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Crowds build for second Obama inauguration

Excited crowds filled up Washington's National Mall Monday for Barack Obama's second inauguration as US president, anchored on a call for America to unite despite ugly political divides.

The US Capitol is pictured at sunrise on January 21, 2013 hours before US President Barack Obama's second inauguration in Washington, DC.

Barack Hussein Obama will raise his right hand and place his left on Bibles once owned by Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and swear the oath of office before mustering for four years threatened by strife at home and abroad.

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