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The Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Md., seen here on Dec. 27, 2012, is now open 24 hours a day. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Md., seen here on Dec. 27, 2012, is now open 24 hours a day. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Md., seen here on Dec. 27, 2012, is now open 24 hours a day. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Md., seen here on Dec. 27, 2012, is now open 24 hours a day. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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People pass under the lights above at the Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Md., on Dec. 27, 2012. The casino is now open 24 hours a day. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Barbara Boatman (left) and her granddaughter, Katherine Herbst, 21, both of Alexandria, Va., celebrate their birthdays on Dec. 27, 2012, at the Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Md., which just announced it will be open 24 hours a day. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Barbara Boatman and her granddaughter Katherine Herbst celebrate their birthdays — Mrs. Boatman's 80th, Ms. Herbst's 21st — at the Maryland Live Casino on Thursday. It was the first day for 24-hour operations at the casino, which will add table games and poker in the spring to the existing slot machines. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The general consensus of visitors on the first day of round-the-clock operations at Maryland Live in Anne Arundel County is that never closing couldn't hurt the casino's appeal. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A truck driver watches as a container crane lowers a freight container onto a tractor-trailer at Boston’s port, one of 15 from there to Houston where longshoremen are threatening to strike if they cannot reach an agreement on their contract, which was extended in September but expires Saturday. Longshoremen operate the crane and the reach stacker seen at left. (Associated Press)

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In a First Day Hike last Jan. 1, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and his dog Tobey step out at Mount Greylock State Reservation. (Associated Press)

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In a First Day Hike last Jan. 1, park ranger Bob Flippen leads hikers at Virginia’s High Bridge Trail State Park. About 400 such outings took place in all 50 states. More than 600 are planned for this New Year’s Day. (Associated Press)

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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the National Archives will display the original document for a limited engagement beginning Sunday.

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The distinctively designed interior includes sports seats, a sports steering wheel and interior trim strips in piano black.

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Unique Pearl White Nappa leather seating with perforated inserts are surrounded by a black interior environment for a contemporary look.

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President George H W Bush is joined by family members as he concedes to Bill Clinton on Nov. 3, 1992 at Houston hotel in Houston. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)