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...Every architect, designer, decorator and reader has surely incorporated books in some way at some time. They allow the user to personalise even the most prescriptive of interiors....
...“I grew up on the colonial Gold Coast, before Ghana became an independent country, and the only brand of sugar we ate was Tate & Lyle,” he says, referring to the company founded by the gallery’s founder...
...Raiatea is 12 miles long, with a spine of green mountains and a barrier reef extending all around it like a halo....
...Coast, its haunting castles and forts on the coast; and the sweet guitar riffs and singing saxophone of highlife music....
...The bus stopped at several along the island’s north coast, but then came ours, a simple, beautiful hotel at Runaway Bay....
...Wagner has also manoeuvred its way into the Central African Republic, where it protects the president and runs lucrative businesses, including in gold mining....
...The Himalayas stretches as a supple spine of snow-covered peaks, separating the Indian subcontinent from the great Tibetan plateau....
...The Libertines must have sent a particular chill down the spine of the hospitality trade....
...He plumbs the river’s past as a conduit for music, for myths, for ideas, as well as gold, coffee, tobacco and cocaine....
...The Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tudela, visited in 1170 and reported that the king used to take trips on the palace lake in gold and silver-clad boats “with his women”....
...A single track snakes up the hill, from the top of which you see the western coast unfurl, its southern point faint in the distance....
...Estimates start at a few hundred euros for the likes of zoomorphic bronze gold-weights or gold jewellery, but in the current market, fuelled at the top end by collectors from other fields in pursuit of masterpieces...
...My personal style signifier is my watch, a 42mm gold Panerai Luminor Due. I am a Swiss “machine”: time is precious....
...First, they took slaves — the original sin — before turning their attention to commodities including gold, cocoa, rubber and coffee....
...Coast Capital said Bristow, who was previously chief executive of Africa-focused gold miner Randgold Resources, doesn’t have a record of managing a company of this size with far-flung operations....
...Since the city was incorporated in the 1830s, Chicago’s citizenry have staunchly defended their green spaces — and turned their moniker into a mission....
...“While there are now private racecourses for the benefit of racing between private club members, this is not racing with sanctioned wagering and capable of being incorporated into a world standard of racing...
...The Delaware company files came in a huge binder with my company name — Stuffed Parrot Inc — in gold lettering down the spine....
...John Calleija, the Australian jeweller, first met Ms Phillips at the Magic Millions horseracing carnival in 2013 in the Gold Coast region of Queensland....
...More potential Cayman concerns have sprung from a legal action thousands of kilometres from Kuala Lumpur, on Australia’s Gold Coast....
...Reefs of chunky corals hang like the spine of an animal wrapped around the neck of the mannequin....
...Somewhere between Ounagha and the Atlantic coast, trees begin to appear; solitary sentinels, then small groves giving way to more substantial plantings....
...The far side of the same spine of mountains that shelters Bhaja also contains another spectacular rock-cut monastery, Bedsa....
...Today, Karachi, the sprawling megacity on Pakistan’s southern coast, is best known for violence....
...Add the oil to the well and, with your fingertips, rub the oil into the flour until well incorporated. Gradually add 250ml warm water, bringing in the flour as you go along....
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