The top bands played there -- the Big Three, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes -- and the lines would start forming hours in advance of the doors opening, says Best.

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Ask any experienced parent, and minivans still takes the cake as the best family vacation car, including the ease of automatic sliding doors, spacious seating and an interior design attuned to the needs of little passengers and frazzled parents.

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We have opened wide the doors of the world's best system of higher education.

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Returning visitors to Mayo might be surprised to find quite a few bar doors locked during the early part of the week or, at best, with limited opening hours.

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But Simon Jenkins, author of a book on England's 1, 000 best houses, points out that the first aristocrats who opened their doors to the prying public were masters at giving the customers what they wanted.

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