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The San Diego Padres mascot Friar John plays a game of craps with Marines during the welcome home party inside Hangar 1 aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, March 13.
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In response to a Norwegian military units adoption of a Scottish penguin as a mascot and granting it a knighthood, President Bush has mascot ideas of his own.
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A penguin that serves as something of a mascot for the military has just been knighted in Norway. Nils Olav, a 3-foot-tall King penguin, was bestowed the highest of honors in a fancy ceremony today—he inspected the ranks, and then returned to the zoo.
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Who better to 'rally' the troops.
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Perky cartoon character Prince Pickles -- with saucer eyes, big dimples and tiny, booted feet -- poses in front of tanks, rappels from helicopters and shakes hands with smiling Iraqis.
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As Japan sheds its postwar pacifism and gears up to take a higher military profile in the world, it is enlisting cadres of cute characters and adorable mascots to put a gentle, harmless sheen on its deployments. "Prince Pickles is our image character because he's very endearing, which is what Japan's military stands for,", an official said.
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The military mascot, a 6-year-old male goat called Billy, was downgraded from the rank of lance corporal to fusilier - the same status as a private - after army chiefs ruled his poor display had ruined the ceremony earlier this month at a British army base
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Amistad case: the US Supreme Court ruled that the mutineers had been taken into slavery illegally and should be freed (1841)
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