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FILE - In this March 11, 1993 file picture Austrian actor Karlheinz Boehm, poses with a child in the Ethiopian village of Nagaya. Karlheinz Boehm, an Austrian actor and human rights activist who founded an aid group dedicated to helping people in Ethiopia, has died. He was 86. Boehm’s group, Menschen fuer Menschen (“People for People”) said he died at his home near Salzburg on Thursday May 29, 2014. (AP Photo,Fiel)
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In this April 3, 2014 photo, Northern Illinois University police officer Maria Christiansen checks on NIU senior Juan Martinez during a floor hockey game on campus before calling paramedics to assist in DeKalb, Ill. Christiansen, a survivor of the Feb. 14, 2008 NIU school shooting that injured 21 and killed five students, works the night shift on campus patrol. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Danielle Guerra) MANDATORY CREDIT
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In this April 3, 2014 photo, Northern Illinois University police officer Maria Christiansen explains where she was hit with shotgun pellets during the Feb. 14, 2008 NIU school shooting in which the shooter killed 5 students and injured 21 before turning the gun on himself in DeKalb, Ill. Christiansen has worked as a NIU police officer for 5 years. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Danielle Guerra) MANDATORY CREDIT
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The bartender wears one of the souvenier shirts that are offered for sale behind the bar at The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Souvenier shirts and hats are offered for sale behind the bar at The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Rainbow flags adorn the facade of The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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A couple passes The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Patrons sit at the bar in The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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A framed copy of Gay Community News hangs in the back room of The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)