Hints and tips:
...Queen Elizabeth I reportedly had 18 so-called “bodyguards of the bed” in her chamber each night....
...Terri slurps her tea through a metal straw. Faiza says they’re all trying to process their grief. Everyone is very sad. Maybe you can plant something in the garden....
...Francis Drake arrived back from his 1577 circumnavigation of the world with so much loot that Elizabeth I was able to pay off the national debt with her share....
...A cardigan or blazer, sun cream, sunglasses and a straw hat with a modest brim will all serve you well....
...It began with Queen Elizabeth’s funeral at Westminster Abbey and is now closing with the humbling of the currency that bore her image for 70 years....
...A straw poll in the area delivered similar findings. Waitress, Milly Barker, said the prime minister was a “giant man-baby”....
...In the hours after the curfew descended, it was so quiet it seemed as if the streets were laid with straw....
...And so it’s the final straw. It’s not the event in itself. It’s just the one too many....
...It doesn’t help that the sector’s most famous face appeared in a San Jose courtroom this week: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was there for the start of her trial on fraud charges....
...In the hands of Elizabeth Ashdown, however, embellishments are taken into the realm of contemporary art....
...And the best gift I’ve received recently is a green straw marquetry box made for me by L’Atelier Jallu. I use it for keeping my jewellery inside – or sometimes just as a decorative box....
...This followed the death that same day of two very different men: Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip, and the American rapper DMX....
...But in this moment, she sits in a peacock blue ladderback chair with woven straw seating, part of the matching blue dining table and sideboard and hutch....
...That may seem as though I’m setting up a straw man — after all, many of us thought Barack Obama was going to be the first post-racial president, and then we got Donald Trump. And yet . . ....
...A straw poll of African-American Uber drivers in St Louis yielded a strong consensus that Mr Trump “can’t win again” — exactly the attitude that helped ensure his victory last time....
...“Understand [that talking about straws] is exactly what the fossil-fuel industry hopes we’re all talking about,” Elizabeth Warren recently observed during the Democratic debates....
...Elizabeth Corley, chair of the Impact Investing Institute, also voiced support for quotas....
...Meanwhile, there’s another narrative developing that Elizabeth Warren may be the next US president (certainly plenty of people would disagree, but my own unscientific straw poll seems to bear out the idea...
...Thus we get a plausible explanation for Edward’s greatest act of political self-sabotage — his decision to marry, secretly and on impulse, the unsuitable Elizabeth of Woodville....
...“The difference between Elizabeth Holmes and Thomas Edison is the light bulb,” says Rayport....
...And Joe Biden needs to give an answer,” Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate, said during a campaign event in Iowa....
...It’s fascinating to hear the incoherent explanations of the biotech group’s troubles, often in founder Elizabeth Holmes’ distinctive baritone....
...The kids are alright at Richard Quinn Last season Richard Quinn had Queen Elizabeth II on his front row — a historic fashion moment. So how could the 29-year-old designer top that for Spring?...
...Sam Neill, Patrick Wilson and Elizabeth McGovern draw the short-straw cameos. ★★☆☆☆...
...It’s known as the Ugandan massage and it’s not long before we realise that the short straw is over the rear wheels....
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