January 6, 2012
lie on the surface; be buoyant, drift, move gently, poise, rest on water, skim, slip along, stayafloat, swim, waft, wash.
‘Two local residents row on a boat through a frosty fog as they cross the Shumikha Bay of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 23 degrees C (minus 9.4 F), some 53 km (33 mi) south of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on December 13, 2011. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin) #img31’

lie on the surface; be buoyant, drift, move gently, poise, rest on water, skim, slip along, stayafloat, swim, waft, wash.

‘Two local residents row on a boat through a frosty fog as they cross the Shumikha Bay of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 23 degrees C (minus 9.4 F), some 53 km (33 mi) south of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on December 13, 2011. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin) #img31

January 6, 2012
(Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images) #img04

(Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images) #img04

December 24, 2011
Celebrations in Moscow in August of 1991. (AFP/EPA/Alain-Pierre Hovasse) #img31 (Source)

Celebrations in Moscow in August of 1991. (AFP/EPA/Alain-Pierre Hovasse) #img31 (Source)

December 24, 2011
Damaged vehicles washed away by flash floods brought forth by Tropical Storm Washi lie in a ditch in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro, in southern Philippines December 17, 2011 (Reuters/Erik De Castro) #img06

Damaged vehicles washed away by flash floods brought forth by Tropical Storm Washi lie in a ditch in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro, in southern Philippines December 17, 2011 (Reuters/Erik De Castro) #img06

December 24, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow’s Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, on March 10, 1991, demanding that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists give up power. The crowd, estimated at 500,000, was the biggest anti-government demonstration in the 73 years of since the Communists took power, and came a week before the nationwide referendum on Gorbachev’s union treaty. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard) #img15

Hundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow’s Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, on March 10, 1991, demanding that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists give up power. The crowd, estimated at 500,000, was the biggest anti-government demonstration in the 73 years of since the Communists took power, and came a week before the nationwide referendum on Gorbachev’s union treaty. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard) #img15

December 24, 2011
Soviet mothers who lost their sons in the Red Army are held back by State militia as they hold photographs of their loved ones in Red Square, on Monday, December 24, 1990. A group of about 200 Soviet parents who have all lost sons through ethnic violence and accidents within the Soviet armed services demonstrated outside the Kremlin. 6,000 Soviet service men were killed during 1990. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver) #img08

Soviet mothers who lost their sons in the Red Army are held back by State militia as they hold photographs of their loved ones in Red Square, on Monday, December 24, 1990. A group of about 200 Soviet parents who have all lost sons through ethnic violence and accidents within the Soviet armed services demonstrated outside the Kremlin. 6,000 Soviet service men were killed during 1990. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver) #img08

December 21, 2011
‘It was midday and we came across a dazzle of zebras approaching a waterhole to quench their thirst. Every few minutes the zebras will enter the water to drink, just to panic and scatter out of the water again’. Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania (© Marius Coetzee) #img07

‘It was midday and we came across a dazzle of zebras approaching a waterhole to quench their thirst. Every few minutes the zebras will enter the water to drink, just to panic and scatter out of the water again’. Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania (© Marius Coetzee) #img07