.....There Is HOPE For Their Homeland (And Everyone Else's).....

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Candidates for Miss Iraq beauty contest pose in front 

of a basalt statue of a lion at archaeological site 
of Babylon, outside the modern city of Hilla, 
south of the capital Baghdad on December 17, 2015. 

The beauty contest–the first one in more than 40 years–

will take place on December 19, 2015. 

AFP PHOTO/Ahmed-Al-Rubaye
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