CAPITALS 7, PANTHERS 3 Brooks Laich scored twice and five other Washington players had goals to lift the short-handed Capitals past host Florida.
Thailand's capitals, past and present (Bangkok), have all been situated on its banks or those of its tributaries and distributaries, as are many other cities.
The result is a 250-mile-long network of trails, zigzagging between the two European capitals past ruined castles, cute villages, dense forests and the once-forbidden Cold War border.
When it's working — as it was in the first two periods of a 4-3 overtime win over the Washington Capitals this past Wednesday — they can dominate games, even against quality opponents.
Capital gains taxes provide incentives to retain capital long past its "best before date" to avoid triggering tax penalties.
At the same time former no-name solar companies, charged with entrepreneurship and venture capital, sped past and helped forge an entire industry.
The Insavaileovs live in Kibray, about a 25-minute drive from the capital, just past the new presidential palace Karimov is building for himself.
So, even for a history fan with a taste for the place, it takes a clever theme or a neat gimmick to make yet another account of the capital's past seem appealing.
Outside the capital the past seems still alive in three villages: Plimoth Plantation, Old Sturbridge Village, and Shaker Village in Hancock, where the sect established its communal-church concept in the 1780s.
Or you can take the nearly-new road east from the capital, speed past the stripped cork oaks of the Alentejo and be in Spain in under two hours.
