Word: pergamon
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...said that Boston is the Athens of America. Academic groves aside, this always seemed to me a spurious comparison--a tourist attraction at best, at worst an elaborate artifice on the order of the Pergamon or the Memphis acropolis...
...Pergamon, Paris, Berlin. We can go to Florida for spring break, or Costa Rica or London or California. We go abroad to sub-Saharan Africa, to Australia, to Eastern Europe. The world is a collection of islands connected by Coke and in-flight movies...