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...Yet, rather than look to the 19th century luminaries — the Lever brothers, the Cadbury family or the mill baron Titus Salt — who developed those model towns, Staab, professor of sociology at Berlin’s Humboldt...
...The fires, which broke out last Tuesday and quickly engulfed the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, have become the deadliest natural disaster to hit the state — and the most destructive fire in the...
...in painting and later with a ceramics degree at Humboldt State University....
...Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Selfby Andrea Wulf, John Murray £25/Knopf $35 Between 1794-1806, the cream of Germany’s intelligentsia descended on the tiny university town...
...The Schlegel brothers, August Wilhelm and Friedrich, inventors of the modern doctrine of Romantic art, lived on one side of the town hall, the Humboldt brothers — Alexander (subject of Wulf’s award-winning...
...I also enjoyed Magnificent Rebels, Andrea Wulf’s account of the “Jena Set”, a group of German Romantics who gathered in a small university town at the turn of the 19th century in the wake of the French Revolution...
...This has to be the most luxurious setting to enjoy jazz in town, with the dining room made extra-cosseting with curvaceous banquettes and glorious botanical/garden-themed murals....
...My husband loves food; he liked the idea of a coastal market town for seafood....
...The main story unfolds in the wilder reaches of Humboldt County, northern California, where much of the American cannabis harvest is produced....
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...I particularly like Humboldt Fog goat’s cheese and also Tillamook Sharp Cheddar....
...We also quickly learnt that it started life as a logging town in the 1850s....
...West Town prices have climbed the most since the peak: up 23 per cent, with a median sale price of $690,000 in the past year....
...In Berlin, the new Humboldt Forum opened in December amid criticism of the museum for housing thousands of artefacts from former colonies....
...Then I walked into the new garrison town that the Chinese have built, part of their ever-expanding security presence in this corner of Tibet, for some Sichuan food....
...“It’s incredible how poor the road infrastructure is,” said Tim Dewey, the brewery’s chief executive....
...be transferred from the suburbs of west Berlin to the centre of town....
...Captain Voigt’s impromptu strike force burst into Köpenick town hall and into the office of the mayor, a man named Georg Langerhans....
...The state’s most famous son is a man named Dewey Willson (also an invention), who was born in the small town of Sutton and rose to become a Confederate general....
...A single watchtower is all that remains of the feared border that once separated East Germany from West Germany on the banks of the river Elbe near the town of Lenzen....
...At the other extreme, behind a grand gateway in the genteel town of La Orotava, lay the Suites de Franchy....
...Think of the early 20th-century pragmatist John Dewey, who argued for the importance of local institutions in sustaining the habits of co-operation and compromise essential to democracy....
...According to Dewey Yee, a Hong Kong-based aviation finance expert, China has responded to demand by making a “concerted effort to expand the sector”....
...“A whole wall of Ruby Swinneys goes off to Cape Town on Monday.” He must be forever rehanging pictures at home. “Well, there’s no point keeping things in storage.”...
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