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...What an interesting article on fertility rates (The Henry Mance Interview, January 29)....
...We emerged from a wadi to see a huge basaltic spire shooting vertically from a gravel plain, tapering into a rounded apex....
...I love their great spires of colour in late July. They fill gaps, add height and come with associations in art, poetry and history that enhance what gardeners can see in them....
...She also points to the Chinese pagoda at Kew by William Chambers, and Henry Holland’s Chinese dairy at Woburn, both of which acted as inspiration for Brighton’s Royal Pavilion a few decades later....
...In the 18th century, British occupation kept industrialists away, leaving the symmetrical clapboard sailors’ houses and dove-white church spires preserved, as if outside of time....
...The latter’s altar was carved by Henry Moore, and the church was the founding place of the Samaritans mental-health charity....
...As centuries passed, spires soared in other places where the Virgin was beheld by mortal eyes — Lourdes, Fátima and elsewhere....
...On a windy night in 1825, its huge spire toppled over, leaving little standing....
...Seedheads en masse can create extraordinary visual effects in frost or snow – the dots of echinacea and rudbeckia, the umbels of sedums or eupatorium or the candelabra spires of Verbascum olympicum....
...For Simon Kuper, the cause of any present distress can be found among the dreaming spires....
An acrimonious management dispute has shaken the institution’s grandest college
...It was the worst pretence for visiting Salisbury since the two Russian agents behind last year’s novichok attack said they wanted to see the spire....
...Henry Mance and Madison Marriage (“Scheming spires”, Life & Arts, October 12) do not get to the nub of the mystery, perhaps because they did not talk to a sufficient range of people with knowledge of the...
...Henry Kravis, co-founder of private equity group KKR, and his wife Marie-Josée said they would contribute $10m....
...As an idealistic youth in London he loved George Henry Boughton’s medievalist “Godspeed!...
...Carved in wood or modelled in plaster and painted, they include Edward III, Henry VII and Catherine de Valois, wife of Henry V....
...Henry Elphick, of data specialist LaingBuisson, said the fall in NHS referrals was already having “serious repercussions” pointing to contraction across the private hospital market in 2017/18....
...One large and surprising exhibit is a timber model of a design by Christopher Wren for a huge central spire for the abbey....
...And, soon, Marriott explains, Henry Ford’s “great multitude” were exploring the American landscape on roads which were designed on Reptonian principles....
...Best known for its ancient cathedral with the country’s tallest church spire, the quiet southwestern England city has also now become synonymous with a sinister chemical weapons attack....
...The two mortal adversaries of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI and Edward IV, were both entombed there, as were Henry VIII and the remains of the beheaded Charles I....
...Schrödinger’s cat: Henry Mance looks at the curious case of a pop-up restaurant in Dulwich that did not exist and finds parallels with the UK government’s Brexit impact assessments....
...The Henry Moore bronze, which the artist initially donated to the borough in 1962, had been cavorting at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the past 20 years....
...Mrs Osmond , by John Banville, Viking, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP$27.95 Irish Man Booker-prize winner John Banville has frequently referred to the influence of Henry James in his writing, so it’s no scandal to...
...The placement of a for-sale sign on a 32 per cent stake in Chile's SQM by PotashCorp last week has drawn interest from four Chinese buyers, including state-owned chemicals producer Sinochem, the FT's Henry...
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