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...At its centre I put a deep rectangular pond to attract the dragonflies and frogs, the bats and toads that Ian loves so much....
...Chetwynd, 49 — her real first name is Alalia — is best known as a carnivalesque British performance artist, though she also paints and makes sculptural installations....
...Last year, the pair established their own company, Celtic Reptile & Amphibian, with an aim to supply species, including moor frogs and European pond turtles, that were once native to Britain, for reintroduction...
...Analysts at rating agency S&P Global characterised the November dividend by Sotheby’s as an example of the “aggressive financial policy” by which it operates....
...Harumi has also used 4,000-year-old bog-oak trunks as the base for the creation of trompe l’oeil ponds in which bronze water lilies appear to float and tiny frogs can be found....
...In November, several newspapers reported on a “clash” at the sea swimming spot of Sandycove in Dublin Bay between longstanding swimmers known as “hardies” and recent converts to wild swimming....
...Lebanon, or Phoenicia as it was known in the ancient world, was a fabulous place of Mediterranean trade....
...Microsoft, which last year won a coveted cloud-computing contract known as Jedi with the Pentagon, is turning up the heat....
...The 1,000-acre development known as Costa Palmas commands 3km of pristine beachfront not far above Cabo Pulmo National Park, in an untrammelled part of the peninsula recently dubbed the East Cape....
...Little comfort that mosaic has the widest host range of any known plant virus....
...Earlier in the day, I’d marvelled at the golden rocket frogs that live and breed only in Kaieteur’s most eye-catching plant, a thick-stalked splay of brilliant green foliage known as the giant tank bromeliad...
...A few drinks for himself, a few for the bartender, and then he made it known he was looking for a good time....
...The EPA’s ditch regulations, known as the Waters of the US rule, are emblematic. Supporters said they were a reasonable attempt to end confusion over its powers....
...And that was over how evidence is shared amongst prosecutors and regulators on both sides of the pond....
...He also reports for FT Magazine on the oldest evidence of brood care being found in Canadian fossils and an African lake known as “Darwin’s Pond” providing evidence of how animals can split into two or more...
...He claims to have signed a text (the 1964 speech in which Jean-Paul Sartre explains his refusal to accept the Nobel prize for literature) with this private key, which produces a unique identifier known as...
...SQM, or Soquimich as it’s known in Chile, has built over 44 sq km of evaporation ponds....
...Avanti’s kit is known as a “high throughput” system and uses a frequency band known as “Ka”, which is said to offer narrower communication beams and therefore smaller, cheaper kit for the end user, greater...
...Among the targets: a recently-vanished (1980s) Australian frog with females that, unlike conventional frogs, did not lay eggs in ponds but instead incubated the young in their stomachs; bucardos, a kind...
...Don Faul, Pinterest’s head of operations, is charged with opening up the site – best known as a home for craft enthusiasts – to marketers....
...Here, they and Yeh focus on how managers should respond....
...Chou’s 23rd-floor courtyard property overlooks the Bird’s Nest stadium and the National Aquatics Centre, also known as the Water Cube....
...The Swiss have something called Minergie, but perhaps the best known is the Passivhaus, a building standard developed in Germany in the early 1990s....
...When the S&P upgraded the Czech Republic’s rating by two notches on Wednesday, Czechs immediately took it as confirmation of what they have always known – their small country’s superiority over its CEE neighbours...
...Around the lily pond the frogs croak and sing and the light is soft. It is a magical, romantic place to look after. …………………………………………………………….....
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