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Aerobatic pilots Sean D. Tucker and Jessy Panzer (foreground) of Team Oracle fly down the Hudson River past the World Trade Center on May 22, 2019 during a media day in advance of the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach over Memorial Day weekend. - Tucker will be performing at air shows this summer and fall alongside Jessy Panzer, the only civilian female formation airshow pilot in the United States. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

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A dragonfly lands atop an unopened Lotus flower beside an opened one as Lotus flowers near full bloom at Echo Park lake amid an ongoing southern California heatwave in Los Angeles, California, on June 26, 2017.Lotus flowers at Echo Park lake were believed to have been imported in the 1920's from China, possibly by Aimee McPherson, founder of the Angelus temple near the park, and have returned following a two-year rehabiliatation project where the lake was drained and restored , with lotus beds replaced. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN

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Birds sit on the Santa Monica Pier roller coaster track as the full or perigee moon, also known as a "supermoon", sets over the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, August 11, 2014. The "supermoon" was the largest and closest full moon of the year. It is 14 percent closer and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of the year, according to NASA. AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck / AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK

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