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...main Oak Hall, a spacious room paneled in that wood also features a massive oak staircase built without nails. The stairs lead to the balcony and to sitting rooms hidden behind beautifully carved wooden grilles that allowed privileged guests to spy on those below...
...other places can a diner be so richly steeped in the dramatic vicissitudes of recent Russian history. This stately turreted mansion was built in 1889 in a pseudo-medieval style for Prince Svyatopolk-Chervertinsky and later the same year was bought by Countess Alexandra Olsufyeva...
Most of the world's Zeppelin hangars have disappeared since the deadly explosion of the Hindenburg abruptly ended the airship era in 1937. But five of them, originally built for German war dirigibles, have long been a point of local pride in Latvia's cosmopolitan capital of Riga, where they've been converted to a higher and more peaceful purpose: food...
...fighter with Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), starts weeping. I let Francine go. She'd already told me about her life after the genocide. "I was abandoned," she said. "I was alone and I had nothing." And now? "Now I have goats, I have two cows, I have built a house. I have 700 coffee trees. I'm even putting money in the bank...
...country farming coffee - more than 3 million people - he became a coffee expert. The key to a good cup, he discovered, was processing and speed. The sooner and more expertly coffee cherries are processed - stripped, washed, sorted and dried - the better the coffee. In 2003, for $120,000, he built Rwanda's first coffee-washing station on a stream next to some farms in Maraba...