It has not ventured into Italy or Spain, it is only now entering France (it opened its first store there in Paris on February 25th), it has a few shops in Britain, and in Germany its share of the clothes business is negligible.

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It opened in 1901 in a single small building and now is a complex of structures with 28 acres of floor space.

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In 1920 the Rose brothers and Victor Morris opened their eponymous store - it is still there, and now the capital's largest music shop.

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And across the Atlantic, the recently opened Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht is now home to what it says is the largest in-hotel video art collection in the world, transforming the property into more than just a hotel -- it's an art gallery now, too.

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The average Steelers PSL is now worth eight times what it was 11 years ago, when the team opened Heinz Field, according to data from STR Marketplace, a website that processes secondary PSL sales.

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No-one sensible is now predicting the continuation of the exponential price increases that have been seen in Dubai since it opened its property market to foreigners and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest a real estate is simply not moving.

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Hard to believe that the Southern Californian odyssey that opened to mixed reviews (The New Yorker called it an "irritatingly antic caper") is now considered among the best in the Coen Brothers canon and a bona fide cultural phenomenon.

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