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...On an unseasonably temperate evening in Washington, DC — the sort of evening when you could almost hear the cherry buds stirring con brio — Indiana-born violinist Joshua Bell strolled on to the stage at...
...The accompanying Founding Collection depicts the regal oak leaf, sinuous fern, cherry blossom, buttercup and cobnut....
...Degas’ spangled ballerina pastels and whiplash sketch of a nonchalant Manet; Renoir’s depiction of a widowed Morisot, suddenly white-haired; Manet’s delicious portraits with tragic undertows — “Boy with Cherries...
...He and Engellau bought his starter, foie gras, the day before from Ernest Traiteur, one of their favourite Cannes food places. “This is the best foie gras I know,” he says....
...The library doubles as a billiards room and the signatures of Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Mann, who visited in the 1940s, adorn the fireplace....
...To quote Ernest Hemingway, “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” Photographs: Willy Vanderperre; Getty; Catwalking.com...
...You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season....
...For the British there are two great Antarctic photographers: Frank Hurley, who travelled south with Ernest Shackleton, and Herbert Ponting, who travelled with Robert Scott....
...To make her case, Doughty cites The Denial of Death, a groundbreaking book by the American anthropologist Ernest Becker that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974....
...The German plant hunter Philipp Seibold, who gave western gardens the flowering cherry Prunus x sieboldii, was arrested and accused of high treason in Japan; the Scot David Douglas, famed for the Douglas...
...Ernest Wilson’s A Naturalist in Western China (1914) is subtitled With Vasculum, Camera, and Gun. But the sums were bigger than that....
...And people at home seem impressed: I have already received my first invitation to give a lecture – Ernest Shackleton made a living touring town halls....
...Rows of grapevines and fields of cherry trees look sumptuous in the afternoon light. My spine hurts. I click down a gear and sit back on the saddle....
...His childhood hero was the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who helped inspire some of Hillary's post-Everest expeditions....
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