Hints and tips:
...Horn tells me. “We can’t just take a vessel spewing out carbon into these regions. Smell the air!” he wafts his hand out in front of him. “It’s fresh, there’s nothing, it’s clean....
...He doesn’t travel to countries that haven’t translated his books....
...I was meeting my friend Giovanni Soldini, the Italian sailor, who was attempting to break the speed record from New York to California via Cape Horn – he succeeded. I wear it most days....
...Despite the broken spinnaker pole in the southern Pacific, she was first round Cape Horn and then got a huge morale boost as she sailed past the Falklands and all her friends in Stanley motored out to wave...
...Politics isn’t much brighter....
...He did not even technically own Global, the superyacht whose horn sounded out when he kissed the bride....
...“Don’t focus on US-China competition, as they are not going to be able to discipline fragmentation as Russia and America did in the cold war,” he says....
...Cape Verde looks like that scene in Inception when the earth folds, except in this case Leonardo DiCaprio is a coin....
...For the next 48 hours we head south across the notorious Drake Passage, the body of water between South America’s Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland islands of Antarctica, which is considered one of...
...(JFK told his brother Robert, “I don’t give a damn if it’s horse piss, it makes me feel better.”)...
...F Scott Fitzgerald’s claim that “there are no second acts in American lives” has had an unintended afterlife....
...Finally, for a woman whose achievements include smashing the speed record for the 19th-century gold rush sailing route from New York around Cape Horn to San Francisco, there is that matter of the challenge...
...Films that he turned down included M*A*S*H, The French Connection, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Superman (the latter because he couldn’t countenance wearing a cape)....
...The fact that Günther Rohregger isn’t even Roman – he hails from Alto-Adige, far to the mountainous north – might scandalise some, but it doesn’t detract at all from the excellent quality, and supreme deliciousness...
...At opposite ends of this English village stand an Orthodox chapel and church — one adorned with the glittering gold that murmurs of Byzantium and the salty airs of the Golden Horn, the other with an onion...
...The place I can’t wait to go back to is Cape Verde. It represents pure escapism for me....
...(First deliveries of the resulting F-150 Lightning, with a starting price of $39,974, will begin this week.)...
...He feels the same about fashion: “You don’t see the tiny details — the fabrication, the workmanship.”...
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...You don’t do it for the man, men never notice....
...“I didn’t mind getting married again, but I wasn’t leaving Paris” is her explanation. Yale has pervaded Hicks’s career....
...The long beach is stuffed with penguins and fur seals; behind them rise mountains wearing glaciers like heavy capes....
...The course starts at Les Sables d’Olonne in western France, heads down the Atlantic, crosses the Indian and Pacific Oceans via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, before tearing back up the Atlantic for...
...After a fire broke out in 2018 at a Michigan factory making truck parts for Ford’s F-150 pick-up, the carmaker sent a team to the smouldering plant to extract the tooling for the parts....
...After Joe Biden was declared the victor in the 2020 presidential election, Khari Battle decided to head to Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan wearing a Biden-Harris T-shirt to celebrate Donald Trump’s defeat...
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