Cars splash through pond-sized puddles on the main street in front of the ruined streetlights of the looming House of Culture.

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Many tourists splash-and-dash their way through the hamam experience, leaving immediately after their treatment.

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The royal couple watched 200 soldiers parade through the square, bringing a splash of colour to the occasion in their full ceremonial uniform of scarlet tunics and bearskins, and led by the Band of the Irish Guards.

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Obviously Gaikai wants to make a splash with quality titles, but the reasoning goes further than that -- if gamers play a demo through the service and decide the title's not for them, that game's publisher ends up paying for a negative outcome.

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