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...Europe’s final scrap of land before America sticks out of the Atlantic like a shark’s fin. Monchique, a rocky, uninhabited islet, lies at the furthest extreme of the Azores archipelago....
...The galleried colonnade above looks up at a 16th-century Franciscan convent fronted with a trio of majestic palms, a mighty wall of green-faced rock rearing up beyond....
...Holly+’s voice was cloned from recordings of Herndon singing and speaking....
...He cites a 1991 paper on rainforests in the Americas, which said a temperate rainforest should have more than 1,400mm of rain a year, a little more than twice the average for London....
...Slightly brighter skies later in the week came with poorer, choking air quality. When Bernie Melvin, a life-long San Franciscan, awoke on Wednesday the city was cast in an apocalyptic orange glow....
...During the 1918 influenza epidemic, San Franciscans formed the Anti-Mask League. Thousands of residents rallied to protest at the infringement on their civil liberties....
...One of those narratives will be from writer Will Power, who has experienced first hand the terror of America’s wildfires....
...The history of London would have been very different without Mary Davies, heiress to a slice of land that would become some of the most valuable real estate in the world and the cornerstone of the fortunes...
...Holly Peterson is a journalist and author of ‘It’s Hot in the Hamptons: A Novel’ (William Morrow) Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...These two eastern regions, subject to plumes and claws of polar air, are a land of killing winter chills for vines....
...But struggles in North America could mean shareholders still feel like the butt of a joke....
...The buildings are not walled off, but there is a noticeable change in atmosphere as you enter Amazon-land: the sidewalks get cleaner, the people have fewer tattoos and fancy fitness studios become more frequent...
...Every night, they would light up — first “Holly”, then “wood” and then “land”, before finally beaming out “Hollywoodland” to the fast-expanding city below....
...Hints of the alternative culture shown in Tales of the City still peak out from amid the fog....
...“That’s a question I will never address,” he says, recalling how as the commander of the surge and then the head of Centcom he “wrote more letters of condolence to America’s mothers and fathers than any...
...But in Chicago, it is Lucas who is being cast as the evil emperor and it is a local civic group, Friends of the Park, that sees itself as the only hope for the galaxy — or America’s third-largest city....
...His chance came when he reached a deal to buy the Bonwit Teller department store next to Tiffany’s and persuaded the owner of the land, Equitable Assurance, to join him in building a Fifth Avenue skyscraper...
...In 1998 a scheme called Earthworks Urban Farm began to produce food crops for the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, a Franciscan embrace of nature for the sake of benevolence....
...The ice had gone and the green mist of growing lit the spirit faces that looked out from the walls among fern, grass and holly along the twisting length.”...
...Developers are building condos in downtown Oakland and Jack London Square, while in the hills of Rockridge, homes are being built on land that has lain empty since a fire ripped through the city in 1991,...
...Below us, a perfectly groomed course nestles into the hilly Mediterranean shrub land. In the distance is blue sea, dotted with yachts....
...The initiatives are not the first time San Franciscans have taken to the ballot box to keep the city short....
...… Last summer I took a copy of his road-trip diary, packed a series of maps, a tent and a sleeping bag and the wherewithal for some weeks of wandering, and set off in my Land Rover from Washington DC,...
...In stark contrast to the conquistadors, the Jesuits built societies where locals had a strong political voice, owned their own land and kept most of their profits....
...There was also a leather-bound edition of Robert A. Heinlein’s science-fiction classic, Stranger in a Strange Land. No kidding....
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