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Site Seers

SIGHTS, in the packaged-tour sense, lie all over the place. Sites, by contrast, imply a nexus, a link with time. In AD 66 the Masada story was graphically reported by Josephus,......

The Great Game

`MAFrick, v.i. Exult riotously (f. Mafeking, relief of which in 1900 was celebrated extravagantly in London, etc.).' 'Extravagantly,' Brian Gardner would agree, is the very......