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17-year cicadas emerge in eastern U.S.

17-year cicadas emerge in eastern U.S.

Cicadas emerge to mate, in huge numbers, at the end of their life cycle.

Dolphins and acrobats at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Dolphins and acrobats at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo is presenting the park's new show 'Cirque Dreams - Splashtastic' that features dolphins and acrobats performing spectacular stunts together.

Celebrities rocking the microphone

Celebrities rocking the microphone

Some celebrities known for one art form get their kicks on the side performing as musicians.

 
  • An Afghan man walks with his goat in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Temperatures dropped to 1 degrees Celsius (34 Fahrenheit) in Kabul. (AP Photo/Ahamd Jamshid)
  • Cincinnati head coach Steve Stripling, center, gets doused by players in the closing seconds of the Belk Bowl NCAA college football game against Duke in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Cincinnati won 48-34. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
  • A shopper stands by a sale sign on a store window during the traditional Boxing Day sales on Oxford Street in London, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
  • Baylor coach Art Briles is doused next to an official after Baylor defeated UCLA 49-26 in the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
  • An Indian man walks near a tree on the banks of the river Yamuna on a cold and foggy morning in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. North India continues to face extreme weather conditions with dense fog affecting flights and trains and cold wave conditions claiming more than 50 lives, according to local reports. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
  • Policemen stop protesters from approaching a barricade on their way to India Gate while protesting against the recent gang-rape of a young woman in a moving bus in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Thursday to take action to protect the nation's women while the young rape victim was flown to Singapore for treatment of severe internal injuries. She later died. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)
  • A Marine stands post at dawn prior to the Memorial Service for Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, at the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • Japanese baseball player Hideki Matsui speaks to the media during a news conference, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in New York. The 38-year-old former New York Yankees' outfielder, World Series MVP, and two-time All Star announced his retirement from baseball on Thursday, following months of free agency after his release from the Tampa Bay Rays in August. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
  • Pedestrians stand in front of the Arch of the Revolution monument in Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. The once-neglected plaza with an Arc de Triumph-style monument to Mexico's 1910 revolution has been remade from a homeless encampment to a place where families visit and children run through spurts of water gushing out of the pavement. The copper dome of what started out as the congressional rotunda is newly polished and gleaming. Mexico City's government is trying to transform one of the world's largest cities by beautifying public spaces, parks and monuments. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
  • Protesters wave the Syrian revolution flag during a rally after the Friday prayer at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
  • In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 photo, a falcon catches a pigeon body during a training session on the outskirts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. While the methods to develop top-quality hunting falcons date back to antiquity, its transition into a modern Middle Eastern passion has brought in microchip tagging and price tags that can run well over $10,000 for a prime bird.(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
  • Members of the San Jose State team celebrate after the Military Bowl NCAA college football game against Bowling Green at RFK Stadium, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in Washington. San Jose State won 29-20. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
  • Ada Huberty is held by Stuart Nelson, dressed as Santa Claus, while posing for a Christmas photo at Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minn., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Dave Schwarz)
  • A Newar community girl dressed as a deity watches as she participates in a parade marking Yomari Puni festival in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Yomari Puni is a festival observed annually by the Newari community on a full moon day where Yomari, a confection of rice flour, is prepared and eaten. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
  • People gather at the site of a fire on Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. An explosion ripped through a warehouse Wednesday where witnesses say fireworks were stored in Nigeria's largest city, sparking a fire. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was injured in the blast that firefighters and locals struggled to contain. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
  • Pakistani Anusha Khalid, 4, dressed as a bride, poses for a picture at an outdoor Mass on Christmas Day, in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
  • In this Dec. 7, 2012 photo, Marvin Vega unloads a crate of anchovies from the holding area of a
  • Cody Mooney, visiting from Loveland, Colo., tosses his 17-month-old daughter Willow in the air as snow geese take flight behind, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in the Skagit Valley near La Conner, Wash. Bird watchers took advantage of a day without rain Thursday to gaze at some of the tens of thousands of snow geese that spend the winter near the mouth of the Skagit River there. The geese migrate from their mating grounds in Alaska and Siberia in late November to spend the winter in wetlands and farm fields of the Skagit Valley and other areas of northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
  • Revelers take part in festival of Els Enfarinats, in the town of Ibi near Alicante, Spain, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. For 200 years the inhabitants of Ibi annually celebrate with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers, outside the city town hall. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
  • Christine Caldwell, left, receives firearms training with a 9mm Glock from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
  • People gather around to view an ostrich, put on display in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. The temperature in Kiev fell to -4 C (25 F) on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
  • Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Stocks were heading lower Friday, for a fifth day, on concern that Washington lawmakers will fail to reach a budget deal before a year-end deadline. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • Kashmiri village women watch the funeral procession of Imtiyaz Ahmed, a suspected militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba, in Petipora, a village 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Indian forces on Friday killed two suspected rebels in a gunbattle and wounded seven civilians later during anti-India protests in southern Kashmir, police said. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
  • FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo, former South African President, Nelson Mandela leaves the chapel after attending the funeral of his great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela was released Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 from the hospital after being treated for a lung infection and having gallstones removed, a government spokesman said. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)
 

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