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...The researchers studied crystals of manganese telluride, a prime altermagnetic suspect....
...Three kilos of chopped onions, several hundred cardboard boxes, four German Shepherds and 8,000 pink silk carnations....
...workshop and boutique of artist-designer Elli Lyraraki, who works with one of the area’s last traditional sandal makers, and who also crafts jewellery out of scrap leather to which she adds feathers and crystal...
...I go to Pristine Nails in Shepherd’s Bush. The best gifts I’ve given were to Jarvis on his most recent birthday....
...To be fair, there are references to minerals, and the Grail is some kind of black crystal, which Parsifal hurls to the ground and shatters at the end, but there is no context for any of this....
...The black king splendidly dressed in white and offering a gleaming intricate boat, topped by a crystal orb — an allusion both to Christianity’s wide reach and Flemish wealth and global trade — dominates...
...He shepherds these floating pieces into a contiguous formation, into which more and more suddenly flow. “It’s kind of like Tetris.”...
...Coleman’s crystal ball proved accurate. In 2019, Andreescu defeated Serena Williams in the US Open final in blistering fashion....
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul, Christian Shepherd, Xinning Liu and Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...“I don’t think the Chinese government has a crystal clear sense of how to get to carbon neutrality by 2060.” China’s future relationship with coal is critical....
...“I’d be in Morocco and there would be some Berber shepherds in the market selling something, and she’d turn around and I’d be getting in their truck to go off to their village,” she says....
...“If we don’t insist this time we might not have other chance to come out,” said Crystal Lam, a 23-year-old who was marching on Sunday....
...I had been hoarding a stash of these precious crystals, deeming them so special that I dared not use them....
...He pointed out the names carved in the stone above the door by shepherds spending the summer there (including a Hudry from 1845)....
...It would be high summer and I would be dressed as a Watteau shepherd, picnicking beneath a willow tree on a West Country riverbank....
...Winding streets lead to fabulous rocky and sandy coves, surrounded by pine forest, where you can dive into crystal-clear waters — choose from Aiguafreda, Sa Tuna, Fornells and Aiguablava....
...Shepherd’s Market is a step back in time, and I love HR Higgins for coffee and local colour....
...In his Guide to the Lakes in 1810, the poet William Wordsworth lamented how his “Republic of Shepherds and Agriculturists” was ceding ground to a culture of railway tourism....
...Her singing was crystal clear but there was an enigmatic undercurrent of violence in the lyrics. The opening number, “Easy on the Thieves”, was a plain banjo-led affair cast in folk-ingénue mode....
...A tiny, bejewelled rock crystal figure of Christ as the Good Shepherd, dating from c1600, was manufactured in India or Sri Lanka, its Christian theme having been introduced there by Portuguese missionaries...
...The band is from Shepherd’s Bush, where I live – which is cool, because nothing comes from Shepherd’s Bush. An indulgence I would never forgo is Cornish Quartz Cheddar....
...Guest houses like his were buying the shepherds’ and farmers’ produce, he said....
...In my fridge you’ll always find a variety of berries and Normandy or Breton butter – the type with the sea-salt crystals....
...A late freeze has turned springs and streams into coruscations of crystal, and the Lagoa do Peixao at 1,677m, one of several lonely lakes in the high Serra, has a layer of ice thick enough to skate on....
...Enamelling involves grinding glass crystals into a paste, removing impurities, using a handmade wooden stick or brush to apply the enamel on to engraved metal and cooking it for around a minute....
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