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...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...I turn off a minor road 10 miles north of Cortez, to begin a 30-mile drive up a remote dead-end valley beside the west fork of the Dolores River. The tarmac turns to gravel, then the gravel to snow....
...The Limerick rockers’ first album since 2001 attempts to recapture the jangling guitars of their youth, teaming them with Smiths producer Stephen Street who also produced The Cranberries’ 1993 debut....
...The eponymous Spanish bride was the real life 14-year-old Juana María de los Dolores de León, who escaped from Badajoz during its sacking, and ran straight into the arms of Brigade-Major Harry Smith....
...“I figured, people are going to be smoking even more but they’ll want to do it cheaper,” says Deanna Smith, who opened her tobacco store on Taunton’s high street three months ago....
...Dolores Byrne, managing director public sector, QinetiQ, the defence and security company. Michael Cairns, former commissioner of English Heritage....
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