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This frame from video by WUSA-TV shows homes Monday, July 24, 2017, destroyed by severe weather in Queen Anne's County, Md. Officials on Maryland's Eastern Shore are asking residents to shelter in place after severe weather overnight caused extensive damage and knocked out power to thousands. (WUSA-TV via AP)
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In this July 23, 2017 photo, Japan's new National Stadium, foreground, is seen under construction in Tokyo. Japan has begun its three-year countdown to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with relays, concerts and dancing meant to help drum up public enthusiasm for the event. The 2020 Games will be Japan’s first summer Olympics since the 1964 games in Tokyo. After a rocky start, organizers are gearing up to get the public more involved. (Yohei Kanasashi/Kyodo News via AP)
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In this July 23, 2017 photo, Japan's new National Stadium is seen under construction in Tokyo. Japan has begun its three-year countdown to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with relays, concerts and dancing meant to help drum up public enthusiasm for the event. The 2020 Games will be Japan’s first summer Olympics since the 1964 games in Tokyo. After a rocky start, organizers are gearing up to get the public more involved. (Yohei Kanasashi/Kyodo News via AP)
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In this July 23, 2017 photo, the Olympic village is seen under construction in Tokyo. Japan has begun its three-year countdown to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with relays, concerts and dancing meant to help drum up public enthusiasm for the event. The 2020 Games will be Japan’s first summer Olympics since the 1964 games in Tokyo. After a rocky start, organizers are gearing up to get the public more involved. (Yohei Kanasashi/Kyodo News via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 20, 2017, photo, North Koreans cycle while others walk past a fertilizer plant in Hamhung, North Korea's second-largest city. North Korea is just one of many countries still dealing with unexploded ordnance. Hamhung area and the nearby port of Hungnam were hit particularly hard by U.S. bombers because they were an industrial center and home to the largest nitrogen fertilizer plant in Asia. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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A 3 year-old "blue agave" plant, the prime material for the production of Tequila, is seen at a Casa Cuervo agave field Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004, near the town of Tequila, Mexico. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
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This July 6, 2017 photo shows Phoenix, a golden eagle at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah, in Ogden, Utah. Phoenix survived third-degree burns from a Utah wildfire and a bout with the West Nile virus that left him blind in one eye now has a job as an educational bird at a northern Utah wildlife rehabilitation center (Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner, via AP)
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In this photo provided by the San Francisco Transformation Department, a traffic signal made with tape separates cyclists from traffic on a San Francisco street on Sunday, April 23, 2017. The signal was the work of the San Francisco Transformation Department, one of several like-minded groups of anonymous Twitter users who have taken a do-it-yourself approach to making road improvements in cities stretching from New York and Boston to Dallas. (Twitter via AP)
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The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica leaves a wake after sailing through sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Friday, July 21, 2017. The AP is accompanying a group of international researchers is sailing into the Arctic Sea aboard the Finnish icebreaker to traverse the Northwest Passage and record the environmental and social changes that are taking place in one of the most forbidding corners of the world. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails through sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Friday, July 21, 2017. The AP is accompanying a group of international researchers is sailing into the Arctic Sea aboard the Finnish icebreaker to traverse the Northwest Passage and record the environmental and social changes that are taking place in one of the most forbidding corners of the world. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A tourist shelters from the sun near the Colosseum in Rome, Sunday, July 23, 2017. Italy is gripped by drought as the summer heat continues with no sign of rain. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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In this June 7, 2017 photo, Kevin DalBalcon sits tall in the saddle, moving cattle to pasture in the Colville National Forest in Colville, Wash. Last summer DalBalcon was up in the middle of the night with a flashlight checking on his cows in the forest. "When wolves are on your allotment, you don't sleep at night." (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP)
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In this June 7, 2017 photo, grazing allotments in the Colville National Forest are in rugged country near Colville, Wash. Ranchers say it's hard to know where the cattle are, let alone the wolves. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP)
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In this June 7, 2017 photo, Rancher Rhonda DalBalcon moves her cattle using her horse, a dog and her voice near Colville, Wash. The cattle are headed from leased, privately owned pasture to summer grazing in the Colville National Forest. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP)
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A tourist walks past a damaged structure outside a mosque after an earthquake at the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of people on the eastern Greek island of Kos have spent the night sleeping outdoors after a powerful Friday earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region in Greece and Turkey.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A marble part of a column is seen on the ground outside a mosque after an earthquake at the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, July 22, 2017.Hundreds of people on the eastern Greek island of Kos have spent the night sleeping outdoors after a powerful Friday earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region in Greece and Turkey.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A woman feeds puppies next to rubble, following an earthquake at the port of Kos island, Greece, on Saturday, July 22, 2017. Hundreds of people on the eastern Greek island of Kos have spent the night sleeping outdoors after a powerful Friday earthquake killed two tourists and injured nearly 500 others across the Aegean Sea region in Greece and Turkey.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Ice navigator, Capt. David "Duke" Snider, 60, a Canadian Coast Guard veteran with 35 years at sea, sits for a portrait aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica next to a satellite image of ice conditions along the Northwest Passage as the ship sails the Chukchi Sea into the Arctic, Saturday, July 15, 2017. Snider, who is aboard to help guide the ship safely through the ice, has sailed into the Arctic hundreds of times and completed the entire passage twice. "Maneuvering a ship in ice takes an entirely different set of skills. You have to understand how ice moves and grows," said Snider. "It's a dance, a slow dance. That's what it's all about, getting the ship through without stepping on her toes." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Polar maritime lawyer Scott Joblin, 30, sits for a portrait aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails north in the Bering Sea toward the Arctic, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. "It's a chance to ground my research in real world context," said Joblin who is pursuing his doctorate in international law at Australian National University. "I don't think the size or the scale [of the Arctic] is anything you can comprehend. The trip so far contextualizes how hard it is to get there," said Joblin of the roughly nine days the ship will take to reach the Arctic Circle from its departure in Vancouver. "It's really the frontier as it exists." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
