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...Mine is a well-dressed, if rather healthy tasting, salad of raw white cabbage dotted with brown shrimp and chopped chervil....
...But there are also sultry browns: Prince of Wales (1863) is a glossy purple brown; James Wild (1860) an intense rust brown with a yellow base....
...(She still has a book Kempson gave her – The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror – which sits on the table beside her armchair.)...
...Augustus shipped his daughter Julia here, following charges of adultery, then Nero expelled his wife Octavia to the island so he could be with his new mistress Poppea....
...The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London W1K 6TF St John, Spitalfields What The French House in Soho was for Francis Bacon, Augustus John and Lucian Freud in the mid-20th century,...
...See the aggressive statement from Senator Sherrod Brown, the committee’s senior member: “Facebook has run its social experiment on us....
...A contemporary of Augustus John at the Slade (1897-99), between 1913 and 1916 Orpen embarked on a series of three major allegorical fresco-like pictures of Irish subjects, for one of which he created this...
...Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, by Omer Bartov, Simon & Schuster, RRP£14.99/$30 Omer Bartov, professor of European history at Brown University, spent more than two decades...
...He gave evidence in the first trial, donning glasses to examine documents as he swept back his brown hair....
...Compared with Augustus Pugin, nearly everyone is an underachiever....
...Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, by Tom Holland, Little, Brown, RRP£25 / Doubleday, RRP$30, 512 pages Richard Miles teaches ancient history at the University of Sydney....
...That evening we played golf on a delightfully empty course, and dined off local fish and lamb, at Aghadowey’s charming Brown Trout Inn....
...His father, Augustus De Morgan, was a professor of mathematics at University College London....
...Here there are some staggering mistakes – a room devoted to dreary Rose Wylie but not a single work by pioneering Paula Rego; tepid Fiona Rae instead of unsettling Cecily Brown....
...Eventually, he lights on the grandfather of the lot – Augustus. “I know it’s ridiculous but he was the first....
...He compares this with his anti-brown campaign inside the house. “I’ve got rid of a lot of the old mahogany furniture that was here, the old dark furniture, tallboys....
...Mr Blair came to office like a new Augustus, with visions of plate-glass towers replacing the brick of old Britain....
...From £165 per night; www.victoriaatholkham.co.uk The conversion is not so successful at the Grade-I listed Gothic Temple in the Capability Brown-designed gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire....
...It’s a pity Nicolas Sarkozy isn’t coming to see Gordon Brown on Friday....
...The sale in Knightsbridge is built around the work of Augustus Pugin, the greatest advocate of Gothic art whose masterpiece was the complete interior design of the House of Lords, from fingerplates to the...
...The emperor Augustus built it up again, and it is the vestiges of this Roman Carthage that we see today....
...This is an idealised countryside echoing the peaceful time of Emperor Augustus....
...It was made around 1741 for Augustus III, elector of Saxony, by the Meissen porcelain factory’s greatest modeller, Johann Joachim Kändler, and his assistant JF Eberlein....
...London’s leading artistic dignitaries, including Philip Wilson Steer and red-bearded Augustus John, are depicted at a pioneering exhibition....
...Like the Romans under Augustus, Labour, in the midst of prosperity under Blair, have forgotten their old worries about liberty....
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