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Photo of the Day
July 04, 2007

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Photo: Water Wars

Water Wars, Minnesota, 2000

Photograph by Richard Olsenius

Firemen bring relief to spectators at Bowlus Fun Days, a central Minnesota Fourth of July celebration that pits teams of firefighters against each other in a series of "water wars."

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In Search of Lake Wobegon," December 2000, National Geographic magazine)

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