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8 Russian circus tigers, lioness die during travel

Dec. 22, 2009
Police say eight tigers and a lioness belonging to a Russian traveling circus have died during a 20-hour truck journey across Siberia. Police in the Siberian region of Yakutia say the animals were dead when they arrived early Tuesday in the city of Yakutsk....
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic