• Iraq -- a cradle of ancient civilization -- is the home of such fabled cities such as Ur, Babylon, Kabala and Nineveh.

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  • To that end, both the 3, 000-square-foot, three-bedroom house and the 16, 000-square-foot winery are clad in ancient-looking limestone siding and topped with red-clay roof tiles imported from France.

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  • One of the aims of the institute, she says, is to find interconnections between ancient cultures as well as look at what the institute sees as under-represented ancient cultures -- and the culture of ancient Babylonian math, she says, is ripe for popular revision.

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  • If that doesn't work--and it won't for many people--try an ancient HDL-raiser, the B vitamin niacin, if you can live with its annoying side effect (hot flashes).

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  • Augusta has not moved on the issue and it appears unlikely that Royal St George's - or indeed the all-male Royal and Ancient - will change either.

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  • At the moment Egypt is something of a stronghold - about 10% of the population are Copts - descendants of the ancient pre-Muslim inhabitants of the country.

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  • The southern mountains are dotted with tiny traditional villages, fantastic spots to buy hearty local olive oil and thyme honey, though Azogires has a freshwater lagoon where the itinerant nereids - those beguiling sea-nymphs of ancient Greek myth - can allegedly steal a man's soul on one sacred night each year.

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  • Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.

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  • Christians have fled Iraq - one of their ancient homelands - en masse.

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  • The show includes one spurious work that Mr. Wilson thinks the collector bought knowingly a 20th-century imitation of an ancient turquoise-inlaid bronze plaque with "taotie" (a mask motif) from the late Erlitou culture, Henan province, 1800-1600 B.

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  • At the northern end of the Forbidden City is the Imperial Garden, a classical Chinese garden with 7, 000 sq metres of fine landscaping, including rockeries, walkways, pavilions and ancient - carbuncular and deformed - cypresses.

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  • Ancient-looking, iron-stained conveyor belts lattice the badlands.

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  • For even as our leaders tried to forget what we as a people have always known, our history - both ancient and modern - is testament to the truth of Zaki's statement.

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  • Many doctors, both Western and traditional, feel that "integrated" medicine - a blend of the modern and the ancient - could be the therapy of the future.

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  • But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.

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  • The older generation--especially politicians in both countries--still carry the scars and ancient prejudices that re-surfaced when the subcontinent was torn apart in 1947.

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  • Today, a basketball hoop remains in Babylon, while concertina wire left behind by the military is used to prevent visitors from climbing over a 2, 500-year-old lion statue -- an ancient symbol of the city.

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  • Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.

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  • It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.

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  • In 2011, the Chinese museum sent over a hugely successful exhibition - of ancient rock carvings from Dazu - to National Museum Wales in Cardiff, attracting more than 38, 000 visitors in just two months.

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  • He had installed two of the earliest automatic garage-doors on record, powered by ancient Sears solid-state technology, and they worked fantastically for a decade or so.

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  • They compare the traditional market-cap-weighted indexers with ancient astronomers who attempted to perpetuate the Ptolemaic view of an Earth-centered universe.

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  • U. Throughout history, low fertility and societal and economic decline have been inextricably linked, affecting such once-vibrant civilizations as ancient Rome, 17th-century Venice and, now, contemporary Europe.

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  • Carrie Mae Weems does nothing to hide the operatic stage machinery behind "When and Where I Enter-Ancient Rome, " her 2008 black-and-white photograph of a woman in a long gown silhouetted at a picture window.

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  • The couple arrived to the sound of bagpipes at Middle Temple - one of the ancient Inns of Court - where the duke is an honorary barrister and member of the institution's governing body.

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  • Whereas the modern Olympics are an international competition -- a record 201 countries will be participating in the 2004 Olympiad -- the ancient Games were, for most of their 1200-year history, an exclusively Greek institution.

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  • We think of Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, or London, or even quainter, more ancient well-preserved places.

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  • But you know, ever since the ancient Greeks - Thucydides wrote about the desire for honor.

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  • The elder, potbellied, carried an ancient single-barrelled shotgun, the butt mended crudely with wire.

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  • The ancient Greeks - and other ancients - knew well of the benefits of physical activities.

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