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Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeralChinua Achebe, remembered as fearless writer in uncertain times in Nigeria, feted in hometown
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Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013.  The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers killed a man in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigatedBritish official: Suspects in butchering of soldier had been part of previous investigations
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Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  A challenge to the federal health care law faces its most prominent test yet in a full 10th Circuit hearing in Denver on Thursday. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morining-after birth control pill.  The Oklahoma based arts and crafts chain says the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
Birth control coverage up for federal appealHobby Lobby appeal tests limits of federal birth-control coverage mandate
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Trader Randy Biller, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturingStocks fall in early trading on Fed stimulus concern, contracting Chinese manufacturing
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US rate on 30-year mortgages rises to 3.59 pct.Average US rate on 30-year mortgage rises to 3.59 pct.; 15-year up to 2.77 pct.
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From second left, actress Sabrina Ferilli, director Paolo Sorrentino and actor Toni Servillo arrive for the screening of The Great Beauty at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at CannesPaolo Sorrentino serves up a sumptuous repast in Cannes entry 'The Great Beauty'
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FILE - In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm province. In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group's supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. The judge in Mordovia province to whom the Beatles frontman Paul McCartney addressed two letters in Pussy Riot support,  denied Tolokonnikova parole last month. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)
Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina paroleRussian court denies Pussy Riot's Maria Alekhina parole; she goes on hunger strike
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West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'Palestinian-Israeli conflict a key part of 'Omar,' but director says romance at forefront
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is in a defendant's cage in a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia. The imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot is going on hunger strike on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, after a judge refused to allow her to attend a court hearing. Alekhina was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, last year, along with two other Pussy Riot band members for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia’s main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov, file)
Paul McCartney writes in support of Pussy RiotPaul McCartney writes letters to Russian official in support of imprisoned Pussy Riot members
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Today in History

On May 23, 1934,

bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.

In 1430,

Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.

In 1533,

the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.