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On a bluff looking west across to the Mackinac Bridge nearly half a mile from town. Grand Hotel is a living Victorian resort on a grand scale indeed, one of only a dozen remaining in the United States.

The Grand’s famous 800’ porch, promoted by W. Stewart Woodfill as the world’s longest porch, overlooks master Gardener Jennie Shanku giving a garden tour. She discusses landscaping styles and cultivating on a massive scale spring bulbs, roses, perennials, zinnias and dahlias of formal carpet bedding, wildflowers on the embankment, and the porch’s famous geraniums. Seven gardeners plant over 300 flats of bedding plants. On a rock island, everything is composted: clippings, weeds, branches, sticks, wood chips, coffee grounds, and limed horse manure all stay on the property.

Architectural historian Kathryn Eckert, seldom inclined to hyperbole, writes in Buildings of Michigan, "The Grand Hotel exceeds all superlatives ever written to describe its stately majesty and festive quality. . . . [Its] classical columned façade is one of the most enduring images of Mackinac Island." She goes on to describe how, in 1882, a wealthy lumberman from Kalamazoo, Senator Francis B. Stockbridge, "purchased the site of the hotel and formulated a scheme to finance its construction." He talked up the project to the two railroads and steamship line that served the island. The transportation consortium built and ran the hotel. (Northern Michigan railroads and ship lines became developers of most all Lake Michigan's resort colonies from Harbor Springs south to Grand Haven. They sought to develop tourism to replace business lost as the pine forests were giving out and lumbering faced a sudden decline.)

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Rome (Italian: Roma)

Rome (Italian: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, as well as the country's largest and most populous comune, with more than 2.7 million residents (December 2006, demo.istat.it). Its metropolitan area is Italy's second after Milan. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian peninsula, where the river Aniene joins the Tiber. The Mayor of Rome is Walter Veltroni.

An enclave of Rome is the State of the Vatican City, the sovereign territory of the Holy See and smallest nation in the world.

Rome, Caput mundi ("capital of the world"), la Città Eterna ("the Eternal City"), Limen Apostolorum ("threshold of the Apostles"), la città dei sette colli ("the city of the seven hills") or simply l'Urbe ("the City"), is thoroughly modern and cosmopolitan. As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II relatively unscathed, central Rome remains essentially Renaissance and Baroque in character. The Historic Centre of Rome is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site

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Antwerp (English: /ˈæntwɜrp/ ( listen); Dutch: Antwerpen, [ˈɑntˌʋɛrpə(n)] ( listen); French: Anvers, [ɑ̃vɛʁ, ɑ̃vɛʁs]) is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions. Antwerp's total population is 472,071 (as of 1 January 2008) and its total area is 204.51 km² (78.96 sq mi), giving a population density of 2,308 inhabitants per km². The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,449 km² (559 sq mi) with a total of 1,190,769 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.The nickname of inhabitants of Antwerp is Sinjoren, after the Spanish word señor, which means 'mister' or 'gent'.

Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux both economically and culturally, especially before the Spanish Fury of the Dutch Revolt. It is located on the right bank of the river Scheldt, which is linked to the North Sea by the estuary Westerschelde.

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A wind turbine is nothing but a simple turbine set up in open space, which utilizes the mechanical energy of air, or wind and converts it to kinetic energy. Either it can make things work by implementation of the kinetic energy to the attached items or it can even convert this energy into electric energy. A windmill is one type of wind turbine, which does direct application of the mechanical energy into machines, pumps and other forcible works. When the energy is used for electricity generation,

A wind turbine is nothing but a simple turbine set up in open space, which utilizes the mechanical energy of air, or wind and converts it to kinetic energy. Either it can make things work by implementation of the kinetic energy to the attached items or it can even convert this energy into electric energy. A windmill is one type of wind turbine, which does direct application of the mechanical energy into machines, pumps and other forcible works. When the energy is used for electricity generation,

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