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Mennonite lunch, shipwreck found, mud people (17 images)

24 June

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Nine-year-old Myron King and his six-year-old sister Lucy Anne enjoy a laugh while eating lunch and caring for their pretend baby in Louisville, Ky. on Thursday. The Mennonite children from Union Star, Ky., were waiting for their mother and sisters to finish selling farm products at a farmers market. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

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Derek Earnhart, of Elk Township, NJ. visits the Korean War Memorial on Thursday in Washington, DC. Sixty years ago today North Korean troops marched across the 38th parallel into South Korea, starting a three year war that ended in an armistice in 1953. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Buddhist monks blow traditional brass horns and beat a drum during a Buddhist ritual at a monastery in Katmandu, Nepal on Thursday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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A boy stands in a flooded area after heavy rains in Uniao dos Palmares, Alagoas state, Brazil on Thursday. Brazilian rescuers continue searching for 600 people declared missing after heavy rains hit two states. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Civil defense members pull out Lebanese worker Hareth Abboud from the rubble of a collapsed building, in Zouk Mosbeh's industrial neighborhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon on Thursday, nearly ten hours after a five-story aluminum factory collapsed. Two other workers were unaccounted for, security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Afghan farmers harvest wheat outside Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

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A man works at a brick factory outside Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

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The L.R. Doty was photographed at the Soo Locks in Sault St. Marie, Mich. in 1896. Maritime historians say they have found the wooden steamship, which sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm, off the Milwaukee shoreline. Divers say the Doty appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters. It was carrying a cargo of corn from South Chicago to Ontario, Canada when it sank in October 1898.(AP Photo/ Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University, Andrew Young )

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The gangway is still in tact under the boiler house of the wooden steamship L.R. Doty found off the Milwaukee, Wis. shoreline. (AP Photo/Great Lakes Shipwreck Research)

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The first of the 140,000 music fans due at this year's Glastonbury Festival enjoy the sunset at Worthy Farm, Pilton on Wednesday evening in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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Young people get in a fountain to cool down after celebrating their school graduation at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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Subaru, a 4-year-old toy poodle from South Korea, is groomed during Thailand's 9th International Dog Show in Bangkok on Thursday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Steel workers from the nearby Fos-sur-Mer ArcelorMittal plant join a protest in Marseille, southern France on Thursday. French transport workers, teachers, postal workers and others are on strike to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62. The government says the reform to the money-losing pension system is an "obligation," given France's burgeoning deficit and its aging population. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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Catholic devotees listen to mass while covered in mud and leaves during the Taong Putik Festival or "Mud People Festival", the Feast of Saint John the Baptist on Thursday in the town of Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. During the feast, members of the Catholic community cover themselves in mud and stick banana leaves, twigs and vines onto themselves emulating John the Baptist's disguised appearance when he baptized Christ. (Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images)

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A reveler throws water to an unsuspecting motorcyclist during the celebration of the feast of Saint John The Baptist on Thursday, in suburban San Juan City, east of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

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Kids play soccer in a dusty lot as the sun goes down, in a rural community outside Rustenburg, Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Destroyed trailer homes are shown at Smiths' trailer park and camp in the town of Midland in Ontario, Canada on Thursday, following a tornado which struck Wednesday night, leaving a number of injuries in its wake. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)

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