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There is the Dream Land in Dali, in Southwest China’s Yunnan province that resembles Santorini, the cosmopolitan Greek island.

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Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

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