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Asmara, Africa's Horn of Architectural Plenty
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The name Asmara may never ring like that of El Dorado. But high
above the clouds over Eritrea, East Africa's newest capital city has
treasures all its own.
Through a quirk of colonial history, the city has been graced with
one of the world's most remarkable concentrations of modernist
architecture. Several hundred buildings bear the stylistic hallmarks
of 1920s and 1930s Italian design. Crumbling facades still curve and
towers soar. A futuristic gas station with cantilevered concrete
wings exudes all the streamlined dynamism of that earlier era. If
time and neglect have scarred many of the ...
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A legacy of certainty against all facts.(Main)
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The ghost following Bush
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A&E Plays `Longitude`, CBS
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Row flares again over shipwreck heirloom
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time.
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Drink tonight ... in a ship
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MEASURING UP TALE OF A CLOCKMAKER WHO SOLVED ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT PUZZLES.(Lifestyle)
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Scilly error was fatal.
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