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Cappadocia: Turkey's land of `rainy castles'
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GOREME, Turkey Indefatigable travelers have long sung over the glory
that was Rome, the splendors of Greece, and the fascinations of the
Nile. But few Americans have even heard of, much less visited, that
part of Turkey called Cappadocia.
Germans come, and so do some French, bands of Italians, a few
Swedes. But few indeed are vistors from the United States, and yet
this strange land in the center of Anatolia offers one of the most
awesome landscapes to be seen anywhere.
Long a...
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Cappadocia: Turkey's land of `rainy castles'
Chicago Sun-Times
; GOREME, Turkey Indefatigable travelers have long sung over the glory that was Rome, the splendors of Greece, and the fascinations of the Nile. But few Americans have even heard of, much less visited, that part of Turkey called Cappadocia. Germans come, and so do some French, bands of Italians, a
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UAE Heritage In Germany: Sheikh Zayed's "Garden From The Desert" At The Botanical Garden In Hamburg
Al Bawaba
; In the year 2003, the City of Hamburg was given a Garden from the Desert" by His Highness, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The garden, which had been part of the International Garden Exhibition in Rostock, Germany, was officially inaugurated in June 2005. Its main components are two
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Sunny side up: (WILD ART).(Metropolitan Times)
The Washington Times
; Kristina Teuteberg of Heidelberg, Germany, is seen catching rays yesterday in a reflection in the glass pyramids at the National Gallery of Art while businessman Bill Barrett of Seattle suns himself on the Mall.
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Predator: GEORGE WAS TURKISH DELIGHT.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Memo to the Burberry-sporting Ingerland fans whose lusty chants of With St George in my heart, keep me English are such a welcome addition to their repertoire of topical songs about the IRA (retired) and World War II (only 58 years ago now, lads). St George was born in around 220 AD in a place
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 "The People (London, England)")
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Kid climbers ogle dancers.(News)
The People (London, England)
; A COMMUNITY centre is hiring pounds 4,000-a-year security guards to stop daredevil kids scaling the building's glass roof to ogle belly dancers. Up to 20 youngsters, some as young as seven, have climbed up to two glass pyramids on top of an 80ft roof to watch scantily-clad dancers having lessons.
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Galveston: The grand survivor: A century after disaster, a beach town treasures its Victorian ghosts.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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Travel: what's on worldwide
The Independent - London
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From cars to park in one easy move
Evening Standard - London
; PARISIANS have a history of toying with the form of their city. Look at the huge urbanisation of glass and steel at La Dfense, at I M Pei's glass pyramids outside the Louvre, at the striped columns in the courtyard of the Palais Royal - all the subject of much controversy when they were created and
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I.M. Pei's East Building.(architecture)(Brief Article)
School Arts
; Solving Problems of Form and Function When Andrew Mellon gave the original West Building of the National Gallery of Art to the nation, he had already anticipated the museum's eventual expansion. In a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, Mellon specified the Mall building space on the
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Huge car sale just got bigger
Evening Times
; The M8 is known for its various landmarks but now there is a new milestone to rival the glass pyramids and musical horn. Driving east to west, the impressive new premises of Central Car Auctions can be seen on the left at Baillieston, just before the giant horse sculpture. Central Car auctions has
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