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...As we walk past the well-ordered flower beds and vegetable patches, she explains that Liebermann’s meticulous design was influenced by his friend Alfred Lichtwark, director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle art...
...Palatial by desert standards, Carter’s Castle, as it was dubbed by locals, was a donkey ride away from the Valley of the Kings where Carter — after many false starts — first saw, as he is reported to have...
...British fell-walker Alfred Wainwright described it as thus: “Flowers, heather and bilberries bloom on the pleasant little ridge where stands the summit cairn.”...
...Guests, who all need to be competent riders, will sleep in bullrings and medieval castles....
...Monarchs of the 18th century preferred more private ceremonies at Windsor Castle....
...There are gentle layers of planting that barely leave an imprint yet dial up the atmosphere: white “Madame Alfred Carrière” roses tumble out of mellow stone; cascades of white Wisteria floribunda alba hang...
...Bad Homburg, one of the largest towns in the area, was where Alfred Herrhausen, former chairman of Deutsche Bank, lived — and where, on the way to work in 1989, he was assassinated by far-left militants....
...Richard of Cornwall was so enthralled by the story he swapped three of his manors for the otherwise unprepossessing site, but its appeal has endured — drawing visitors including Alfred Tennyson, Charles...
...Somerset, with its singular landscapes and connection to nearby pilgrimage sites such as Bruton’s Dovecote, King Alfred’s Tower and Glastonbury Tor, is an ideal site for Vital’s work, says Iwan Wirth....
...The show opens with Algerian Jewish immigrant Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer’s Sleeping Beauty castle depicted through a screen of falling snow and dried leaves, “Hiver (Petit Trianon)” (1929): metaphor of the past...
...In the 1950s, the couple lived together mostly in Cooper’s castle in Provence....
...Spouses, relatives or friends of authors such as Alfred Lord Tennyson and TS Eliot destroyed papers or limited access to archives to stop the public knowing what they regarded as private details....
...The Castle exhibition, however, was unlike shows she had done before. Not only is Castle’s output vast — comprising countless drawings, cardboard constructions and books — it is entirely undated....
...Ms Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, has claimed that Hitchcock harassed her. “Hitch said he would ruin my career and I told him to do what he had to do....
...Its cricket pitch, overlooking a distant medieval castle, still hosts matches every summer as it has for many decades. That is all part of local tradition....
...Among the military buildings opening their doors is HMS Excellent, a naval training facility in Portsmouth and Halton House, a Buckinghamshire mansion built in the style of a French château by Alfred de...
...He is the author of “The Castle And The Sandbox”, a book explaining how to foster innovation in established systems and companies....
...His three naturalists, Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Bates and Richard Spruce, are an ideal subject for his expertise....
...at the age of five, in the summer of 1944, when it hung in his father’s quarters in the castle....
...It is said to have been owned by at least eight monarchs, including Alfred the Great in the ninth century....
...The mountain, also known as Saddleback because of its shape, was described by the writer Alfred Wainwright as “one of the grandest objects in Lakeland”....
...Almost 50ft high and visible for miles, it has no obvious function – too fat to be a lighthouse, too small to be a castle....
...Barbara Castle, a minister in the Wilson Labour governments and a fierce warrior, her voice hardened by northern smoke, and too much nicotine, confessed reluctant excitement to her diary when Margaret Thatcher...
...This article is drawn from research for a book on the origins of international crime, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf...
...In 1976, NHS consultants were fighting efforts by Barbara Castle, health secretary, to stop them doing private work. She failed....
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