From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.
The new areas selected by naked Retreats for expansion are along the Great Wall in Beijing, on an island in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu province, and also in the Shanghai and Guangzhou areas.
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Fatboy Slim has previously played at Bondi Beach in Sydney, the Great Wall of China and in an igloo.
The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
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Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.
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It is now generally accepted that the blame for the Great Depression in 1930s America does not lie with the Wall Street crash of 1929 but the unreasonably tight monetary policy which followed it.
This time, the company finds itself in unfamiliar territory with its back against the wall facing a bully in Apple who has a great memory.
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The stress is overwhelming, and investors finally race to the Great Casino of Wall Street, decide to go all in and roll the dice.
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First, COFCO is in the wine business and has national distribution in China with its Great Wall brand.
Microsoft is not even mentioned among the four companies a Wall Street Journal team highlighted in an assessment of the great battles ahead in tech in 2013.
The staff in the restaurant is professional and pleasant, the by-the-glass wine list is decent, and my linguine with clams last night was much better than the linguine with radicchio I had at that little hole-in-the-wall (with a great sense of place) near the Grand Hotel Gianicolo yesterday before heading for the station.
Despite such concerns a small majority of the great and the good in Davos thought Wall Street would end this year higher than it began.
In the meantime, though, Great Wall is the poster child for all Chinese car companies.
Davies misses both tournaments as she is taking part in a charity walk along the Great Wall of China.
At the time of the great Wall Street crash of 1929, 10, 000 companies in America had defined-contribution plans in place (although not in their present form).
Even New Yorkers should consider whether bailing out Wall Streeters is so great for them in the end.
For cruisers looking to learn more about Asian history, there are several sites worth visiting on extended shore excursions, in addition to the obvious ones like the Great Wall and Angkor Wat.
To orchestrate his 1993 Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10, 000 Meters, for example, he and some assistants suspended approximately six miles of fuse in the Gobi desert, beginning where the Great Wall ended.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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Consider that the Great Depression and the debacle of 2008 both had their origins in Wall Street and their partners in crime, the large banks, especially including the Fed.
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Though this same political class brought great harm to the economy and Wall Street itself for bailing out its losers in 2008, the pay earned is more than justified.
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Apparently, those that won - the Great Wall of China, for example, Machu Picchu - even the governments in those country appeal to the citizens to go online because it was an online vote, and vote.
And now, in October 1999, the great American economist and historian of the Wall Street Crash, Professor J.
Innovation on Wall Street built the Internet in the boom 1990s, including many of these great Silicon Valley companies.
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The 800m section of the 2, 000-year-old Roman wall at Great Chesters, near Haltwhistle, is in poor repair because of weather and animal grazing.
Reading an analysis in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Walker, one word represented the great virtue Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson must bring to his new job: focus.
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To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.
Mr. Sures has three phones: an iPhone 4s, a BlackBerry Bold and a satellite phone kept in case of emergency like the time he was at the Great Wall of China and couldn't get cellular service.
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