It had been a frontier town and the older inhabitants still told stories of Indian battles.

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He recalls a "little frontier town" where you could initially recognize almost every screen name you came across.

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But Pakistan, which backs Dostam, has already given the fledgling airline permission to fly to the frontier town of Peshawar.

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Aachen, the heart of the empire, became a frontier town.

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In 1882, they enter Appaloosa, a New Mexico frontier town, and offer their services to people who are being terrorized by a rapacious landowner and gang leader (Jeremy Irons).

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From Willow, where the race clock starts ticking, mushers and their dog teams will begin making their way through unforgiving wilderness toward the finish line in the old frontier town of Nome on Alaska's western coast.

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H. (pop. 2, 600) looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.

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Hunkered down in the hills just 16 kilometers south of the Canadian border, Colebrook, New Hampshire (pop. 2, 600), looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.

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Dubs says the Chinese kept the ex-legionaries as frontier guards, installing them in a specially created town called Liqian in what is now Gansu.

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The town of Kukes, 20 kilometers from the frontier with Yugoslavia, faces the toughest conditions with officials saying the community was being overwhelmed.

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His town of Chikoti(ph), which likes next to the frontier that separates Indian and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, was cut off for several weeks from the rest of Pakistan by landslides.

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