Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.
But you guys stuck with me because you knew that at each and every juncture in our history, when our future is on the line, when our country is at a crossroads -- like we are now -- we can come together and we can do big things.
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Demonic spirits are said to lurk all around, with landmarks and prominent natural objects their favoured hiding places - crossroads, graveyards, rivers, large rocks, particular trees.
We now find ourselves at a crossroads in East-West relations.
The blast struck outside a compound housing government buildings in Kilometre Four (K4) - a crossroads in central Mogadishu.
At a four-way crossroads we stopped to rest and drink water.
Instead, it feels like a powerful crossroads of a journey- where video makes the leap from being an entertainment medium to a much more important thing.
That same weekend, the Huffington Post later revealed, two hundred wealthy guests attended a nearby luncheon featuring a speech by Karl Rove, the architect of American Crossroads, the pro-Romney Super PAC.
The Rolling Stone received perhaps the most sustained standing ovation of the night as he joined his old pal toward the end of Crossroads, a two-night concert festival at Madison Square Garden that brought together a dazzling array of guitar masters, from John Mayer to Jeff Beck to legends like Buddy Guy, and of course, Clapton and Richards.
Six vehicles were caught up in the crash - including a taxi that burst into flames - at a crossroads on the busy Las Vegas Strip.
Conservative super PAC, American Crossroads, has a new video -- or a new ad.
Republican-leaning group American Crossroads in its own online video also plays on the Tennessee angle and ties her closely to President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in Kentucky.
Ed Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and co-founder of the Crossroads groups, which plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars this year boosting Republican candidates (see Lexington), is also playing a role.
It's a fascinating, clear-eyed look at a hazy crossroads in America's path toward becoming a world power.
Both sides see a historic crossroads, like an energy version of D-Day or Waterloo, in which the winner will determine energy and climate policy for decades to come.
If proven, they were denied a Christian burial - and instead carried to a crossroads in the dead of night and dumped in a pit, a wooden stake hammered through the body pinning it in place.
At the crossroads of the battered housing market and below-trend levels of consumer spending, it will come down to execution for the home-improvement retailers as housing rises off the bottom and the economy continues its slow rebound.
The ex-Soviet Caucasus countries, at a crossroads of Europe and Asia, are really a patch apart.
By the end of July, the two biggest Super PACs allied with Romney, Restore Our Future and American Crossroads, had raised about a hundred and twenty-two million dollars.
After high-fiving one another for successfully naming 10 fruits that promote good health, the Crossroads South students gave a standing ovation for their classmates as they joined the Bartendaz for compound moves on the pull-up bar and on the floor for pushups.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is sponsoring a one-hour documentary, American Business at the Crossroads.
The gunfight took place on Wednesday at a crossroads near Ruiz, some 800km (500 miles) north-west of Mexico City.
With markets at a crossroads, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will give his second post-FOMC meeting press conference at 2:15 p.m.
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Regardless of what happens in Los Cabos or in post-election Greece, the world is now at a crossroads.
Hence Rove's group, getting ready to do some reverse RINO-hunting of its own with a spinoff of the Crossroads super PAC.
We've heard merger rumors before -- there was some half-baked chatter back in the day that RIM was after 'em -- and it does seem like Palm is at a crossroads.
Drive past a crossroads early in the morning, and you will see Afghan day-labourers sitting on the kerb, waiting for bosses with pick-up trucks who will set them to work shelling pistachios or humping carpets.
It was a season of uncertain and drifting identity, of upheaval and limbo, of anxiety and laughter, of transience and transients, situated in the Laventura itself, and, more precisely, on the sixth floor of that establishment, in a two-bedroom apartment, with two roommates at a strange crossroads.
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