The American my-home-is-my-castle mentality is enshrined in the tax code.

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The magic of Beauty and the Beast, which is one of my favorite Disney animated films, comes to life the moment you step into the castle of the Be My Guest restaurant.

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He quickly dismisses official business to take us on a personalised metal tour, which includes his sedan dashboard thickly scrawled with the autographs of visiting metal bands, the site of a planned Alley of Rock statue park, and a grain elevator refashioned as a medieval castle ('My idea, ' he cheerfully claims).

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On receipt of the priests' protest, the duke informed Lord Elton from his seat at Arundel Castle that the letter had "caused my hackles to rise".

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It is with this New Yorker attitude that I approached my first trip to LA. I grew exasperated at the endless driving, pretended not to envy the unwavering 70 degree weather and one night in Hollywood I purposely snubbed John Cho (co-star of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle), when I nearly bowled him over on my way to the bar.

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In my dad's generation, a man's car was his castle.

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