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Stairways make it easier for tourists to explore Mammoth Cave, which has lured the curious for thousands of years and was discovered by white settlers in the 1790s. (Associated Press)
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Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky gives summer visitors a place to escape the heat by offering a variety of unique tours through a tapestry of rock formations. One popular area is the Rotunda. (Associated Press)
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Photograph courtesy of Rill ARchitects Outdoor Kitchens If you are including a fireplace as part of an outdoor kitchen, make sure it doesn't block the view from inside the house.
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Photograph courtesy of Rill Architects Outdoor Kitchens While a roof isn't required for an outdoor kitchen, it can provide protection from the elements.
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The kitchen in the Yates model is open to a breakfast area and the family room. Four bedrooms, two full baths and a laundry room are on the upper level.
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Ryan Homes is building 62 single-family homes on 5,000-square-foot sites at the Village of Idlewild in Fredericksburg. The Yates model, with 2,290 square feet, is priced from $309,990.
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The Victorian-style town house at 3204 Q St. NW is on the market for $1,569,000. The home, built circa 1900, has four bedrooms over three finished levels, including an in-law suite on the lower level.
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President Obama meets and eats with Grand Isle, La.-area residents at Camardelle's, a seafood restaurant, in June 2010. (Associated Press)
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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Redskins offensive lineman Kory Lichtensteiger (top) is optimistic the unit will be an asset instead off a liability as Washington looks to rebound from a 6-10 season. Guard Chris Chester (above) was added because the team thought his speed fit well with its outside zone scheme.
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A pair of Republican presidential hopefuls, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney, and the tea party movement get the cartoon treatment from Bluewater Comics. (Bluewater Comics)
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French artist Henri Matisse painted "The Plumed Hat" in 1919. It is oil on canvas and measures 18¾ x 15 in.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "When you get to walk through the boat and see how big this thing really was, and how many cages were there, and how much room there was for food and water ... our hope is people start seeing that this is plausible," says Mike Zovath, co-founder of Answers in Genesis ministries.
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Elvis tribute artist Marcos Santos gives a personal serenade to Louise Smith of Southaven, Miss., during a performance in the Graceland Entertainment Pavilion on Monday night before the annual vigil.
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** FILE ** A convoy of trucks carries U.S. equipment in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 17, 2010. (Associated Press)
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President Obama stops for breakfast on Aug. 16, 2011, with small business owners at Rausch's Cafe in Guttenberg, Iowa, during his three-day bus tour devoted to the economy. (Associated Press)
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Ryan Rhodes (right) and another member of the Iowa Tea Party Revolution (left) speak Aug. 15, 2011, to President Obama at a town hall meeting in Decorah, Iowa, during the president's three-day economic bus tour. (Associated Press)
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Antonio Rodriguez and Rutha Pryputniewicz, visiting from Wyoming, take in the view of the Potomac River from Great Falls National Park in McLean on Monday. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Visitors of Great Falls National Park, in McLean, Va., get a view of the Potomac River from an outcropping of rocks Monday. Virginia officials are considering a proposal to stop paying dues to a regional compact to preserve and maintain the river. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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associated press Nationals starter John Lannan has had to learn how to stay mentally focused and trust his best stuff.
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GOING GOURMET: Executive chef Richard Cook (above left) and market manager Sergio Rarujo arrange the main display case at BlackSalt in the Palisades, one of many new restaurants that have enlivened the D.C. dining scene. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
