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AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington. Presidents who took bold stands are those most memorialized and best remembered.

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People crowd the pathways of the National Mall for the kick off of the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife festival. (Caitlin J. Rattigan/ The Washington Times)

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ALLISON SHELLEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Amanda Galzer (front row, left), Lauren Weeman (white tank top) and others move into the Warrior I pose during a Yoga III class at Tranquil Space Yoga.

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** FILE ** People ride on the Joker's Jinx roller coaster at the Six Flags America Amusement Park in Largo, Md., in July 2002.

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Association Press Coal River Mountain (left) forms the backdrop for a mountaintop coal-mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va.

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DAVID JOHNSON Craft beer (top) can be dark and more flavorful than wine, its boosters say. A line forms (below) for admission into Savor, a beer-and-food-pairing festival (above) held Saturday at the National Building Museum.

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In this Aug. 17, 2006, file photo, Glen Brown, 65, from D.C., passes by the Rock & Roll Hotel, a formal funeral home that was transformed into a bar and concert venue as part of a redevelopment of H street. (Nancy Pastor/The Washington Times )

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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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This cross was erected in the Mojave Desert in 1934 as a memorial to the war dead. (Photograph courtesy of Liberty Legal Institute)

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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)