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...My abode overlooked West Georgia Street, the hotel’s namesake and one of the downtown core’s busier thoroughfares, yet it was remarkably quiet, and I enjoyed taking in the views of the Vancouver Art Gallery...
...Indeed, most of the land south of Front Street was reclaimed using landfill in a massive operation beginning in the 1920s....
...Wayne Griffiths recalls the pre-Olympic buzz when he moved there as a 25-year-old Briton in 1991. “The city was so open and so positive and so optimistic and so proud of itself,” he says....
...The crane had to be sawn in half to fit through the narrow cobbled streets, and then welded back together on site.”...
...Most Confederate monuments were erected during the 1920s and 1930s when the Ku Klux Klan was surging. Some were even put up in the 1950s in response to civil rights activity....
...Few people in Wall Street history have a more complicated legacy....
...Beautifully restored some 10 years ago by its owners, brothers Nikhilendra and Dhananjay Singh, it echoes in its lines the great Mehrangarh Fort looming on the heights above....
...Born in Austria in 1920, Klepetar-Fallek was among the first wave of European Jews to move to the newly established state of Israel in 1948....
...What A villa built in 1920 with seven bedrooms, totalling more than 8,000 sq ft of living space over three floors. There is a separate house in the grounds for two caretakers....
...years on London’s Heddon Street (closes February 4)....
...Mr Trump brought his populist job-creating message to Indiana, telling voters in Fort Wayne on Sunday that China was “raping” America....
...Charleston has one of the oldest preservation societies in the US, founded in 1920, and a plan for the historic district was drafted in 1974. There simply isn’t the capacity for change....
...Off the Grid gathers the best food trucks at Fort Mason on Friday nights and for Sunday picnics at the Presidio....
...But whereas New York is the city of sentimentality and family, the tight communities and street life of Goodfellas (1990) or Wayne Wang’s Smoke (1995), LA is a city not only of dreams but of anxieties....
...Unreal City,Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge When TS Eliot wrote those lines in the early 1920s London was a polluted, overcrowded metropolis blighted by heavy industry...
...Its work was only declassified in 1977 – several years after drug enforcement agents first identified ecstasy on the streets....
...Once a fur-trading centre and French fort, Detroit was America’s fourth biggest metropolis by 1920....
...Lex: Israeli economy About one in 30 Israelis – about 250,000 in all – is out on the streets, writes Lex....
...French Vogue was launched in 1920 and there are now 19 editions worldwide with a combined readership of 24.8m....
...There are streets of terraced houses in need of renovation, run-down Victorian villas and seaside bungalows....
...The number of Chinese visiting Dubai soared 57 per cent in the first half of last year, totalling 81,900 in all. They’re heading next to the high street near you....
...The charity is based in an old fort that was once the king’s hunting lodge....
...Keats’ House in Hampstead, north-west London, had been a museum since the 1920s and had its last makeover in the 1970s, when it was dressed in drab oranges and browns that bore little resemblance to what...
...Historians say the last time the US has seen anything similar was during the 1920s, when Charles Ponzi’s postage scam flourished....
...The great American westerns, films such as John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) and Fort Apache (1948), mixed both pessimism and optimism in a heady stew; later, in the 1950s, the form was undercut by “political...
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