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S. officials, plus two of their wives, in their diplomatic residences for almost three months, while arranging a daring operation to spirit them out of the country. ” Alamy, Getty Ken Taylor Born in Calgary, Alberta, Taylor joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1959, “and had postings in Karachi, Pakistan, and London before going to Tehran,” said The Washington Post. S. Embassy and took more than 60 Americans hostage, they didn’t realize that six others were missing and moving from one hiding spot to another in Tehran.

So why is it that I must go Darrell is hardly unique. Fenn estimates When I met Fenn at his home in September And leave my trove for all to seek? that at least 30,000 people have looked of last year, a museum’s worth of The answers I already know for the chest, and searchers range from mementos adorned his study—10 Native I’ve done it tired, and now I’m weak. weekend enthusiasts to semiprofessional American headdresses, a wall of mocSo hear me all and listen good, hunters to unrepentant fanatics.

Jeri, as colonized this stretch of Atlantic shorelocals call it, was long a hangout for line. But today the once thriving coastal in-the-know windsurfers and kitesurfcity of São Luís—founded by French ers. ” Every day here is the opening of chic hotels, spas, and slow. Men doze in the shade of mango The rippling dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park molecular-gastronomy restaurants. ” and 30 miles inland. This is no desert—over a dune to watch the sunset. Offshore, kiters and windsurfers entertain the crowd with every ridge and in every hollow are shimacrobatic leaps.

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