Word: cosmopolises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Center of the World London: Heart of the world's largest empire. Rivals: Berlin, the Kaiser's haughty home base; San Francisco, cosmopolis built by gold, fed by trade and trains.
The ground was shaking last Tuesday night on Jerusalem's Pierre Koenig Street as scores of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in long black coats and black hats stamped their feet, shouted "Messiah!" and sprayed champagne in the direction of Ehud Olmert, the city's new mayor. Five minutes away, shudders...