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...There is, of course, a history of books offering readers the chance to choose their own adventure, sometimes called “LitRPG”, dating back to the world of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise of the 1980s....
...That includes her appearances on TV entrepreneur shows such as ABC’s Shark Tank, BBC’s Dragons’ Den, and Roku’s Side Hustlers....
...The year of the dragon, Chinese friends tell me, can either be very good or very bad but is never half-hearted....
...Topiary, from elegant geometric shapes to the wild excesses of voluptuous women, animals, George slaying the dragon, and the odd train, has always been a bit Marmite. Some love it, others hate it....
...In The Virgin in the Garden, a novel set during Britain’s 1953 coronation celebrations for Elizabeth II, the writer AS Byatt introduced readers to two intellectual sisters....
...In the distance, a frieze shows St Margaret erupting from the belly of a dragon, to become patron saint of childbirth....
...stagings have relished its themes of hubris punished and marital infidelity, notably in a much-travelled production by Robert Carsen that set the story among the British royal family with Juno as a Queen Elizabeth...
...In a bid to tell the history of the house with a bejewelled symbol associated with a muse (a cross for 17th-century Marie de’ Medici, a flower for 18th-century Marie Antoinette, a dragon’s wing for the courtesans...
...The Nakamichi ‘Dragon’ was the holy grail for audiophiles; it remains a collector’s item for sonic excellence and design....
...In its place, the still genuinely exotic dragon fruit. When did the beady eyes of the pomegranate start surveilling us from every plate?...
...There were roles for people with titles such as the Lady of the Order of the Thistle and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant....
...Queen Elizabeth II often wore the gems as brooches....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...One is reminded of E Nesbit stories or perhaps CS Lewis’s Narnia adventures: this is the land of dragons, after all....
...From a note today by equity analysts Jason Haas, Elizabeth L Suzuki and Sarah Park, who double-downgrade Hasbro’s rating: — We are downgrading Hasbro to Underperform after conducting a deep dive on the...
...However, due to the pandemic, many of the actual dragon boat races scheduled worldwide will be cancelled or held under restrictions....
...UK, further rail strikes over pay, this time by members of the TSSA union at Rail for London Infrastructure, operator of London’s new Elizabeth Line service....
...But the sleeping dragon of Northern Ireland is also stirring....
...But this year, the day off has been moved to Thursday and Brits have been handed an extra public holiday on Friday to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years as British head of state — perhaps by heading...
...For corporate capitalism and English imperialism were born at the same time, and were in many ways the dragons’ teeth that spawned the colonial world....
...The ceremony formally ends Queen Elizabeth’s period as constitutional monarch, formulated when Barbados gained independence in the 1960s after three centuries as a British colony....
...My style icon is my wife, filmmaker [Elizabeth] Chai Vasarhelyi. She navigates many different worlds and has innate style, having grown up in New York City....
...Wallace later compared the incident to Moscow’s claims in May that its navy and air force had chased another UK destroyer, HMS Dragon, out of waters near Crimea last autumn — a statement he described as...
...Another instructive example is Monopoly, which today scans to many as a capitalist fantasy but was created by Elizabeth Magie in 1903 as a criticism of concentrating land in private monopolies....
...“Exposing them to such content would rouse in them a slumbering dragon of lust, to the destruction of family, home and all that is well and good in society,” writes Berkowitz....
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