Word: domes
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...World, it would be built in the middle of nowhere. In nearby Osceola County, Disney is getting into the business of residential utopias, harking back, in a way, to Walt's original concept for Epcot. His Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was intended to be sealed under a glass dome to keep out heat and humidity. It was to have had stores, apartments, schools, churches, offices, marinas, parks, golf courses, a monorail, a vacuum-tube trash-disposal system, a central computer controlling everything from streetlights to hotel reservations -- and it was to have housed temporary residents who were to abide...
...event, which was organized by the American Legion, Support our Soldiers (SOS) and the Republican Women of Boston, drew many in red, white and blue, but few men in blue, to the hour-long rally beneath the golden dome of the State House. Participants cheered speakers--including representatives of Gov. William F. Weld '66--shoured "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" at passerby and repeatedly pledged allegiance to the flag...
...vacation spots can match Yosemite National Park's rare combination of wild beauty and civilized comfort. At the Ahwahnee Hotel, guests book reservations a year in advance to watch the alpenglow off the majestic Half Dome from cozy rooms equipped with TVs and minibars. When not ice skating, skiing or hiking through the mountain slopes clad with ponderosa pines, visitors can patronize a pizza parlor, a gourmet deli, a one-hour photo service, an automatic bank teller and, of course, a gift shop full of coffee mugs and T shirts with the Yosemite logo...
...streetlamps flicker on in front of Leningrad's palatial city hall and a blanket of luminescent mist settles over the gilded dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral, just across the square. Night and fog come early now to the far northern city, built on islands in the Neva River. But the workday is far from over for Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak. In his elegant second-floor office, once used by the Czars, he reflects on the problems of this metropolis of 5 million, famed as the cradle of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. "I feel as if I am wrapped...
Religion offers one obvious explanation for the bloody clash. Muslims call the Temple Mount al-Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary. It is home to both the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque and is Islam's third holiest site after Mecca and Medina. To Jews, it is the sacred spot where Solomon's Temple and later the Second Temple once stood. The adjacent Western Wall, a retaining wall from the Second Temple, is the holiest site in Judaism...