The Roman Colosseum featured seating for more than 50,000 people.
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People visit a closed Colosseum in Rome on March 10.
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The half-day tour that features just the ancient Roman Forum and the Colosseum, called Skip the Line: Ancient Rome and Colosseum Half Day Walking Tour (also by City Wonders) ranked third on TripAdvisor's list.
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Stonehenge, the Great Wall of China, the Colosseum, or Machu Picchu?
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Born in a Fiery VolcanoThe Colosseum, a famous Roman concrete structure.
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The procession begins at the Colosseum and ends at Palatine Hill.
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The original Colosseum lasted barely three years, from 1968 to 21974.
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The Colosseum is oldThe fountains are wetBut when will I sleep?
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Taylor and Tom at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy earlier today. pic.twitter.
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The Cross of Martyrs in the ruins of the Colosseum, Rome. (iStock)
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Police and soldiers cradled machine guns outside tourists sites including Rome's Colosseum.
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She has tentatively scheduled her return to The Colosseum for Feb. 23.
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The Pyramids of Giza, The Colosseum, the Taj Mahal, or Angkor Wat?
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This is our final show in this beautiful Colosseum in Las Vegas.
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In 2066, Levi's Stadium will be as outdated as the Roman Colosseum.
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The Colosseum Rome's 2,000-year-old stadium takes on a green look.
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There is a definite whiff of the Colosseum about the whole thing.
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Dion, 47, has tentatively scheduled her return to The Colosseum on Feb. 23.
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The venue is the Caesars Palace Colosseum ... the site of her Vegas residency.
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The video showed images of the House of Commons in London and Rome's Colosseum.
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Nearly two-thirds of the original Colosseum was destroyed by weather, neglect, and time.
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Numerous tourists have been caught carving their initials into the walls of Rome's Colosseum.
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When in Rome, the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, and St. Peter's Basilica are essential stops.
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The barbarity of horse racing, the ancient Roman Colosseum, even Mr. Ed. Who cares?
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They are parked near the Colosseum, stashed in alleyways or rested against stop signs.
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Politics are a modern-day Colosseum where outward anger is repressed and betrayal is not.
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That will be held February 3rd at the Caesars Palace Colosseum, where Celine regularly performs.
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As noted by CNT, the Colosseum was cleaned for the first time in 2,000 years.
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Those events were eventually phased out, and the Colosseum became a source of building materials.
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"MMA is like the Colosseum in Rome: the fans want to see violence," he says.
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The world tilts toward authoritarianism, Angela Merkel grooms a successor and the Colosseum gets snow.
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The Culture Ministry said it was verifying the structural integrity of sites including the Colosseum.
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On Good Friday, the church holds the Way of the Cross procession at the colosseum.
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The setting could be the Colosseum in Rome or an island fortress near Hong Kong.
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So far, I have been to visit the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum, and Chichén Itzá.
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They also headed to Rome, where they kissed and held hands as they toured the Colosseum.
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Tourists hold umbrellas to shelter from the sun as they walk past the Colosseum, July 26.
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The prize for winning the show's final colosseum battle is more than fame and glory, too.
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The Wailing Wall (Jerusalem) The Mona Lisa (Musée du Louvre, Paris, France) The Colosseum (Rome, Italy).
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Certainly Stadia is more distinctive than stadium and less copyright-fraught than Colosseum or the like.
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I saw The Stones once at the Colosseum [a long time ago], and that was it.
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That may be a better fate than forcing their gladiators to fight in another empty colosseum.
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BEFORE: The Colosseum in Rome is one of the most-visited archaeological sites in the world.
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It's about a mile away in the East Village — just past the Forum and the Colosseum.
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More people visited the station that day than the Colosseum, one of Rome's biggest tourist draws.
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After the Colosseum, the pair walked briefly across to the Roman Forums located a few meters away.
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The night of fights had a great many more viewers than any contest in ancient Rome's Colosseum.
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Since March 2011, the singer has been headlining her production "Celine" at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
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Dion is scheduled to play at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Jan. 20.
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In medieval times, the Colosseum in Rome was even used as a stone quarry for new buildings.
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As for KSW Colosseum living in MMA fans' collective memories "forever," to paraphrase, that's up for discussion.
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This is what the normally crowded colosseum looked like during the coronavirus clampdown on March 11, 2020.
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"Bambina" worries about coastal storms and police overreaction; its chorus alludes to Christians martyred in Rome's Colosseum.
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A worker drives a tanker truck spraying cleaning liquid to sanitize the Colosseum in Rome, March 24.
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The Colosseum, the Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum — the city's top tourist draws — were also closed.
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At one intersection in Al Qusoor district, a mural of the Colosseum is painted on a wall.
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He has also pledged 25 million euros ($26.6 million) toward the restoration of the Colosseum in Rome.
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Video surfaced this week of Mariah getting wheeled around Caesars Palace to her show at the Colosseum.
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SOME CITIES are symbolised by their monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and the Brandenburg Gate.
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That's right, Adele is a Dion superfan and wanted to see her perform at the Caeser's Palace Colosseum.
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Céline Dion made her return on Tuesday evening at The Colosseum inside Caesars Palace with a touching tribute.
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Until now, a fifth of the proceeds from the Colosseum have been distributed to less profitable heritage sites.
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The battle for the Colosseum may be mostly about money and politics, but Mr Bergamo has a point.
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The couple recently returned from a romantic Roman holiday, where they were caught smooching at the historic Colosseum.
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"This reminds me of such beautiful, intense memories," she said, referring to her first show in Caesars' Colosseum.
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The Colosseum was home to Carey's previous Vegas show, "Mariah #1 to Infinity," which lasted from 2015-2017.
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Dion expects to return to her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on February 23.
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For a groomed aesthetic near the Colosseum, look for a striped barber's pole and a tidy antique barbershop.
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The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum.
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The Italian leather goods group Tod's is underwriting the restoration of the Colosseum in Rome for €25 million.
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Although Mr. Hiseman initially called the band Ghosts, he was persuaded to use the name Colosseum II instead.
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However, the final battle between Lee and Chuck Norris in the Colosseum compensates for its dry lead-up.
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Luke P., as expected, dominates the field, and the fans in the colosseum-like field scream for bloody murder.
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His Las Vegas residency, Rod Stewart: The Hits, resumes performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Nov. 21.
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The fourth level of the Colosseum has also been renovated, along with a hallway leading to the top terraces.
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The program has enabled trips to the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum and behind the scenes of Alexander Hamilton's life.
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On the program is a morning procession around the Colosseum, dance performances, gladiatorial contests, and a slave-market reenactment.
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Audience members at the screening for the Lionsgate's movie were evacuated at the Colosseum in Las Vegas on Thursday.
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What if the Colosseum was invaded by a giant octopus squirming its legs in and out of the columns?
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Financing has been secured for three more stops, including at San Giovanni Basilica - the first cathedral - and the Colosseum.
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Just seven miles from the Colosseum, the rat- and garbage-infested camp might as well be on another planet.
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We were seated in a corner booth in the colosseum-style space, and then things immediately started getting weird.
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With every star's arrival, a great noise went up from the waiting fans, like a roar from the Colosseum.
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Do you think it is apt to compare the statues to the Roman Colosseum and the pyramids of Egypt?
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A roughly $30 million donation from Tod's, the Italian shoemaker, is financing a sorely needed restoration of the Colosseum.
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Websites about theater would be hosted on Broadway, and sites about sports would make their home in the Colosseum.
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The metal structure that fell was holding up a purple banner that read "The Colosseum at WinStar," she said.
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On Good Friday, he is due to lead a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession at Rome's Colosseum.
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Her latest outing follows her four-year Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which wrapped last December.
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The singer previously told PEOPLE that she returned home after a performance at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Jan.
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Speaking during his toast Tuesday, Obama said he was reminded of his visit to the Colosseum in Rome in 2014.
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A handful of sound technicians and crew jog busily around the empty Colosseum Theater at Caesar's Palace in Windsor, Ontario.
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According to DARPA, the Colosseum occupies 21 server racks at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
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Built to hold gladiator fights more than a century before Rome's Colosseum, the stone Amphitheatre can hold about 2,000 people.
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"He's … a bit of an introvert," Keeler told us from the Colosseum Gym in Kylemore, west of Dublin city center.
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It's not an accident that the city has no central, representative monument: no Big Ben or Notre Dame or Colosseum.
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In Rome to meet the new pope in 2014, Mr. Obama also took a private guided tour through the Colosseum.
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By early March, with the country under complete lockdown, cultural sites across Italy were closed, including the Colosseum and Pompeii.
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By early March, with the country under complete lockdown, cultural sites across Italy were closed, including the Colosseum and Pompeii.
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Explore the ruins of the stately Colosseum in Rome, Italy, and imagine the gladiator fights that once packed the arena.
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The half-day tour dives deeper into the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, and currently costs around $57 per person.
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Every show we do at the Colosseum throughout this fall, and right up until the final one, will feel very special.
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After wrapping up another Vegas run earlier this week, Brooks & Dunn and McEntire will return to the Colosseum in late November.
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People march past the Colosseum as they take part in the annual Pride parade in Rome, Italy, on June 9, 2018.
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She performed her "Still the One" series at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for two years before it ended in 2014.
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Also included were Angélil's memorial in Las Vegas, Dion's powerful first performance back on The Colosseum stage in Vegas on Feb.
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Céline Dion has been performing a residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on and off since 2002.
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For example you could visit the top of Mount Everest or journey back in time to be in the Roman Colosseum.
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"And sadly there definitely seems to be quite an appetite for that, not so different than the colosseum in Roman times."
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He spoke to reporters at the Colosseum, where he gave Rouhani a guided tour before the Iranian delegation left for France.
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We're told Celine's completely changing her show at Caesars Colosseum -- it now begins with a 10 minute long tribute to Rene.
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The Amphitheatre, where gladiators once fought, pre-dates the larger and better-known Colosseum in Rome by more than a century.
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"He came to the gym [Dublin's Colosseum in Kylemore] and was a gentleman with a lovely manner," Keeler told Business Insider.
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"I hope this one from Rome is good too," she wrote in another, alongside a picture in front of the Colosseum.
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Rome's Colosseum is no longer teeming with people as Italy is on lockdown, with this photo taken on March 28, 2020.
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Pompey, a general of Ancient Rome, allegedly marched 600 lions and twenty elephants into the Colosseum to be slaughtered for sport.
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The audio tour for young people at the Colosseum lacked the kind of lion-eats-man details to hold their interest.
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We had visited the Vatican, tossed coins into the Trevi Fountain, and bantered with guys in gladiator costumes at the Colosseum.
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Financing has been agreed for a further three stations up to the Colosseum, which are set to be operational by 2020.
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The Parthenon, the Colosseum and the Great Wall of China are just a few of the landmarks featured in the display.
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It's the stairs of the Met that, mostly naked, seem to rival the steps of the older, wiser Colosseum or Acropolis.
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Celine Dion will resume her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum on Tuesday for her first show following husband René Angélil's death.
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The pope presides at two services on Good Friday, including a candlelight Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession around Rome's Colosseum.
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I'm thrilled to be returning to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace with a BRAND NEW residency, THE BUTTERFLY RETURNS, beginning July 5th!
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The Imperial Avenue ending is Rome, what with the ruined Roman pillars everywhere and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Colosseum cameo.
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"We wanted to make St. Paul's look like it was in the same condition as the Colosseum in Rome now," Rivers said.
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In January 2020, Morrison will return to the U.S. to play five shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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The musician has announced he'll hit the stage in Sin City for Sting: My Songs next year at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
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At noon on Thursday, it was spotted heading in the direction of the Jamaica Colosseum Mall before making a right onto Archer Avenue.
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Beginning November 1, small groups of tourists will be permitted to climb to the fifth and highest level of the Colosseum in Rome.
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Later in the day, Perry and Bloom explored the Sistine Chapel and Colosseum, where Perry shared a sweet photo of the two posing.
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Sculptures of 40 horses were installed around Rome's Colosseum and along the ancient forum as part of an exhibition exploring migration throughout history.
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The Roman Colosseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, was commissioned by Emperor Vespasian around 70 AD as a gift for the people.
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Fendi spent €2.2 million to restore the Trevi Fountain, and Tod's has donated about €25 million for a multiyear cleanup of the Colosseum.
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I felt like one of my audio tours about the Colosseum had jumped the rails and started playing to the tune of soccer.
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The sudden drop in their numbers is readily apparent, whether on the Champs-Élysées, at the Colosseum or on the beaches of Bali.
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With the Italian cuisine, views of the Colosseum and trips to the Vatican City, Rome has an attraction for every kind of vacation.
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The ultimate bucket list of travel destinations in Europe includes the canals in Amsterdam, scuba diving in Cyprus, and the Colosseum in Rome.
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We go to the movies now for the same reasons that Romans went to the Colosseum: to laugh, to scream, and to cheer.
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The difference was that whereas the Colosseum draws foreigners, "here they were all Italian," said Ms. Rea, who was present on that day.
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Bartholomeus Breenbergh's 1627 brown and gray wash painting portrays the Roman Colosseum as a shadowy specter of the past hovering over a small traveler with a dog, and four 16th-century etchings by Hieronymus Cock document more of Roman antiquity overgrown on the city's outskirts, including a reminder of just who he considered to have destroyed the Colosseum (the "Barbarians").
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Axl was performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Vegas Friday night and as he sang the band's iconic hit, he ate it.
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The attorney general is not an unarmed prisoner staring down a lion in the Colosseum; he is one of the emperor's most powerful magistrates.
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Rod is slated to resume performances of his Las Vegas residency, Rod Stewart: The Hits, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Sept. 18.
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"We are pleased to announce the return of Céline to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas," a message on her website read.
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ROME (Reuters) - Visitors to Rome's Colosseum can now see the structure as poor Romans once did - minus the wild animals, gladiators and Christian martyrs.
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Events and activities were to be held at or near the Forum, the Circus Maximus, the Arch of Constantine, the Colosseum and Vatican City.
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The noise is rising from below, where a swimming pool and auditorium of balconies are wrapped colosseum-like around a podium, awaiting David's arrival.
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We're told Elton has canceled shows between now and May 5 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Vegas, where he's performed for years.
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Colosseum II made three albums, releasing them in 1976 and 19863 — difficult times for progressive rock with the punk era dawning — before breaking up.
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The greatest player who ever wore the Roma jersey, and one who grew up not far from the Colosseum, as a die-hard fan.
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After shooting their video for their single, "Apeshit," at the Louvre, Beyoncé and Jay-Z filed a request to film at the Roman Colosseum.
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Watching huge men attack each other has been popular since Roman times, and gladiators in the Colosseum might have been seen by tens of thousands.
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Dion then turned back to the crowd of more than 4,000 gathered in The Colosseum, telling them, "I couldn't have offered him a better gift."
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His first flight was direct via Jet2 from his home of Manchester, England, to Rome, Italy, where he took a taxi straight to the Colosseum.
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The nearly 0003,000-square-foot residence, known as the "Palazzetto, " is located on the Piazza Di Campitelli, just a short distance from the historic Colosseum.
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"The Colosseum is the most visited site in our country," Francesco Prosperetti, the art official responsible for Rome's main archaeological area, said in a statement.
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Times have changed: Occasionally the admissions lines grind to a halt because no more than 3,000 visitors can enter the Colosseum at any one time.
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Massimiliano Tonelli, a founder of the popular blog and social media feed "Roma Fa Schifo," surrounded by trash in a small park overlooking the Colosseum.
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No.Another moment where you may have expected to see some familiar faces may have been in the large colosseum where Rey and Palpatine face off.
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Tanzanian tycoon Mohammed Dewji, 43, was seized by two gunmen as he left the gym of the Colosseum Hotel in Dar es Salaam last Thursday.
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The number one most booked attraction was City Wonders' Rome Combo: Skip-the-Line Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and Colosseum Walking Tour.
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In early 24, Summoner Studios circulated a press release announcing several "fully procedurally generated" games — including Boxing Football, Undercover Paintball Base, and Tropical Duck Colosseum 22011.
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At the heart of DARPA's AI experiments sits what the agency calls the Colosseum, a massive radio-frequency testbed designed to simulate real-world spectrum use.
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In light of her loss, Dion – whose brother Daniel is dying of cancer – has cancelled her concerts at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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The new routes give travelers a cheap option to get to the city and see its most famous monuments, like the Colosseum or the Trevi Fountain.
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"The Power of Love" singer returned to the stage of her Vegas residency at The Colosseum inside Caesars Palace on Tuesday evening with a touching tribute.
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The program attracts students like Brian P. Kennedy, 2200, president and chief executive of the El Paso Sports Commission, which manages the city's 2500,3003-seat colosseum.
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We have, for millennia, drank the blood of gods, sacrificed it to the divine in fires, and cheered as it watered the ground of the Colosseum.
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But an unmistakable wistfulness — and a bit of defiance — also hung in the air inside the Colosseum at Caesars Palace during Ms. Snider's 90-minute presentation.
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Driving by the Colosseum, my son awoke from a nap to see ancient Rome re-enactors dressed as gladiators and senators for the capital's 2,770th birthday.
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Italy, a country filled with tourist destinations like Venice's canals and Rome's Colosseum, is now dealing with a sudden and threatening outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
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Kapoor's work is perfectly suited for investment bankers' colosseum-sized living rooms, made in the same poor taste as yellow Lamborghinis and other gaudy "luxury" baubles.
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At the Colosseum, I felt a connection to the ancient Romans and was able to imagine what their life was like all because of a building.
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Until 2004, with the Athens games, Nike was seated by the Roman Colosseum, but the Greeks replaced that controversial vista with the historically appropriate Panathinaiko Stadium.
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"There's no other way to say [it]," Cena told the outlet while attending Paramount's presentation during CinemaCon 2018 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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"I put up boxing videos on Instagram and I think I'm tough, but this movie was exceptional," she said inside the 4,000-seat Colosseum in Caesars Palace.
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Visitors marvel at the mini ice replicas of the Colosseum and of the Milan Cathedral, particularly in the long evenings when soft, colored lights illuminate the sculptures.
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Near the Colosseum, which usually only gets a light covering of the white stuff inside the snow globes hawked to tourists, students skied down the Oppian Hill.
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As part of the competition, Colosseum is simulating a scenario where up to five radio networks share access to the same frequencies in a one kilometer area.
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"Anyone notice I got a new bauble?" she asked the crowd at Caesars Palace's Colosseum while flashing her hand, hinting at her fairy tale romance with Packer.
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Stefano Guidoni, a photographer, lives with his wife, child and widowed mother in a small apartment near the Colosseum that his father received nearly 40 years ago.
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Its theater housed singers like Liberace, Diana Ross and Tony Bennett, before it was rebuilt as "the colosseum" for Celine Dion to perform, with seating for 4,300.
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The pop icon is canceling all of the April and May performances of his Las Vegas residency, The Million Dollar Piano, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
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From bloody gladiatorial battles in the Colosseum, to the Derby della Capitale between the soccer archrivals Lazio and A.S. Roma, the city's stadiums have seen every emotion.
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A 222-minute walk, skirting the crowds that ceaselessly mill around the Colosseum, leads to the Augustinian Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati, one of Rome's hidden jewels.
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Yes, you can still see Caravaggio faces around the Colosseum in Rome; along the ghats in Varanasi, India, you're among the clamor and piety of the Vedas.
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An empty pathway leading to the entrance of the Colosseum, where usually there would be a long queue of tourists waiting, is seen in Rome, March 3.
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Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan were just two regular tourists Monday night roaming around the Colosseum in Rome ... with nearly $52 billion rattling around in their pockets.
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According to Dario Franceschini, Italy's culture minister, this is the first time in four decades that tourists have been able to access the top levels of the Colosseum.
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In January Mr Franceschini set up an Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, which comprises the great arena itself and most of the nearby ruins, including the Roman Forum.
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The 2016 Presidential Election Forum, hosted by Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote and the Asian American Journalists Association, will be held at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rome's ancient Colosseum was lit in red on Saturday in solidarity with persecuted Christians, particularly Asia Bibi, a woman condemned to death under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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The two were pushing their new movie, "Mile 22," during the event at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace ... the flick in which Mark plays a jacked CIA operative.
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It was not long before McGregor called Keeler, getting his phone number from one of his Straight Blast Gym teammates who had sparred athletes at the Colosseum Gym.
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Despite the proximity to the Colosseum, Vatican City, or even the natural parks that border it, Palombara Sabina has not always been a very popular stop for tourists.
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Mariah Carey might want to sell some more jewelry if fans don't start buying tickets to her "Butterfly Returns" shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Well-to-do Romans of the early Empire, for instance, would tour the place to look at antiquities older to them than the Colosseum is to a tourist today.
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It became an iconic building material of the ancient world, and it's the reason many Roman structures, including the Colosseum and the Pantheon, have survived to the present day.
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The singer announced on Monday that she would return to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace for a new residency, "The Butterfly Returns," beginning in July and extending through September.
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Ridley Scott's iconic epic followed Crowe's revenge against Joaquin Phoenix's character after his family is killed and he is forced to be a slave who fights in the Colosseum.
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In 1974 Ms. Chubbuck shot herself on the air, possibly becoming the first person to commit suicide on live TV. The ancient Romans had the Colosseum; we have television.
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In Rome, new security plans include stationing police at entry points to the Colosseum amphitheatre and extending an existing "maximum security zone" around St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
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Polish promotion KSW claims they will easily break the European MMA attendance record set by the UFC, having already sold over 03,000 tickets for their upcoming KSW "Colosseum" show.
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On Good Friday, Francis, marking his seventh Easter season as Roman Catholic leader, is due to lead a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession around Rome's ancient Colosseum.
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We went up to the Giardinetto del Monte Oppio, a small garden offering one of the most breathtaking views in the Western world, smack in front of the Colosseum.
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Jon Hiseman, the British drummer, composer and progressive-rock innovator who led the bands Colosseum and Tempest and played in many other groups, died early Tuesday in Sutton, England.
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To help illustrate what lay to the west, the door was surrounded by walls depicting the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum in Rome, Dutch windmills and other European tourist sights.
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Depictions of the victorious Roman army and its booty are carved on the Arch of Titus, near the Colosseum, built about a decade later to commemorate that military triumph.
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Rome has allowed discrete sponsorship from luxury groups Tod's and LVMH-owned Fendi to pay for the restoration of ancient landmarks such as the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain.
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ROME (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslims prayed next to Rome's Colosseum on Friday to protest against the closure of makeshift mosques, calling on city authorities to protect their religious rights.
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Pizza in Naples, Sami KeinänenAlong with the Pyramids in Giza and the Colosseum, Italy has asked the United Nations to add another item to UNESCO's list of protected landmarks: Pizza.
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The Archaeological Park of the Colosseum is the final piece in a plan the minister has been shaping since 2014: a decentralised structure for the administration of Italy's cultural heritage.
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Last year, authorities in the capital Rome cracked down on the armies of people who hawk sightseeing tours, rickshaw rides, and photos with centurions around the Colosseum amphitheatre, prompting protests.
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Before serenading the crowd in The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace, Foster offered a touching speech, in which he remembered Angélil – who died from throat cancer three weeks ago – very fondly.
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The 41-year-old Blockers star stepped out for CinemaCon at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Wednesday, when he addressed the breakup for the first time.
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My feeling is the best Jamaican patty spot anywhere is the Jamaican Flavors window on 165th Street in Queens outside the Colosseum Mall, a very popular thing in rap lore.
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Russell Crowe and Connie Nielsen reunited Wednesday in Rome, Italy for the 18th anniversary of the epic at one of the most iconic places in the world — the Roman Colosseum.
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Rome Journal ROME — On a perfect May afternoon, with the Roman sunlight glinting off the ancient arches of the Colosseum, Officer Pang Bo adjusted his sunglasses and began his patrol.
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There were numerous reports during the last decade of tourists defacing the 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome, Italy, which is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
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I head from the Shinto mosh-pit to the third and final show, also at Ariake Colosseum, which is headlined by super-flyweight champ "Monster" Inoue, who just turned 24.
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Montezemolo said it would cost Rome 24.9 million euros to make the bid, which includes the promise of winners' processions in the Colosseum and beach volleyball at the Circus Maximus.
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A 3D printer lets you transform a 3D model of a digital object — say, a model of the Colosseum, a whistle, or an elaborate marble machine — into a physical object.
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The Colosseum look-alike dates to the end of the first century A.D., when Emperor Augustus named this Celtic settlement on the road linking Italy to Spain a Roman colony.
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Other iconic world landmarks that have shuttered with the break of the pandemic include the Statue of Liberty, Grand Canyon West, Eiffel Tower, and the Colosseum in Rome, among others.
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Organizers said that some 20,33 people had participated in the protests, which started from the Colosseum and wove through parts of downtown Rome, blocking traffic and shutting down public transportation.
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Prior to that, she spent four years in Vegas on her A New Day… show at the famed Caesars Palace Colosseum, which ran 717 dates between March 25, 2003 through Dec.
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The 2.5-mile oval, which could hold Churchill Downs, Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, Roman Colosseum and Vatican City, presents unique challenges with spectators allowed to bring in coolers and bags.
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Francis, marking his seventh Easter season as Roman Catholic leader, presided at a traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) service at Rome's Colosseum, attended by thousands of people holding candles.
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On Wednesday, Sting (whose real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) announced his upcoming 26-date Las Vegas residency, Sin City for Sting: My Songs, at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
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When she hits the stage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for her "The Butterfly Returns" residency shows, her fans will see a more "intimate" side of her.
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Prior to that, she spent four years in Vegas on her A New Day… show at the famed Caesars Palace Colosseum, which ran 717 dates between March 25, 2003 through Dec.
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This corner of the city's Prati neighborhood is a far cry from the Spanish Steps, the Colosseum or other parts of the Italian capital thronged by visitors from the world over.
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Security was heavier than usual at a traditional annual Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) candlelight procession around Rome's Colosseum, following the attacks in Brussels that killed at least 31 people.
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More supply is on the way, however, as MGM is also constructing a new 5,300-seat theater right next door at the Monte Carlo, similar to the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace.
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Why go: When you visit the Eternal City, prepare to cross a few must-see attractions – the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon, to name a few – off your bucket list.
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Francis, 81, presided at a traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession around Rome's ancient Colosseum attended by 20,000 people on the day that Christians commemorate Jesus' death by crucifixion.
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The Colosseum, in Rome's historic center, is one of the tourist attractions in the city where police have set up military jeeps and armored vehicles to form barriers against truck attacks.
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She has since gone on to smooch a stranger at the Colosseum in Rome, as well as a fireman who responded to a blaze at a wedding she attended in Kentucky.
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Other classic international attractions that also rank high for value include the Eiffel Tower, Egypt's Pyramids, the Colosseum in Rome, the Great Wall of China and the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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You can explore them all — the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, Petra, the Colosseum, Christ the Redeemer, Chichén Itzá, above, and Machu Picchu — in this collection of 360 videos.
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For instance, Google published a tour called the "7 New Wonders of the World" to Poly, featuring places like The Taj Mahal, Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome, and others.
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Already, a medley of projects, including a Roman Colosseum look-alike, a development called Napa Village and a French-inspired chateau have sprung up in the area surrounding Domaine de Long Dai.
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Sure, as EU members, Brits have been able to get into the fast lane at European airports, making it practically effortless to see the Parthenon in Greece or the Colosseum in Rome.
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Italy has sought to attract private investors to renovate its historical sites, including the Colosseum, as budget austerity has cut into spending needed to maintain the country's rich historical and artistic heritage.
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Since then, Dion has put out a number of albums, the most recent being 2016's Encore Un Soir, and launched a concert residency at the Colosseum at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace.
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"Not only does he want 100 million viewers, he wants to be a showstopper at the Roman Colosseum, the main event at WrestleMania," Sam Nunberg, a former Trump advisor, told the Post.
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The other night, I was at the Colosseum, and I was looking at those stones and thinking about who brought them up and how they can still stand after so many centuries.
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Severus is likened to "a new C.E.O., brought in to effect a restructuring," while the Colosseum was "as revolutionary as Facebook or Twitter," a simile no less baffling than it is anachronistic.
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Consider you might find 4x123 and camel tours in Dubai, a skip-the-line tour of the Colosseum in Rome, or a tour of the Grand Canyon by helicopter from Las Vegas.
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Commissioned by Benito Mussolini in the 1930s, the Square Colosseum, as it is commonly called, is a towering block of travertine marble perforated on all sides by a grid of Roman archways.
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I walked on parts of the Great Wall of China when I was 10, climbed Chichén Itza when I was 11 and went inside the Colosseum in Rome when I was 12.
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This week in art news: Never-before-seen artwork by Nelson Mandela released, Beyoncé and Jay-Z file a request to film at the Colosseum, and Wes Anderson is now a curator.
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And a few months ago we announced an augmented reality version of it where you can bring any object, the statue of David, model of the Colosseum in Rome, into the classroom.
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Céline Dion returned to her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace Tuesday night for the first show of the new year — and a beautiful new outfit to go with it.
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For example in the 1953 box office hit Roman Holiday starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck takes place around some of Rome's most famous historical landmarks like the Colosseum and the Piazza Venezia.
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In the future, Rome Reborn plans to expand into the area of the Colosseum and sell an interactive experience centered on the Roman Pantheon, as well as other well-known sites in Rome.
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In addition, a public visitation will be held a day before the funeral, and the family will host a public memorial for fans in Las Vegas on February 3, at Caesars Palace Colosseum.
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Before her performance, Dion took the stage of The Colosseum at Caesars Palace — where her long-running Las Vegas show continues to entertain audiences — to explain how the new track came to be.
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Other goofs included a visible gas cylinder powering a chariot during a battle reenactment in the Colosseum, and another crew member in jeans who briefly pops up in an early post-fight scene.
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One of Italy's most visited cities, Rome has long struggled to keep tidy treasures such as the Colosseum, and tourists paddling in its sculpted fountains have done little to help in recent years.
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Unless you're in a big hurry — and people rarely have an urgent need for a plastic model of the Colosseum — ordering 3D printed items is likely to make more sense for most people.
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Among the winners: the Great Wall of China, the Christ the Redeemer Statue in Brazil, Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Colosseum in Rome, and the Taj Mahal in India.
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The reputation is deserved — it is hard to walk through sites like the Colosseum and not be reminded of the city's former splendor, to be struck by its air of romance and mystery.
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Building the initial 24 stations to the Colosseum was originally priced at 2.23 billion euros ($2.54 billion), but after a welter of design changes the figure is now put at 2.97 billion euros.
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Attractions in Rome — ranging from tours of the Sistine Chapel to the Colosseum — dominated the top spots on the ranking, with tourists flocking to the historic and iconic sights of this Italian city.
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After a quick look around, I left the culinary colosseum to go watch the teams pick up some last minute ingredients for their big day inside a fake grocery store built for the occasion.
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For example, Emperor Commodus was assassinated in A.D. 192 because, in part, the military got fed up when he began acting above the law, including making gladiators purposely lose to him in the Colosseum .
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Celine performed her 1,144th show Saturday night at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace ... where the crowd caught all the feels -- but at one point she delayed the show for one special fan's bathroom break.
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" In her last residency show at The Colosseum, known in Las Vegas as "the house that Céline built," the five-time Grammy winner rumbled through her hits, while also debating "Flying On My Own.
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Other sights along the tour include the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum, and the first and second levels of the Colosseum; the massive amphitheater used in ancient Roman times for gory gladiator fights.
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It's been a heartbreaking year for Céline Dion after the death of her husband René Angélil, but the star has proven her strength in the last few months as she's returned to The Colosseum stage.
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From touring the Colosseum hand-in-hand to strolling along the beach with Hiddleston's mother and celebrating the Fourth of July with Swift's squad, the pair's fast-track romance was picture perfect – until it wasn't.
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Just a turn of the head is sufficient to take in Trajan's Column, the Forums, the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill and the Circus Maximus—all set against a backdrop of the blue-grey Apennine mountains.
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ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court struck down government changes to the management of the Colosseum on Wednesday, siding with Rome's anti-establishment mayor in a tussle over the amphitheatre where gladiators clashed 2,000 years ago.
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Sometime between falling victim to Valkyrie's (Tessa Thompson) net and ending up face-down in a colosseum with the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), the golden son of Asgard got his long, luscious blond locks chopped off.
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Two months after Céline Dion canceled a series of shows in Las Vegas to undergo a "minimally invasive surgical procedure," the superstar returned to the stage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Tuesday night.
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But this week's Republican convention has had the charged air of a Roman colosseum, a fraught and strange affair driven by gladiatorial cries, bear-pit politics and calls for retribution against enemies near and far.
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No rush on getting your system ready: 2017 will see the first of three year-long phases, paring down the competition to teams that will duke it out in the Colosseum sometime in early 2020.
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Mr. Hiseman left the Bluesbreakers to start the jazz-rock fusion band Colosseum in 1968, with an initial lineup that included two other former Bluesbreakers, Tony Reeves on bass and Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophone.
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Picture Prompts Have you ever been to any of the "new Seven Wonders of the World" — the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, Petra, the Colosseum, Christ the Redeemer, Chichén Itzá or Machu Picchu?
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Dion's new single comes six weeks after she was sidelined by illness and was forced to cancel three weeks of residency concerts at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas due to an ear condition.
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"It's a funny question, you ask a Russian refugee, who's a Jew, what Christmas was like," Kunis, who wore Brunello Cucinelli's Cotton Surplus Poplin Pant Jumpsuit, joked as the crowd gathered at Caesars Palace's Colosseum roared.
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Requiring the same cooling as roughly 10 large homes, Colosseum can emulate more than 65,000 unique interactions across 128 radios simultaneously—with 64 field-programmable gate arrays performing more than 150 trillion floating-point operations (teraflops).
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Marriott's ads will show the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum in Rome projected across London's River Thames for three days from Thursday afternoon, as part of its Travel Brilliantly campaign, it said in an emailed statement.
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There were moments of gold and there were flashes of light, but after eight years and more than 1,000 shows, Celine Dion will end her Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace next June.
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And throughout Italy, fashion houses have been buttressing their brands by sponsoring A-list monuments, including Tod's restoration of the Colosseum, Bulgari's revamp of the Spanish Steps and Diesel's cleanup of the Rialto Bridge in Venice.
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CreditCreditNadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times ROME — Armed with spray cans, the vandals last descended on Via della Madonna dei Monti, a dead-end alley not far from the Colosseum, about six months ago.
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In what was undoubtedly an emotional night for her, Céline Dion was the picture of grace Tuesday evening in her first performance back on The Colosseum stage after losing her husband René Angélil to cancer last month.
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In other videos, Gomez sang along to Dion's hits, and even got a little emotional during 1996 track "Because You Loved Me." Dion recently resumed her residency at The Colosseum following the death of husband René Angélil.
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That said, if people have purchased tickets but now want refunds because they're afraid to attend, our sources at The Colosseum at Caesars -- that's where Celine and Mariah perform -- tell us people will "likely" get a refund.
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And on Sunday morning, the handbag doyenne Anya Hindmarch took us 'round and 'round for her latest collection, called Circulus, building a space age-like Colosseum in which models paraded above a gravitating, color-changing flying saucer.
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Living in the shadow of the Colosseum, it's hard not to cultivate a sense of history lightly worn, a respect for old rituals that give shape to the day: a late-morning espresso, an early-evening passeggiata.
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But it is clear from Josephus's account that the imperial entourage took the long way around, circling counterclockwise around the outer precipices of the Palatine before entering the Forum on the side now dominated by the Colosseum.
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"As they lined us up and we were actually going into the light, I had this sort of flashback to the scene from 'Gladiator,'" Mr. de Blasio said, recalling how the combatants enter the Colosseum in Rome.
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Dublin starts to turn its backWhen Business Insider was in Dublin late last year, ahead of a Bellator MMA event featuring many Irish athletes, we visited the Colosseum boxing club in the Kylemore district of the city.
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It took place in the Barclays Center, against a gigantic set that was part stairway to heaven, part Roman Colosseum, part "Chicago" (the Bob Fosse version) and part "Laugh-In," with a reflecting pool in the middle.
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It was an overcast day in spring, and my mother and I were waiting in line to use a public restroom outside the Colosseum when an older Italian woman waiting in line behind us started gesturing to me.
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The plan for the Colosseum and nearby Roman Forum included hiring a new director through an international search similar to one through which 20 other directors were hired last year, but which the court partly overruled last month.
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"The aim is to create local capacity and enable local experts at the museum to work continuously on collections," said Massimiliano Massera of the ISCR, which has been also engaged in the restoration of the Colosseum in Rome.
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Its team, MS&AD Andretti, is one of 10 competing in the global championship, where cars race down the Champs Elysees in Paris, along the harbor in Hong Kong and past the Colosseum in Rome, among other cities.
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A representative for The Colosseum at Caesars Palace — where Celine Dion, Elton John, Mariah Carey, and Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn all have upcoming performances — told BuzzFeed News they plan on updating their security measures and taking extra precautions.
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The pop icon had canceled all of the April and May performances of his Las Vegas residency, The Million Dollar Piano, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, due to a "harmful and unusual bacterial infection," a rep told PEOPLE.
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ROME (Reuters) - On a catwalk overlooking the Colosseum, Italian luxury label Fendi paid homage to Karl Lagerfeld late on Thursday with a fashion show of 54 new looks to mark the late designer's 54-year tenure at the brand.
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However, one of 5-Star's objections to the Colosseum plan was that it only guaranteed local authorities 30 percent of the park's roughly 35 million euros in net annual ticket sales, compared with 80 percent under the previous management.
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Drawing on a report by Pliny the Elder, he conjures a scene at the Colosseum: The man sprawled at such an odd angle beside the injured fighter has his face pressed against a gaping tear in the gladiator's throat.
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Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive may have likened his team's new arena to the Roman Colosseum, and it may be a much-needed cultural centerpiece for a city that desperately needs one, but the arena feels almost modest in its proportions.
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According to a representative for Caesars Entertainment, previously scheduled performances at The Colosseum and at The Axis at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, which they also oversee, will resume as scheduled — including Britney Spears', Lionel Richie's, Ringo Starr's and the Backstreet Boys's.
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A number of iconic landmarks are honoring Saint Paddy's Day: the Chicago River is dyed completely green each year, while both the Colosseum in Rome and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro will glow with emerald lights tonight.
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"It reminds me a little bit of Ancient Rome, where everybody wanted to go to the Colosseum and see the blood and gore while their society was crumbling around them," the retired neurosurgeon told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Friday morning.
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Sometimes special structures were built and other times lakes were used, but there is evidence that the colosseum was once turned into a gladiatorial water world for a naumachia (the more you say that word, the more addictive it becomes).
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Building the initial 24 stations to the Colosseum was originally priced at 2.23 billion euros ($2.54 billion), but after a welter of design changes the figure is now put at 2.97 billion euros - too much according to the audit court.
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The general production of this event was hard to stomach as constant reference was made to the Roman Empire, gladiatorial combat, and being in the shadow of history's greatest arena: the Colosseum of Rome despite being about four hundred miles away.
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Holy Week, the week before Easter — which falls on April 12 this year — features a series of events presided over by the pope, including a celebration of Good Friday, which in recent years has been held at the Colosseum in Rome.
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Let's put aside the question of decorum and how we get back to a place where political debate is constructive and Congress is a realm of problem solving and progress, not a modern-day Colosseum in which gladiators do grisly battle.
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Attaching placards to a lamp post near the Colosseum, Sikdir Bulbul, a 41-year-old Bangladesh-born Italian citizen who has lived in Rome for 16 years, said the mosque he helped establish in 2012 had been shut down in September.
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After squeezing up a rusty spiral staircase, I emerged atop a tower at the center of an enormous circular cell building that resembled a tropical Colosseum, where a single guard would once monitor more than 1,000 prisoners at a time.
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SIENA, Italy — The colorful tickets bearing images of an elephant and giraffes behind the Colosseum along with the two iconic tigers of an Italian circus promised an afternoon's respite from hardship, a gift from the Vatican to thousands of poor people.
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Dates at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston, the Met Philadelphia and the Jackie Gleason Theatre at the Fillmore Miami Beach — as well as European shows slated for 2020 — will be announced soon.
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Even though Mackie couldn't create her costumes for her last "farewell" tour in 2014, he did work with the star on her Colosseum residency at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace in 2008-2011, and helped create outfits for her 2017 "Classic Cher" shows.
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Dates at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston, the Met Philadelphia and the Jackie Gleason Theatre at the Fillmore Miami Beach — as well as European shows slated for 143 — will be announced soon.
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The singer canceled all of the April and May performances of his Las Vegas residency, The Million Dollar Piano at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, after contracting a bacterial infection during his tour of South America and spending two nights at the hospital.
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For the first time in its long history, the 500 has been declared an official sellout with close to 400,000 fans set to fill massive grounds big enough to hold Churchill Downs, Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, the Roman Colosseum and Vatican City.
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While Colosseum often touched down in the blues, its two 1969 albums, "Those Who Are About to Die Salute You" and "Valentyne Suite," and its 1970 album "Daughter of Time" also drew on big-band jazz, Bach, Japanese music and contemporary chamber music.
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When you enter the site, coming in through gates at the Colosseum end of the Forum, a path leads you left, then up a flight of stairs, then farther up, to a restricted promontory, for a northwest view toward the Capitoline Hill.
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Alfonsina Russo, the head of the Colosseum Archaeological Park, said the site probably dated back to the sixth century BC, and was located in the most ancient part of the city which was directly linked in historical texts to Rome's first king.
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To the Editor: Frank B. Stewart Jr., a native of New Orleans, compares the Confederate-era monuments that New Orleans is finally removing to the Pyramids or the Colosseum, mockingly suggesting that they be destroyed because they were built with slave labor.
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With its antiquity ("Just go to the Colosseum, face east and shout, 'Moira,' " my friend joked when I asked how to get to her house), its art and its food, Rome nearly overwhelmed me with its aesthetic and alimentary too-much-ness.
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Recently, that includes Lisa Vanderpump's new Vanderpump Cocktail Garden restaurant, as well as celebrity chef spots from Gordon Ramsay, Bobby Flay, Guy Savoy, and Nobu Matsuhisa, and of course, the Mariah Carey residency at the 4,100-seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace theater.
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Photos that he posted on Twitter show him in Italy, France and the Bahamas, going on winery tours, taking cooking classes, visiting museums and sight-seeing at the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, and a site of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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Rome's ancient Colosseum was lit in red for an evening in February in solidarity with persecuted Christians, particularly Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman who has been living on death row in Pakistan since 2010, when she was condemned for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Islam.
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Here are a few highlights from the Colosseum in Las Vegas: There was a time when a certain giddy optimism for Baywatch was understandable, as the Dwayne Johnson vehicle from Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) started casting up babes like Zac Efron and Kelly Rohrbach.
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You can now teleport to Mars or the top of Mt. Everest and be back in time for breakfast, travel back to the Roman Colosseum for a gladiator fight and capture your baby's first steps for her family to revisit for generations to come.
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Even after drinking a Colosseum (about $160), a flaming spectacle of a drink that includes vodka, cherry liqueur and a bottle of prosecco, it would be hard to imagine any cartoon princess at Bunga Bunga, which is named for Silvio Berlusconi's infamous sex parties.
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I'd never heard of this monument, though I must have passed its ruins a score of times on the wide glaring Via dei Fori Imperiali (Street of the Imperial Fora) that Mussolini carved out as his own triumphal route between the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia.
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What makes him particularly arresting, though, is that he owns a sprawling, impersonal amusement park named Dreamland that is filled with menace and with attractions — Nightmare Island, Wonders of Science, Rocket to the Future and the ominously named Colosseum — that suggest a Disneyland Bizarro World.
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PETA proposes that tourists move between the pyramids in different ways, perhaps following the example of attractions such as the Colosseum in Rome, where Segways can be hired, or the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia, where electric bicycles are an alternative to elephant rides.
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Introduced by the Roman jeweler in 1999, the ring consists of as many as to five bands said to have been inspired by the circularity of the Colosseum in Rome, held in place by two flat rings engraved with the brand's famous Bulgari-Bulgari logo.
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The singer was scheduled to perform at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on May 18 and 19, but announced on Friday that those particular shows would be moved to May 6 and 16 — conveniently on days when Prince Harry is not getting married.
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BATAVIA, N.Y. — It was meant to be the Colosseum of yogurt plants: a sprawling $200 million testament to the popularity and economic potential of fermented milk, nearly the size of five football fields and no less patriotic, with an American flag and one of New York State.
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Archaeologists who specialize in Italy's prehistory often grumble that, when wonders like the Pantheon and the Colosseum are a constant reminder of what was to come, it can be hard to stir up excitement about chipped spearheads or undecorated clay pots, even if they date back millenniums.
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Archaeologists and building workers are now working side-by-side on their respective projects to preserve the barracks and prepare for the future; an architect will alter blueprints to integrate the historic site into the structure of the forthcoming Amba Aradam stop, which lies near the Colosseum.
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Their first stop in the morning was the historic Colosseum at the Italian capital, where the singer, 26, and her actor beau, 35, were spotted holding hands during their private tour of the grounds accompanied by four bodyguards, a director from the administration and an English-speaking art-historian.
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The tablets also will enable students to jump into educational AR experiences given their handheld form factor and Google's upcoming rollout of the Expeditions AR platform on the devices, which the company promises will allow students to visit the Great Barrier Reef, the Colosseum and International Space Station.
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This week in art news: Theresa May sported a Frida Kahlo bracelet during her disastrous Conservative party conference speech, the highest level of the Colosseum was made accessible to tourists, and performance artist Deborah de Robertis was charged with exhibitionism after exposing herself in front of the Mona Lisa.
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Back then, he could wheel his Fiat 600 Multipla — the first of his eight cabs — around the Arch of Constantine next to the Colosseum, drive straight across Tiber Island, zip around Piazza Navona or drive straight into St. Peter's Square, areas that have since been made pedestrian-only zones.
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Sure, politesse is the name of the game here, but plaudits for the guy who sucked the air out of this bubble called Ariake Colosseum by beating the would-be hometown hero, formerly undefeated Olympic gold medalist Ryota Murata, whose face has graced every Tokyo paper all week?
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After that, I was hyper aware of the stares and comments as I traveled around the country, from the chocolate festival in Perugia to sightseeing in Milan and Venice, and visiting the Colosseum and the Vatican in Rome, even tossing coins for good luck in the Trevi Fountain there.
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In order to illustrate this point, the encyclopedia notably uses an artist's rendering from Sega's video game Rome II: Total War, which not only falsely depicts the Pantheon beside the Colosseum, but also shows a Roman standard-bearer holding the famed Roman aquila (eagle) with SPQR inscribed underneath it.
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Bulldogs, Staffordshire Terriers, Bull Terriers, Mastiffs—who are believed to have begun as war dogs on the British Isles, where they were encountered by the Romans and taken to be used to fight wild animals in the Colosseum—and the Dogue de Bordeaux have all spent time in fighting pits.
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" On why he received limited speaking time at a GOP debate in January "(The debate) reminds me a little bit of ancient Rome, where everybody wanted to go the Colosseum to see the blood and gore while their society was crumbling around them," he told Alisyn Camerota on CNN's "New Day.
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I picture some togaed stereotype waking up in his marbled villa, looking out at the Roman road, the Colosseum squatting in the distance, thinking about the evening's party, whether it will become a wine-lubricated orgy or just sort of peter out into a long political argument over roasted boar.
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At a time of environmental precarity and extreme inequality, a handful of the world's biggest entertainment and technology companies collectively sunk billions of dollars into virtual worlds of increasing vastness and detail, arguably outstripping Rome's ancient Colosseum in spectacle if not actual bloodlust (despite the digital body count sitting much higher).
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For much more on Céline Dion's heartbreaking loss, how she told her children, and how they are all finding the strength to go on, pick up the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday Dion was performing as part of her residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace the night before Angélil's death.
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Internationally the list includes some of the world's best known sky-scrapers and historic buildings including the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, London's Big Ben and Houses of Parliament, the Colosseum in Rome, Istanbul's Blue Mosque, the Eiffel Tower, Moscow's Kremlin and Red Square and the Pyramids of Egypt.
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He did make Christianity licit within the empire by proclaiming the Edict of Milan with his co-emperor Licinius in 313 CE. In 315 CE, the Senate of Rome erected the Arch of Constantine next to the Colosseum, in commemoration of his victory at the bridge and subsequent rule of the western Roman empire.
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As if blessing the show, Mr. Brenner's relatively modest work comes early: a sparse arrangement of clear, concentrated portraits of Israeli families that are among his first forays into color, and a large, lonely image of the partly-built Palace Hotel (now the Waldorf Astoria) in Jerusalem, a hollow shell that evokes the Roman Colosseum, but with soundstage fragility.
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A Colosseum source told PEOPLE the tour lasted 45 minutes and the pair posed many questions to the art historian – particularly interested in all the mechanisms devised by the Romans to create/allow the special effects that took place during the events (like lions and other wild animals appearing from nowhere thanks to elaborate and hidden manhole mechanisms).
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"While climbing the pyramids is illegal in Egypt and there is security present on the site, the Los Angeles Times wrote in September that renewal projects including a "state-of-the-art security system" have been repeatedly delayed and that security remains "lax compared with Rome's Colosseum or Jerusalem's Western Wall, where visitors' movements are tightly controlled.
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The 82-year-old Francis has just completed an exhausting few days of Holy Week commemorations, including travelling to a prison outside Rome to wash the feet of inmates on Holy Thursday, presiding over the Way of the Cross procession at Rome's Colosseum on Good Friday and celebrating the Easter Vigil late Saturday night in St. Peter's Basilica.
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ROME — A statue of a human-headed winged bull from the Northwest Palace in Nimrud, Iraq, that was bulldozed by the Islamic State last year to great outcry has been faithfully recreated using modern technology and put on exhibit at the Colosseum in Rome to spur discussion of the possible reconstruction of war-torn archaeological sites.
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The race track itself is similarly massive; a local news station pointed out a few years ago that the infield is big enough to fit the island that houses the Statue of Liberty, the Kentucky Derby's Churchill Downs, the Taj Mahal, the Roman Colosseum, Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, and the entire Vatican City, with some room left over.
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Satterwhite, who was born and raised in South Carolina, was also called on this year to contemplate the idea of homecoming by the musician Solange: He created a video for her slow-burning track "Sound of Rain," from her 2019 album "When I Get Home," that features an animated architectural colosseum populated by dancers, their bodies slowly combusting.
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Three weeks after her husband's death, Dion returned to The Colosseum stage where colleagues, friends and family – including Dion's 14-year-old son René-Charles, as well as Angélil's children from former marriages, Patrick, Jean-Pierre and Anne-Marie – listened to her emotional speech about the late music manager in addition to the 15 others who spoke at the tribute event.
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Through Costco, she booked an eight-day trip to Rome and Florence for two for $3,800, including round-trip flights, hotels, daily breakfast, private cars to and from the Italian airports, first-class train tickets between the cities and $400 to spend on tours, which they used to see the Vatican and the Colosseum and take a pizza-making class.
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CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Djeneba Aduayom On opening night in the W.N.B.A., three hours and 211.5 minutes until the Atlanta Dream's home tipoff against the Dallas Wings, Brennan Galloway, who runs game operations, was standing in the breezeway beneath the seats of State Farm Arena, a cement colosseum where the Hawks, the city's N.B.A. team, play from October until at least April.
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On Good Friday, Francis, marking his seventh Easter season since his election in 2013, is due lead a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession around Rome's ancient colosseum The 82-year-old leader of the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics leads an Easter vigil service on Saturday night and on Easter Sunday he reads the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message.
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As the 64-year-old country legend gears up to return to the stage for the fourth year of her Las Vegas residency (the longest-running country residency in Sin City!) with Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace this summer, she is first going to have to share the 29-time ACM Award-winning duo with the ACM new male vocalist of the year.
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There's more to Paris than the Eiffel Tower, and there's definitely more to Rome than the Colosseum, so if you're looking to step out of the ordinary and off the beaten track then make sure your phone is stocked with Like A Local, an app that works completely offline and provides you with recommendations curated completely by locals, encouraging you to get immersed in what the locals like to do, see, eat and more.
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Taj Mahal, Agra, India Great Wall of China, Mutianyu, China Statue of Liberty, New York, USA Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel Buckingham Palace, London, UK Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, USA Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, Russia Parthenon, Athens, Greece Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK Colosseum, Rome, Italy 'Arbeit macht frei' Gates, Auschwitz, Oświęcim, Poland White House, Washington D.C., USA Four years ago, cinematographer Oliver Curtis went to Cairo for a freelance assignment.
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I promised that wouldn't happen, since I still have flashbacks to my parents dragging my sisters and me on exhaustive and exhausting visits to museums and places like the landscape painter Frederic Church's house at Olana in Hudson, N.Y. Our two-week trip turned out to be packed but balanced: Rome was more about the Colosseum and Pantheon and climbing the dome of St. Peter's Basilica than staring at medieval religious art.
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According to the Roman historian Cassius Dio, a sea fight took place in the amphitheatre in 86 AD. Ships, weapons and thousands of men were brought in and since every effort was made to make a naumachia (I bet you’re saying it out loud now) a colossal event, even sea creatures were shipped in from around the globe - hence why I put an octopus inside the colosseum, because y’know when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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