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  • the historic complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian, the old city ... architectural remains is Diocletian's Palace, built in Split, by the emperor ...
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  • Winter, New York, 1900 (oil on canvas. In summer, he forsook the city for ... two large paintings for a newly built palace there. The subjects were ...
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  • climate characterized by a hot and humid summer, pleasant autumn and spring ... The Beirut Nights events take place in the city, usually in the summer ...
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  • Commune became insurrectionary in the summer of 1792, essentially refusing ... National Guard from the town hall to the National Palace. ...
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  • to 23°F (-3°C to -5°C), and in July (summer) from 73°F to 77°F (23°C ... voice. The reed-pipe is played on a summer solstice marking the day ...
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  • death) of the emperor and the burning of the Summer Palace was a shocking blow to the once powerful Qing Dynasty. The Treaty of Tianjin (1858), ratified ...
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  • After an extended run at Caesar's Palace during May 1969, Sinatra ... Over the summer Sinatra supported a Republican candidate for the first ...
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  • During the summer and fall of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla attacks ... Belgrade Film Festival, Theatre Festival, Summer Festival, Music Festival ...
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  • Delhi has a semi-arid climate with high variation between summer and ... the Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace) and the Supreme Court of ...
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  • NE, Minneapolis, MN, and Princeton, N.J.: Palace Editions, 2005, ISBN 0967845130 ... in Paris during the Imperial Ballet's summer holidays. The first season ...
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  • traditional forms of bells are temple and palace bells, small ones being rung ... a sixteen-note pattern named after the Palace of Westminster which popularized ...
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  • They also played on the The Hollywood Palace where host Dean Martin made ... The Rolling Stones celebrated their 50th anniversary in the summer ...
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  • of Beijing and destruction of the Summer Palace. He remained with the British forces occupying northern China until April 1862, when the troops ...
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  • Summer tends to be short, hot, humid, and rainy because of the southern ... warm summers and cold, dry winters. In summer there is a short rainy season ...
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  • House, the eighteenth century ducal palace that houses the [[Dáil Éireann ... football and hurling games during the summer months, as well as international ...
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  • Although the details of his service that summer and fall were not officially ... with the other houses, it may be called a palace." He had a good farm ...
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  • to the polar region and ensures that in summer the night skies of the city ... by such buildings as the Menshikov Palace, Kunstkamera, Peter and Paul ...
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  • to serve two full terms in the Élysée Palace. Chirac is the only person ... Po, he attended Harvard University's summer school before entering the ...
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  • Northern Tibet is subject to high temperatures in the summer and intense ... the world heritage sites the Potala Palace and Norbulingka, the residences ...
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  • The Primate's Palace in Bratislava has security grills on the ... for acrobatic shows held during the 1936 Summer Olympics on display in the ...
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