Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting
Appropriately named "Emirates Palace," the establishment is owned by none other than the government of Abu Dhabi, whose emirate is the largest and wealthiest of the seven-member UAE, pumping some 90 percent of the country's crude.The exact cost of this monument -- whose construction began more than three years ago, required 12,000 laborers and is still not totally over -- remains a secret.But money, which has been flowing thanks to rising oil prices, was clearly not an issue.Rising along the city's corniche with a 1.3-kilometer-long (4,200-foot) sandy beach, Emirates Palace has two identical wings built on either side of a central building featuring 92 suites, the cheaThe young private knelt in front of the somber woman and held out one of the most poignant expressions of honor for a fallen American warrior--the Stars and Stripes, folded with military precision into a neat triangle.pest of which goes for 2,500 dollars a night.
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