Hospitality_Recreation

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The African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest marks the service of more than 200,000 black troops in the Civil War.

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** FILE ** A news conference takes place in May 2009 regarding the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County, Va., where Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to build a supercenter nearby.

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** FILE ** Clint Provenza of Severna Park, Md., assists a participant up a hill during the Wounded Warrior Project Soldiers Ride in Annapolis. Below, eager riders line up at the starting line. (Tom Galligan/The Washington Times)

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Georgian tanks move along a road outside the capital, Tbilisi.

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Estimates run as high as a half-million people at the three-day Woodstock festival at Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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**FILE** This photo from July 18, 2008, shows a McDonalds drive-thru menu in New York printed with calorie counts for each food item. (Associated Press)

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Chesapeake Bay blue crabs (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Mike Ash of Louisville, Ky., home of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, samples the restaurant's new grilled chicken entree. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama just got back from his first trip to Europe since taking office. (Getty Images)

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Conservatives took issue with President Obama's deep bow to Saudi Arabian King Abdullah during the Group of 20 summit in London last week. "In short, he surrendered our country's ideals, offering up our principles for sacrifice on the altar of Otherness," Jeff Goldstein wrote at Protein Wisdom. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from June 3, 2008, an employee takes a drag on a cigarette at Morgan's Place bar and restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. (Associated Press)

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Macaroni and cheese is in the top-10 for blizzard foods, cited by many in the path of "Snowzilla." (Tribune Media Services)

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Cherry compote and cream-cheese mousse enhance Brabo's Belgian waffle. Belgian beer is on tap along with other favorites in the bar area.

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**FILE** This undated family photo shows Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Ala. (Associated Press/Courtesy of Marcia Twitty)

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** FILE ** Hanna Carter, 5, of Roanoke, Va., takes a dose of peanut protein from nurse practitioner Pam Steele at the Duke South Clinic at Duke University in Durham, N.C., on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Hanna is being treated for peanut allergies. A handful of children once severely allergic to peanuts now can eat them without worry after scientists retrained the children's immune systems so they're allergy-free. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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NOT THIS Patrons dine at Ristorante Tosca, an Italian restaurant which has been serving contemporary northern Italian cuisine for the past seven years in the downtown area of Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 5, 2009. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MANAGEMENT OF THE RESTAURANT ASKED ME NOT TO APPROACH COSTUMERS - I THEREFOR WAS NOT ABLE TO TAKE ANY NAMES. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)