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An army chaplain from Versailles, Ohio, Father Carl Subler offers spiritual guidance and religious services to U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.

In the course of his celebrated career, director James Cameron has continuously pushed the limits of special-effects technology with a long succession of cutting-edge films. His directorial visions have often outpaced the technology readily available during the production of his movies, forcing him to either create the needed technology from scratch or wait until tech breakthroughs could catch up with his ideas. A low-budget film, produced for roughly $6.5 million, that went on to become both a box-office and critical hit, The Terminator was the film that kick-started Cameron's legacy.

Once the capital of Guatemala, Antigua was moved twice before it was abandoned and the capital set elsewhere. After Mayan conflicts with the Spanish led it to move from what is now Iximche to the Alotenango Valley, a volcano eruption in 1541 forced the city to relocate once again, this time to its current location in the Panchoy Valley. A series of earthquakes in the 18th century led the Spanish crown to decree that the the capital be moved to present-day Guatemala City.

Rescue workers search for survivors in a destroyed building in Concepción.

Tens of thousands of children lost a parent in the earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12. Among them: Dieu Fatane, age 6, above, photographed in her aunt's house in Port au Prince. An army of aid workers is working to help find a permanent home for her.

Originally from Bissingen an der Teck, a town in southwestern Germany, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their five children immigrated to the U.S. in 2008 because homeschooling in Germany is illegal. Evangelical Christians, the Romeikes wanted to decide for themselves how and what their children would learn.

Following Scorsese's epochal films with Robert De Niro (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, etc.), you might not have predicted that the director would spend an entire decade of filmmaking, from Gangs of New York in 2002 to the new Shutter Island, with a very different actor of German-Italian heritage. De Niro was a star in the Method mold: simmering, then exploding, and all to spectacular effect. DiCaprio has a subtler gift: he's implosive instead of explosive, and tops at allowing the viewer to discover, as if in confidence, the emotions that roil his characters' souls.

Twice he's played the endangered hero -- in Gangs of New York, in which Daniel Day-Lewis got the strutting, twisted De Niro role, and as the undercover cop in The Departed -- and twice a more complex creature, as Howard Hughes in The Aviator and a U.S. marshal unearthing awful truths in Shutter Island. The new best friends will reconvene soon, when Leo plays the title role in Sinatra, a movie about the singer's relationship with the Mob.

The opening ceremonies at Vancouver evoked many Canadian scenes from its prairies to its peaks, and through varied seasons.

The 1920 Games were awarded to Antwerp, Belgium, in an effort to show that the Olympic spirit could flourish even in a country still reeling from the carnage of the first World War. Belgium's just-defeated enemies -- Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey -- were not invited, but the 29 countries that did attend the Games sought unity from the very start: the opening ceremonies saw the introduction of the Athlete's Oath -- in which a competitor from the host country promises on behalf of all the athletes to play fairly and obey all the rules -- and the Olympic flag. Made of five interlocking rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red against a white background, it included at least one color from every nation's flag. Both traditions endure today.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently released thousands of photos, some never-before-seen, of the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.