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October’s photo. . . stumped our readers! For the first time in 2005, no one at all sent in a guess for our “Where in the World?” entry by press time.
Quick, before you read the answer, take a guess!
The photo is the Norman Castle Tower in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England.
From Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, Sept. 12, ’05. . .
Recently, I was a delegate to the 2005 TravelMart Latin America. It is one of the most important business events for the tourism sector in Latin America. This year, Peru was the host country.
Most know that Hollywood made Cleopatra famous with movies of her romantic trysts with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony, but historians generally view Arab Queen Zenobia as having greater beauty, chastity and valor than her Egyptian ancestor. But who was Zenobia?
During the third century A.D., Rome was challenged by Persia (Iran). As Roman Palmyra, in Syria’s eastern desert, had twice defeated Persia, Rome permitted Palmyra to gradually change from a merchant republic, governed by a senate, to a kingdom.
“You can leave earlier if you travel standby on Delta,” the reservation agent told my cousin, Marcus, when he called Northwest Airlines about his JFK-to-Seattle flight.
Hello! My name is Steven Venables.
Meningitis is a dreadful word and an even more dreadful condition.
by Jay Brunhouse
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