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...Later, Copenhagen caught Hollywood’s eye: Alfred Hitchcock was an admirer (see below)....
...On the upper row of squiggles a line of round shapes begins, then blurs into half-formed circles....
...It begins with coastal grasslands – keep an eye out for eider ducks on your approach to the 14th-century Dunstanburgh Castle ruins atop a rocky headland....
...We learn about the stenches that were pervasive in the Buckingham Palace kitchens during George IV’s reign, when raw sewage oozed through the floors....
...But despite the harbingers of change, the mansions are still standing, and in a few weeks time the carousel will begin and the gardens will be humming once again....
...As the campaigning season begins, there are no more provisions, no soldiers nor money.”...
...My cultural heroes include Charles Dickens, who lived and wrote among London’s roaring streets, delivering to order wonderful novels in two-month slices....
...In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Emma Bovary begins the day-long cab ride with her lover that scandalised and satirised bourgeois France at Rouen cathedral, whose intricate gothic facade Monet painted some 30...
...V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Alfred Russel Wallace is one of the heroes of Victorian science. He rose to prominence in the 1850s as the co-discoverer, along with Charles Darwin, of the principle of natural selection....
...By 1922, she was spending summers with Georgia and her fiancé Alfred Stieglitz at the Hill, his place in the Adirondacks....
...Its “Charles I: King and Collector” exhibition also drew large crowds, attracting 256,000 visitors between January and April....
...“When you’ve written a lot of lives, you begin to see certain patterns.”...
...Gallery owner and avant-gardist Alfred Stieglitz went so far as to give his artists a mission statement: to devise art that was “America without that damned French flavour!”...
...Bigg lived in the village and may well have been the man who executed Charles I. The Seven Stars dates from around that time....
...Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...Mr Darcy, however, is intrigued, and Caroline’s brother Charles gives Elizabeth the freedom of his library....
...Probably my favourite portraits are Alfred Stieglitz’s photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. She was not only his muse. She was his lover, his wife. Photographers thrive on falling in love....
...Where does literature end and fantasy begin?...
...Here he investigates what the common people thought of Charles I before the king’s tumultuous reign ended in his execution in 1649....
...… In 1936, the Republican Alfred Landon stood for election against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
...All revolutions begin in the dewy innocence of collective rebirth. All end with the arbitration of arms. Name me one that didn’t....
...Eudora Welty, reviewing Nine Stories in the New York Times, wrote: “He has the equipment of a born writer to begin with – his sensitive eye, his incredibly good ear, and something I think of no other word...
...Mr Mimran says: “We also don’t know when the solvency requirements will begin for insurance companies. This was supposed to be 2013, [but now there are] rumours it could be much later....
...But this is a neat ploy to begin an argument, not a short-cut to its conclusion....
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