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To the tourist who now visits Pisa the banners and emblemcs of the order of St. Stephen are mere matter of curiosity, but they had a serious significance two hundred years ago to the young Tuscan, who knew that these naval crusaders formed the main defence of his country and commerce against the Turkish, Algerine and Tunisian corsairs.
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To the hotel people, you'll just be an innocent tourist who happens to ask for that particular suite ''.
Apart from its manufacturing base, Cadillac is frequently considered by those who know it to be a tourist town.
The fashion for all things Scottish was maintained by Queen Victoria, who helped secure the identity of Scotland as a tourist resort, with Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire becoming a major royal residence from 1852.
During the 20th century many of the islands were developed as tourist resorts for Glaswegians who went " Doon the Watter ", in parallel to mainland resorts such as Largs and Troon.
On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.
) Similar rules apply to mosques in Malaysia, where larger mosques that are also tourist attractions ( such as the Masjid Negara ) provide robes and headscarves for visitors who are deemed inappropriately attired.
It became a popular tourist attraction, and Emil Zátopek was among those who visited the store trying to meet Nurmi.
Experts who discovered the reproductive cysts in the seabed warn of a possible spread to Long Island in the future, halting the area's fishing and shellfish industry and threatening the tourist trade, which constitutes a significant portion of the island's economy.
Therefore, like a circle, a tour represents a journey in that it is a round-trip, i. e., the act of leaving and then returning to the original starting point, and therefore, one who takes such a journey can be called a tourist.
In 2005, there were 24, 124, 501 visitors to the country, who contributed $ 18. 2 billion to Turkey's revenues, with an average expenditure of $ 679 per tourist.
While Hume was writing the script, he and producer Robert Papazian, who had great experience in on-location shooting, took several trips to Kansas City to scout locations and met with officials from the Kansas film commission and from the Kansas tourist offices to search for a suitable location for " Hampton.
In May 2009, the United States Army returned the Ur site to the Iraqi authorities, who hope to develop it as a tourist destination.
During the Roman conquest, Spartans continued their way of life, and the city became a tourist attraction for the Roman elite who came to observe exotic Spartan customs.
Houses are often very expensive in tourist villages as there is demand for them as second homes or holiday homes by holiday cottage firms or well-off people who live elsewhere, or who move to a local home from which they commute to work, making them unaffordable for local people.
Because of the lake and the through travellers ( including many motorcyclists who enjoy the twisty roads in the area ) the town also supports a small tourist industry, with a motel and caravan park.
Experts who discovered the reproductive cysts in the seabed warn of a possible spread to Long Island in the future, halting the area's fishing and shellfish industry and threatening the tourist trade, which constitutes a significant portion of the island's economy.
James Hutchings — who organized the first tourist party to the Valley in 1855 — and artist Thomas Ayers generated much of the earliest publicity about Yosemite, creating articles and entire magazine issues about the Valley.
Mannie saves the life of Stuart Rene LaJoie, a rich, well-connected, sympathetic tourist, who begins turning public opinion on Earth in favor of lunar independence.
Fragments from those shots struck American tourist Dennis Olson who had been hiding with his wife, Mary, and Winter.
: Relativism is the bad faith of the conqueror, who has become secure enough to become a tourist.
By 2001, the Koror Jail, Palau's only correctional facility, has become a tourist destination thanks to inmates who create and sell elaborate wooden storyboards at a retail facility located on the jail's grounds.
The " menace " of the title is a beautiful woman tourist who visits the Moon colony and is assigned a young guide named Holly, a 15-year-old girl and aspiring starship designer who is the first person narrator of the story.
A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place of many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area.
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A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians.
The houses built by the Perano family are now operated as tourist accommodations.
Other buildings of interest include the former Shire Hall, now a tourist information centre, and the Regimental Barracks of the now defunct Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, now a regimental museum.
It is now a tourist attraction in its own right and dominates the village.
In the United States, many states are grappling with high unemployment and budget deficits and are now turning to legalizing casinos, often in places that are not tourist destinations.
It is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
It is now used mainly for tourist traffic.
The whole site is now an archaeological one, and one of the most popular tourist destinations.
Parts of the canal are still used to transport cargo, but it is now primarily used as a tourist and recreational attraction, dubbed Sveriges blå band (" Sweden's Blue Ribbon ").
It is now a tourist destination.
Along the coast lies Karfas ( Καρφάς ), a sandy beach, which along with the nearby village of Ayia Ermioni ( Άγια Ερμιόνη ) is now the main tourist centre, with a number of large and small hotels.
Steam locomotives remained in routine passenger use in South Africa until the late 1990s, but are now reserved to tourist trains.
Jūrmala, with its many sanatoriums and tourist accommodations, its tall pines, sandy beaches, and antique architecture, is now experiencing a wrenching readjustment.
Traditionally a fishing port, Padstow is now a popular tourist destination.
The railway is now used as a tourist attraction.
However, there are some trishaws left which now serve as tourist attractions, taking tourists for a ride around the downtown district for a unique Singapore experience.
Some tourist resorts now offer a surface-supplied diving arrangement, trademarked as Snuba, as an introduction to diving for the inexperienced.
It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well known Berber Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions.
The West Wycombe Caves in which the Friars met are now a tourist site known as the " Hell Fire Caves ".
Lightman escapes NORAD by joining a tourist group and, with Mack's help, travels to the Oregon island where the widowed Falken ( John Wood ) now lives under a new identity.
In fact, for cultural, artistic and economic reasons, Palermo was one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean and is now among the top tourist destinations in both Italy and Europe.
The scientific work of the observatory was relocated elsewhere in stages in the first half of the 20th century, and the Greenwich site is now maintained as a tourist attraction.
The Achilleion is a palace commissioned by Elisabeth of Austria and purchased in 1907 by Wilhelm II of Germany ; it is now a popular tourist attraction.
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