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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Station. Perched on a gumdrop-shaped rock on the spectacularly scenic northern California coast, this is one of the most exciting pieces being offered. Often shrouded by fog, and surrounded on three sides by surging seas, the gray stone lighthouse looms like a medieval keep above the 33-acre site. The Coast Guard, which runs the station, is keeping the lighthouse, but the Interior Department is putting the surrounding property on the block anyway. The State of California would like to lease the site for use as a park or youth hostel, but does not want to buy it. Whoever...
...Ompompanoosuc River empties into the Connecticut, the dam was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1950 to control flooding. The dam itself will remain in federal hands, but 259 acres of surrounding land, most of it steeply sloped and heavily forested, are for sale. The site, which is not very accessible, is now used by hikers, hunters and fishermen. But its covering of pine trees might prove attractive to loggers, and this could push its price...
...almost two centuries, the Aztecs dominated central Mexico. Striking out from their capital, Mexico-Tenoch-titlán, site of present-day Mexico City, their soldiers waged war with the efficiency of Roman legions. Decked in feathery plumage to simulate serpents and other fearsome creatures, they terrorized their neighbors, bringing back captives and exacting tribute of food, blankets, precious metals and cacao beans (for use as money). In a bloody annual ritual known as the Raising of Banners, they appeased their chief deity Huitzilopochtli, the war god, by killing their prisoners as well as slaves especially purchased for sacrifice...
...soul of Aztec life. The largest, some 15 stories high, as tall as many European cathedrals, was a stepped pyramid topped by two shrines-one dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc, the other to Huitzilopochtli. This Great Temple, or El Templo Mayor, as the Spaniards called it, was the site of human sacrifice. Victims ascended the stairs, priests tore out then" hearts and the eviscerated bodies were tossed back down. As part of the rite, the Aztecs consumed some of the flesh...
...Nova-Park Elysées, which sits on the site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham...