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Retired Rear Adm. Donald "Mac" Showers, 92, reflects on his life at his home in Arlington, Va., on May 3, 2012. Showers is one of the remaining survivors that helped lead the effort to break the Japanese code which resulted in a victory at battle of Midway. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Two U.S. dive bombers fly over a burning Japanese ship on June 7, 1942, during the battle of Midway. Under the incessant pounding of American fliers, 20 ships of the enemy armada of 80 were sunk or damaged and the others put to flight. (Associated Press)

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Bob Bergdahl, father of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, who is being held captive in Afghanistan, shakes the hand of Gerald McCullar of Washington, Ill., who is portraying a prisoner of war, after he speaks May 27, 2012, at the the annual Rolling Thunder rally for POW/MIA awareness in Washington. (Courtesy of Rolling Thunder, Inc.)

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Palestinians wait as trucks carrying coffins containing the remains of bodies of 12 Palestinian militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinians arrive in the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing, in Beit Hanoun, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Salvador Dali's "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War" (1936) is representative of the artist's surrealist style. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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Members of the Palestinian security forces take pictures May 31, 2012, in the West Bank city of Ramallah as they stand around coffins containing the remains of bodies of 91 Palestinian militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority. Israel transferred the bodies in an effort to induce Palestinian President Mehmoud Abbas to renew negotiations. Palestinian officials said all were killed either while carrying out suicide bombings or other attacks on Israeli targets. (Associated Press)

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The Westfields Marriott in Chantilly is under tight security in anticipation of the beginning of the Bilderberg conference Thursday. Police cars guard the main entrance, and security guards and police informed the media that anyone coming onto hotel property would be escorted off or arrested if they did not comply. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday purports to show the bodies of a man and a girl on the hood of a United Nations observer vehicle following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind the attack in which at least 108 people were killed. (Shaam News Networks via Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to travel to China in the coming weeks. Israel and China established diplomatic relations in 1992, and the two countries traded military technology for nearly a decade.

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Gen. Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (left), met last week with with Israeli military chief, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right). After a prolonged chill, security relations between Israel and China are warming up. (Associated Press)

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Supporters of South Africa's ruling party sing as they march through Johannesburg to the Goodman Gallery on Tuesday to protest the now-removed painting by a white artist of Mr. Zuma. (Associated Press)