman. "Every day the sun makes a track across the photographic paper--high in the summer and low in the winter. Daily tracks are interrupted by clouds and, occasionally, absent altogether because of rainy days."

It's a low-tech but beautiful way to record the seasons.

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Only three of the remaining 174 detainees have been formally tried and found guilty. Dozens have been cleared but no foreign ally will accept them and there is strong American opposition to any being allowed on US soil.

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Three people are missing in north Queensland floods, including a five-year-old boy feared taken by a crocodile, as heavy rain continues to pound the region.

Mr Swan described the flooding as "unbelievable".
"They've had over one metre of rain in seven days," he told reporters in Ingham.

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Hospitals struggle to cope as deaths rise and Britain teeters on the brink of an epidemic

Experts predict that Britain is on course for the first flu epidemic in over a decade after the number of cases more than doubled in the past week.

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