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...Their anatomy isn’t as telling; if anything, a face roughened by salt and wind, like a sailor’s, might give them away....
...It’s also a beautiful place, with white sand beaches, an iconic pitchstone ridge and a plethora of wildlife to spot — including eagles (golden and white-tailed)....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough” beneath skies heaving with cherubs are the feeblest late-runners in a genre whose apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V”...
...The embryo of Laguna Viva was planted as V-A-C director Teresa Iarocci Mavica, a Neapolitan based in Moscow for the past 30 years, cogitated on how best to exploit the empty plot of land behind the palace...
...In a letter to the Emperor Charles V, written not long before he died, Hernando wrote: “It is one thing to build a library of those things found in our time but entirely another to reorder things in such...
...Meanwhile British Airways is launching flights from Stansted to Chambéry, France, and Delta will fly from Heathrow to Salt Lake City, close to resorts including Park City and Snowbird....
...Cojean, the upscale fast food company, has four locations in walking distance of the FT’s Paris bureau not far from the Elysée Palace, the president’s official residence....
...Figures of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, stand alongside pictures of King George V....
...There are birds to blow a twitcher’s mind; nine different owls, 11 kinds of hawks, 14 species of eagles....
...For a while, the landscape would be reduced to bands of blue and sand, with vast sweeps of silvery salt. Only the brawniest opportunists lived here – cormorants, fish eagles and brahminy kites....
...Between Kew and Hampton the Thames meanders through a unique landscape of parks, palaces and working communities....
...A bronze bust by Benvenuto Cellini, for example, depicts him as victorious, with his gaze fixed on a distant horizon, wearing armour ornamented with eagles, lions and a Gorgon’s head crowned with a lyre....
...‘Magnificence of the Tsars’ at the V&A from December 10 until March 2 2009; www.vam.ac.uk...
...One can only hope it travels to London’s V&A or the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in New York. Lacroix is often in Arles; he has a home here....
...bountiful waterfalls populated by grazing horses and soaring eagles....
...Once in the collection of Henry Salt, the British consul-general in Egypt, it was sold by Sotheby’s in 1835 at its first antiquities auction....
...Sushi is fashionable – try Sushi Cooshy, or the salt pepper crabs at the new Boudoir fusion restaurant. Govindas is a refuge for vegetarians....
...Today's equivalent, the Gulfstream V with its television sets and gold taps in the bathrooms, is considerably more at £26m....
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