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Sambath Chung helps his daughter Chanda, 7 write her name in Chinese calligraphy during the annual Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the National Mall on Sunday, July 6. Khalid Naji-Allah/Special to The Washington Times.

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Sambath Chung guides the hand of his son Sorya, 5 as he tries to write his name in Chinese calligraphy during the annual Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the National Mall on Sunday, July 6. Khalid Naji-Allah/Special to The Washington Times.

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Sambath Chung wathces his son Sorya, 5, as he tries to write his name in Chinese calligraphy during the annual Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the National Mall on Sunday, July 6. Khalid Naji-Allah/Special to The Washington Times.

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Fireworks can be seen from the Top of the Town as they explode over the National Mall to celebrate Independence Day, Arlington, Va., Wednesday, July 4, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Fireworks can be seen from the Top of the Town as they explode over the National Mall to celebrate Independence Day, Arlington, Va., Wednesday, July 4, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Washington D.C. fireworks can be seen from the Top of the Town as they explode over the National Mall to celebrate Independence Day. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Fireworks explode over the Philadelphia Museum of Art during an Independence Day celebration, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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The nation's brightest Independence Day celebration, featuring 48 spotlights powerful enough to be seen 120,000 miles into space, light up the St. Louis night sky, bringing to a close Budweiser's "Here's to the Heroes Tour 2005" on the historic Eads Bridge. The Heroes Tour traveled more than 17,600 miles over the past 10 weeks collecting video messages of support for U.S. troops serving overseas. (PRNewsFoto/Anheuser-Busch, Inc.)

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Tea party-backed State Rep. Joe Carr hopes to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican who is backed by the GOP establishment. Tea party groups are supporting a number of Senate and House races across the country, in including some Kansas and Georgia. (Associated Press)

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A visitor walks through the Great Hall, a vast three-story plaza bracketed by matching sets of Corinithian columns, at the National Building Museum. (the washington times)