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...“Regular humidity is also crucial, so the cork doesn’t dry out. When looking at bottle capacity, bear in mind most designs are based on the classic Bordeaux bottle. Burgundy bottles tend to be fatter....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...A stroll away from Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral lies Paradiso, a longstanding institution of the Cork dining scene....
...On August 22 1922, Collins was ambushed and shot dead less than 20 miles from his birthplace in County Cork....
...Street Fighter V Champion Edition for PlayStation 4, £24, amazon.co.uk...
...“I saw the kimono exhibition at London’s V&A before things closed down – I often go there for inspiration,” she says....
...Letter in response to this article: Banker’s rendition of Dylan strikes bum note / From Peter G Cowap, Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland...
...Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
...NMC shares continue to trade like a cork in a pub toilet....
...The fourth pair, both cork-stoppered, consisted of examples of Sauvignon Blanc made in Marlborough and Sancerre by the same family, the Bourgeois....
...Later in the weekend we built heat shields too, out of scraps of kitchen foil, cork sheet, kitchen sponge and such like, and we divided into teams, our challenge to protect an egg from a two-minute burn...
...“My insides are made of cork — I’m naturally buoyant,” he says. He needed to be....
...The artist Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases, which have gone on display in a different part of the V&A, offer a sophisticated variant of the same approach, drawing on crowd-sourced suggestions from Remainers...
...It belonged first to my grandfather, then to my mum, who gave it to me in 2015 when I received an honorary doctorate from University College Cork....
...From Clifford V. Johnson’s terrace, perched high in the Los Angeles hills, you can see for miles and miles — and on a clear day, even the downtown skyscrapers come into view....
...This has tempted more Britons to pop a cork to celebrate or just to socialise. As the chart shows, the popularity of drinking prosecco really started to soar after the financial crisis....
...A top might have a cut-out detail, and there were deep V necklines and some short skirts, but most of the women’s looks were sleeved, midi-length and long....
...Once done, the results should speak for themselves: the classic photographs of Che Guevara, the V-J Day kiss in Times Square, James Dean in the rain were all taken through Leica lenses, adjusted by the hand...
...But in headier days, popping a cork was more than just a rare treat: it was a kind of ritual....
...The FT heads to Cork on the southern coast of Ireland for a deep dive on the high stakes for Dublin — which is more exposed to Brexit than any other EU member....
...Radford V Cheese Knife Gourmet Set, (set of five knives) £85, www.amara.com 7. Sipsmith Sipping Society, from £45 quarterly, sipsmith.com 8....
...dealer and collector who is universally known as Kasmin, or “Kas” — almost the only abbreviated thing about him, bar his height: the 82-year-old is under 5ft 6in tall and was once described as “the Gnome of Cork...
...Flæsketorvet 25, 1711 København V; warpigs.dk Photographs: Camilla Stephan/Rasmus Malmstroem...
...Company intends to bring to market in the form of the TriFan 600, a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft which will have flight capabilities similar to those of tilt-rotorcraft such as the Boeing V-...
...But the other variables include the quality of the corks, and the amount of dosage — the mix of champagne and sugar with which most champagnes are topped up just before the final cork is inserted....
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