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The home at 12221 Firth of Tae Drive in the Tantallon on the Potomac community is on the market for $475,000. The brick-front Colonial has a water view, four bedrooms, two full baths and a powder room.
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An entire shopping mall is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia. (Associated Press)
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The statue of Queensland's famous former Rugby League star Wally Lewis is fitted out with water wings, scuba mask and snorkel is seen outside the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane Australia, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011, The stadium was flooded Wednesday as the rising Brisbane River hit the inner-city. (AP Photo/Brad Marsellos)
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FILE - In this March, 2010 file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords poses for a photo. She loves motorcycles and yoga, and is as comfortable in a business suit walking the halls of Congress as she is clad in leather riding gear at the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. She holds a master's degree in urban planning, yet can mount a tire in a flash. Pretty and petite, sometimes soft-spoken, she will take on even her most ardent adversaries and try talking them down with a firm hand but also a smile. Said one friend of Gabrielle Giffords: "She really pretty much defies a lot of description." (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File)
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Dozens gather at a makeshift memorial in front of the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. The memorial was set up for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is still in critical condition at the hospital, and other victims who were shot on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Workers make repairs to the Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Insurgent threats and a lack of space in hotels being rebuilt from bombings have cast doubt on whether the Arab League can hold its annual meeting in Iraq this spring. Iraqi and league officials maintain the March 23 summit will take place as planned. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, Lois Lucci, 53, sits next to her dialysis machine at her home in Redondo Beach, Calif. Lucci likes the idea of dialysis while she sleeps, so she could have the day free when she's not working part-time as a nurse. Only about 8 percent of dialysis patients choose to do it in their own homes. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, Lois Lucci, 53, sits next to her dialysis machine at her home in Redondo Beach, Calif. Lucci likes the idea of dialysis while she sleeps, so she could have the day free when she's not working part-time as a nurse. Only about 8 percent of dialysis patients choose to do it in their own homes. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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The InterContinental hotel is shown on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, in New York. Carlos Castro, a 65-year-old Portuguese television journalist, was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in the hotel, and his companion, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, was in police custody Saturday. Workers at the hotel discovered the mutilated body at about 7 p.m. Friday after a friend of Castro became worried. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Edison Pena talks Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn., about how he listened to Elvis Presley music while he was trapped with 32 other miners for 69 days in a collapsed mine in Chile. Pena, an Elvis fan who led other miners in Elvis songs to help pass the time while waiting to be rescued, was invited to tour Graceland by Elvis Presley Enterprises. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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The Torino has a family room with a fireplace, a dining room and a study across the back of the house. Upstairs are four bedrooms and two full baths.
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The row home at 3023 O St. NW in the East Village of Georgetown was built around 1905 and completely renovated and reconstructed in 2006 and 2007. It is on the market for $2,050,000.
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The formal dining room has a chandelier, faux-painted walls and pine flooring. A butler's pantry and wet bar with a granite counter separate the dining room and kitchen.
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The home at 1355 Windy Hill Road in McLean is on the market for $1,395,000. The all-brick home has five bedrooms.
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The home's current owner renovated the kitchen, updating appliances and opening walls to create plenty of space for entertaining.
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The Emerson model includes a two-story family room, a library, a formal living room, a formal dining room, and a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area on the main level. Buyers can add a sunroom off the kitchen.
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The Emerson model at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates has a center-island kitchen with 42-inch cabinets, granite counters and recessed lighting. The kitchen is open to the breakfast area. The Emerson is priced from $559,900.
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The Hylton Group is building 114 single-family homes on half-acre sites at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates in Dale City. The homes have 2,709 to 3,254 finished square feet, with base prices from $519,900 to $566,900.
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James Donovan, founder and executive director of the Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation, places a wreath at the memorial during the Christmas wreath-laying ceremony on Dec. 13. "As far as updates, we haven't kept pace with the times and its needs," said Mr. Donovan, a former Marine corporal who served at the monument's Silent Drill Platoon from 1964 to 1968. (Sgt. Jimmy D. Shea/USMC)
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TIME TAKES ITS TOLL: On the marble wall of the memorial where the history of battles is etched in gold, decay is visible in the streaks on the monument and the chips in the paint. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
