For many, Wallace is the spirit of Scotland, and represents all that is great about the wild land. Even the great Scots poet Robert Burns said of him, “The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along till the floodgates of time shut in eternal rest.” He has become a symbol, not only for Scots, but for freedom fighters throughout the world.
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The assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963 has gone down as one of the darkest days in American history and cast a shadow across the city of Dallas for decades. Ever since that fateful day people have flocked here to mourn President Kennedy’s death and try to make sense of what happened.
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Baalbeck (or Baalbek) is the historic highlight of any trip to Lebanon. Located 60 miles from Beirut, the site was a symbol of opulence and decadence in the ancient world. Until the mid 1990s, Baalbeck was off-bounds to tourists, as it was the seat of the radical anti-Western Hezbollah party. The political situation is a lot less volatile these days, and as visitors flock to the site once more Baalbeck has reclaimed its reputation as one of the great wonders of the world.
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Zanzibar is ninety eight percent Moslem, a legacy of the island’s Arab influence, but the Cathedral Church of Christ in Stone Town is a memorial to the work of Christian anti-slavers.
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The original mosque in Djenne was built in the 13th century by Koy Konboro, the town’s first Islamic ruler.
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