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They were referred to as the Shuberts the way the rulers of Venice were called the Doges.
Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine Howard Kissel 2011
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They were referred to as the Shuberts the way the rulers of Venice were called the Doges.
Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine Howard Kissel 2011
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They were referred to as the Shuberts the way the rulers of Venice were called the Doges.
Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine Howard Kissel 2011
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They were referred to as the Shuberts the way the rulers of Venice were called the Doges.
Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine Howard Kissel 2011
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Still, it was fun gliding on the narrow canals past Marco Polo's house, Mozart's House, the famous Bridge of Sighs, which supposedly takes its name from the sighs of prisoners stealing their last look at freedom before making their way to their cells from the Doges Palace and of course the Grand Canal.
Eileen Ogintz: Family Travel In Venice Eileen Ogintz 2011
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What I think feeds this sword-silliness is the same derailed train of thought that insists on Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Dukes, Barons, Doges, Counts, and on and on and on.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009
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Across the piazzetta from the Doges Palace is a jumbo Breitling watch ad featuring an image of an intrepid "John Travolta, Professional Pilot."
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You wouldn't know it to see it these days, but Venice's famous "Bridge of Sighs," so named by Lord Byron because it was the last time prisoners saw daylight before they were led from the Doges Palace interrogation rooms to its dungeons, was once synonymous with suffering.
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Indeed, most tourists alive today would probably be had pressed to remember admiring either St. Mark's Basilica or the Doges Palace when part of one or the other wasn't obscured by scaffolding.
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The Coca-Cola ad is a shot through the heart at the Doges Palace ethereal pink and white facade.
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