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A stone monument in Huoshan Park in Shanghai describes the Jewish neighborhood as a "designated area for stateless refugees" during World War II. (Associated Press)

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Dvir Bar-Gal, holding a magazine, talks with a group on a tour at the entrance to Huoshan Park in the Hongkou section of Shanghai. The neighborhood, part of Mr. Bar-Gal's tour of Shanghai's Jewish sites, was home to thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II. (Associated Press)

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A star of David is displayed on a door in the courtyard of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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The building started as a movie theater during the Depression, became a top country-music destination in the 1950s and finally was bought by local Masons (top) who have made it their headquarters since the '70s and share it with RVA. (Photograph provided by Samis Grotto)

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In this photo provided by the Chopin Museum Thursday, March 24, 2011, the envelope of a letter written by Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin to this parents and sisters in Warsaw in 1847 is seen on display at the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Poland. A collection of letters written by Polish composer Frederic Chopin considered lost in 1939 have been found and donated to Warsaw's Chopin museum. Address reads in French and Polish: Mrs. Chopin through Berlin to Warsaw in Poland. Nowy Swiat street at the house of Mr. Barcinski near Warecka street not far from Bentkowskiego (street). (AP Photo/Chopin Museum, ho)

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Community Three has converted St. Monica's Episcopal Church on Massachusetts Avenue Southeast on Capitol Hill into the Residences at St. Monica's.

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In this photo taken March 25, 1961 and provided by World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. Elvis Presley receives an award from members of The pacific War Memorial Commission at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Fifty years ago, Elvis Presley helped raise money and bring attention to help build the USS Arizona Memorial. The King is being asked to deliver one more time. (AP Photo/ Word War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument)

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A Chinese man sits on a bench while holding a cigarette in his fingers in front of a pillar with a no smoking notice on display at a bus station in Beijing Thursday, March 24, 2011. On this week, Chinese health authorities renewed a push to ban smoking in indoor public places, adding more venues like hotels and restaurants as of May 1, though still excluding many workplaces. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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In this Sept. 25, 1953 file photo, actress Elizabeth Taylor stands on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at age 79. (AP Photo/File)

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In this May 31, 1950 file photo, actress Elizabeth Taylor poses with her new husband, hotel heir Nick Hilton, as they stand on the terrace of their hotel room in Paris while on their honeymoon. Publicist Sally Morrison says Taylor died Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at age 79. (AP Photo/File)

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The Laogai Museum is relocating just north of Dupont Circle to a site that most recently was the house in MTV's "Real World: D.C." (laogaimuseum.org)

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MOG, which offers "all [the music] you can eat," can go from the breakfast table to the BMW Mini Cooper.

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"Bromptons are built the way everything else used to be built," Mr. McGettigan said. "It's light, it's fast. It has a quirky charm. It's tanklike but incredibly high-tech." (Associated Press)

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"It's light, it's fast. It has a quirky charm. It's tanklike but incredibly high-tech," Michael McGettigan says about the Brompton bicycle. His shop was one of the first in the U.S. to sell the British bikes. (Associated Press)

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This undated photo provided by the Milwaukee Art Museum shows a chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It's part of the show "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century," which runs through May 15 and includes more than 150 works, scale models, furniture and photos. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Art Museum) NO SALES