The risk of severe weather is somewhat more modest in Chesapeake Bay, where the required home elevation is 2.5 feet, explains Steve Kieran, architect and owner of the Loblolly House in Taylors Island, Md.

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Sir Terry, like Sir Peter, comes from modest origins in Merseyside, but whereas the quiet, lean Sir Terry still collects visitors personally from the lobby of Tesco's shabby headquarters in Cheshunt, the charismatic, rotund Sir Peter directs Sainsbury's fortunes from a glass-and-steel office block in central London and seems most at home at the Royal Opera House, where he is a director.

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The company has become a landmark in Mansfield, population 1, 296, but the area is perhaps better known for the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum and home, where the author wrote her "Little House" books.

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From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history.

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The district, which encompasses some of the most affluent areas in the state (it's home to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos), is the type of place where House Democrats have made inroads in recent years.

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