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• The big stop: Ringling Bros circus closes after 146 years

  15-01-2017 17:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Ringling and Barnum & Bailey circus won’t be coming to town any more as ticket sales fall and pressure over animal rights mounts One of America’s oldest circuses, the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, is to take down its big top tent for the final time, 146 years after it was founded in rural Wisconsin by five brothers: Alfred, Albert, Charles, John and Otto. The company blamed declining ticket sales, which had fallen further after they removed elephants from the act last ye
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr.

  15-01-2017 12:00 via yahoo.com
  King was a Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and civil rights leader who practiced peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience to protest racial inequality.In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
  
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• Photos show Japanese whalers killing minke in sanctuary, says Sea Shepherd

  15-01-2017 11:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Anti-whaling campaign group alleges it photographed Japanese whalers carrying out a slaughter inside Australia’s Antarctic whale sanctuaryAnti-whaling campaign group Sea Shepherd says it has photographed Japanese whalers carrying out a slaughter inside Australia’s Antarctic whale sanctuary, the same day the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was in Australia on a state visit.In the first documented killing since the international court of justice ruled Japan’s Antarctic whali
  
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• The Latest: Animal rights groups applaud Ringling Bros.

  15-01-2017 05:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the announcement that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is closing after 146 years (all times local): 11:03 p.m. Animal rights groups wasted no time in weighing in on the announcement ...
  
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