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Tractor pulls, car races, musical acts and livestock shows fill five days of fair fun.

Greenville High School’s solar car team, the Iron Lions, finished their first racing day with a commanding lead Sunday in this year’s Solar Car Challenge.

BRECKENRIDGE, Texas (BIGCOUNTRYHOMEPAGE) - 20 high school teams from across the country stopped in Breckenridge Sunday afternoon on their 925-mile journey from Texas Motor Speedway all the way to Palmdale, California. These teams spent a whole year to get to this moment, raising money to get the funds necessary to plan, build and test their unique car powered by solar power.

Dutch widen Eurovision selection rules after this year’s flop

AVROTROS acknowledged that the broadcaster has fallen short regarding the Dutch participation in the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. In hindsight, broadcasting director Eric van Stade would have approached the preparation and supervision of the Dutch entry, Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper, in a different way. "There should have been more control over the entire process," he says to ANP after an extensive performance evaluation within AVROTROS. "The main lesson is that the distance between the selection committee and the final act must be reduced," says Van Stade.