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...In the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, plants of lacteus were raised from seed sent from Yunnan by its first collector, George Forrest....
...George Michael has been mainly listening until now, the kind of self-effacing A-list star who’s always asking people about their life stories....
...Tenke Fungurume is an “absolutely great asset”, says copper analyst George Heppel of business intelligence company CRU....
...“We delved into the amazing collection of plant discoveries from prolific Scottish botanists such as George Forrest, Robert Sibbald, John Hutton Balfour, James Sutherland and Robert Fortune,” she says....
...In 1924, the famous plant-hunter George Forrest collected seed of it in Yunnan and sent some of it back to Caerhays in Cornwall and some to Clarke in Sussex....
...The Lannan Foundation residency programme has brought more than 350 novelists, poets, playwrights and activists here over the past 20 years – including Pulitzer Prize winners Colson Whitehead, Forrest Gander...
...Think of a famous plant hunter associated with botanising in China, and names such as Robert Fortune, Ernest Wilson or George Forrest might come to mind....
...Founder and chairman Forrest Li said the new name emphasised the company’s “home court advantage” in the region....
...Within hours of his nomination this week by Donald Trump, the president-elect, Ms Warren put out a statement characterising the multimillionaire banker as “the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis”, caught...
...It was known to gardeners about 40 years before the great collector George Forrest found hupehensis, also in China....
...With a book by Luther Davis, music and lyrics from George Forrest and Robert Wright (with additional material from Maury Yeston), the musical never finds the take-home quality of Cabaret, though there are...
...“If you look at the supply and demand balance for most of this year it’s not a train wreck,” says George Cheveley, portfolio manager at Investec Asset Management....
...George Pu, the indefatigable Chinese guide and his team helped make the long, fascinating but exhausting days comfortable....
...George Roy Hill’s charming Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, released at the end of 1969, performed a precarious balancing act....
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...Robert Wright and George Forrest seized upon the life of Edvard Grieg for a faux-biographical operetta that dabbled in pretty-pretty song, dance, chitchat and romance....
...Among the most contentious is the European Arrest Warrant, used by British police to extradite quickly one of the July 2005 bombers from Italy and, more recently, the teacher Jeremy Forrest, accused of abducting...
...George Forrest’s journey to the Yunnan province in China was funded by a Liverpool seed merchant anxious for novelties in next year’s catalogue; 100 native men scoured mountainsides for anything that rattled...
...Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Tynan, Boy George, Peter Cook, Shirley Bassey, even Toby Young and Julie Burchill: there seem to have been so many figures who didn’t care about conventions or fit the mould that...
...The data were drawn together by Nick Forrest, a PwC consultant chosen for his knowledge gained while seconded to the Department of Business under the last government....
...He sponsored important plant-hunters such as Frank Kingdon-Ward, Ernest Wilson and George Forrest, and some of the precious seeds of rhododendrons, magnolias and primulas that these men gathered in China...
...The other evening over dinner our host poured six Pinot Noirs, of which one came from each of Burgundy’s two smartest domaines, Romanée-Conti and Comte Georges de Vogüé, one was the 1995 Isabelle from Au...
...The seed of this fine tree had been raised by Hillier but collected in China by the great plant-hunter George Forrest himself....
...) Douglas Scott (Lifetime Achievement award) Timothy Allan Nicholas Bowen Paul Davidson Professor Simon Denny Beverly Hurley Murdoch MacLeod Maureen Milgram Forrest Kenneth Nelson Frank Nicholson Ederyn...
...Sondheim has brought unprecedented depth to musicals, transforming them from romantic comedies into psychological character studies (Company), meditations about art (Sunday in the Park with George, 1984)...
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