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In this March 11, 2016, photo, the bank erosion from the Missouri River at Double Ditch Indian Village, northwest of Bismarck, N.D., on Highway 1804, has expanded to damage a walking path and burial grounds. The process needed to obtain a federal permit for a project to alleviate erosion of native burial grounds at the Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Site might delay construction until spring. A state historic preservation official says that would be concerning. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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Chamber pots are on display at a Toilet Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Among the most interesting of some 2,000 pieces on display is a chamber pot which was acquired for the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House in 1892 and could serve up to 17 American presidents. Another chamber pot here was commissioned for Napoleon. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Demonstrators yell, "No to the plebiscite," to protest the government's peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has been involved in a half-century of warfare that has caused more than 200,000 casualties. (Associated Press)
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A scene from "Tanna." (variety.com)
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Logan, a 31-pound cat, struggles to get up at the Silver Fox Inn at the Waterville Valley resort Thursday Sept. 29, 2016 in Waterville Valley, N.H. The cat has been winning over guests and recently internet viewers. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY OCT. 3 AND THEREAFTER - In a Sept. 20, 2016 photo, author Vicky Gao, 11, smilesat all of the authors during the Abilene Author Showcase at the downtown Abilene Public Library as part of this year's West Texas Book Festival. Vicky is 11. Her latest book is "The Curse of the Stone." It's 245 pages and self-published. (Greg Jaklewicz/Reporter-News via AP)
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Google.com's doodle for Sept. 29, 2016, the 117th anniversary of the birth of ballpoint pen inventor László Bíró.
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In this 2015 photo provided by Bob Gent shows, rare geological formations in Chiricahua National Monument in southern Ariz. A group of local leaders is advocating for the monument to be re-designated as a national park, which they say would bring more prestige and more tourism to the 92-year-old monument. The monument is 115 miles southeast of Tucson, Ariz. (Bob Gent via AP)
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Terry Zoller, the bridge construction manager for St. Croix Crossing project, checks the progress of the bridge being built over the St. Croix River in Stillwater, Minn. on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Construction of the most expensive highway project in Minnesota’s history began in 2013. The new four-lane bridge will replace the aging Stillwater Lift Bridge as the main Minnesota-Wisconsin crossing north of Interstate 94. (Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Laborers' International Union of North America members and Culinary Union members walk by an inflatable figure depicting Donald Trump during a protest outside of the Trump International hotel, in Las Vegas. The unions were protesting what they say is an anti-union stance by the hotel. Union members are calling the public to boycott Republican presidential nominee Trump's businesses nationwide because he isn't negotiating a contract with the more than 500 eligible workers at his high-rise Las Vegas hotel. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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The Westin hotel at left rises above downtown buildings in Atlanta, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. An exit button inside the Westin hotel where a worker was found dead failed to work during an inspection, trapping multiple people who had to beat on the door to alert someone to let them out, a medical examiner found. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office has amended its autopsy for Carolyn Mangham to include the new details about the freezer exit button at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this August 2016 photo, a trail runs past the lower lake at Snowy Lakes, near the Pacific Crest Trail. Loerch hiked part of the Pacific Crest Trail alone. (Jessi Loerch/The Herald via AP)
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In this Aug. 18, 2016 photo, Ray Haas, left, with Dry Stone Conservancy, works with Grand Teton trail crew member Justin Williams on one of two stone parapet overlooks under construction on the southeast shore of Jenny Lake as part of a five-year restoration project in Grand Teton National Park near Moose, Wyo. The trail is the most popular and heavily-used in the park. (Bradly J. Boner/Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP)
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In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, photo, Mathew Wong poses for portrait at Tea and Milk, a bubble tea shop he co-owns in the Astoria neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York. Wong and his business partners developed a strategy they hope makes their shop stand out and allow it to thrive even if the popularity of bubble tea wanes. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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In this Sept. 11, 2016 photo, members of Immanuel Lutheran Church of Colfax, Ill., and Trinity Lutheran Church of Fairbury, Ill., join together to dig, clean and sort potatoes at a farm in rural Colfax, Ill. Church members from both congregations started the Tater Tot Project last year to teach children about serving others by helping them plant and harvest potatoes to distribute to area food pantries.(Lori Ann Cook-Neisler/The Pantagraph via AP)
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Fresh Start Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on the Colombia peace accord and cocaine exportation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Egg Shell Helmet Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Hillary Clinton will be targeted in the October issue of MAD Magazine as "My Little Phony." (MAD Magazine)
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In this Wednesday, May 27, 2015 photo, a National Park cabin is seen on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Ariz. Arizona's rebounding state parks system plans to more than quadruple the number of cabins at parks statewide, one of several projects on the drawing board to improve and expand parks facilities less than a decade after the system struggled to keep parks open as legislators raided funding during the Great Recession. (AP Photo/Matt York)