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...Reich has chosen Wilma & Frieda’s, a breakfast place in an upmarket outdoor mall along the main highway in Palm Desert....
...Llanwrtyd Wells is situated in the Cambrian Mountains, a sparse region sometimes referred to as the “green desert”....
...In some cases, farmers can't even sell to local schools or hospitals without going through big financial middlemen hundreds or even thousands of miles away, which seems incredibly illogical....
...There is no hospital on the island. The school, with its three full-time teachers, is the largest recipient of the island’s tiny tax take....
...The waters rose and rose, filling the valley like a bath and creating an inland sea 35 miles long and 15 miles wide....
...Prices yet to be announced; wilderness-safaris.com Six Senses Shaharut Arava, Israel On an 18-hectare estate in the Arava Valley, just south of the Negev desert, Six Senses Shaharut is a 60-suite spa...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...As monuments to hubris go, it’s hard to beat a ruler whose once vast empire has disintegrated into the desert’s “lone and level sands”....
...Christopher Gibbs, the doyen of London antique dealers, became a regular visitor, and Hurst quotes him as a huge influence — a gauge on whether an object should be bought today: what would Christopher think...
...The visions may have been rarely realised but they have come back to haunt us, from Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth philosophy to Silicon Valley’s tech campuses....
...‘They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide, by Ronald Grigor Suny, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35 If you read one book about the 1915 Armenian genocide...
..., by Peter Oborne, Simon & Schuster, RRP£10.99 When Pakistan was created in 1947, cricket was a game for the middle classes in Karachi and Lahore; today it is played in the remote, conflict-torn Swat valley...
...Had I not known he was from the DoE, it would have felt like I was being driven off into the desert to dig my own grave....
...… I Knew the Bride, by Hugo Williams, Faber, RRP£12.99 Speaking to us from the bar at the Savoy, a hospital ward or the kitchen sink, Williams gives us a selection of settings as meandering as his ideas...
...estate – took shape, its properties crowned by V-shaped butterfly roofs by William Krisel....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...A dazzling oasis in a desert of dull police procedurals....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...The posy and the decorations were English lily of the valley, which comes into flower in May. That was a risk, he admits....
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...A judge in Regina v....
...Insurgents use a strip of desert there to infiltrate Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban in the mid-1990s, and the pivot on which previous Afghan wars have turned....
...More columns at www.ft.com/ lander England v Australia, December 1-5, Adelaide Oval...
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