Many Southern cities aspire to blend the old with the new; few achieve it as dramatically as HUNTSVILLE , a hundred miles south of Nashville just inside the Alabama border. Its sleepy center still recalls the days when it was dominated by...
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There has been a town at HOHHOT (known as Huhehaote to the Chinese) since the time of the Ming dynasty four hundred years ago, though it did not become the capital of Inner Mongolia until 1952. Until relatively modern times, it was a small...
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From BrianÁon, the river Durance meanders leisurely through a wide valley, until some 27km later it passes MONT-DAUPHIN , a formidably bastioned village , and one of the many Alpine fortifications designed by Vauban in the...
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