Like Czar Nicholas II, the mechanical peacock came at the decadent end of a long and rich tradition.
Dortmund has a rich tradition, too, but the club identifies more as a scrappy upstart than an established mainstay.
From the infrastructure perspective, they have a rich tradition of ball players, fields and instructors, as baseball is their national game.
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Fueguia's nearly 60 fragrances draw on happier inspirations, too, such as South America's rich tradition of cultivating fragrant herbs, plants, woods and grasses.
The destruction of the shrines in Timbuktu and the silencing of the country's rich tradition of music highlight the threat posed by the Islamists.
We draw strength from the rich tradition that everybody can call America home because we all came from somewhere else except for the first Americans.
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Apart from a handful of wax phonograph recordings of Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, there is no audible record of this rich tradition of European music.
Brooklyn, the southeast borough of New York City, has a rich tradition in arts and sports alike, as it has been the home of countless artists, actors, musicians, writers and athletes over the past centuries.
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While the NFL Scouting Combine has grabbed the attention of most sports spectators around the United States, there is an event currently taking place in San Antonio, Texas, which has a rich tradition and a loyal fan base.
Here in the cradle of liberty, the first state with child labor laws, and such a rich tradition of supporting working families, 111 representatives voted to take away collective bargaining rights because the Speaker of the House made them.
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In the early 1990s, the place was rich in tradition but not much else.
But the rich OSU tradition is not going to disappear any faster than the tradition of Christmas.
Columbia has a rich tennis tradition the school has won 10 Ivy League men's titles, eight of them under Goswami, including back-to-back ones in 2009 and 2010.
In the 1980s, Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, attempted to turn Helena into a bright tourist attraction by creating the Delta Cultural Centre to promote the region's rich blues tradition.
We ought to be able to, in a country as proud and as rich in tradition as the United States of America, to have a debate in a way that is civil and in a way that demonstrates both the passion of our beliefs, but in the values that we hold dearly as a country.
The good news is that the Arab World has a rich and ancient tradition of innovation.
The result, 50 years in the making, is a mere 800 bottles of rich history and tradition.
Not bad for a school rich in basketball tradition on the men's side.
Many of them live and work in areas with a rich and proud tradition as a cornerstone of the British railway industry.
Today however, the native Aymara culture, once populous and rich with ancestral tradition, is dying out after 10, 000 years of recorded history, with families moving down from the antiplano in search of jobs and education in bigger towns and cities.
When his team makes the NCAA tournament, say in Year 2 of its eligibility, beat a tradition-rich opponent like a Georgetown.
It will be an occasion to focus on a source as rich as the Confucian tradition, which can serve as a bridge for dialogue on universal ideals.
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This time, it helps that his opponent is a political neophyte, a personal-injury lawyer continuing the time-honoured tradition of rich trial lawyers morphing into Democratic Senate candidates.
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
Mitchell is building a tradition at a school rich in men's basketball history.
The landscape, rich fertile soils and an impressive record of culture and tradition give this Geopark major geotouristic potential.
The Facebook Keiretsu is the newest in a strong tradition of techies still working together once they hit it rich.
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What about young Afro-Brazilians, do they aspire to be Americanized or are - you know, since Brazil has such a rich culture heritage, do they keep their distance from the black American tradition?
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