The Tamil Tigers were born during this era, resorting to terrorism and refusing to accept that they were no longer being targeted as outsiders.
Chewton Glen, a palatial Georgian-era resort and spa in New Milton, England, recently built 12 "treehouse suites".
It is just outside the city limits of Eureka Springs, a Victorian-era resort town in the Ozark Mountains.
MOSCOW -- A month ago, Russia's biggest challenge in preparing to serve as host for the 2014 Winter Olympics seemed to be just mustering the resources to build the facilities in Sochi, a downtrodden Soviet-era resort town.
The cushy blue-green leather chairs used by the audience can be sleep-inducing, and the all-day Cafe NONA's waffled ceiling and slow service evokes the dining room of a Soviet-era resort.
But Heiligendamm is a Regency-era resort, the buildings reminiscent of Brighton, and it was the seaside getaway for European princes and playboys – the Tsar had his own place there.
Manitou, an artsy, charmingly eccentric town of 5,000 residents, has a many-layered history — sacred ground to several Indian tribes, gold-rush-era resort, tuberculosis treatment center and Old West mountainside tourist trap as well as 1960s hippie haven.
Sure enough, 50's-era resort properties like the Eden Roc and the Fontainebleau Hilton, the luxury hotels of their day in Miami Beach, have made or are making extensive renovations.
Because the island, 3.8 square miles and 80percentt state park, is accessible only by ferry, and motorized vehicles are prohibited, Mackinac still feels like a Victorian-era resort village.
Indeed, for 12 days each May in this Victorian-era resort town on the Côte d'Azur, the most profit-oriented Hollywood producers rub shoulders with the most idealistic filmmakers from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere -- often literally, as they squeeze their way past one another down the Croisette, the beachfront promenade that is Cannes's Main Street.
