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Like the Pharaohs...
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...Xanadu's landlord leaves many stones
to mark his grave.
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Since the Pyramids...
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...Xanadu is the costliest monument...
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...a man has built to himself.
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Here in Xanadu last week...
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...Xanadu's landlord was laid to rest.
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A potent figure of our century...
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...America's Kubla Khan:
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Charles Foster Kane.
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Its humble beginnings,
in this ramshackle building, a dying daily.
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Kane's empire, in its glory...
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...held dominion over 37 newspapers,
two syndicates...
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...a radio network,
an empire upon an empire.
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The first of grocery stores, paper mills...
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...apartment buildings,
factories, forests, ocean liners.
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An empire through which for 50 years...
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...flowed in an unending stream...
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...the wealth of the Earth's
third richest gold mine.
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Famed in American legend
is the origin of the Kane fortune.
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How, to boarding housekeeper Mary Kane,
by a defaulting boarder, in 1868...
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...was left the supposedly worthless deed
to an abandoned mineshaft:
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The Colorado Lode.