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The kitchen, which was remodeled in 2006, has 42-inch cabinets with under-cabinet lighting and Silestone counters.

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The Astoria has an open family room, center-island kitchen and breakfast area on the main level. Upstairs, the master bedroom has two walk-in closets and a bath with a shower. Two more bedrooms share a second bath.

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President Obama hosts an iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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As flood survivors climb on a truck with donated relief goods in Punjab province, one throws a water bottle at a passing truck. (Associated Press)

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Rachel Moore, Executive Director of the American Ballet Theater, looks on during a press conference at the Palco hotel in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Aug.17, 2010. Moore announced that the ballet company directed by her will travel to Cuba to participate in the International Ballet Festival that will be held in Havana Oct.28 - Nov.7.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

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This 1949 photo released by Herman Leonard Photography, shows Billie Holiday cooking a steak for her dog Mister in her apartment in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. The photographer, Herman Leonard, said she came to the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron and "First I thought, this is the maid." But it was Holiday, one of the greatest voices of modern time, whom Mr. Leonard would continue to photograph throughout her life. (AP Photo/Herman Leonard Photography, LLC., CTSIMAGES)

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Marine One (L), carrying President Obama, and a support helicopter fly past the Washington Monument as Mr. Obama heads for a trip to Wisconsin and the west coast, in Washington on August 16, 2010. (UPI/Kevin Dietsch)

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Chris Drummond, of Sydney, Australia, draws a portrait of Elvis Presley on Elvis Presley Boulevard in front of Graceland, Presley's Memphis, Tenn., home, on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Elvis Presley fans from around the world flocked to Graceland on Sunday for the annual late night procession past the king of rock 'n' roll's grave. Presley died at his Graceland mansion Aug. 16, 1977. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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Yellow crime-scene tape stretches across windows that were broken in a train terminal across the street from the scene of a fatal multiple shooting outside the City Grill bar and restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

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Fancy dressed participants of the annual Street Parade celebrate and dance in the city center of Zurich, Switzerland, on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of ravers participate in the event. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

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President Barack Obama hosts an iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Young Indian Muslim mechanics carry food for iftaar, meal that breaks a day-long fast, during the first day of holy month of Ramadan, in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Devout Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk during Ramadan, a time of heightened religious fervor. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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PROVIDED BY THE 2012 TAMPA BAY HOST COMMITTEE An apparent minaret in the logo of the 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee for the Republican National Committee is part of a famous 1891 hotel.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Karen Moran of West Palm Beach, a member of the "tea party," tries to prohibit Everett Wilkinson, chairman of the South Florida Tea Party, from heckling GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott on Thursday in West Palm Beach.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROD A. LAMKEY JR./SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Work on the 1932 stone-facade bridge just north of Interstate 395 near the 14th Street Bridge began in January 2008 and should last until the middle of next year. A spokesman says the George Washington Memorial Parkway's Humpback Bridge project is "extremely complicated."