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  2. Timgad - Wikipedia

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    Timgad (Arabic: تيمقاد, romanized: Tīmqād, known as Marciana Traiana Thamugadi) was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan around 100 AD. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi .

  3. List of ghost towns in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Massachusetts.Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields.

  4. List of ghost towns by country - Wikipedia

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    Ojuela, a mining town near Durango City, was abandoned when the area's ore supply was exhausted. Real de Catorce was once a flourishing silver mining town in northern Mexico. Its dramatic landscapes and buildings have been used by Hollywood for movies such as The Mexican (2001) with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Recent efforts to adapt the town ...

  5. Lists of ghost towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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  6. List of ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Semi-abandoned Population decreased as the railroads extended. [5] Lang: Carroll: Laingkat: Decatur: Land Cat Ligon: Bartow: Livingston: Floyd: Mimsville Baker: ca. 1880 [21] 1914 [21] New Bridge: Lumpkin: New Echota: Gordon: 1830s Historic The capital city of the Cherokee Nation until their forced removal in the 1830s. New Savannah: Augusta ...

  7. List of flooded towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mumtrak, abandoned due to repeat flooding. [6] Arizona ... Colorado City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862; La Laguna, the former site is underneath Mittry Lake.

  8. The World Bank Group's Uncounted - The Huffington Post

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    Justin Guay, an energy lending expert and former Washington representative for the Sierra Club, says the Tata case violates the uneasy social contract surrounding coal in the developing world. “The quid pro quo is that society gets cheap abundant electricity, but it comes at quite a bit of cost,” he says. “They justify those costs because ...

  9. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

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    The book took eight years to write, and is the extension of Elliott's original reporting 2013 on the life of Dasani, a homeless black girl in New York city. [1] The book explores several themes, including the failure in the city's safety net and support for those in poverty, glaring wealth disparity, and the cycle of violence.