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...Old cities industrialised on the right, California and its gold got statehood on the left — and a Great American Desert lay between....
...On social media, there was chatter of Trump being so cross that he was throwing ketchup at the walls in Mar-a-Lago....
...Luther Burbank, the 19th-century breeder of exotic hybrid plants in California, called his catalogue New Creations and became feted as the “high priest of horticulture”....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...June 22-August 27, bso.org Roskilde Festival, Denmark Northern Europe’s most famous festival attracts over 100,000 visitors to the Danish city of Roskilde every summer....
...Several notable Bordelais have been investing in northern California and he is far from the only Bordeaux winemaker to be learning lessons from Napa to apply to Bordeaux’s increasingly hot summers....
...Brain Yard, another new development, currently advertises itself as “on the intersection of three dynamic districts: Farringdon, King’s Cross and Midtown”....
...Inside the museum, among the swish of Degas’ Red Ballet Skirts and the silhouette of Rodin’s The Thinker, McAslan is drawn to the Warwick Vase, a Roman marble endowed with new life through partial restoration...
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...Hazel will join the forest to encourage red squirrels. Reviving the romanticism of the Highlands is painstaking work....
...stools in local white oak and Western red cedar....
...Across the park on a bench under a copse, I meet Gabriel, a 17-year-old from Florida with a giant plume of frizzy mouse-brown hair....
...After the tour, Hammond suggests I cross the street to the headquarters and museum of Wreaths Across America....
...The starting point was Paul Theroux’s novel of an American pimp....
...Biden’s infrastructure bill has made billions of dollars available to help boost American processing of minerals needed for batteries....
...We’re sitting in the House of Lords’ Pugin room, a wood-panelled chamber with Victorian Gothic wallpaper in curling ropes of red and gold....
...The nation’s anti-California....
...In New York and California, where nearly a third of all abortion facilities are located, travel distances for women seeking to terminate their pregnancies are often under 25 miles....
...As a stand-up, his material dealt with daily reality as a Pakistani-American in the era of the war on terror. In 2017, he starred in acclaimed comedy The Big Sick, co-written with his wife Emily V....
..., one of London’s northern suburbs, near where I live....
...Idlewild sits on a 2,700-acre site in the midst of a forest of hardwoods and towering red pines in rural western Michigan. It contains two of the few spring-fed lakes in the county....
...I prefer to buy a booklet to read later and focus on the Ness’s own melancholy soundtrack: the baying wind, gulls shrieking, the crunch of pebbles underfoot, and, when I cross to the other side of the peninsula...
...The polymath music, film and theatre director, memoirist and painter Michael Lindsay-Hogg left a life in California for Hudson – one of quite a few who made the cross-country move, according to Vidor....
...“He was one of my heroes,” he says of Ellington, the great African-American bandmaster. The American ambassador had told him Ellington was coming and that they should collaborate. “‘Come on,’ I said....
...exotic fruit and veg, guilty-pleasure American classics (keep your scones; give me Bisquick), corn tortillas actually from Mexico and a slew of own-brand chutneys, marmalades, granolas and pestos....
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