Acadia enshrines some of the most beautiful land in North America.

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Luke resides in beautiful Raleigh, North Carolina.

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In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.

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Spanish architects from Catalonia armed with the curvaceous ideas of modernisme rubbed shoulders with influential new US transplants enamoured by the City Beautiful Movement, a classical revival movement born in North America that emphasised monumental classical buildings interspersed with salubrious parks and gardens.

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The north of La Palma is often considered the most beautiful part of the island, with fertile hills and rocky cliffs plunging into the sea.

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"It's so beautiful seeing the meandering Hudson River, the Adirondacks to the north, the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Catskills to the south, " says pilot Greg Livadas, a Rochester, New York pilot who has been flying in the festival for more than 30 years.

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This country-house hotel, near the beautiful city of Bath, holds one-day courses in Indian street food or the food of North or South India, taught by head chef Hrishikesh Desai.

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