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People are silhouetted as the sun rises above the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in southern England, as access to the site is given to druids, New Age followers and members of the public on the annual Winter Solstice, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Doomsday hour is here and so still are we. According to legend, the ancient Mayans' long-count calendar ends at midnight Thursday, ushering in the end of the world. Didn't happen.

Hot spots draw believers, but not doomsday

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Opponents of Poland's last communist leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski attend an annual rally in front of his house in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 to mark the anniversary of the martial law he imposed on Poland 31 years ago, a repressive crackdown against Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement in an attempt to crush the proponents of democracy. Several hours earlier Jaruzelski, 89, was hospitalized with a heavy nosebleed. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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Poles march to remember martial law in 1981

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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2006 photo Wilhelm Brasse speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Zywiec, Poland. Brasse, a former Auschwitz prisoner who survived the camp after the Nazis discovered he was a professional photographer and put him to work taking pictures of other prisoners, has died. He was 95. Brasse was a political prisoner for five years in the Nazi run death camp during World War II, where he took prisoner identity photos and later pictures of SS doctor Josef Mengele's

Auschwitz prisoner and photographer dies at 95

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Thousands of Poles protest pro-market reforms
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Thousands of Poles protest pro-market reforms

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Belsat TV journalist Volha Starastsina working on a uncensored news program for Belarus at the TV station's studio in Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 as the station is focusing on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Belarus, expected to be a rubber stamp procedure. Last month Starastsina had to flush her TV memory card down a police toilet in Vitebsk, Belarus, to get rid of evidence of her work, when police detained her briefly as she was interviewing people in the street about the elections that will be held on Sunday.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poles help people of Belarus, recalling own past

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Poland plans to auction Marilyn Monroe photos

Poland plans to auction Marilyn Monroe photos

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Polish media unite to charge for online content
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Polish media unite to charge for online content

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Russian patriarch Kirill to visit Poland in August
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Russian patriarch Kirill to visit Poland in August

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Polish leaders hail Euro 2012 as a rousing success
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Polish leaders hail Euro 2012 as a rousing success

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Plainclothed police detain a Polish fan during the Euro 2012 soccer championship group a match between Poland and Russia in downtown Warsaw, Poland , Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Poland braces for more soccer hooligan violence

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