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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas displays her gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Douglas is back in the gym.The Olympic all-around champion was to practice Monday afternoon, May 20, 2013 after meeting with coach Liang Chow to discuss her comeback plan. The workout is in her old gym in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
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Friends and neighbors help out a resident in Lyon County just south of Emporia, Kan., Sunday evening, May 19, 2013 after an apparent tornado touched down. (AP Photo/Emporia Gazette, Matthew Fowler)
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Satellite trucks line the parking lot where the highest Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $590.5 million was sold, at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, specialist Charles Boeddinghaus works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Small company stocks take the limelightSmall company stocks take limelight as Russell 2000 index climbs above 1,000 for first time
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2010 file photo White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent audit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Friends and neighbors help out a resident in Lyon County just south of Emporia, Kan., Sunday evening, May 19, 2013 after an apparent tornado touched down. (AP Photo/Emporia Gazette, Matthew Fowler)
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FILE - This recent image from video provided by CAPA and Canal+ television on Monday April, 8, 2013 shows Tunisian Femen activist Amina Tyler . Outspoken Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler who scandalized the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocative acts" at a religious center where police prevented hardline Islamists from holding their annual conference, the Interior Ministry said Monday May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Benoit Chaumont and Akim Rezgui/ CAPA/Canal+)
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President Barack Obama gestures toward Myanmar's President Thein Sein during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thein Sein is the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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FILE - This May 12, 2011 file photo shows the marquee for "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" outside the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday, May 20, 2013, it has acquired The Foxwoods Theatre, the current home of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” The theater has about 2,000 seats. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, file)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, specialist Charles Boeddinghaus works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas displays her gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Douglas is back in the gym.The Olympic all-around champion was to practice Monday afternoon, May 20, 2013 after meeting with coach Liang Chow to discuss her comeback plan. The workout is in her old gym in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

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On May 20, 1927,

Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

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