Hospitality_Recreation

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Brad Keselowski led 231 laps en route to victory at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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Visitors walk past the remains of a 16th-century church and the rest of an ancient village, including a tree (top), ordinarily submerged by the waters of a reservoir in Huesca, Spain, on Tuesday. The reservoir, built in the 1950s, submerging a village called Mediano, is so low on water owing to the driest winter in more than 70 years. (Associated Press)

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"It's the last frontier for science and exploration on this planet," said film director James Cameron of the Mariana Trench, seven miles down in the western Pacific. Entrepreneur Richard Branson and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt are planning their own separate trips to explore the trench in deep-water submersibles. (National Geographic via Associated Press)

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Director James Cameron will be taking the cramped, almost-form-fitting Deepsea Challenger submersible (top) seven miles down into the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. (National Geographic via Associated Press)

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** File ** President Obama drinks a Guinness at the Dubliner Restaurant and Pub on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks March, 16, 2012, during a 'Lawyers for Obama Luncheon' fundraiser at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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Foreign visitors walk by displays of mock North Korea's Scud-B missile (right) and other South Korean missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul on March 16, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Republican congressional hopeful Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher says his advisory team is made up of hardworking, beer-drinking, Wal-Mart-shopping "average Joes" rather than the Washington establishment or tea party. (Associated Press)

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Shepherd's pie gets a new look and taste when made with ground sausage and beef, with a layer of corn and a sweet-potato topping. (Associated Press)

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Thin slices of flank steak and red onions, both marinated in Guinness beer, are covered with Boursin cheese and served on sourdough bread for a savory sandwich for St. Patrick's Day or anytime. (Associated Press)

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The home at 3517 Porter St. NW in Cleveland Park is on the market for $1,849,000. The semidetached home, built in 2005, has four finished levels and more than 4,100 square feet.

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At the rear of the main level are the open center-island kitchen, breakfast area and family room. Plenty of windows bathe the home in natural light.

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Researchers may have discovered traces of a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci by poking a probe through cracks in a 16th-century fresco painted over another work on the wall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. (National Geographic via Associated Press)

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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta prepares to depart from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Monday, March 12, 2012, on a trip to Central Asia. (AP Photo/Scott Olson, Pool)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and his son Patrick sit in a coffee bar in Graz, Austria, in October. Patrick Schwarzenegger, 18, tweeted Saturday that he had received stitches down his back following "a little ski accident" in Idaho. (Associated Press)

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A vendor sells small statues of Cuba's patron saint, La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (Our Lady of Charity), during a Santeria ceremony at the annual Caribbean Festival in Loma del Cimarron. (Associated Press)

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A Santero priest in 2010 holds machetes over his head as he moves around a fire during a Santeria ceremony at the annual Caribbean Festival in Loma del Cimarron, El Cobre, Cuba. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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A dish of red curry potatoes and chickpeas, a great from-scratch recipe you can have on the table in under 30 minutes. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)

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The recipe for this dish pairs pancetta with hummus on sourdough bread with a topping of tomatoes, red onions and balsamic vinegar. Pancetta, a close relative to American bacon, is a must-have for authentic carbonara. Browning small chunks of it is a classic start to many Italian recipes. (Associated Press)