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• Austria, Switzerland host Euro 2008 soccer games
With Vienna's lavish architecture and elegant tree-lined boulevards, sometimes it seems like the Austro-Hungarian Empire never ended. Cruise the Danube on a tour boat, or trot around the city in a horse-drawn carriage.
• Disney aims for new heights with Everest attraction
The village includes a tourism booking office, Tashi's General Store and Bar, and an old warehouse refashioned as a yeti museum - all built with taut attention to the architecture and feel of a real east Asian mountain town. "Every detail is intended ...
• Fabulous far-flung cruises
There’s Dubai, where almost anything goes, as long as it makes money and impresses, while next door, in the Sultanate of Oman, traditional Arab customs, dress and architecture reign, yet with none of the rigidity of Saudi Arabia. Bahrain, Abu Dhabi ...
• Driving Europe at $8 a gallon — a bargain?
The construction of the cathedral is considered a wonder of architecture and according to several historians inspired the founding of the Masonic Order and its various lodges and symbols. Inside the cathedral, a jeweled and gilded mechanical clock ...
• Asian culture inspiring new online games
It took more than four years of research into the novel's contents, Chinese history, architecture, clothing and so on," said Park Jung-soo, who leads Wemade's development team. "All members of our team went on research trips to China." Gamers ...

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» Architectionary.com - A searchable architecture and construction related dictionary. All entries can be freely edited by the public.
» Architectural Terms - An illustrated glossary by Alice Cotton.
» Art and Architecture - Single-page glossary of art and architectural terms, from Your Way to Florence.
» Art and Architecture Thesaurus - A structured vocabulary from the Getty Trust of more than 125,000 terms for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
» Buffalo Illustrated Architecture Dictionary - Indexed, cross-referenced and illustrated dictionary of architectural terms from Chuck LaChiusa. All examples are from buildings in Buffalo, New York.
» California Missions Studies Terms - Illustrated glossary of terms relating to California missions and other Hispanic sites by Sasha Honig.
» Castle Glossary - A full glossary from Castles of Britain.
» The Conservation Glossary - Architectural, building and conservation terms explained by Neil Grieve of The Centre for Conservation and Urban Studies, University of Dundee.
» A Dictionary of Military Architecture - A dictionary of military architecture, fortification and fieldworks from the Iron Age to the eighteenth century by Stephen Francis Wyley.
» Gardens Guide - Glossary of terms used by garden historians and landscape architects, with links to examples in eTexts.
» Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture - An illustrated and cross-referenced dictionary of mainly architectural terms from Jane Vadnal of the University of Pittsburgh.
» Landscape Gardening and Architecture - A brief cross-referenced glossary of gardening and landscape-architecture terms by John D. Tatter, Birmingham-Southern College.
» Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture - An illustrated a-z of architectural styles and terminology.