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ECLIPSE SLIDE5 Annie Gray Penuel and Lauren Peck, both of Dallas, wear their makeshift eclipse glasses at Nashville's eclipse viewing party ahead of the solar eclipse at First Tennessee Park on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (Shelley Mays/The Tennessean via AP)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER2 Hopkinsville, KY -- 8/21/2017 - Xan Neumann, 13, of Houston tests out his solar glasses in Hopkinsville, the city nearest the point of greatest eclipse. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 22nestorpic Reporter: Nestor Ramos

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ECLIPSE SLIDER7 Milton, MA - 8/21/2017 - Becca Phillips (cq), of Needham, put viewing glasses on her dog

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ECLIPSE SLIDE5 A total solar eclipse is seen from the Lowell Observatory Solar Eclipse Experience August 21, 2017 in Madras, Oregon. Millions will be able to witness the total eclipse that will touch land in Oregon on the west coast and continue through South Carolina on the east coast. / AFP PHOTO / STAN HONDASTAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images

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ECLIPSE SLIDE5 Boston, MA - 8/21/2017 - Krayonna Thames and her son Jaedin Barnes,5, use protective glasses to watch the solar eclipse along the waterfront near the Children's Museum in Boston, MA, August 21, 2017. (Keith Bedford/Globe Staff)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER6 Acton, MA., 08/21/17, The Acton Boxboro Marching band donned special eclipse glasses and watched the eclipse after their practice. They sold the special glasses to raise money for an upcoming trip to the Citrus Bowl in December. They then played a song for a gathered crowd. (ID to folo.) Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

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ECLIPSE SLIDER6 Scituate-8/21/17 The peak of the eclipse at 3;45 p.m. is reflected in a puddle on a rock where people gathered on the breakwater around the Old Scituate Lighhouse to photograph and look at the solar eclipse. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER6 Scituate-8/21/17 People gathered on the breakwater around the Old Scituate Lighhouse to photograph and look at the solar eclipse. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER3 People watch the start of the solar eclipse at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest near the city of Mitchell on August 21, 2017. The Sun started to vanish behind the Moon as the partial phase of the so-called Great American Eclipse began Monday, with millions of eager sky-gazers soon to witness

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ECLIPSE SLIDER1 Hopkinsville, KY -- 8/19/2017 - Pink flamingos named Fred (L) and Matilda have their solar glasses on as they wait for the show to start at the point of greatest eclipse. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 22nestorpic Reporter: Nestor Ramos

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ECLIPSE SLIDE5 Boston, MA - 8/21/17 - Mike Wilson, left, and his daughter Stephanie, check out the partial solar eclipse in City Hall Plaza on Monday, August 21, 2017. (Nicholas Pfosi for The Boston Globe) Topic: 22eclipsepic

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ECLIPSE SLIDER1 Saluki cheerleaders try out eclipse glasses that they were giving out to visitors to Saluki Stadium on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Ill., on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. Scientists said Monday's total eclipse would cast a shadow that would race through 14 states including Illinois. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER1 People wait in line to buy viewing glasses for the eclipse at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles early Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER1 The decorated car of Frank and Mary Ludwig, of La Crescent, Minn., sits at their campsite at the Orchard Dale historical farm near Hopkinsville, Ky. Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. The location, which is in the path of totality of the solar eclipse, is also at the point of greatest intensity. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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ECLIPSE SLIDER6 WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: US President Donald Trump and his wife first lady Melania Trump wear special glasses to view the solar eclipse at the White House on August 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Millions of people have flocked to areas of the U.S. that are in the

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ECLIPSE SLIDER2 epa06154882 People attend a solar eclipse watch party at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap, Georgia, USA, 21 August 2017. The 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse will last a maximum of 2 minutes 43 seconds and the thin path of totality will pass through portions of 14 US states, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

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Dispatch from Eclipseville: Massive telescopes, magnificent weirdos

The moon began its slow creep through the sky around noon on Monday, the final run-up to the 2 minutes, 40 seconds that Hopkinsville, Ky., has been anticipating for years.

Did President Trump just stare directly at the solar eclipse without glasses?

Photos of Trump staring up at the sun from a White House balcony circulated online, with many mocking him for not donning protective eyewear.

These photos and videos from planes show how cool the solar eclipse looked from the air

Eclipse photos taken from the ground are so two hours ago.

People poured out of Boston office buildings to take in the solar eclipse

When the eclipse started, City Hall Plaza looked like it does on any other Monday in August. Then, people began streaming out of nearby buildings. Boston was impressed.

The Big Picture

There goes the sun: Photos of the solar eclipse

For the first time since 1918, a total eclipse of the sun was viewable from coast-to-coast in a 70-mile wide path of the US for around two minutes.

Map

Scenes across the United States where the eclipse reached totality

A look at where the eclipse was most complete as it moved across the country.

Counterprotesters chant on the periphery of a — Michael Dwyer/AP

JOAN VENNOCHI

The real enemy at the rally? Boston’s racist image

The institutional racism and economic inequality baked into this town can’t be ignored.

talking points

Making apparel in Mass. again

1620 Workwear Inc. started selling directly to consumers last fall, and moved into their first office in Haverhill in July.

THE FINE PRINT | CONSUMER ADVOCATE

Verizon cuts off elderly woman’s phone — on her birthday

The state needs better rules for determining if a utility customer is elderly.

Names

John Mayer performs at Mix 104.1’s Beach House

A contest winner from Taunton, along with her friends and family members, got to hear some of the onetime Berklee student’s hits.

The budding right-wing provocateur who left BU will enroll at Auburn

Nicholas Fuentes, 19, said he plans to continue his far-right-wing activism and sees the Alabama school as a good place to do it.

State environmental chief refunded Mass. for personal flight

This questionable use of state resources and funds stayed below the public radar.

Ironwood wins OK for an easier-to-administer gout treatment

As many as 10 million Americans suffer from the painful condition. A Cambridge company has a new treatment.

Junior Jackie Emmons of Boxford (left) led prospective students, including Cedane Richards of Hartford, Conn., (right, on a college tour at Bentley University. — Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe

Want to get into your first-choice college? Better book a plane ticket

As colleges try to winnow large application pools, many use a student’s interest in the school as an important factor in admissions.

Roslindale couple said ‘I do’ at a bagel shop

There’s nothing like the smell of fresh bagels. Just ask Maggie and Jim Hobbs. They got married at a Roslindale bagel shop Saturday.

Foxborough-8/08/17- The Patriots held their trainiing camp Tuesday at Gillette Stadium practice fields with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jacob Hollister carries the ball in a drill. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports) — John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

RACHEL G. BOWERS

These three players have the best shot to be the Patriots’ third tight end

Here is a closer look at James O’Shaughnessy, Jacob Hollister, and Matt Lengel.

Johnson & Johnson to pay $417m in lawsuit linking baby powder to cancer

A hospitalized woman had claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s baby powder causes ovarian cancer.

Residents and owner mourn death of wayward bull

After being on the loose for nearly a week, a runaway bull met its demise when it was shot and killed Sunday evening in Littleton.

Suspect in Barcelona attack fatally shot

Police outside Barcelona shot down a man wearing a possible explosives vest and a local newspaper reported it was the fugitive in the city’s van attack.

Who can save Jon Snow from himself?

Jon’s plot in the most recent episode of “Game of Thrones” was a bizarrely illogical maneuver.

Special reports

part 1

Priests’ children live with secrets, sorrow

A Globe review finds the children are often denied love and support and pressured to keep the scandal secret. And the church has done absolutely nothing to help.