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Lt. Gen. Qi Jianguo, deputy chief of staff for the Chinese army, delivered an about-face to an international conference claiming China recognizes that the Ryukyu island chain belongs to Japan after all. (Associated Press)

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Scaffolding rises to the top of the Washington Monument in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2013, so craftsmen can make repairs to the 555-foot marble obelisk that was damaged in the August 2011 earthquake. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Through a barbed wire fence,the Washington National Cathedral shows signs of construction repairs in the months following the earthquake which damaged the landmark, in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, February 22, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Steve Lipsky demonstrates how his well water ignites when he puts a flame to the flowing well spigot outside his family's home in rural Parker County near Weatherford, Texas, on Nov. 26, 2012. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had evidence a gas company's drilling operation contaminated Lipsky's drinking water with explosive methane, and possibly cancer-causing chemicals, but withdrew its enforcement action, leaving the family with no useable water supply, according to a report obtained by the Associated Press. (Associated Press)

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Warrior Princess A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender, by Kristin Beck (formerly Chris Beck). (source: Amazon Books)

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Firefighters and medical staff prepare to remove body bags that appears to contain the bodies of those killed by a fire at a poultry processing plant in northeast China's Jilin province's Mishazi township on Monday, June 3, 2013. The massive fire broke out at the poultry plant early Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing over a hundred people, reports and officials said. (AP Photo)