Word: replica
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...Adjacent to the Vietnamese capital's historic train station, Hanoi's hippest new hangout is a replica of an old frontier watering hole in the American West. A five-meter-tall cowboy stands outside, twirling a neon lasso over the saloon. Inside, the split-rail walls are decorated with cowboy memorabilia?from cowboy boots to a mounted cowskin?and since it opened in October, trendy young Vietnamese have been packing through the Seventeen Saloon's swinging doors and whooping it up with whiskey and tequila served by waitresses in cowboy hats and jeans...
...Gubernator's pugilistic performance was not over. As he walked around the facility during his August visit, he spotted a small replica of the long conference table that stands in his Sacramento office; the table itself was built in the prison's carpentry shop. Schwarzenegger couldn't stop himself from bragging: "I am the only one in the Governor's office who can pick...
...vampire conspiracy that controls the world and killed his mother. For those liberals already bristling with outrage, it is presumably coincidental that the vampires’ mission—controlling the media and corporations as part of an effort to de-purify human blood—is an exact replica of that imposed on the Jews by medievalist anti-Semitism...
...arrived with that bomb one day,” Johnson says, gesturing proudly toward the scale model of a missile (or is it a torpedo?) balanced on a ledge over the window. “There’s not too many people who show up with a bomb replica at a bar for aesthetic amusement,” Johnson says. The bomb is long and gray and more than enough to frighten away the uncertain customer...
...just for display, this $115 fully functional wheelbarrow, handmade by an Amish woodworker exclusively for lehmans.com is a replica of a 19th century design...