Umbrella atatue
SLP98042803- 28 APRIL 1998- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA: Students at Washington University have apparently played a spring prank, by placing an umbrella in the hands of the 1928 statue of Robert Burns, April 28. UPI Bill Greenblatt
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