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It is a case of better late than never: Centuries after thousands of Jews were forced to convert, burned at the stake or expelled, Spain is still grappling with its brutal and deep-seated anti-Semitic past.

The 56 residents of Castrillo Matajudios, which is near the northern city of Burgos, are set to decide on May 25 whether to change the village's name, the second half of which translates to "Kill Jews."



Matajudios is also still a surname and remains an expression in Spain used to say that someone's "a bit of a Jew."

“In some ways the name of the town tells us so much about Spanish history,” said Fordham University Professor Doron Ben-Atar. "Part of what Spain is, Spanish nationalism, is defined by its hostility to Judaism."

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2014 Museum of the Year – the shortlist

With a prize of £100,000, Art Fund's Museum of the Year award is the most prestigious museum prize in the world



Hayward Galleryat the Southbank Centre, London

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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

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Tate Britain, London

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, East Sussex

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Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth

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Elephants drunk on native fruit at South Africa's Singita Sabi Sand


















Just in case you fancy a tipple yourself it's the Marula fruit. Bit like cider apparently

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A South Korea navy officer gives a briefing about a rescue operation to the family members of missing passengers onboard the sunken passenger ship Sewol, while showing an projection image of the ferry's structural layout, at a makeshift accommodation at a gymnasium in the port city of Jindo April 25, 2014. More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers from the Danwon High School, are dead or missing presumed dead after the April 16 disaster. The Sewol ferry, weighing almost 7,000 tons, sank on a routine trip from the port of Incheon, near Seoul, to the southern holiday island of Jeju. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)




Relatives of election official Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq looks through a window as they react during his funeral at Herpora, south of Srinagar April 25, 2014. In an incident on Thursday, Zia-ul-Haq was killed and five people wounded in a gun attack in Indian-ruled Kashmir, where many people stayed away from voting in a constituency that was hit by pre-poll violence

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U.S. President Barack Obama smiles next to South Korean President Park Geun-hye at a joint news conference at the Blue House in Seoul April 25



Portraits of victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are seen during a memorial ceremony in Slaviansk April 25, 2014. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia will mark the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst civil nuclear accident, on Saturday

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A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol weeps as he waits for news on his missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea, Friday, April 25, 2014. Frustrated relatives of the scores of people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol staged a marathon confrontation with the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief, surrounding the senior officials in a standoff that lasted overnight and into Friday morning as they vented their rage at the pace of search efforts



Protesters shout slogans as they burn a mock U.S. flag in an almost-daily protest against next week's visit of U.S. President Barack Obama Friday, April 25, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Anti-US groups mounted their protests against Obama's visit as both Philippine and U.S. governments rush to finalize, for possible signing, the so-called Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation (AEDC) which will allow larger US military presence in the country.

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Explosions in Baghdad




An explosion is seen during a car bomb attack at a Shi'ite political organisation's rally in Baghdad, April 25, 2014



An explosion is seen during a car bomb attack at a Shi'ite political organisation's rally in Baghdad, April 25, 2014. A series of explosions killed 18 people at a Shi'ite political organisation's rally in Iraq, police and medical sources said

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Student killed in apparent prom dispute




Students mourn in front of Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut April 25, 2014. A 16-year-old girl was killed on Friday in an attack inside a Connecticut high school and authorities were investigating reports she was stabbed by a fellow student after rejecting his invitation to the prom, police said. The victim, Maren Sanchez, a junior at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after the attack, Milford Police Chief Keith Mello told a news conference

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Students arrive at the beach in their prom outfits for a vigil in honor of slain student Maren Sanchez in Milford, Connecticut April 25, 2014

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Gothic weekend in Whitby

It's that time of year when gregarious goths gather in the April gloom of the North Yorkshire seaside town. This year the festival celebrates it's 20th birthday, having started as a gathering of penpals who met via NME magazine. The organisers chose Whitby as home of the biannual event because of its links with Bram Stoker's Dracula

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A Cessna 525 rolled into a Florida pond Saturday morning, after going off the end of the runway, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The three people aboard got out safely, NBC station WESH in Orlando reported.





A towing company removed the aircraft from the pond near Port Orange

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Tightrope walkers perform above a canal in Brussels on Saturday. Approximately forty-four tightrope walkers made an attempt to cross the canal during a performance

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A member of Venezuela's national guard chases a masked woman during a protest against the government in Caracas



Babies held by amateur sumo wrestlers compete in a crying baby contest at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo

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A participant swims backwards under a mesh wire fence during the Tough Mudder endurance race in Henley-on-Thames



The mother of a slain alleged militant, Shabir Ahmmad, touches his feet during a funeral procession in Keller, Srinagar, India



Palestinians from the besieged al-Yarmouk camp help an elderly civilian during the distribution of food aid from UNRWA in Damascus, Syria



Quezon city, Philippines: A boy yawns at a parade in celebration of the canonisation of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII

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Police officers stand guard in heavy rain at the Olympic stadium in Athens before the Greek football cup final



A bull jumps over a prisoner as he and others try to snatch a poker chip tied to its head in at the Angola Prison Rodeo in Louisiana

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This frog appeared to be enjoying a full work out by using a plant to do pull ups. The white's tree frog spent 10 minutes pulling himself up on the stem and easing down again. Finally the small amphibian climbed onto the stem and was able to rest. Amateur photographer Hendy Mp took pictures of the frog in a friend's back garden in Sambas, Indonesia



Meet adorable Daisy, the disabled dog with a heart as big as her wheels. The three-year-old Terrier crosss front legs are paralysed so she uses a glittery pink wheelchair to get around