It was a beautiful, well-planned floating city built in harmony with its surroundings, in the middle of a lake.

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The floating city of Columbia, set in a fictional period of American exceptionalism, is brimming with personality and patriotism.

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Also worth reading is Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post with a colorful view of the floating city that has sprung up to fight the spill, one that promises to grow ever bigger until the spill is stopped.

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In it, Captain Kirk needs to acquire plague-fighting minerals from the planet Ardana, currently in the middle of a civil uprising against a super wealthy and socially elite class that live in a floating city, far above the riff raff.

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But I prefer to consume the entire city, a floating festival of delicacies.

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And the bitterness of the fight is expected to sour debate over future projects in and around Seattle, including the need to replace a vital floating bridge that carries traffic to the city's eastern suburbs.

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The Finzels Reach scheme is on the former Courage Brewery site alongside the Floating Harbour and between Castle Street and Victoria Street in the city centre.

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But unlike the USS Intrepid in New York City or the USS Midway in San Diego, the Enterprise is not destined to become a floating museum.

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The last parking lot for floating palaces that got approval to be built, the Gold Coast Marina, opened in 1993, and now the city's eight marinas are filled to capacity.

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