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Attendee Jeff Reinhardt (left), of Hanover, Md., joins Emily C-D (center), dressed as a mermaid, to serenade the crowd passing through the "Refresh Dome." The dome featured live plants and outdoor showers for relief from the midday heat outside during the festival. (Allison Shelley/The Washington Times)
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Maurice A. Barboza, whose great-great-grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War, is leading an effort to build a memorial to black patriots on the Mall. (Associated Press)
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Then-U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel. ** FILE **
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A giant portrait of Chairman Mao is removed from the Museum of Chinese History on Tiananmen Square in 1981, signaling the end of the so-called cult of personality sustained by Mao's widow and the rest of the Gang of Four. (Photo from the book CHINA, edited by Liu Heung Shing)
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Pollster Scott Rasmussen
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**FILE** Jack LaLanne celebrates his 70th birthday in 1984 by towing 70 boats and 70 persons while swimming 1.5 miles in California's Long Beach Harbor. (Associated Press)
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Seen here at a Senate hearing in December 1992 long before either ran for president, Sen. John Kerry (left) listens to Sen. John McCain. Mr. Kerry offered Mr. McCain the No. 2 spot on his ticket in 2004, but now says he is not fit for the White House.
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** FILE ** Fireworks explode over the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., Friday, July 4, 2008.
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Fish are drawn to the "French Wreck" in Dry Tortugas National Park, Fla.
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** FILE ** Dolphins swim in the Navesink River, near the Shrewsbury, in Sea Bright, N.J., on June 24, 2008. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A tip is left by a customer at Linda's Place Restaurant in St. Clair Shores, Mich., on June 19, 2008. (Associated Press)
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Photographs by John Tully/ The Washington Times Mary Carter, center, walks with her children Heather, 14, and son Justin, 8, back to board the truck after a break before heading back on the road to Pennsylvania from New Hampshire. Carter and Russell will be traveling with Carter's children for a month this summer. "It's affecting money we could send home to help the kids. To put food in their stomachs and clothes on them. To give them a life," Russell said about the rising cost of diesel and having to juggle their daily expenses.
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Above: Mobs scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, in April 1975 to escape the imminent communist takeover. Left: In April 1956, black and white passengers sit segregated on a trolley in Atlanta, despite a Supreme Court decision. Both were pivot points in U.S. history.
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Seven-year-old Dionte Lewis, from DC, cools off at the spray park of the Girard Street Park in Columbia Heights in NW Washington, D.C., Monday, June 9, 2008. Due to extreme heat, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) opens 10 outdoor swimming pools and 4 spray parks from 3 to 8 pm at DPR locations across the District today. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Sen. Jim Webb was the chief author of the 21st Century GI Bill of Rights. (The Washington Times)
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The Washington Dulles International Airport terminal, with its swooping roof and mobile lounges, is one of Mr. Saarinen's iconic architectural works.
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** FILE ** The Greystone Grill's 20-ounce rib-eye steak is cowboy-cut but well-served with broccoli. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)
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Signs from the late 1800s to the present can be seen at the American Sign Museum, and a Kentucky Fried Chicken sign from the 1950s is among them (above left). (Associated Press)
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Photographs by Michael Connor / The Washington Times The Greystone Grill's cowboy cut rib-eye steak is a full 20 ounces and is served with a side of broccoli. Below: A dish of roasted bacon-wrapped sea scallops on sauteed baby spinach is enhanced by a warm citrus beurre blanc.
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Emily Boone (right), 15, consulted with her friend Becky Harmik at the Fair Oaks Mall, but so-called millennials also help their boomer parents shop. (Erin McCracken/The Washington Times) **FILE**
