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Ritual for rain, beach bonfires, Florida waterspout

27 June

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Metro train operator Carol Williams mourns her co-worker Jeanice McMillan at a memorial service in Washington, on Friday. McMillan was the operator of the train that collided into stopped cars on Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Children lie in mud as a ritual to induce rain on Friday in Nari Bari, about 30 miles from Allahabad, India. At least 24 people have died in a scorching heat wave that has swept through at least half a dozen Indian states. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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Music fans move around the tents Thursday at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England. The gates have opened for an anticipated 140,000 music fans at what has become one of Europe's largest music festivals, but weather forecasters have warned that bad weather may be on the way. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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People gather to watch the sunset on a hill above the teepee field at the Glastonbury Festival site on Wednesday. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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A Palestinian construction worker sprays water onto the rooftop of a building at sunset in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Under low clouds, stunningly lit by a setting sun, The New York Mets play the New York Yankees after a rain delay Friday at Citi Field in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Revellers set bonfires on a beach in A Coruna, Spain during a traditional festival in honor of Saint Joan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cabalar, EFE)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn bins during a protest against a gay pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday. About 2,000 participants in an earlier gay pride parade marched peacefully through Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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An Air Force F-22 Raptor goes supersonic over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis on Monday in the Gulf of Alaska. The strange mist is caused by an interaction between the jet's speeding surface and water vapor in the air. (AP Photo/US Navy - Ronald Dejarnett)

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A Bleriot XI aircraft from the year 1908 performs during the Airpower '09 airplane show in Zeltweg, Austria, on Friday. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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A Trabant, an iconic vehicle of former East Germany, is seen near the Hungarian-Austrian border area on Friday. Hungarians are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Iron Curtain near the former Sopronpuszta border crossing point in Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

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A large waterspout forms near the Fuller Warren Bridge, above the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla. on Friday afternoon. It dissipated as it reached the other side of the river. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Will Dickey)

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A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano, in Russia's Kuril Islands, near Japan, during an early stage of eruption on June 12. The main column is one of a series of plumes that rose above Matua Island. The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance. The surrounding atmosphere has been shoved up by the shock wave of the eruption. The smooth white cloud on top may be water condensation that resulted from rapid rising and cooling of the air mass above the ash column. (AP Photo/NASA)

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The lowest tide in years is seen in Bandon, Oregon on Tuesday. Unusually low tides along the Oregon coast are exposing areas normally hidden by the pounding surf. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Faith Cathcart)

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John Lamont, 2, plays in a water sprinkler on Friday in Decatur, Illinois. (AP Photo/Herald & Review, Kelly J. Huff)

 
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