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The Pangolin is the world’s most trafficked animal. Campaigners and authorities alike are working hard to stop the illegal trade of these scaly creatures. Unless attitudes in Asia and Africa change and there is a reduction in demand, they are going to become extinct.
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In the 16th century, the Saadian dynasty briefly used Taroudant as a capital before it moved its royal seat onwards to Marrakesh. Today, the city has the feel of a small fortified market town on a caravan route.
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In 1693 a mighty earthquake flattened many communities in the south east of Sicily .At the time Baroque architecture was the fashion in Europe and over the next few decades several Sicilian towns were re built in the Baroque image .
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On Sicily’s south eastern shore sits Syracuse , nowadays a grand baroque styled city, but in ancient times one of the greatest powers and, for the Greeks , the most important city outside Greece itself .
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The tycoon John Paul Getty built this villa in Malibu inspired by the design of the Villa dei Papiri , a grand country residence on the Bay of Naples buried by the Vesuvius eruption in AD 79. It had been built by the father in law of Julius Caesar.
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