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A general view from Exchange Place, New Jersey, shows the skyline of lower Manhattan in darkness after a preventive power outage caused by giant storm Sandy in New York, October 30, 2012. Millions of people in the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to flooded homes, fallen trees and widespread power outages caused by Sandy, which swamped New York City's subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan's financial district. More than two-thirds of the U.S. East Coast's refining capacity was shut down and fuel pipelines idled due to Hurricane Sandy. Early assessments show the region's biggest plants may have escaped without major damage. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER ENERGY CITYSPACE)

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A radio-controlled flying witch makes a test flight past a moon setting into clouds along the pacific ocean in Carlsbad, California in this October 8, 2014 file photo.

The witch is actually a radio controlled airplane powered by an electric motor. The inventor Otto Dieffenbach III invited me to shoot a test flight as he was keen to fly his invention through a full moon.
I have no idea how he makes it fly but it's amazing just to watch, freaky actually. Shooting was a bit of a challenge, as the moon was setting into the ocean fog and there needed to be a slight bit of dawn light for some separation in order to focus on the witch and not the moon. It was only near the end of the 15 minute battery powered flight that it all came together with the flight path, light, focus and timing. - Mike Blake REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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UP HELLY AA FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS DRESSED IN COSTUME ARE SILHOUETTED AGAINST
BURNING VIKING GALLEY IN SCOTLAND.
Locals dressed in costume are silhouetted against a burning replica Viking
galley in Lerwick during the Up Helly Aa Festival on the Island of Shetland
in Scotland January 28, 2003. The Up Helly Aa Festival, introduced by men
returning from the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, takes place
annually on the last Tuesday of January. Participants drag the replica
Viking galley through the streets of Lerwick to a designated point where it
is ceremonially burnt. NO RIGHTS CLEARANCES OR PERMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS IMAGE REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell