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Even as the Saudi government canceled a quarter of a trillion dollars’ worth of projects back home as part of a fiscal austerity program, workers hustled to finish bright blue landing pads for helicopters at the vacation compound and to erect a tent the size of a circus big-top where the king could feast and entertain his enormous retinue.

"The Accidental Circumnavigator" is from the October 11, 2016 Travel section of The New York Times. It was written by Nicholas Kulish and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Military Campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria Shows Gains" is from the April 12, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Matthew Rosenberg, Helene Cooper and Nicholas Kulish and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Militants Profit off Antiquities amid Conflict" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Steven Lee Myers and Nicholas Kulish and narrated by Paul Ryden.

Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a devastating mark. According to the testimony of survivors, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts. He performed surgeries on otherwise healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls set out on his desk to display perfect sets of teeth. Yet in the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark past and establish himself as a reputable doctor and family man in the resort town of Baden-Baden.