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Fishermen using butterfly nets in Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico -- Macduff Everton/Getty Images

Lake Pátzcuaro (Spanish: Lago de Pátzcuaro) is a lake in the municipality of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.

The natives believe that the lake is the place where the barrier between life and death is the thinnest.

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March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year.

241 BC: First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands
1735: An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
1945: The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952: Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
1969: In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.
1970: Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
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