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2: Full Moon Hotel. This hotel was meant to be built in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was quickly dubbed the death star. A 521-foot-tall hotel with 382 rooms on 35 floors, it may be going ahead, but if it is, it is doing it quietly. One Baku resident commented on a blog: 'I live in Baku too. But I've never heard about this plan and death star and moon. This hotel is something new. I saw pictures, but I thought it is just pictures.' No need to get Luke Skywalker quite yet.
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Flash Gordon would have approved them all.... maybe they are just a little bit ahead of their time... As for Taj Mahal Hotel... isn't the Taj Mahal a Mausoleum - a place for dead people? Is this the hotel to die for/in? (Why are restaurants called Taj Mahal for same reason?).