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With moments left of sunlight before a downpour, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has just emerged from Rich Passage, a narrow tidal strait in Puget Sound, en route to her homeport of Naval Station Bremerton, Sunday, March 7, 2021 after nearly 11-months deployed in U.S. 3rd, 5th, and 7th Fleets during the pandemic. One of two tugs spraying water in celebration is seen, as birds fly through. 216594
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Pedestrian checks their phones in downtown Seattle off Pike Street and 2nd Avenue on Thursday. Sensor surveillance technology is located at more than 300 intersections throughout downtown and is tracking people’s every movement through their cell phones. Thursday, March 4, 2021. 216350
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FILE – In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, the Legislative Building is shown partially shrouded in fog at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state’s richest residents, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, would pay a wealth tax on certain financial assets worth more than $1 billion under a proposed bill whose sponsor says she is seeking a fair and equitable tax code. Under the bill, starting Jan. 1, 2022, for taxes due in 2023, a 1% tax would be levied not on income, but on “extraordinary” assets ranging from cash, publicly traded options, futures contracts, and stocks and bonds. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Tamra Sherwood reacts to the bracing cold water during an open-water swim at Alki Beach in West Seattle on a snowy Sunday February 14, 2021. 216352

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The Seattle Art Museum reopens featuring Jacob Lawrence in a major traveling exhibition. In the first room of Lawrence works is Rich Black Specimen #460 by Hank Willis Thomas in aluminum with powder coat and automotive paint representing a runaway slave. SAM will be open Fridays through Sundays and next First Thursday in April with free admission all day. Capacity will be limited. This is the fourth stop on a five-city tour, and the only WestCoast stop. For more information see seattleartmuseum.org Ref to more photos online LO Linesonly Friday March 5, 2021 216560
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Rabbi Rafi Mollot, dressed as Haman, and Ari Hoffman, on the horse, dressed as Mordechai, pretend to ride through the streets of Shushan as Haman shouts, “This is what you do for somebody the king wants to honor!” In the story of Purim, the evil leader Haman is tricked into dressing Mordechai in the king’s robes. “One of the themes of the holiday is opposites,” said Hoffman, who said he finally gets to play the good guy in the story for a change. Congregants of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath synagogue in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle celebrate Shushan Purim with candy and pony rides for children Sunday February 28, 2021. Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the saving of their people from a threatened genocide at the hands of an ancient Persian leader, Haman. 216509
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Larger than life, a mural of the slain civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., looks out from the corner of East Madison Street at East Pike Street. It’s by artist Lawrence Genette and is part of the Capitol Hill Arts District. Dr. King was only 39-years-old when assassinated: April 4, 1968 in Memphis, He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. (Maybe a Black History Month ref) LO MLK Friday Feb 26, 2021 216505
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