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Fire danger A Southern California man stops to pray as fires kicked up near his home in early December.

The Santa Ana winds blow more ' fiercely and longer during the early winter, creating numerous wildfires that, this year, caused thousands of people to evacuate.

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Texting fines A woman texts while crossing the street, an act that will now earn a fine in Honolulu after it became the first major U.S. city to fine pedestrians for texting while crossing the street. The fines ranged from $35-$99.

Hazardous stress reducers A young woman passes the time by playing with a fidget spinner. Fidget spinners were a new hand-held toy, designed to reduce stress, that became wildly popular. But the spinners caused anxiety for parents due to safety concerns, including choking, fire and lead poisoning.

Pass the avocados Enjoying avocado on toast continues to be a growing food trend and was joined by the avolatte - coffee served inside an avocado. Putting more fun in food , unicorn lattes and ice cream appeared, along with donuts decorated with crushed children 's cereal.

Riding out the storm Rescue workers evacuate stranded residents in Texas during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which was one of the busiest in years with 10 hurricanes forming and six reaching Category 3 or higher. Hurricane Harvey hit south Texas on Aug . 25 as a Category 4 and then stalled, causing catastrophic flooding. Hurricane Irma struc k several Caribbean islands before hitting the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm , and then traveled north through Florida.

A royal pair Prince Harry of Great Britain and Meghan Markle, an American actress, feminist and humanitarian , meet with reporters. They anno unce d their surprise engagement in Nov emb er and were wed in spring 2018.

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A brutally cold winter Revelers brave frigid temperatures at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.

An arctic burst dropped the temperature to nine degrees, the second coldest ball drop on record . New York wasn't the only place facing a cold winter. Despite the cold wave, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2017 the globe's third warmest year on record .

Slime!

A group of girls stir together the ingredients for slime. This gooey, homemade gunk experienced a resurgence in popularity.

Most recipes require only a combination of white glue and laundry detergent, with food coloring to make it bright.

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Singer Liam Payne, of the band One Direction, shows off some of the year's most popular styles in a visit to New York. Denim ruled the runways and school hallways, from jackets to jeans to overalls. Even head-totoe denim wasn 't a faux pas.

Army green, plaid patterns and frayed hems were also popular.

Statement-making backpacks and bags, plus retro glasses, were the chic accessories.

Twice the type The signup page of Twitter, which averaged roughly 330 m illion monthly active users, displays on a smartphone. In November 2017, Twitter doubled its character limit from 140 to 280, to mixed reviews. The most popular social media platforms among American teenagers were lnstagram and Snapchat.

A virus runs ram pan t A nurse holds a vial of the season's flu vaccine, whic h was less effective than normal this year due to the particularly aggressive H3N2 strain of influenza. The outbreak was widespre ad in every state except Hawaii and caused the Centers for Disease Control to declare it an epidemic.

Unicorn everything The limited-edition Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino fills the pages of lnstagram.

The brightly-colored coffee concoction that changed colors was an instant hit on social media. The unicorn trend didn 't stop there , spreading to food s like bagels, toast, cake and smoothies and even outside the kitchen, with brightly-dyed unicorn hair and multicolored painted nails.

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Houston, you have a champion The Houston Astros celebrate after winning the World Series , defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games. Playing for a city hit by a hurricane just tw o months earlier, the Astros survived a classic series filled with comebacks and extra-inning games to win the first world title in tea m history. Houston's George Springer was named MVP for slugging five ho me runs and eight extra base hits , the mo st ever in a World Series.

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Dr ea m season NASCAR driver Martin Truex Jr. celebrates after winning the Ford Ec oB oo st 400 on Nov. 19 at the Miami Speedway. The win clinched the first Cu p Se ries cha mp ion sh ip for Truex Jr. , wh o enjoyed a dre am season wit h eig ht win s and 19 top five finish es in 36 races.

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Runner Shalane Flanagan reacts after crossing the fini sh line at the 2017 Ne w York City Marathon on Nov. 5. Flanagan , an Oly mp ic silver medalist , be ca me the first American wo ma n to win the Ne w York City Marathon in 40 years.

Fly, Eagles, fly!

Philadelphia quarterback Nic k Fales eludes the Ne w England Patriots defense during Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis. Fales, the Eagles' ba cku p wh o wa s forced to play when starter Carson Wentz wa s injured, led Philadelphia to a 41-33 win and wa s chosen as the game's MVP by throwing for 373 yards and three tou chd ow ns , as well as catching a tou chd ow n. Ne w England's Tom Brady threw for more than 500 yards, and the two teams com bin ed for 1,151 yards - the mo st in any single ga me in NFL history.

Sad day for U.S. soccer U.S. men's soc cer tea m player Paul Arriola ge ts trip pe d up during a World Cu p qualifying ga me against Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 10. For the first tim e in more than 30 years, the U.S. failed to qualify for the World Cu p after the y lost, 2-1 , in a stunning defeat.

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O Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa att em pts to run through the Georgia defense during the college football National Championship Game on Jan . 8 in Atlanta. Tagovailoa, an 18-year old freshman , cam e off the bench in the second half and helped the Crimson Tide rally from a 13 -po int de fici t to

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Going fo r the gold Chloe Kim (left) of the U.S. executes a tric k in the Ladies' Halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Ol ym pic s in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Kim , 17, to ok go ld with a near-perfect score of 98.25 . An oth er 17-year-old American, Red Gerard (middle) , celebrates his victory in the men's Snowboarding Slopestyle co mp etitio n. He was the youngest U.S. male to win gold since 1928.

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson (right) shoots the pu ck past Canada 's goalie to help secure a go ld medal victory for the U.S. wo me n's hockey tea m.

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Da uw alt er sets the ba r Courtney Dauwalter, a 31-year-old school teacher from Colorado, wins The Mo ab 240-mile Endurance Run outright by 10 hours. In its first year, the 38 3K ultra in Utah allowed only 150 registrants. Dauwalter fin ished the co urs e in less than 58 hours.

(Photo by Sc ott Rokis)

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Sloane St ep he ns celebrates after battling thr ou gh a historic all-American wo me n's semifinal an d final at the 2017 U.S. Open to clinch he r first-ever Grand Slam title. Stephens had returned to the tou r on ly tw o mo nth s earlier aft er tim e off for an injury and wa s ranked 957th in the world.

Warriors keep dominating Golden State 's Kevin Durant rises to sh oo t a three-pointer during a Christmas Day ga me. Durant, Steph Curry and the rest of the Warriors won their se co nd NB A title in three years in 2017 and kept the mo me ntu m going in 2018, cruising to the league's best record in the firs t half of the regular season.

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6 Walk-on to Heisman Oklahoma's Baker Mayfield responds to the crowd after winning the Heisman trop hy in a landslide vote. The quarterback garnered the third-highest percentage of possible poin ts (86 percent) in the Heisman voting since 1950. Mayfield , who began his career as a walk-on at Texas Tech , became the first-ever non-scholarship player in the scho larship era to win the Heisman .

/!... Wu wins epic match 0 Chia Yen Wu, an eighth grader from Chinese Taipei, prevails in a 30-hole match at the U.S. Women 's Amateur Golf Championship.

Wu's match with Lauren Stephenson made history as the longest in 117 years of USGA championship history. At 13 years, 4 mon ths and 17 days old, Wu was the youngest player ever to advance to the event's semifinals.

(Photo by Steven Gibbons)

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+ = lots of hits Pop star Ed Sheeran performs for fans, while his latest album , + , made him the best-selling musical artist of 2017. Songs "Castle on the Hill," "Shape of You ," and "Perfect" all were among the most downloaded tracks of the year.

Archie and the gang The cast of the new CW television show, Riverdale , gets unveiled to audiences.

The show, loosely based on the characters first seen in the famous Archie Comics, was hailed as innovative by critics and quickly became popular with younger audiences.

Back and even stranger Mike, Will and the entire gang from Hawkins are getting ready for more trouble. Wildly popular and critically-acclaimed Netflix sci-ti 1V series Strang er Things returned for its second season, debuting the weekend before Halloween to huge numbers of viewers.

It's good to be The Last Jedi Rey confronts Luke Skywalker in a scene from Star Wars: The Last Jedi .

The latest Star Wars movie hit theaters just before Christmas and fans were hooked. The film earned $533 million in its first two weeks, making it the box office hit of the year.

No more lies Pretty Little Liars releases its seventh, and final, season to its fans on Freeform. Ano ther Freeform 1V show, Swit ched at Birth , also aired its final season this year, with millions of fans tuning into the series finales of the hit shows.

Protecting her rep Taylor Swif t performs at a conc ert in San Jose , California, in December.

Swif t's newest-album , Reputation , was released in Nov emb er and sold more than two million copi es in a wee k, making it the best selling album of 2017.

What a wonder Actress Gal Gadot springs into action as the popular superhero Wonder Woman in this year's movie of the same name. The summer blockbuster became a huge hit and one of the highest grossing superhero movies of all-time.

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Gram my magic Bruno Mars performs "Finesse (Remix)" at the 60th Gramm y Awards. It was a big night for Mars, who swept six total awards. In addition to winning Best R&B Performance, Best R&B Song and Best R&B Album, Mars eventually took the top three categories, winning Song of the Year for "That's What I Like," Record of the Year for 24K Magic and Album of the Year.

Everyone loves Coco 12-year old Miguel and his faithful dog, Dante, go on an adventure in the hit Disney movie, Coco.

The film, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Acade my Awards, was praised for its animation, music and exploration of Mexican culture.

Other animated movies to earn Oscar nominations included Ferdinand and The Boss Baby.

Generation YouTube The guys from Dude Perfect, a group of college friends from Texas A&M who perform sports tricks, stunts and comed y on their own YouTube channel, greet the crowd at the Kids Choice Awards. With more than 26 million subscribers to their channel, Dude Perfect was one of several megastars of the mome nt on You Tube this year.

Others included Minecraft gamer DanTDM and comed y vlogger Liza Koshy.

Long live the king Marvel's com ic book character T'Challa, played by Cha dwic k Boseman , suits up for the big screen in his stand-alone flick , Blac k Panther . The land mark film featured a mod ern blac k superhero and a primarily black cast for the first time in a Marvel mov ie. Blac k Panther's $200 million opening weekend was one of the five largest ever.

Voice wins again Creators of NBC 1V show The Voice celebrate after winning Outstanding Reality Competition for the fourth (and third consecut ive) time at the Emmy Awards. On season 13 of the popular show, rock singer Chloe Kohanski was chosen the winner.

Oprah steals the sho w Oprah Winfrey delivers an electrifying speech at the 75th Annual G0lden Globes as she accepts the Cec il B. DeMille Award. Winfrey was the first African-American recipient of the honor and the 15th woman since the award's inception in 1952.

Her speech about sexual harassment, racial injustice and press freedom brought the audience to their feet and had many urging her to run for office.

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Taking the plunge Program Manager Earl Maize discusses the end of the Cassin i spacecraft program. The spacecraft explored Saturn , its rings and its moons for 13 years, sending back roughly 450,000 images . The mission ended Sept.

15, 2017, when Cassin i dove into Saturn 's atmosphere.

Safer reverse A screen show s the backu p camer a view in a 2017 Chevy Colora do. The Nation al Highw ay Traffic Safety Admin istratio n required all new cars sold in the U.S. after May 2018 to come equipp ed with a rearvie w video system .

The rise of voice assistants Google Home and Amazon Echo are put on display at a consumer electronics show.

"Smart speakers," which respond to voice comm ands using artificial intelligence, quickly became trendy, with more than 35 million estimated users in 2017.

665 days in space Astronaut Peggy Whitson gazes at the Earth from aboard the International Space Station. Her third mission, lasting nine-and-a-half months, broke the record for the mos t cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut - 665 days. Whitson returned to earth on Sept 3, 2017.

It's electric!

An electric vehicle (EV) gets plugged into a charging station, a sight that became more com mon in the U.S. Almost 200,000 EVs were sold in 2017. Some of the mos t popular models were Tesla Models S and X and the Chevy Bolt and Volt.

Gene-editing breakthroughs A researcher studies CRISPR's capabilities to com bat a disease affecting citrus plants.

CRISPR - an acronym for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" showed great potential to make highly specific gene modifications in living cells and organisms. It was used to remove a heart disease-causing gene from human embryos , edit Huntington's disease from mice and eliminate HIV from living animals.

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Darkness in the daytime orth A group of spectators in N_ Carolina view the solar eclipse at the time of totality on Aug. 21.

Millions of Americans stopped what they were doing for 2 ½ minutes to watch the total solar eclipse. The eclipse occurred in a 70-mile-wide swath from Oregon to South Carolina.

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Backflipping robot Atlas, a humanoid robot being developed by U.S. lab Boston Dynamics, performs an acrobatic backfl ip. The company released video footage of Atlas running , jumping and flipping , and it quickly went viral across social media.

Advances in AR A Starbucks customer uses their smartphone to access a coffeemaking video via augmented reality (AR). AR became more widespread , with social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat announcing new AR experiences for their users.

Photo credits: Newscom

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