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Cupertino kids swim in 'World's Largest Swimming Lesson'

Cupertino kids swim in 'World's Largest Swimming Lesson'

On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, tens of thousands of kids and adults at aquatic facilities around the world united for the fourth year in a row to set a new Guinness World Record for the ‘World's Largest Swimming Lesson’.

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum celebrates 50th anniversary

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum celebrates 50th anniversary

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington celebrated its 50th anniversary with guest Mr. McFeely from "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" and the Washington Wildthings mascot.

24 sensational sand sculptures

24 sensational sand sculptures

These beach-born works of art go above and beyond your typical sand castle. Check out these sensational sand sculptures.

 
  • Members of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force rappell down from a UH-60JA helicopter during the annual live-fire drill at the Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
  • Israeli Arab woman enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel during the third day of Eid al-Fitr, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Eid al-Fitr. One of the most important holidays in the Muslim world, Eid al-Fitr is marked with prayers, family reunions and other festivities. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
  • Two people walk into a thatched roof hut located along the shore in Barahona, Dominican Republic, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac churned toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday, threatening to strengthen into a hurricane. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
  • A firefighter walks past trees on fire during a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte near Leon, Spain, on Tuesday August 21, 2012. Some 500 soldiers have been deployed to help battle a wildfire authorities believe was started intentionally and which has burned 80 sq. kilometers (30. sq. miles) in northern Spain. (AP Photo/Pedro Armestre)
  • Dusty Hoetger watches as smoke rises from the Ponderosa Fire along Highway 36 near Paynes Creek, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. More than 2,400 firefighters are battling the Ponderosa Fire that has destroyed 64 homes and burned more than 27,000 acres. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
  • Ash and steam billow from the Tungurahua volcano, seen from Huambalo, Ecuador, as the sun rises early Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
  • A couple rehearses before competing at the Tango Dance World Cup 2012, salon category, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. From Aug. 14th to 28th Buenos Aires is hosting the Tango Buenos Aires Festival and Dance World Cup 2012. Dancers from 32 countries around the world are competing in the two categories of the championship: tango Salon, with 357 couples participating and tango stage with 134 couples. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
  • Students throw stones at riot police during a protest for education reform in downtown Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Students are demanding quality public schools as they protest the high cost of private universities and the banks that make education loans at high interest rates that most Chileans can ill afford. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)
  • In this July 25, 2012 photo, Paola laughs as Lancelot, an American cocker spaniel, walks on her bed at the SOLCA hospital in Quito, Ecuador. The dog's owner says her dogs are used every Wednesday to cheer up the most discouraged of the patients. Hospital workers began to notice that on Wednesdays fewer children had to be kept over because of problems after chemotherapy. Doctors found that youngsters' adrenaline levels rose from being with the dogs, boosting their resistance to chemo's side effects. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
  • A paraglider flies over cornfields at the edge of the black forest in Fuerstenberg, southern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
  • A worker drinks water near to the idols of Hindu elephant headed god Ganesh in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. The idols will be immersed in the Arabian Sea at the end of the ten day long Ganesh festival which begins on September 19. (AP Photo/ Rajanish Kakade)
  • Fans stand to cheer as Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Felix Hernandez throws against the Cleveland Indians in the third inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
  • Indonesian Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayers that mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Porong, East Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
  • Japanese toilet maker TOTO employee Akiko Matsuyama gets on a
  • Barges and their towboats accumulate alongside the Mississippi banks of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say low water levels that are restricting shipping traffic, forcing harbor closures and causing towboats and barges to run aground on the Mississippi River are expected to continue into October. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
  • A Greenpeace activist dressed as blind justice protests outside the Public Administration Department in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Greenpeace activists are protesting against the Environmental Department for allowing developers to go forward with a project to build a resort in Cabo Pulmo, in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico, and demanding the Public Administration Department punish the officials involved. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
  • This image made from video and released by Shaam News Network and accessed Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, purports to show the funeral of children in Daraya, near Damascus, Syria. Syrian troops backed by tanks and helicopters broke into a Damascus suburb on Thursday following two days of shelling and intense clashes as part of a widening offensive by President Bashar Assad's forces to seize control of parts of the capital and surrounding areas from rebel fighters, activists said. At least 15 people were killed in the offensive on Daraya, only a few miles (kilometers) southwest of Damascus. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network SNN via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE.
  • Nigeria Muslims attends Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Obalende prayer ground in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Muslims throughout the world celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday after the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
  • A mourner attends a memorial service at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Police shot and killed 34 striking miners and wounded 78 last week. Demands for higher wages spread to at least two other mines, raising fears of further protests at more South African mines that provide most of the world's platinum. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
 

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