Sudanese workers are busy with Khartoum's face lift, especially on Nile Road, running along the Blue Nile River past the grand palace grounds and government ministries, the road's median lined with newly planted pink bougainvillea and palm trees, running up to a brand-new development built especially for the African heads of state due here for the two-day meeting beginning January 23rd.

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Thonburi, west of the Chao Praya River and directly across from the Grand Palace, was the first area of Bangkok to be settled.

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When U.S. forces arrived in 2003, they occupied the palace, which lies adjacent to Nebuchadnezzar's palace and overlooks the Euphrates River, and left their own mark.

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The weir, which is used to control river levels, lies upstream of Hampton Court Palace and was built in 1883.

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Mr Lissouba blamed his rival, but a 122mm gun was clearly visible next to the presidential palace, firing shell after shell over the river into Kinshasa.

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The palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the London borough of the City of Westminster, close to the government buildings of Whitehall.

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But my favorite excursion was to An Dinh Palace, a French-style royal residence on the Perfume River built by a Nyugen emperor for a crown prince, whose mother lived in the home until her death.

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The Atrium Palace Condominiums is one of a string of lavish high-rises that look across the Hudson River to the bright lights and infinite possibilities of Manhattan.

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