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...At the end of a white road, near the village of Selcë e Poshtëme, an elderly woman with two chickens under her arms pointed us to a track....
...But it would have been obvious to Byron’s contemporaries that his words dripped with sarcasm. Byron supported the Luddites. They had indeed been sacrificed on the altar of productivity improvements....
...Elegy for a Dead World is a fantasy adventure that takes players into landscapes inspired by poems by Shelley, Keats and Byron, then gives them writing prompts....
...Later visitors — who included Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Shelleys, Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo — would revel in the frisson engendered by coming face to face with the glacier’s terrible power...
...But as economist Barry Eichengreen writes in Golden Fetters, that lack of flexibility can also cause it to implode. This is what happened in 1971....
...Doubles from €416 per night; roccofortehotels.com 7 — One & Only Portonovi, Montenegro When Lord Byron described the Montenegrin coast as “the most beautiful encounter between the land and the sea”, it...
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
...The city’s medieval mausoleums are jaw-dropping, tiled like jewels, including the Gur-e-Amir....
...Sitting next to me was Simon Byron, 36, my Botswanan guide....
...Craig Sams Hastings, E Sussex, UK...
...His debut, The Syme Papers (2004), followed an eccentric academic’s attempts to rescue a 19th-century scientist from obscurity; Imposture (2007) focused on Byron’s physician John Polidori, who can seduce...
...Pieces from writers including Zadie Smith, Adam Gopnik and David Adjaye take readers from the Maidan-e-Pompa in Kabul to the Place des Vosges in Paris....
...these, the prisoner spends his captivity observing and wondering at Caucasian life, alienated from the sophisticated metropolitan culture to which he belongs but unable to assimilate – a condition that fetters...
...In any English bookstore in Pakistan you can pick up a copy of E L James’s Fifty Shades of Grey but not one of Salman Rushdie’s novels....
...In the South Korea-Italy quarter-final at the World Cup of 2002, the Ecuadorean referee Byron Moreno made some peculiar decisions....
...I also understand that Byron Grote, the oil company’s chief financial officer, who is due to step down at BP’s annual meeting, has agreed to remain in place until at least the end of 2011, having already...
...Senate aides predict a slight chance for the naked CDS ban, put forward by Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota....
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...“The only thing that matters is competitive cost,” says Jon Hykawy, lithium analyst at Byron Capital Markets. “The world is frankly swimming in lithium. Inexpensive lithium is harder to come by.”...
...In spite of a barrage of news stories and internal e-mails from Tony Hayward, chief executive, who had decamped to Houston almost immediately, and town hall meetings led by the long-time chief financial...
...The charismatic Johnny Byron (Mark Rylance) is an out-of-time out-of-place drug-fuelled woodlander facing a daunting future as his village is being taken over by incomers and executive homes....
...A columnist for The Times recently declared that, for Mr Cameron, Eton was “the most toxic e-word out there, the elephant in every room”....
...E-mail is a great boon, but I can do without 3D high-def video conferencing....
...A E Housman’s home, Highgate, London This literary home, aptly named Byron Cottage, was where Housman penned his most famous cycle of verse, A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896....
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