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For one brief moment, day became night.

And the sun was replaced by a black circle — ringed on all sides with gleaming white fire.

As the Great American Eclipse made landfall in the tiny coastal town of Newport, Ore., the rowdy crowd that gathered on its beach was stunned by the sight into an eerie silence.

In Casper, Wyo., a man blew a shofar, as others rang bells and let loose whoops and roars erupted from the crowd. Birds, startled by the darkness, darted in every direction.

“You weren’t kidding about the goosebumps,” one man muttered to another.

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Scenes from the total solar eclipse of 2017

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scenes from the total solar eclipse of 2017 – Washington Post

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