Crumpled clothing lies on a sidewalk near Harold Camping's Family Radio headquarters in Oakland, a mockery of the rapture that had been predicted for Saturday by the 89-year-old preacher.
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People in costume celebrate as the deadline for the rapture prophesied by Oakland preacher Harold Camping came and went Saturday.
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A man dressed as Santa Claus pours "Kool-Aid" for partyers outside Harold Camping's Family Radio headquarters in Oakland.
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David Kirk, 31, of Oakland drinks a beer while holding a sign that's self-explanatory -- and quite literal -- outside Harold Camping's Family Radio offices.
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Oakland CA., USA — Keith and Kellie Bauer of Westminster, Md., spent the week touring the country in anticipation of the rapture predicted by Oakland preacher Harold Camping. Here their son Joshua, 3, and another relative, Thomas Puff, 4, peer inside the closed headquarters of Camping's Family Radio in Oakland.
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Oakland, CA., USA — Keith Bauer places his relative, Thomas Puff, 4, into the car along with other family members and heads off to see the Pacific Ocean. They were disappointed that the rapture predicted by Oakland preacher Harold Camping didn't materialize.
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Oakland CA., USA — A truck parked in front of the home of Harold Camping's daughter, Sue Espinoza, displays a bumper sticker supporting Camping's well-advertised belief that the rapture was going to come on Saturday, May 21, 2011. The prediction turned out to be wrong, though Espinoza still believes it's in God's hands and can happen anytime. She had planned to spend the day inside her Alameda home.
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Alameda CA., USA — Harold Camping's daughter, Sue Espinoza, waited in her Alameda home for the rapture her father had predicted. It didn't happen.
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Oakland — Harold Camping delivers what he promises is his final appearance on the radio and TV call-in show "Open Forum," which he has hosted for decades.
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Oakland — Harold Camping has predicted that the end of the world will come Saturday starting with a series of earthquakes originating in New Zealand.
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Oakland — Family Stations Inc., of which Harold Camping is president, spent an estimated $100 million to warn the public of his predicted Judgment Day.
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Eugene, Ore. — Mose Macdonald works the impound yard of Stealth Recovery and Towing in Eugene, Ore. on Thursday under the shadow of a billboard proclaiming Saturday as "Judgment Day." An organization run by Harold Camping of Oakland has purchased billboards all over the country proclaiming Saturday will mark the end of the world.
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Tampa, Fla. — Lydia Mallett and John Junstrom spread the word in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday about Saturday, the day they believe will be the beginning of the Rapture.
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New York — Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end Saturday walk through the streets May 13 in New York City. The Christian-based movement, which claims thousands of supporters around the country and world, was founded by Harold Camping. Camping is president of Family Stations Inc., a religious broadcasting network that promotes the belief that Saturday is Judgment Day. Camping says he came up with this date through a deep and complex study of religious texts. Camping was wrong on his prior end-of-the-world prediction in 1994.
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