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...Pictures of battles and heroes of old adorn the walls, including Sir Richard Grenville, whose part in the 16th century battle that pitted one English ship against the 53-strong Spanish fleet prompted Alfred...
...I’ve yet to eat in the hotel’s two-Michelin-star Flore restaurant, but I very much enjoyed dinner in its Brasserie Marie, which is popular with locals, thanks to its reasonably priced menu (hors d’oeuvres...
...‘Object’, 1936, by Meret Oppenheim (Room 517) On a mythic afternoon in 1936, Picasso and his paramour, the artist Dora Maar, were having drinks with Oppenheim at the Café de Flore when they admired her...
...Immanuel’s son Alfred invented dynamite and later bequeathed his fortune to support the Nobel Prize....
...Round on the Links The link was people known as “the Great” Danny Alexander Alfred Pompey (Portsmouth) Lynne Frederick Blue Peter Susannah Constantine Philippa Gregory Catherine wheel Miley Cyrus...
...That’s where she found herself in 1936, a 23-year-old aspiring surrealist, when she met Picasso and his mistress, the artist Dora Maar, at the Café de Flore....
...Established in 1886 by pharmacist Alfred Blumenthal, it was taken over by sixth-generation Austrian pharmacist Alexander Ehrmann and his business partner Richard König in 2006....
...Alfred Pedersen & Son, the largest tomato supplier in Sweden and Denmark, which operates 350,000 square metres of greenhouses, said it was also switching off this winter....
...I visited Alexander Pope’s grotto beside the Thames near Strawberry Hill, Twickenham....
...“Lilies require a few days to open, so make sure you plan,” says Carlini, who worked at Loewe Flores before joining the London Flower School....
...The bladelike shoulders and wasp waists of his trademark silhouettes helped define 1980s power dressing and influenced designers including Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia...
...He is being represented by one of Germany’s leading white-collar crime lawyers, Wiesbaden-based Alfred Dierlamm....
...Even those explorers I most admired, the diligent 19th-century specimen collectors such as Alexander von Humboldt and Alfred Russel Wallace, were only, after all, seeking to advance our own scientific, rationalising...
...Flora Starkey, whose clients include Alexander McQueen, Dior and Sotheby’s, now has her own growing patch at Westhill Farm amid 30 acres on the Dorset/Devon border near Lyme Regis....
...Similarly, garden designer Alexander Hoyle believes that gentle chaos is key to creating the timeworn look....
...Ms Brainard was born in Hamburg during the years when her father Alfred was stationed in Europe, including stints in both Germany and Poland, as an American diplomat....
...The garden evolved over 20 years, culminating in the non-Virgilian King Alfred on his high tower....
...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....
...On Flores, we walked 3km through the sleepy village of Riung with one of its elders, who parsed its Christian-Muslim history with our head guide, Caz, as interpreter....
...Slurry’s residents, tantalised by the shiny new appliances of budding consumerism, eventually crumble — to the mounting horror of Alfred, the childhood sweetheart who wronged Claire and is the intended occupant...
...She had worked as an assistant to Alexander Torshin, the former deputy governor of the Russian central bank, and admitted in December to acting on his behalf in the US between 2015 and 2017 to build unofficial...
...The tender was run by Alfred Kokh, a government official and friend of Blavatnik’s (Kokh later joined the board of TNK)....
...In Cornelius Obonya’s new Die Fledermaus, Alfred, the serenading tenor, trips over a string of lights and gets an electric shock....
...There was a clampdown on psychoactive drugs from the 1960s after they were popularised for recreational use by counter-cultural figures such as Alexander Shulgin and Timothy Leary, the psychologist who called...
...The church-pew tapestries, recalling Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s most famous weaver, the Lady of Shalott, were placed as a patchwork on an exquisite evening gown....
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