ASSISI is already too well known, thanks to St Francis , Italy's premier saint and founder of the Franciscan order, which, with its various splinter groups, forms the world's biggest. Had the man not been born here in 1182 the town...
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Twenty-seven kilometres northeast of BoiÁucanga is S√O SEBASTI√O , a bustling little town on the mainland directly opposite the island of Ilhabela. After its foundation in the first years of the seventeenth century, sugar cane and coffee farms...
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Twenty miles northwest of Raleigh, DURHAM found itself at the center of the nation's tobacco industry after farmer Washington Duke came home from the Civil War with the idea of producing cigarettes - by 1890 he and his three sons had formed...
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