With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
There are three competing impulses from three capitals.
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Happymon Jacob,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
For example, applicants from Afghanistan would largely need to apply in Islamabad, Pakistan, and those from Russia would need to apply from the capitals of Poland, Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.
As arena employees started dismantling the balloon columns decorating the venue and turning hordes of mostly female fans away, there was a frenzy of frustrated tweeting and lots of tears.
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Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Oct. 2025
The younger woman smiling coyly, as if with a secret, while the older of the two, still young herself, anxious and polite, looks at the strange columns in the kitchen, trying not to be rude about it.
In a matter of hours, the pillars of an entire system of repression had not simply collapsed.
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Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Fasting, which is one of the five pillars of Islam, is a vital part of Ramadan, the holy period that marks the month when Muslims believe the angel Gabriel first revealed the Quran, Islam’s central religious text, to the Prophet Muhammad.
Your house, Baba, Acre’s command post of old Jerusalem stone, with delicate arches and tall pillars, was surrounded by cinchona trees.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
Within minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.
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