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(A) Anyone with a baseball cap or camera— stereotypical badges of the tourist—is asurefire target.
(B) All that’s known is that some tomatoes were thrown at a religious festival in 1945, andthat things took off from there.
(C) Exactly one hour after it begins, the madness ends.
(D) But it’s not to admire the scenery that, on the last Wednesday of August, up to 50,000tourists descend on the town of Buñol.
(E) Oddly enough, the festival of La Tomatina begins not with a tomato, but with a ham.