Over the next six months, Gaga is scheduled to play 41 shows at 20, 000-seat venues like Madison Square Garden in New York and the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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The 800-seat venue, close to Trafalgar Square, opened in 1882 as the Royal Avenue Theatre, becoming the Playhouse 25 years later.

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Then I saw what seemed to be a pamphlet in the open book, and as the train approached Union Square I offered my seat to an unpleasant woman who denied that she was pregnant and staggered across the jolting subway car to have a better look.

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British ex-pat Rachel Khoo moved to town to train at the Cordon Bleu, and she ran this two-seat restaurant out of her 256-square-foot apartment.

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So last November they opened the world's largest Internet cafe, an 800-seat beast smack in New York's Times Square.

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He will also take over the George Square lecture theatre as a 480-seat space, along with two other rooms holding 200 people each.

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According to plans released last month by the City of Cupertino, the campus, which will cover a 175-acre area, will also feature a separate corporate fitness center and a 1, 000-seat auditorium, along with an additional 300, 000 square feet of research facilities and a low-carbon central plant that will supply the majority of the power needed for the campus.

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