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In this photograph taken on May 29, 2016, people celebrate as a homemade rocket is launched during the annual Rocket Festival in the village of Houa Xeing on the outskirts of Vientiane. In central Laos dozens of loud explosions pockmark the sky as men dressed in female clothing wielding large wooden phalluses dance, while others lubricated by the local rice whiskey simply roll in the mud. Welcome to Laos' famous rocket festival, a raucous celebration and merit-making ceremony in which huge homemade rockets are launched into the sky in a bid to encourage the gods to send much needed rain. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)
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