Notebook from Pest

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Not everyone knows that the city of Budapest was actually two cities: Buda and Pest, and that the names were pushed together forever when the two settlements engulfed one another. Buda is hilly and on the western side of the Danube; Pest is flat and on the eastern bank. Clearly the people of Pest (Pests?) […]

Not everyone knows that the city of Budapest was actually two cities: Buda and Pest, and that the names were pushed together forever when the two settlements engulfed one another. Buda is hilly and on the western side of the Danube; Pest is flat and on the eastern bank. Clearly the people of Pest (Pests?) […]

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