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Total solar eclipse crosses North America, Texas in path of totality

STORY: Total solar eclipse crosses North America, Texas in path of totality SHOOTING TIME: April 8, 2024 DATELINE: April 9, 2024 LENGTH: 00:04:59 LOCATION: DALLAS, U.S. CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of people watching the eclipse in Plano, Dallas 2. whole process of eclipse including the 1st contact, 2nd contact, totality, 3rd contact, and 4th contact STORYLINE: A total solar eclipse passed over North America on Monday, with a significant part of the U.S. state of Texas in the path of totality. The eclipse started at Mexico's Pacific coast around 1:07 p.m. CDT, crossed into the United States near Eagle Pass, western Texas, at 1:27 p.m., and then moved northeast across Texas, and many other states before reaching Canada. In Plano, a suburban city of Dallas, the partial eclipse lasted from 12:23 p.m. to 3:02 p.m. The total eclipse, where the moon fully covered the sun, occurred from 1:41 p.m. to 1:44 p.m., lasting nearly 4 minutes. Residents and visitors gathered at Windhaven Meadow Park to o

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Int'l industry fair in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 1 Kyodo - Photo shows the exhibition space of Japan's Yaskawa Electric Corp. at the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai on Nov. 1, 2016. Around 2,300 companies, including from China, Japan and Europe, are presenting leading-edge robot technology.

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Sansa Odori Festival starts in Morioka

MORIOKA, Japan, Aug. 1 Kyodo - Dancers wearing Japanese summer kimono, or yukata, parade through the main street of the northeastern Japanese city of Morioka on Aug. 1, 2015, giving drums a bang. The Sansa Odori Dance Festival will go through Aug. 4, with around 35,000 people participating.

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Special economic advisor to PM Abe speaks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, a special economic adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on economic affairs and professor emeritus at Yale University, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2014. He expressed his idea of lowering Japan's effective corporate tax rate to around 25% from the current rate of around 35%.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows a facility under construction to remove around 60 types of nuclides from water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Reactor restarted at Oi plant in Fukui Pref.

OI, Japan - Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Seishu Makino speaks prior to the reboot of the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, on July 1, 2012. The utility reactivated the reactor by pulling out control rods from around 9 p.m. the same day. (Pool photo)

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Reactor restarted at Oi plant in Fukui Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 1, 2012, shows the No. 3 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. The utility reactivated the No. 3 reactor by pulling out control rods from around 9 p.m. the same day.

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Reactor restarted at Oi plant in Fukui Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 1, 2012, shows (from front to back) the Nos. 4, 3, 2 and 1 reactor buildings at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. The utility reactivated the No. 3 reactor by pulling out control rods from around 9 p.m. the same day.

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Mandarin ducks resting

YONAGO, Japan - Mandarin ducks rest on a riverside in the town of Hino in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 1, 2011. The orange feathers of the male ducks are at their brightest in the early part of the year. Around one thousand Mandarin ducks were spotted the same day on and around the Hino River, where they spend the winter before flying north.

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APEC Women's Entrepreneurship Summit

GIFU, Japan - Businesswomen and delegates watch a video message by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the Women's Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by Japan and the United States to foster women entrepreneurs and develop their networking on Oct. 1, 2010, in the city of Gifu. Around 300 participants from the Asia-Pacific region attended the meeting held within the APEC framework.

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NEC to invest 15 bil. yen on cloud computing services by FY 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuhiro Endo, senior vice president of NEC Corp., speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Endo, 56, who will be appointed company president on April 1, 2010, said NEC will invest around 15 billion yen to enhance data centers for cloud computing over a three-year period as it embarks on an ambitious goal for a tenfold increase in net profit by fiscal 2012.

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Koshien ballpark turns eco-friendly

OSAKA, Japan - Around 1,600 solar panels installed on the roof of Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture start to generate power March 1, 2010. It is estimated that the system will produce enough electricity to light all of the night games held at the ballpark throughout a year.

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Tokyo Olympic exec's home searched over dubious money from sponsor

File photo taken in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2017, shows Haruyuki Takahashi, an executive of the now-defunct Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. Prosecutors searched his home in Tokyo on July 26, 2022, as he is believed to have received around 45 million yen ($330,000) from business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc., a sponsor of the Tokyo Games.