People were going around with parasols and so forth in the open part of the park.

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On village roads, cycle rickshaws and monks with parasols amble by fruit vendors and car part stalls.

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There have been proposals to send mirrors, sunshades, and parasols into space.

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In March 2011, the Espacio Metropol Parasols, a museum and terrace complex that resembles a series of massive mushrooms, opened in the Plaza de la Encarnacion.

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Fancy fans, pretty parasols and wicker chairs, for example, are a far cry from some of the poster-plastered, traveller souvenir filled, iPad-littered rooms of the 21st Century.

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The miniature parasols idea, for example, envisages at least 16 trillion such parasols, the latter requiring an estimated 20 million separate space missions to get them up into orbit.

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