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New research complicates both modern and colonial-era ideas about the medieval East African civilization.
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Széchenyi-Wenckheim Castle Ruins
Békéscsaba, Hungary
The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.
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This one-time boomtown still oozes with the spirit of the Wild West.
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