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The turkey, a bird native to North America, represents Thanksgiving for many people. In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a wild turkey named Franklin walks among the fallen leaves at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York City on Oct. 14, 2010. Julie Larsen Maher/WCS/AP
Children view a turkey from from the presidential flock at a community center in Seattle on Nov. 15, 2010. The bird is one of 25 turkeys raised in California to provide the presidential turkey to the White House (which is traditionally 'pardoned' by the President). The turkey shown here will not go to Washington, D.C., but instead will be donated to Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., for agricultural education needs there. Ted S. Warren/AP
President Obama stands with daughters Malia and Sasha and National Turkey Federation chairman Yubert Envia and as he pardons Apple, the national Thanksgiving turkey, on Nov. 24, 2010, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Charles Dharapak/AP
A Costco butcher organizes turkeys for sale at Costco Wholesale in Mountain View, Calif., on Nov. 20, in preparation for Thanksgiving. Paul Sakuma/AP
This Oct. 10 photo shows a maple-cider glazed turkey with gravy and apple-onion stuffing. The flavors of the season are front and center in this recipe. Larry Crowe/AP
Cranberry sauce is a perennial favorite on the Thanksgiving table. Here, cranberry harvesters push berries corralled inside a floating rubber barrier toward an underwater pump in a flooded cranberry bog in Carver, Mass., in 2007. Steven Senne/AP/FILE
Pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkins can be a real treat. Peering over the edge of a box of small pumpkins, Isabelle Foulger, 1, tries picking out the best gourd to take home at the Cody Christian & Missionary Alliance Church on Oct. 23, 2010. Scott Salisbury/Cody Enterprise/AP
Some bakers like to try something different for Thanksgiving dessert, such as this cranberry almond pistachio pie photographed on Sept. 28, 2010. Inspired by pecan pies, the filling is housed in a flaky pie crust. Larry Crowe/AP
Re-enactors from Plimoth Plantation, Wampanoag Indian Jonathan Perry (l.), dressed as Hobbamock, and Shann Young, dressed as pilgrim Edward Winslow, visit patients at Children's Hospital for a Thanksgiving meal in Boston in Nov. 2008. Plimoth Plantation is a 17th century living history museum marking the pilgrim's colony and the native American culture already in place in what would become Massachusetts. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Watching football is a popular pastime on Thanksgiving Day. Here, New England Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty celebrates his interception against the Indianapolis Colts during the second half of their 31-28 win in an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass., on Nov. 21. The Patriots play the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 2010. Winslow Townson/AP
The Shrek balloon floats down Central Park West during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City in 2009. Charles Sykes/AP/FILE
Travelers wait in line as their carry-on baggage is scanned by TSA employees at the Manchester/Boston Regional Airport at the start of the Thanksgiving holiday travel rush in Manchester, N.H., on Nov. 22, 2010. Charles Krupa/AP
Carla Hendricks (c.) carries a free turkey during an annual event sponsored by Jackson Limousine Service in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 23, 2010. Jackson Limousine has been doing the turkey giveaway for 24 years. Nick Ut/AP
Members of the San Francisco Bay Riders motorcycle club prepare carrots for a Thanksgiving dinner at St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco, Calif., in 2009. The St. Anthony Foundation served more than 3,500 Thanksgiving dinners to the poor and homeless. Russel A. Daniels/AP/FILE
Vice President Joe Biden (l.) and his wife, Jill, stand with heads bowed as Father Kevin O'Brien, executive director of the Georgetown Campus Ministry, says the blessing during a Thanksgiving meal for wounded warriors, families of veterans and service members being treated at area military hospitals at the vice president's official residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington on Nov. 22, 2010. Marine Cpl. Anthony McDaniel Jr., seated (r.), his wife, Latonya, and their two children, Anthony Jr., and Alaiyah, are seated at the table, heads bowed in prayer. Mr. McDaniel lost his left hand and both legs while serving in Afghanistan. Carolyn Kaster/AP
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, often is the single busiest shopping day of the crucial holiday season, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the US retail industry's annual sales. Joaquin Cerventes III, 3, sleeps in a shopping cart as his father, Joaquin Cervantes Jr., shops for toys at a Target store early on Thanksgiving morning in Chicago in Nov. 2009. John Gress/Reuters
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Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into custody.
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