It is the Ibiza the ancient Greeks used to call the 'pine-covered island', a fertile land where almost every patch of soil is filled with trees bearing different fruits - figs, quinces, lemons, carob seeds and almonds - so that the surrounding air is perfumed with their ripening scent.

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The company he took over was a wreck: ancient recipes, a barely functioning call center, nine long-suffering franchisees.

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The community has preserved many traditions from its African roots, including healing ceremonies that they say call up spirits from their ancient homeland.

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Most spiral galaxies, including our home galaxy the Milky Way, have a large concentration of ancient stars surrounding the centre that astronomers call the bulge.

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Cattle browsed in the grass, and the distinctive call of a sandhill crane carried on the wind that flowed down from ancient sand dunes in the distance.

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"We thought for a long time about what to call the exhibit, " explained Ralf Wartke, deputy director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, whose collection is housed in the Pergamon.

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Although historians and archeologists call them icons, artifacts, and talismans, it may be that the first cat memes appeared in ancient Egypt.

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But talking in the Ancient Iran room that houses the cylinder, Mr. Curtis is quick to say that it is an oversimplification to call the cylinder a Bill of Rights.

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