In 1819, prominent local citizen and town planner John Wilkinson proposed the name Syracuse for his home village in the marshy heart of New York

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Comprising Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s Triangle is a tempting trio marked by beauty via its lovely campuses and downtown

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