The World's Most Famous Shoe

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| Fri Jan. 30, 2009 12:07 PM PST

THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SHOE....An orphanage in Tikrit has constructed a giant statue of a shoe to commemorate the "heroic action" of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush last month. Seriously. But then the government took it down. Spoilsports.

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