Big Tex, a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, photographed in 2012, approximately one month before he was destroyed in a fire following an apparent electrical short-circuit in the mechanism that enabled the icon's mouth to move. Dallas, Texas

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