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The 6-foot-tall Capitoline Venus, installed in the Rotunda of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, will be on display until Sept. 5. The statue was excavated from the buried ruins of an ancient building in Rome in the 1670s and given to the Capitoline Museum by Pope Benedict XIV in 1752. (Photograph by Rob Shelley)
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The no-baking-required ice cream cake has two flavors of ice cream, two sauces and cherries on the top. (Associated Press)
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The no-baking-required ice cream cake has two flavors of ice cream, two sauces and cherries on the top. (Associated Press)
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Scooper Daniel Tzek puts an ice cream cone in a holder for a customer at the Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco.The creamery's soft-serve flavors include vanilla, of course, but also spicy Mexican chocolate, and balsamic strawberry. It also has salted caramel, which marketing director Kirsten Bourne said is "the most popular flavor by far." (Associated Press)
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While the color scheme of the mudroom often is an extension of nearby rooms, some homeowners choose to make it a space in which to play with color. (Photo courtesy of Rill Architects/Kay Kim)
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The home, in the Indian Queen community, has 5,170 square feet on a lot of .66 acres. The six-bedroom home is on the market for $1,200,000.
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The back porch of the home at 9913 Indian Queen Point Road in Fort Washington offers spectacular sunset and water views.
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The Ashley II model at Hampton Square Condominiums offers buyers a choice between a floor plan with a separate living room and dining room with a family room and kitchen, or a great room with a formal dining room and a front kitchen. Buyers can add a fireplace to either floor plan.
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Jon Huntsman Jr. sits on a Harley-Davidson at a dealership during a May visit to Manchester, N.H. The GOP presidential candidate is back in New Hampshire, traversing the campaign trail on a Harley Road King. (Associated Press)
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Cody Wickline and Harley Bahr, both from Beckley, W.Va., slide down the water slide on June 7, 2011, at New River Park in Beckley. (Associated Press/The Register-Herald)
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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES PGA Tour veteran Fred Funk puts body english on his tee shot on the 10th hole on the North Course during a 36-hole U.S. Open qualifier at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville. Funk made the cut with a 6-under 135.
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BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Leigh Hauter, owner of Bull Run Mountain Vegetable Farm in The Plains, Va., explains to his Arlington customers how many of each vegetable they get on Monday. He has been selling shares of vegetables from his farm for the past 19 years. But he says he not longer grows sprouts because of the potential for a food poisoning outbreak.
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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Courts building on Monday for his arraignment proceedings on charges of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. The French economist and diplomat has said he is not guilty. (Associated Press)
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New York hotel workers jeer Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he arrives at the courthouse. "New York is the wrong place to mess with a hotel worker," said Aissata Bocum, a Ramada Inn housekeeper. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Justine Golden, a tour guide at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, N.H., talks to visitors about Frost's life as a poultry farmer when he lived on the farm. It has been 100 years since Frost sold the farm before becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, but it was there that he found inspiration for some of his most memorable works.
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 14, 2007 photo, the site of the demolished Sands Hotel and Casino is seen in Atlantic City, N.J. Pinnacle Entertainment scrapped their plans to build a mega- casino on the site and is trying to sell the land where it would have gone. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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** FILE ** Waiting to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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**FILE** First lady Michelle Obama introduces the Department of Agriculture's new guide to healthy eating, My Plate, on June 2, 2011. The plate graphic replaces the familiar pyramid and has an accompanying website. (Associated Press)
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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Chris McCartin of Arlington shoots out from a green-side bunker during the first round of the Nationwide Tour Prince George's County Open in College Park. McCartin carded a 3-over 74 on the University of Maryland Golf Course.
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Photograph provided by the DC Jazz Festival Chilean native Claudia Acuna will bring her bilingual vocal talents to the jazz festival with a performance on the Mall on June 12.
