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as in cathedral

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Originally a Byzantine cathedral before becoming an Ottoman mosque and now an active place of worship once more, its vast marble interior, soaring dome and shimmering gold mosaics still inspire awe nearly 1,500 years after it was built.

— Vicki Power, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
Inside the cathedral’s nave, the mummified hand of St Stephen, displayed in an ornate replica of the building, was a fascinating discovery.

— Lucy Handley, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

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In addition to its numerous houses, the property plays host to a number of unique amenities, including a treehouse, a pond, a chapel, a crypt where Sheeran plans to be buried, and a private pub.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
Almost every small chapel on the island has its own patron saint, and every saint's feast day is celebrated with a panigiri, a traditional village festival.

— Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026

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The abbey connection would take 10 to 15 years to implement, the report states.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
The Abbazia di San Fruttuoso, a 10th-century abbey complex owned for centuries by the Dorias, a powerful Genoa family, dominates the cove setting.

— Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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Plastic water bottles pile up at shrines to Difunta Correa, who legend says miraculously nursed her infant son after dying of thirst in the desert.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
In parks and on streetcorners, impromptu shrines gave faces and names to almost 3,000 lives lost.

— Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

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And a 26-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin arrived aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle, which had sailed from England nearly four years earlier on a mission to chart South America.

— Michele Metych Britannica Editors Sep. 14, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Sep. 2026
For the past four years, the Kremlin’s mission has been to convince Russians that the war is anything but an emergency.

— MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

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The only men were the mayor, the three members of town council, the priest from the Catholic church, Father Michael, and the reverend from the Baptist church, as well as a man with a balding head and a full moustache, his suit pressed and clean.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
On July 28, authorities located a blue Honda Accord registered to Boyce behind a church in Pendleton, North Carolina, according to the complaint.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

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