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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Belgian-born, Henk, Van with the genre: Arts & Photography, Photography & Video?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Abandoned Places'
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book titled Abandoned Places about Belgian-born, Henk, Van with the genre: Arts & Photography, Photography & Video?
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conversations.value: Abandoned Places: The game begins with four heroes, selected to fight the evil Bronakh, emerging from a rock that has been their prison for 900 years.\nThe player starts beneath the 'Temple of Heaven's Light' and must escape to the surface while arming the party.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Abandoned Places
  In 1911 he led a group that set out from Cuzco in search of lost Inca cities. Bingham got lucky, receiving a tip-off from a local about some hilltop ruins deep in the jungle. On a humid July afternoon, Bingham traversed plunging rapids on a log bridge, hacked his way up a jungled slope and finally crested a rocky promontory, to suddenly clap eyes on the magnificent remains of Machu Picchu.
  Educated, bold and handsome, it was Bingham who became the real-life model for the fictional bullwhip-cracking adventurer Indiana Jones.
  Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a favourite destination of travellers to South America. To most visitors it will never seem at all abandoned. Its story, however, is a sobering one of disease, dereliction and the downfall of one of the world's greatest ever empires.
  TO THE FIRST VISITORS IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY WORLD OF ABANDONMENT. A CIVILIZATION BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE SEA HAD APPARENTLY BEEN CREATED AND THEN HAD CHILLINGLY DECLINED – BUT THE TRUTH OF WHERE ITS PEOPLE WENT IS MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE MYSTERY.
  So wrote the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday, 1722. He had just landed on a rather barren isle with no large trees and a population of around 2,000 people. They had few tools and no mechanical devices. They did not know about the wheel. Their canoes were flimsy and so poorly constructed that they had to be constantly baled out just to stay afloat.
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conversations.value: Do you know four more paragraphs? End with the sentence ' Even then, it would still be another sixteen years before train services began.'.
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conversations.value: Out of control, it clipped a bridge at 100 km/h (60 mph) and instantly derailed. Iron wheels ripped up wooden sleepers. Screeching bogies buckled the track and in a second the nine wagons folded like a concertina. The momentum was unstoppable and the fragmenting train sliced its way clean through the bridge. The twisted mess of train and track ended up in the torrential Gave d'Aspe river. Miraculously, no one was killed; but the accident still had a disastrous consequence, for it put an end to one of the most beautiful railway journeys in the world.
  The concept behind the line was simple enough: to join the French region of Béarn and the Spanish region of Aragon with a railway line running north–south. But this meant traversing the Pyrenees. Although not as high as the Alps, this is still a mighty mountain range, extending 491 km (305 miles) from the Bay of Biscay all the way to the Mediterranean Sea and creating a natural barrier between France and Spain. There are 129 summits over 3,000 m (9,843 ft) and the highest peak, Aneto, stands 3,404 m (11,168 ft) above sea level.
  These mountains are mostly colossal slabs of granite and gneiss, hard rocks that have fared well against millennia of erosion. It took eighty bridges, twenty-four tunnels, four viaducts and a swathe of deforestation to take the railway line up the tightly curving Aspe Valley. This was extremely expensive: 50 per cent of the French section of the railway was built on engineered stone structures.
  The engineering centrepiece of the international link was the cross-border tunnel. This took the line for 7.9 km (4.9 miles) beneath the Somport mountain pass with a slope reaching 4.7 per cent. It was begun in 1908, with the drilling teams meeting in the middle of the mountain four years later. Even then, it would still be another sixteen years before train services began.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last paragraph?
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