Hints and tips:
...We had to content ourselves with learning how to make a fire using a knife and flint, with lichen, wood shavings and twigs as kindling. Or trying to....
...Global policymakers, including Bank of England deputy governor Sam Woods, have said they may revisit liquidity rules designed to prevent bank runs....
...Chabâa’s complex geometric abstractions encompass vibrant acrylics and sculptures in wood or copper....
...An ape out on the savannah fashioning a flint into an axe-head? Not even that. Not even anything....
...It has single-glazed leaded-glass windows and solid walls made of flint and assorted rubbish stuck together with bat poop (not strictly verifiable on the faeces front but it might as well be)....
...André MackAnd I don’t think this wine spends a lot of time in oak, so you can get wood tannin as well....
...The encaustic tiles, hand-carved wood furniture and bath amenities are all produced locally....
...I freewheel through flint-clad villages, past bluebell-strewn woods, over sluggish streams. True pilgrims follow the straight path to God....
...Finally, after 90 minutes or so, the path emerges in Madehurst near the parish church, a low-towered old flint building set amid overgrown gravestones....
...I would love to go back and sleep out at night in the woods there. It’s one of the most beautiful parks in Europe but not many people know about it....
...Just like fires, financial manias and crashes are destructive, but they can also be useful, by clearing out dead wood....
...And I adore his immaculate vegetable garden, adjacent to his flint and mellow-brick farmhouse heated by bio-chipped wood from the trees Kim planted with his own hands, 30 years ago....
...The abrupt departure of John Flint, HSBC’s global chief executive, announced with half-year results on Monday, captured headlines....
...a cabal of other worthies (including Sam Woods, boss of the Prudential Regulation Authority, outgoing Morgan Stanley president Colm Kelleher and Treasury second perm sec Charles Roxburgh)....
...cabal of other worthies (including Sam Woods, boss of the Prudential Regulation Authority, outgoing Morgan Stanley president Colm Kelleherand Treasury second perm sec Charles Roxburgh)....
...The main building has a twin-pitched roof and a facade of knapped flint – a durable material that can easily withstand the harsh marine environment....
...Semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, they made tools from wood, flint, bone and antlers and hunted with dogs; they made canoes, wove baskets, caught fish and buried their dead....
...Its handsome brick and flint façades, built in 1690, had contained wood-panelled reception rooms: one, which the house owners, the Cornelius-Reid family, called the study, was the source of the fire....
...The external cladding is timber and stone; inside are hardwood and flagstone floors, distressed wood fittings and exposed-stone walls....
...He expects to sell about three-quarters of an expected 200,000-bushel corn harvest this autumn to an ethanol plant owned by Flint Hills Resources, a division of Koch Industries....
...His quip at Woods: over Flint’s decades at HSBC, the bank had been through the Asian crisis, Russia crisis, the Sars epidemic, avian flu, volcanic dust....
...The pair’s achromatic refractor telescopes have two conjoined glass lenses, typically of crown and flint glass, often referred to as a doublet....
...Alongside the flint lighters and packets of granola, there are foods made in collaboration with cult Paris café Wild & The Moon....
...Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic” illustrates the legacy. Literature cemented the popular imagination....
...Piette gathered an astounding collection of carved bone and wood, flint burins and tools, and left them to the museum....
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