The old village was a place in which conflict could never be escaped, in which the public and the private could never be separated.
As we began down a central rough-hewn path between the buildings, I stopped, suddenly aware that I wasn't just looking at a centuries-old village, but an architectural time capsule.
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Rozina Akter, a 21-year-old seamstress who was working at Phantom Apparels, a factory on the fourth floor of Rana Plaza, at the time of the disaster, says the industry offered her family a salvation of sorts, as they faced starvation in her old village.
Every day, I walk to the two-month-old Greenwich Village outpost of New York bakery Bien Cuit.
Among them was Fabrizio Goldstein, a 29-year-old West Village television personality who put on his American flag windbreaker for the occasion.
For those interested in this field but averse to private collecting, the best place to see militia regalia is Old Sturbridge Village (www.osv.org) in Sturbridge, Mass.
The location of the theft was narrowed down to the area around an old abandoned village called Kgatlane on the Vaal near the Orange River in South Africa.
All of this must have been deeply puzzling for the old boy until the village band struck up a familiar tune.
The 29-year-old mayor described his village as close-knit and friendly, "the kind of place where you'd say, 'oh, it would never happen here'".
The 23-year-old hails from a village in the Rift Valley, the traditional breeding ground for the seemingly endless stream of Kenyan distance runners who have enjoyed such success in distances from 800 meters to the marathon.
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Zhang Wen, a 56-year-old farmer in Yan Lu village, likes to hang out near the van when it arrives.
St Martin's Church itself is painted behind the Angel Gabriel and the old farm buildings of Bilborough village are behind Mary.
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Despite all this, in the eyes of others in the village, the old Bousque woman remained the mistress of the house.
That means the village's old-fashioned seed store has touch-screen cash registers.
The arrest of 27-year-old Ismail Suleiman from a village in the Jezreel Valley is the latest in a string of arrests of Israeli Arabs on charges of spying for Hizbullah.
New York (CNN) -- Police are investigating the slaying of a 32-year-old man in the Greenwich Village neighborhood early Saturday as a hate crime because the gunman made multiple anti-gay comments, they said.
Mr Young, 37, who is caring for his 86-year-old grandmother on the coastal village of Lamlash, said they were still without full power and did not expect it to return until next week.
And I remember -- I think I was about nine or 10 years old -- in my village there came an American missionary lady with boxes and containers full of used clothes that she would come to my village and hand out.
Here in Qobtan Jebel, a pinprick village of century-old stone walled homes in the hills west of Aleppo, Mr. Shehab Eddin's word is law, at least for now.
The nearly 20-year-old has been living with her parents in a handsome single-family home in Schwarzkollm, a village on the outskirts of Hoyerswerda with old farm houses, front yards with flower beds and a new neighborhood in which houses sprang up one after the other in a ring.
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"It's getting better every day, " said Rosa Abbate, 42 years old, of Port Jefferson, a village on Long Island.
The 33-year-old died at her home in the village in October last year.
Local officials say they want to covert the 50-year-old building into a home for the village's fire, police and rescue services.
From humble beginnings at the Old Railway House in the little known village of Carno, Laura Ashley grew to have 5, 000 retail outlets worldwide.
The army hopes to install a pontoon bridge to reach the part of the village cut off since the old bridge was swept away by the mud on Monday.
She is a 35-year-old illiterate woman living in Kok Srok village in Siem Reap province, who had to leave primary school in grade 3, as her family was unable to afford her school uniform and other learning materials.
Russian war casualties are still high, and a two-week-old battle for Komsomolskoye, a ruined village that Russian forces claimed to have taken in a day but have yet to subdue, has punched holes in the sunny official picture.
In a previously unreleased interview given to BBC Radio Shropshire when Neilson was diagnosed with motor neurone disease two years ago, Ms Bache described how the kidnapping of the 17-year-old heiress in 1975 shook their home village of Highley.
The 35-year-old was found in her home in the village of Crossmichael, Kirkcudbrightshire, on Saturday morning.
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