It was hard to refuse the woman when the sun was setting over the western hill and the sky, orange with an evening glow, was darkening.

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The only access route taking traffic as normal after the landslips was Polperro Hill on the western side, the council said.

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The weathered, silvery stone ruins scattered across the grassy, 158m-high Hill of Slane today include a foundational outline of a church, a round tower and a monastery associated with St Erc, and a later Norman motte and bailey on the hill's western side, built by Archembald Fleming, who came to Ireland with Henry II in 1171.

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Take the Teufelsberg eavesdropping station, a ghostly hi-tech cathedral of the cold war, perched on a hill-top in western Berlin.

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In Broken Hill, the local council campaigned in the early 1990s for a law change enabling Broken Hill to join Kalgoorlie in Western Australia state as the only two towns allowed to stage Two-Up year-round outside of a casino.

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Lakeland Herdwick sheep were first recognised as a breed in the 1790s and are now bred on 120 hill farms in the central and western Lake District.

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On my visit to India this month, Forbes correspondent Naazneen Karmali and I happened onto trouble at Lavasa, a hill city being built along Warasgaon Reservoir between Mumbai and Pune in the Western Ghat range.

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The Arab state would have included not only what Resolution 181 referred to as "the Gaza District" and "the hill country of Samaria and Judea, " but also such other territories as the western Galilee.

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Fort Soledad, atop the southern hill of the bay, is reconstructed in parts and offers the best view over Umatac and the rugged western shoreline.

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