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Of the dozen villas that Tiberius built on Capri, his favorite island retreat, the best preserved is the ruins of Villa Jovis (Jupiter’s Villa, or Tiberius’ Villa), sprawling across an eastern promontory opposite the mainland.
As Powers correctly observes, the modern Chinese as spoken on the mainland and Taiwan has `Meikuo' (pronounced Mā-gwō) as the word for the United States and that the two characters taken individually mean `beautiful country.
It grieves Tasmanians that the Island State [or Flyspeck or Speck ] is sometimes left off the map of Australia, yet no one visiting the former convict colony can be untouched by the tangible pervasiveness of the past and the importance attached by Tasmanians to activities and events which, in mainland terms, are long gone.
A long series of conflicts, however, including the legendary siege of Troy, weakened these mighty mainland warriors.
The Balearics are part of Spain, but bullfights are not the big deal they are on the mainland.