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Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by the British author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. In the novel, the people who live in Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly ageing in appearance.
In 1942, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt named his holiday retreat Shangri-La, inspired by the mythical place; it was renamed as Camp David in 1953 by President Eisenhower. Shangri-La Stone Village is also a unique, free-to-visit roadside attraction in Prospect Hill, North Carolina, featuring a miniature village of 27 stone buildings, each about five feet tall. Created by retired tobacco farmer Henry Warren starting in 1968, the village includes structures like a school, church, and theater, built with local stone, concrete, and thousands of arrowheads. Visitors are welcome to explore the village at any time, and it is customary to leave a small toy or trinket to join the village's "inhabitants". On 17 December 2001, Zhongdian (Gyalthang), the capital of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, was renamed Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā). …
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