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Occupy DC protesters, upset by multiple hit-and-run incidents last Friday during a protest of the American for Prosperity Conference outside the Washington Convention Center, converge on the front steps of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters at 300 Indiana Avenue, Monday, November 7, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Whether they know it or not, some of the demonstrators decrying a variety of society's ills are sporting the stylized masks loosely modeled on 17th-century terrorist Guy Fawkes. The Catholic insurrectionist was executed four centuries ago for trying to blow up the British Parliament. (Associated Press)

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An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector to search a woman outside the 14th Ramadan Mosque (in the background) on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Baghdad on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, commemorates the prophet Abraham's faith in being willing to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Protesters chant slogans Nov. 2, 2011, during a demonstration against the Syrian regime, held in front of the Arab league headquarters in Cairo. (Associated Press)

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President Coolidge poses with an international delegation from the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, including John Henry Cowles, the sovereign grand commander, to the president's right. While not a Freemason himself, he was known to speak well of them. (Library of Congress)

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Occupy Oakland protesters cheer as they take over tractor-trailers loaded with shipping containers at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday, effectively shutting down the United States' fifth-busiest port during a day of nonstop protesting in the California city. (Associated Press)

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Riot police advance on Occupy Oakland protesters early Thursday in the port city. After a peaceful day-long protest by thousands of demonstrators, several hundred clashed with police trying to stop them from spraying graffiti, breaking windows and setting fire to garbage. (Associated Press)

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Protesters chant slogans in front of the Greek Parliament during an anti-austerity protest in Athens on Nov. 3 2011. (Associated Press)

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Sheriff's deputies advance on "Occupy Oakland" protesters early Thursday morning, Nov. 3, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Following a mainly peaceful day-long protest by thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators, several hundred rallied through the night, with some painting graffiti, breaking windows and setting file to garbage cans. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Protesters unfurl a large Syrian flag in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday as more than 100 people protesting the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad gathered outside the building where foreign ministers were meeting. (Associated Press)

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"There are a few who believe that 'In God We Trust' is just words, but I would say today it's more than just words," said Rep. J. Randy Forbes of Virginia, the bill's lead sponsor. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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An Israel Antiquities Authority restorer displays a Christian icon box dating to the Byzantine era and made of bone with a cross carved on the lid. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Douglas Williams, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Pope Benedict XVI and Rabbi David Rosen look on as a person holds a dove prior to releasing it during a peace meeting in front of the St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, central Italy, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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An Occupy Oakland protester spray paints the side of a building during a march on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Except for a couple incidents of graffiti and minor confrontations with police officers, the protesters, who numbered about 1000, remained lawful. (Photo/Noah Berger)

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** FILE ** Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A protester at the Occupy Atlanta demonstration in Woodruff Park is arrested after refusing to leave on Wednesday after Mayor Kasim Reed revoked his executive order allowing the protesters to camp out. (Associated Press)

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Public works personnel in Oakland, Calif., use steam cleaners as they continue to sanitize Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Wednesday. Protesters have been trying to stay in the plaza since being evicted Tuesday morning. (Associated Press)

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Oakland, Calif., police search tents in Frank Ogawa Plaza as they disperse Occupy Oakland protesters early Tuesday. City officials had been supportive, but later said the protesters were breaking the law and could not stay in the park overnight. (Associated Press)

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Veterans and their supporters visit the Jewish Chaplains Memorial following the dedication of the Jewish Chaplains Memorial in the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va, Monday, October 24, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)