After leaving the gorge, the New River flows west into the Ohio and eventually the Mississippi, but not before passing through CHARLESTON , West Virginia's state capital and largest city. Charleston isn't a place many people set out to visit,...
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AUSTIN was only a tiny community on the verdant banks of the (Texas) Colorado River when Mirabeau B. Lamar, president of the Republic, suggested in 1839 that it would make a better capital than swampy and disease-ridden Houston. Early building had...
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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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