These industries were based in towns including Salem and Gloucester, which honor their heydays with national historic parks.

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The silent movie, the Viennese symphony and the epic poem all had their heydays in the past.

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Balenciaga, Burberry and Goyard have been revived past their initial heydays decades ago and are viable and lively once again.

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Stuart Schonberger, managing director, CDH, emphasizes that Chinese venture investing in startups is returning to normal level after the heydays.

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They were all bigger than life, literally and figuratively, in their heydays -- from towering, 6-foot-9 inch Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden to the "Big Tuna, " the moniker given to legendary and well-traveled coach Bill Parcells.

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And of that total 65% of them were Brazilians coming home after years spent in a U.S. they no longer recognize from the Brazilian immigration heydays that began out of Governador Valdares, a small city in Minas Gerais state that had as many people living in Massachusetts, New Jersey and California, than were living there in the 1990s.

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