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...Part legend, part desert romance, Petra feels like a lost city, an Atlantis of the desert spectacularly come to light....
...Apprenticed at 11 to his grandfather the banner painter, he learnt early to make eye-catching, lively, clear designs, evident in the Louvre’s youthful panels “The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis” and “The...
...Uncle Ho himself looks benevolently down on his people from a banner at their backs. The past has become two-dimensional, the future is blinding....
...It’s a different desert to Luca’s panna cotta, with fewer of the sugary accoutrements — no sorbet or beignets here....
...For centuries, ancient Silk Roads wove past its mountain ranges, lakes, deserts and valleys....
...Next year 11,150 people are expected to take part in 40 events that range from running across the Namib desert to a cycle traverse of the Andes....
...Each unit carries a banner with a message in English and Arabic; Welcome, Play, Now!; a few simply say: Cheer Up. But fan groups worry that the facilities will not be ready in time....
...At one point, he was greeted by demonstrators in Tel Aviv with banners saying, “Hitler spared you to finish the job”, “Jewboy” and “Kapo”....
...The latest is another scrawled banner — Tracey Emin’s pink neon confession “It was just a kiss” (2010). Venus’s kiss? Judas’s?...
...One herder in the Jarud banner region of Tongliao said he planned to keep his six-year-old son out of school for as long as he could....
...In April 2019, Mr Guaidó even launched an uprising from the streets of Caracas, calling on army units to desert Mr Maduro and join a popular revolution....
...Both sides are also battling the extreme elements, including reduced oxygen levels and freezing temperatures, of a high-altitude cold desert, anywhere from 12,000 to 18,000 feet above sea level....
...One of his latest ventures, under the new banner Oman Expeditions, is a collaboration with the Al Baleed resort in Salalah, offering guests two or three nights’ off-grid exploring to experience southern...
...Monumental outdoor concrete sculptures sit in stark glory in the high-desert landscapes....
...Thrown across walls and ceiling by TV projectors, disembodied David Bowies and Janis Joplins, Lou Reeds and Ryuichi Sakamotos jostle for space with parties of Gobi desert Mongolians. It’s intoxicating....
...Dear readers, In the heat of the Las Vegas desert, Amazon’s re:Mars conference offered a vision of the future through the eyes of Jeff Bezos....
...The idea of a new city in the northern desert costing $500bn was always fanciful, and so were some of the ideas for mass tourism....
...Yet when Donald Trump visited the desert kingdom last year, a military band received him with an excruciating rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner”....
...“Lady in the Eastern Desert”, “US Couple in Ctesiphon” and “Haidar-Khana Mosque, Rashid Street, Baghdad” come from the archive of the father of Iraqi photography Latif Al Ani, who chronicled his country’...
...Of the tribes, the Tuoba emerged as the dominant power and were able to unite the north under the banner of the Northern Wei (386-535)....
...On the other side of the border, Urad Middle Banner had big dreams, too....
...I recently saw them at Desert Trip in California: they were amazing but I was really blown away by the wardrobe changes – it was like a progressive rainbow....
...Outside Qayyara, the main base for southern operations, convoys of PMF streamed down the road over the weekend, waving Shia flags and their group banners....
...The result was a banner year for green energy in 2016....
...Now it is like a lost city in the desert, although Afghanistan’s 215 Corps lives in permanent accommodation (in itself a sign of resolve), no longer in tents....
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