The soldier will be buried on Saturday in his native town in Rawalpindi district with full military honours, according to Pakistani officials.

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That simple summons and the astonished response to it are dramatized in "The Calling of Matthew, " one of a trio of paintings by Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio after his native town.

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"De Ushuaia a la Quiaca" is the result of a Santaolalla road trip from the northernmost tip of his native Argentina to the southernmost town.

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The African ancestors of the Moore Town Maroons were forcibly removed from their native lands to the Caribbean by Spanish slave traders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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In 1968, at the age of 20, he was a keen organiser of demonstrations in his native Tetovo, Macedonia's main ethnic-Albanian town.

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"Argo" marks a change for Affleck, whose first two features as director "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town" were set in his native Boston.

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But the 10-acre (4-hectare) site, a few miles from Usk's town square, owned by local landowner Rosie Humphreys and Native Woodland Ltd has had 45 "green" burials, with 120 more committed to be buried there.

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Rather than risk a frontal assault from the sea, he borrowed 23 native canoes, long sleek war vessels called pirogues, and crept up the coast towards the unsuspecting town in the dead of night in 1668.

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Bethel, a town of some six thousand souls, is the mercantile and administrative hub for fifty-six Alaska Native villages staggered through the surrounding bush.

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