Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes raise their beers in a festival tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany.. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Visitors of the Oktoberfest raise their beers in a festival tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes raise their beers in a festival tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes wait during the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany. This year's edition of the world's biggest beer festival Oktoberfest will run until October 7, 2012. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Revellers cover themselves from heavy rain as they stroll over the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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A waitress carries beer after the opening of the 179th Oktoberfest in Munich. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital over the next two weeks for the 179th Oktoberfest. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
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Revellers sit under umbrellas with their traditional one-litre "Masskrug" beer mugs on a beer garden table during heavy rain falls at the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Visitors wear traditional Bavarian clothes and wait in front of a festival tent ahead the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on September 22, 2012. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Two women react, as they arrive for the opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival as rain falls, in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Mayor of Munich Christian Ude taps the first beer barrel during the official opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Koch)
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Young people celebrate the opening ceremony in the "Hofbraeuzelt' beer tent of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A waitress uses a whistle to free her way while carrying ten of the traditional one-litre 'Masskrug' beer mugs at the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich. The world's biggest beer festival runs until October 7. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
