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LeBlanc concludes that the hilltop locations can only be explained in terms of their defensive and strategic value. His theory is supported by defensive walls which have been found near the Mimbre settlements. Unburied and improperly buried bodies at these sites suggest violent massacres, a theory corroborated by a large amount of evidence of scalpings...
...hits for the Ronettes, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, among others. But drugs, booze and paranoia ended the chart-topping reign of the man Tom Wolfe called the "first tycoon of teen." Spector went into seclusion for years and took to running around his hilltop mansion in a Batman costume. Recently he was said to have cleaned up his act. Few were aware, however, that late last summer Spector fired the bodyguard tasked with keeping him off alcohol. At the House of Blues, Spector was drinking...
...BEGINNING Clan chief Paulus Dara scratches his head and screws up his face. "How long have we been here? Hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Maybe forever." Dara heads one of nine clans in Bena, a village 18 kilometers south of the hilltop town of Bajawa. Bena, and dozens of villages like it, are almost untouched by tourism or the modern world, earning Bajawa and its cool green surroundings a reputation as a living museum and the cradle of Flores culture...
...name baffles shopkeepers and historians alike. After all, it was salt mined from the flats that put Phetchaburi on the map. But it was King Rama IV who ensured Phetchaburi's enduring legacy back in 1860?at least to fans of grand kitsch. On a hilltop west of town, the King constructed a dazzling summer estate: palaces and stables, with enough guesthouses to shelter the entire royal court. The design was meant to blend the best of East and West, but the result was an eclectic hodgepodge of Greek columns, Thai teak, Chinese tile roofs and a rounded Italian observatory...
...that rank among Thailand's most diverse. Murals at Wat Ko Kaeo Sutharam show a Westerner (an early Jesuit missionary most likely) attending an ancient Buddhist ceremony. That may be the only Western face you see in Phetchaburi these days. Which is strange, considering that in its heyday, the hilltop palace complex was the hip place to swing in old Siam. Now, only the monkeys...