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...The estate is practically a palimpsest of Mallorcan history with its two neolithic sites and medieval Arab waterworks, the 15th-century watchtower at the heart of the house and its neo-Gothic chapel....
...Country palaces boasted wizardly waterworks. The Met offers small-scale version of these delights, including a pair of mid-18th-century mechanical paintings that flip through various scenes....
...Through the impossibly long winter and wintry spring you have been swaddling yourself in layers of garments. You eat for comfort. You’re always wanting scones or pies or big helpings of apple crumble....
...When the gardens were in social use, guests entered from the bottom of the slope anyway, looking up at the terraced waterworks and villa above....
...Peter Sallick, chief executive of high-end US bathroom company Waterworks, which opens its first UK showroom in west London this year, has included a number of brass taps in the store’s range....
...“All accidents are preventable, so someone must have done it,” he said as he ended his shift at the local waterworks....
...When he visited, Yang was not directed to the official archives as he’d expected, but instead sent to meet Yu Dehong, a retired cadre from the local waterworks bureau....
...Hungarians return to the polls this spring, and this time nobody is promising voters an easy ride. A change of government looks certain....
...At upscale seafood restaurant Aqua in downtown San Francisco, the majority of patrons have traditionally favoured Norwegian Voss spring water at $8.50 a bottle....
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