With its grand casino, fabulous weather almost year round and famous music festival, which inspired the Eurovision Song Contest, San Remo rivalled Cannes as a glamorous beach destination for starlets and millionaires in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Outside of the metrics analyzed, it would be quite a compelling competition between brothers John Harbaugh (head coach of the Baltimore Ravens) and Jim Harbaugh (head coach of the San Francisco 49ers), an appropriate swan song for Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and quite the cap to a remarkable season for 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

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On the other hand, Lyle Lovett's latest album includes a sprightly number called "San Antonio Girl, " but not a single song about Austin.

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San Marino is physically surrounded by Italy, whose cool relationship with the song contest has bubbled to the surface again.

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Earlier this year she made a sensational appearance during RAI's broadcast of the San Remo Music Festival - a sort of Italian version of the Eurovision song contest, and very much family viewing.

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