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Sunflower maze, alphorn festival, car show (15 images)

25 July

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Gavin Parfitt, 19-months, gets a ride on his father's shoulders, Joseph Parfitt of Baldwinsville, in a sea of sunflowers at the Camillus Sunflower Maze on Route 5 in Camillus, N.Y. on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Post Standard, Mike Greenlar)

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A FA-18 Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of the USS George Washington in South Korea's East Sea on Sunday. The massive nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier began maneuvers Sunday with ally South Korea in a potent show of force that North Korea has threatened could lead to "sacred war." (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Jung-hoon)

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This photo released by Decca Records shows nuns of the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation in their convent near Avignon, France. The nuns have won a worldwide search to find the world's finest female singers of Gregorian Chant and have signed a deal with a leading record company. (AP Photo)

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People watch large bubbles being blown by a man, float through Central Park in New York. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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A woman painted as a Indian goddess attends the International body paint festival in Bingen, Germany. (AP Photo/ddp/Thomas Lohnes)

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A flock of sheep grazes as soccer enthusiasts play in the background at Maidan, an open public space in Calcutta, India on Sunday. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

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A string of bullets hangs on the neck of US Army soldier PFC Jean-Paul Desculline , of Miami, Florida, from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Afghan soldiers queue up for lunch in a kitchen for the Afghan National Army to cook their food at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Charles Bicht, right, winner of the 2010 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, gets a congratulatory smooch from 2009 winner David Douglas, left, in front of Sloppy Joe's Bar on Saturday, in Key West, Fla. The victory for Bicht, a Vero Beach, Fla., resident, came after 11 previous attempts. The event was a facet of the island's annual Hemingway Days festival. Ernest Hemingway lived in Key West throughout the 1930s. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)

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Some of 160 alphorn players perform during the 9th international alphorn festival in Nendaz, south western Switzerland on Sunday. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)

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Wearing sailor's vests former seamen gesture while standing in a fountain as their celebrate Navy Day in Gorky Park, Moscow on Sunday. The celebration of Navy Day in Russia is traditionally marked on the last Sunday of July. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Bride Yulia Tagil and groom Stas Granin (C) share a moment during their alternative wedding ceremony, on Sunday at a square in Tel Aviv, Israel. Tagil and her husband, Stas Granin, held the public wedding to protest the Jewish guidelines stating that the only way for Jews to marry by law is through the standards set by the Chief Rabbinate. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

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Filipino children play along a flooded street during a sudden heavy downpour in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Sunday. The heavy rain triggered flashfloods around metropolitan Manila clogging traffic along major roads in the city. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Diane McFeely, of Boynton Beach, Fla., strolls through the Concours d'Elegance of America at Meadow Brook on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester, Mich. on Sunday. McFeely, who is from the area, said, "when you're born in the motor city, cars are in your blood." (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

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A 1953 Nash Healy used in the TV series "The Adventures of Superman" with George Reeves, drives up to the judges stand at the Concours d'Elegance of America at Meadow Brook on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester, Mich. on Sunday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

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