Estate back then, she said, when our house was the hub of Sans Souci.

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Behind its famous black door, 10 Downing Street is more like an elegant private house than the hub of a modern government.

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Oh, and its API is wide open, so devs can tailor the hub to house notifications from any and all apps of their choosing.

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The "community hub" would house a library, cafe, museum and other services.

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With this you can watch and listen or surf the web from anywhere in the house thanks to a digital media hub that feeds content to appliances in almost every room.

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Haggis and Rennard shared a house in Santa Monica, which soon became a hub for progressive political fund-raisers.

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But last month, The Barking Deer, located in the South Mumbai creative hub of Lower Parel, started serving beers crafted in-house by brew master Benjamin Johnson, originally from North Dakota.

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In addition to its in-house programming, Yahoo's partnered with the WWE to create an online wrestling hub starting this summer, which will include clips, a 30-minute Monday Night Raw pre-show, two original weekly shows with 50 episodes per year, an archive of full historic matches and more.

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But for all its promise of innovation, the A380 represents a bet-the-house wager on one of the most disliked same-old models of air travel: the hub-and-spoke.

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