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In this Sunday, July 23, 2017, photo, a wildfire burns near Sand Springs, Mont. Massive wildfires burning in eastern Montana have destroyed at least a dozen homes and led ranchers to cut escape routes in fences for cattle as the powerful blazes jump rivers, roads and bulldozer-cleared fire breaks. (Rebecca Noble/The Billings Gazette via AP)
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In this Sunday, July 23, 2017, photo, a plane drops a defensive line of retardant on a wildfire near Sand Springs, Mont. Massive wildfires burning in eastern Montana have destroyed at least a dozen homes and led ranchers to cut escape routes in fences for cattle as the powerful blazes jump rivers, roads and bulldozer-cleared fire breaks. (Rebecca Noble/The Billings Gazette via AP)
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A Green Bay Packers fan with a Brett Favre tattoo attends the team's annual Green Bay Packers shareholders' meeting at Lambeau Stadium on Monday, July 24, 2017, in Green Bay, Wis. (Adam Wesley/The Post-Crescent via AP)
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A program is held at the annual Green Bay Packers shareholders' meeting at Lambeau Stadium on Monday, July 24, 2017, in Green Bay, Wis. (Adam Wesley/The Post-Crescent via AP)
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In this Sunday, July 23, 2017, image taken from video provided by the Pima County Sheriff's office, a stranded hiker is rescued from torrential flash flood waters near Tucson, Ariz. Over a dozen hikers were stranded Sunday in a scenic canyon on the outskirts of Tucson, just over a week after a flash flood killed 10 members of an extended family more than 140 miles to the north. (Pima County Sheriff via AP)
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In this Sunday, July 16, 2017, sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica equipped with enclosed life boats sails the Chukchi Sea to traverse the Arctic's Northwest Passage. The MSV Nordica icebreaker has all the safety equipment of a modern oceangoing vessel, plus some more because it works in hostile and remote Arctic waters. In a general emergency, such as a hole in the hull, those aboard would grab a survival suit stowed beneath each bunk and head for one of two muster stations on deck to don a life vest. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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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)
