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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A visitor mimics the iconic pose of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" in the garden of the Musee Rodin, the kind of out-of-the-way place Woody Allen celebrates in "Midnight in Paris." The boutique of the Deyrolle taxidermist is another, offering animals of all sizes. Dating from 1831, the place is imbued with history and magic.
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Waterford Development is offering more than 20 floor plans, including one featuring a kitchen, den and living area on the first level, with two bedrooms with walk-in closets and two full baths upstairs.
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This hanging pot of pansies, impatiens, bogonias and sweetpea is a different way of displaying some traditional flowers that also helps contain some that would otherwise spread, such as the lamium vine hanging out of it, according to Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardner magazine. Jentz took an old window frame from a house that was going to be demolished and paired it with a galvanized metal box in order to create the decorative piece that hangs in her Silver Spring, Md., garden on Monday, June 20, 2011. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon won a unanimous vote of confidence Tuesday from the world body's General Assembly. (Associated Press)
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associated press photographs Markieff Morris of Kansas (left), Jan Vesley of the Czech Republic (center) and San Diego State's Kawhi Leonard are forwards high on the Wizards' wish list. Washington, which has the sixth overall pick, will be looking for a player to complement guard John Wall, last year's No. 1 overall selection.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A thick government binder found in the back of a New York City taxi about 20 years ago was a compilation of what was known about Mafia figures of the 1950s and early 1960s, among them Meyer Lansky, Carlo Gambino and Paolo Gambino. It was on the auction block Wednesday.
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** FILE ** Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei gives an interview at his studio in Beijing in January 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)
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Former Dior designer John Galliano arrives at the Paris court house, Wednesday, June 22, 2011, charged with hurling anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe — allegations that shocked the fashion world and cost him his job at the renowned French high-fashion house. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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A sole Qantas worker stands at an empty check-in terminal at Sydney Airport, Australia, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Several international and domestic flights through Australian airports were canceled Tuesday due to an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano moving into the country's airspace. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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Revellers cheer as the sun finally breaks through the clouds more than a couple of hours after sunrise during the summer solstice at Stonehenge, near Salisbury in England, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 shows one of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012. In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the FDA's the new warning labels depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use. (AP Photo/U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
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Master distiller Jimmy Russell (right) and his son Eddie are reflected in a mirror in the Wild Turkey Distillery offices in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Times are good for bourbon distilleries because of an increasing worldwide thirst for Kentucky's signature liquor. (Associated Press)
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Alexis Guerra, 8, visits the shelter near Todd Mission after evacuating with her family out of Stoneham, Texas. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)
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Pernell Witherspoon is congratulated after being rescued from the Jellico Mine No. 1 on Monday, June 20, 2011, in Middlesboro, Ky. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
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** FILE ** President Obama speaks in Pensacola, Fla., on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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The Remedy Compassion Center identifies the varieties of medical marijuana with numbers and more commercial names such as one called “Bubblegum.” (Guy Taylor/The Washington Times)
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Mike Reynaud of Luling, La., fishes inside the Bonnet Carre Spillway, just after U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers closed the final bays along the Mississippi River (background), 30 miles upriver from New Orleans in Norco, La., on Monday. The gates were opened weeks ago, pouring fresh water into Lake Pontchartrain. (Associated Press)
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Firefighters work in the rubble of a destroyed building in the Galil compound in Surman, Libya, some 40 miles west of Tripoli, on Monday, June 20, 2011, in this photo taken on a government-organized tour. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Elkton Eclipse centerfielder Erik "Dubs" Meyers, of Chesapeake, Md., slides into home plate as he avoids a tag from Potomac Nine catcher Jeff "Piper" Hornberger, of Crofton, Md., during the Loudoun Preservation Society's 19th Century Baseball Day at the Oatlands, in Leesburg, Va., Sunday, June 12, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Potomac Nine pitcher J.D. "Buckeye" Almond, of Marshall, Va., delivers a pitch during the Loudoun Preservation Society's 19th Century Baseball Day at the Oatlands, in Leesburg, Va., Sunday, June 12, 2011. Another unique rule of 1860s baseball is the pitcher was required to throw underhand. Pitchers were often called "hurlers" and batters were also called "strikers." (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
