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...the world: the fields at Pier 5....
...You can watch the fishermen along the South Pointe Pier, and there’s a seaside branch of Smith & Wollensky steak house right in the park....
...In 11-degree waters, swimmers cover about 1.25 miles, from the island to Aquatic Park on the San Francisco shoreline, the fastest of them completing the event in 20 minutes....
...The 11-hectare garden is a living work of art: great bursts of irises and azaleas, gnarled trees, stone bridges, ponds and carpets of moss have all been calculated and coaxed to look entirely natural....
...Jeffrey Lawson, founder and owner of Untitled, says about 10 such pieces will be dotted through the fair on Pier 70, in the Dogpatch neighbourhood....
...The J4 pier is one of France’s most historically loaded sites....
...The Pier Falls, by Mark Haddon, Cape, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$26.95 Told with characteristic matter-of-factness, Haddon’s 68-page title story, in which a pier at a British seaside resort collapses one...
...At about 5am it was light enough to make out the mighty Verrazano-Narrows bridge. The foghorns of the QM2 boomed mournfully as we scraped under the bridge and the sun came up in a blaze of red....
...Come July 11, the museum’s yard of rail relics fills with the best local bands, live DJs and lovers tap-dancing to strobe lights on carriages in the rain....
...While a mansion with its own helipad, party room, five balconies and a large private pier will set you back $6.6m through the agent Imóveis Florianópolis JB....
...And his explanation sounds like nothing less than a righteous splintering of the American soul: “It’s a simple lack of consumption on the part of the American public,” he says....
...2 Which painting inspired a Number 1 hit by Don McLean? 3 Who was the American artist nicknamed ‘the black monk’?...
...The American oil business started here, and Petroleum Street and Petroleum Bridge are still downtown landmarks, but the industry has largely moved on. Oil City is living on its fumes....
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